Del Cerro resident Roger Ball, chairman of the board and past president of RICK Engineering Company, was honored at the 2022 San Diego State University (SDSU) Alumni Awards of Distinction.

A class of ’74 graduate from the College of Engineering and a registered civil engineer in California, Ball has spent his entire career at RICK, working his way up from draftsman to company president by 2006. He is a member of Chi Epsilon, a national civil engineering honor society.

The awards honored 10 distinguished alumni from each of SDSU’s seven academic colleges at a ceremony April 23 at the Omni La Costa Resort and Spa. Alumni were honored for their national or international contributions to SDSU, the San Diego community, and the state of California.

Prior to the alumni award, SDSU honored both the support of RICK Engineering Company and Roger’s commitment to his alma mater in 2018 by naming an outdoor terrace in the new Engineering and Interdisciplinary Science Complex the “RICK Engineering and Roger Ball Family Student Terrace.”

Ball has served as past president of both the San Diego Chapter and the California organization of the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC). He was elected to the national ACEC College of Fellows in 2014. He also serves as a member of the SDSU engineering dean’s advisory board and as chairman of the board’s development committee.

Ball is actively engaged in legislative affairs. In 2017 he was honored with a special award for Grassroots Legislative Advocacy by ACEC-CA for his leadership spanning over five years to bring about indemnity reform for all design professionals, culminating with the passage of SB 496.

Ball is a committed volunteer at San Diego Interfaith Housing Foundation, a non-profit affordable housing development and management organization. He serves on the board of directors and the executive committee and chairs the development committee.