ASCE and its Engineering Mechanics Institute announce the winners of prestigious awards

ASCE announced the winners of five of its prestigious Society awards administered by its Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI):

2015 Maurice A. Biot Medal: Emmanuel Detournay, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, University of Minnesota

2015 George Housner Structural Control and Monitoring Medal: Billie F. Spencer, Jr., Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2015 Raymond D. Mindlin Medal: Zdeněk P. Bažant, Ph.D., S.E., NAE, NAS, F.EMI, Hon.M.ASCE, Northwestern University

2015 Masanobu Shinozuka Medal: Jann N. Yang, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE, University of California, Irvine

2015 Theodore von Kármán Medal: Ahsan Kareem, Ph.D., F.EMI, Dist.M.ASCE, NAE, University of Notre Dame

The Engineering Mechanics Institute also announced the winner of the 2015 EMI Leonardo Da Vinci Award: James K. Guest, Ph.D., A.M.ASCE, The Johns Hopkins University.

For details on these awards and the citations of the award winners, visit http://www.asce.org/engineering-mechanics/news/20150313-emi-2015-award-recipients/ and http://www.asce.org/uploadedFiles/Technical_Areas/Engineering_Mechanics/Content_Pieces/EMI-2015award-recipients.pdf.

These awards will be presented at the awards banquet of the EMI 2015 conference on June 18 at Stanford University (http://www.emi2015.info/), as well as the 2014 Theodore von Kármán Medal (James R. Rice, Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE, NAE, Harvard University), and a 2014 Huber Prize (Jerome P. Lynch, Ph.D., M.ASCE, University of Michigan).