Gaston Named Distinguished Auburn Engineer

Maury D. Gaston, retired Marketing Services manager for AMERICAN Ductile Iron Pipe/AMERICAN SpiralWeld Pipe, was one of six honorees named Distinguished Auburn Engineer by Auburn University’s Alumni Engineering Council on September 13. This is the highest honor given to Samuel Ginn College of Engineering alumni and recognizes those with distinguished professional careers.

A native of Sylacauga, Alabama, Gaston earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Auburn University in 1982. He is a third-generation Auburn graduate and a first-generation Auburn engineer. His entire 42-year career was spent at AMERICAN, where he worked in New York, Florida, California and Texas before moving to Birmingham and AMERICAN’s headquarters in 1997. At AMERICAN, Gaston worked in sales and marketing, where he promoted iron and steel pipe, engineering and Auburn. 

Gaston serves Auburn University in many capacities, including joining the Auburn Alumni Engineering Council in 2002, and serving as chair from 2013-2016. He was named Auburn University’s Department of Mechanical Engineering Alumnus of the Year in 2014. Gaston also serves as current director and past chair of the State of Alabama Engineering Hall of Fame. In addition, he is currently serving as Regent – national president – of Sigma Nu Fraternity. Gaston has served the waterworks industry as vice chair of the national standards committee for iron pipe, as chair of the Alabama Iron and Steel Council and as a frequent author and presenter of papers at industry technical conferences.

Gaston and his family have established a scholarship endowment in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, and he is a member of the college’s Ginn and EAGLE societies and the university’s Foy, Samford and Petrie societies.