Angelo F. Coniglio

Who is Angelo F. Coniglio?

Angelo F. Coniglio is an American civil engineer, educator, genealogist and author. He was in the first graduating class of the School of Civil Engineering established by Robert L. Ketter at the University of Buffalo in 1956. He also earned a master's degree from UB.

As a civil engineer, he is an expert in the hydrology of the U. S. Great Lakes, and is credited, along with his team on the Lake Erie Wastewater Management Study at the Buffalo District of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, with the development of a plan that helped restore Lake Erie to more pristine conditions in the 1970s. He is an expert in Lake Erie ice formation and management. He taught as an adjunct professor in Civil Engineering at UB for twenty-five years, receiving the New York State Society of Professional Engineers' Engineering Educator of the Year award in 1993.

After his retirement from the engineering field, Coniglio, a first-generation Sicilian American, became an experienced genealogist, researching the Sicilian origins of his own family, and numerous others.