An Interview with Willard Hackerman

February 25, 1999. Mr. Hackerman is a Baltimore native, Polytechnic Institute graduate, and president and CEO of Whiting-Turner Construction. He started working at Whiting-Turner in 1938, fresh out of Johns Hopkins with a degree in civil engineering. He was the company's third employee and the firm had one project - building a drawbridge in Cambridge. More than seven decades later, he remains the driving force in a company that has grown into one of the nation's largest contracting firms. Mr. Hackerman is interviewed by a member of the Whiting School of Engineering.