Achieving Excellence in Fabricated Structural Steel

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Ronnie Medlock, PE

2025 AISC T.R. Higgins Lecturer

Thursday, November 20, 2025

5:00 pm – Social Hour

6:00 pm – Dinner

7:00 pm – Speaker

Achieving Excellence in Fabricated Structural Steel - What does it mean to achieve excellence in fabrication? How does the degree of excellence impact the success of steel building and bridge projects? How is excellence achieved? Answering correctly is paramount for achieving quality projects that are cost-effective and on schedule. The 2025 AISC T. R. Higgins Lecture addresses these questions, providing shop floor insights that transcend steel structures fabrication to any custom manufactured engineering components. 

About the Speaker - Ronnie Medlock, PE, of High Steel Structures, LLC, received the 2025 T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award for his contributions to the Federal Highway Administration’s Bridge Welding Reference Manual. Medlock is vice president of technical services at High Steel Structures LLC in Lancaster, Pa. He is responsible for quality control and for fabrication and inspection technology advancements at High Steel, which produces fabricated steel for steel railroad bridges and other types of steel bridges. Prior to joining High Steel in 2006, Ronnie worked for TxDOT, starting in 1988. Originally from El Paso, Texas, Medlock is a licensed professional engineer in Texas and earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. He received an AISC Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.

About the Lecture - Each year, AISC's T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award recognizes an outstanding lecturer and author whose technical paper or papers, published during the eligibility period, are considered an outstanding contribution to the engineering literature on fabricated structural steel. The award is named for Theodore R. Higgins, former AISC Director of Engineering and Research, who was widely acclaimed for his many contributions to the advancement of engineering technology related to fabricated structural steel. The award honors Higgins for his innovative engineering, timely technical papers, and distinguished lectures.

More info: Contact SEI-Pittsburgh Chair at SEI.Pittsburgh@gmail.com

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