The Citadel School of Engineering’s Academy of Engineers announced that Donald E. Stone, Jr., PE, will be inducted into its 8^th Annual Academy of Engineers. Stone, chief executive officer (CEO) of Dewberry, graduated from The Citadel in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering.

Stone joined Dewberry in 2008 and served as the firm’s chief operating officer (COO) and infrastructure engineering services practice area leader until he was promoted to CEO in 2010. He has more than three decades of professional engineering experience and has led teams of professionals engaged in a variety of large, complex projects for institutional, industrial, municipal, and federal clients. As CEO, he actively leads and implements Dewberry’s corporate and market strategies, corporate growth initiatives, and has achieved company consolidation and alignment so the firm may better serve its robust client portfolio. He has also integrated six acquisitions, contributing to Dewberry’s continued expansion into the Southeast and California.

“I am humbled to receive this recognition from The Citadel,” says Stone. “My time there was formative in my growth both personally and professionally, and if it weren’t for the guidance from professors, faculty, and staff, I would not be where I am today.”

Stone is a member of the Society of American Military Engineers.