Evert Hoek FREng[1] (23 August 1933 – 6 July 2024) was a Zimbabwean-Canadian mechanical engineer specializing in Geotechnical Engineering and a leading international expert in rock mechanics.
From 1965, he was at Imperial College, where he set up one faculty-wide center for rock mechanics at the Royal School of Mines.
Later, he became a professor at the University of Toronto in 1975 for twelve years as a senior consulting engineer at Golder Associates (where he was Senior Principal and Chairman) in Vancouver, then an independent consulting engineer with a private engineering firm in Vancouver.
Hoek was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 for major worldwide contributions in the development and application of rational design procedures for engineered systems in rock.
His classic Rock Slope Engineering has been updated by Duncan Wyllie to a 5th edition,[5] published by CRC Press in 2017.