Kenneth Robert Wright

CFO and Chief Engineer, Wright Water Engineers, Inc., 1961 to present.  President and Board Member, Wright Paleohydrological Institute, 1998 to present.  Member and Past Chairman, Colorado State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors, 1975 to 1984. Principal Engineer for South Platte River Greenway Through Denver. Served as Special Consultant at Big Thompson River Flood. Responsible for retrofit of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Project Manager in Confluence Park, Denver. Appraiser for Exxon USA for water utility. Water supply engineering at Adolph Coors Company. Researcher of Peruvian Hydrology, at Inca sites of Machu Picchu, Founded Wright Paleohydrological Institute to further the knowledge of past civilizations through the study of ancient water management and practices. 

Distinguished (Honorary) Member, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2006.  American Consulting Engineers Council, National Director, 1966-1968, and President, 1969-1970.  American Water Works Association, Honorary Member, 1998.  Member also of the National Society of Professional Engineers; American Society of Agricultural Engineers; Society for American Archaeology.  Diplomate, American Academy of Water Resources Engineers.

Has published, among other titles: Mug House Cistern Hydrology Site; Macchu Picchu: Maravilla de la Ingenieria;  Tipon: Water Engineering Masterpiece of the Inca Empire;  Water Mysteries of Mesa Verde; An Inca Engineering Enigma; Public Safety at Low-Head Dam; A Highway Drainage Marvel; Ancient Olympia Floods and Sedimentation; Archaeological Excavations and Exploration at Machu Picchu;  Water Resources and Environmental  History. Author of flood control and drainage criteria manual in for Denver Regional Council of Governments.

Honorary Professor, Ricardo Palma University, Lima, Peru. 2007.  Order of Merit for Distinguished Services, at the level of Grand Official, Republic of Peru, 2007.  American Society of Civil Engineers, Distinguished Membership Award, 2006.  American Council of Engineering Companies of Colorado, George Washington Award, May 2002.  American Ethics in Business Award, 1999.  U.S. Department of Interior, Gold Metal for Valor.

B.S. Civil Engineering, B.B.A., Business Administration, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1951. 

M.S. Civil Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1957.