AAWE Awards & Achievements
Michael Gaus Distinguished Service Award
Description: The Michael Gaus Distinguished Service Award recognizes the contributions to
Wind Engineering from a distinguished AAWE Member for involvement in AAWE activities,
research, consulting, and outreach. This prestigious award honoring an individual is presented
every 4 years at the America’s Conference on Wind Engineering. Award is accompanied by a
certificate and a prize of $1000.
Awardees
2022
Dr. Dorothy Reed
University of Washington, USA
2017
Dr. Steve C.S. Cai
Louisiana State University, USA
2013
Dr. Leighton Cochran
CPP, Inc., USA
2009
Dr. Timothy Reinhold
IBHS, USA
Industry Innovation Award
Description: The Industry Innovation Award recognizes a distinguished AAWE Member or
AAWE Corporate Member for their contribution or change to the practice of wind engineering or
for their use of wind engineering to make a contribution to society. This prestigious award is
presented every 4 years at the America’s Conference on Wind Engineering. Award is
accompanied by a plaque (no monetary prize).
2017
Horia Hangan, WindEEE
Professor Horia Hangan is on the faculty of Engineering at Western University (previously
University of Western Ontario). He is the founding director of the Wind Engineering, Energy
and Environment (WindEEE) Research Institute. In addition to numerous academic awards, he
is most well-known for the design and construction of the WindEEE Dome, for which he
received over $30 million in grants from the Canada Foundation for Innovation and the Ontario
Research Fund. WindEEE is an internationally known facility that can reproduce and study the
impact of any type of wind system on the environment.
Richard Marshall Award
Description: The Richard Marshall Award recognizes the contributions to Wind Engineering
from a distinguished AAWE Member for the best doctoral thesis related to experimental
methods or field investigations. This prestigious award honoring a Ph.D. in Wind
Engineering from a University in the ‘Americas Region’ of the IAWE is presented every 4
years at the America’s Conference on Wind Engineering. Award is accompanied by a
certificate and a prize of $1000.
Awardees
2021
Ryan A. Catarelli, University of Florida
Dissertation: “Enhancing the Modalities of Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Modeling and
Experimental Flow Simulation over Complex Topography”
2017
Co-awardees
Maryam Refan, University of Western Ontario (presently Western University), Canada
Dissertation: “Aerodynamic Performance of a Small Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine”
David Roueche, University of Florida, USA
Dissertation: “Fragility functions and uncertainty models for tornado-induced wind loads and
structural response of low-rise buildings”
2013
Murray Morrison, University of Western Ontario (presently Western University), Canada
Dissertation: “Response of a Two-Story Residential House Under Realistic Fluctuating Wind
Loads”
2005
Tracy Kijewski-Correa, University of Notre Dame, USA
Dissertation: “Time-frequency Perspectives in System Identification: From Theory to Full-
Scale Measurements”
Best Journal Paper Award
Description: The Best Journal Paper Award recognizes the contributions to Wind Engineering
from an AAWE Member for the best journal paper within a calendar year. This prestigious
award honoring AAWE member(s) is presented annually and awarded at the America’s
Conference on Wind Engineering and/or AAWE Workshop. Award is accompanied by a
certificate and a prize of $250.
Awardees
2021
Xihaier Luo and Ahsan Kareem
“Dynamic Mode Decomposition of Random Pressure Fields over Bluff Bodies”
Journal of Engineering Mechanics, April 2021, Vol. 147, Issue 4.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)EM.1943-7889.0001904
2020
David B. Roueche, David Prevatt and Frederick Haan
“Tornado-Induced and Straight-Line Wind Loads on a Low-Rise Building with Consideration of
Internal Pressure”
Frontiers Built Environment, Vol. 6, 18 pp.
https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fbuil.2020.00018
doi.org/10.3389/fbuil.2020.00018
2019
Wei Cui and Luca Caracoglia
“A New Stochastic Formulation for Synthetic Hurricane Simulation Over the North Atlantic
Ocean”
Engineering Structures, Vol. 199, 109597
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2019.109597
2018
Refan, Maryam and Hangan, Horia
“Near Surface Experimental Exploration of Tornado Vortices”
Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 175, pp. 120-135.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2018.01.042
2017
Sarah Bobby, Seymour Spence and Ahsan Kareem
“Data-Driven Performance-Based Topology Optimization of Uncertain Wind-Excited Tall
Buildings”
Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, Vol. 54, No. 6, pp. 1379-1402.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00158-016-1474-6
2014
Teng Wu and Ahsan Kareem
“Bridge Aerodynamics and Aeroelasticity: A Comparison of Modeling Schemes”
Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 43, pp. 347-370.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2013.09.015
2013
Co-awardees
Eri Gavanski, Bahareh Kordi, Gregory A. Kopp and Peter J. Vickery
“Wind Loads on Roof Sheathing of Houses”
Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 114, pp. 106-121.
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2012.12.011
Leighton Cochran and Russell Derickson
“A Physical Modeler’s View of Computational Wind Engineering”
Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, Vol. 99, No. 4, pages 139-153, 2011
doi.org/10.1016/j.jweia.2011.01.015
Robert Scanlan Award
Description: The Robert Scanlan Award recognizes the contributions to Wind Engineering from
a distinguished AAWE Member for the best doctoral thesis related to theoretical advances in the
mechanics of wind or wind-structure interaction. This prestigious award honoring a PhD in
Wind Engineering from a University in the ‘Americas Region’ of the IAWE is presented every 4
years at the America’s Conference on Wind Engineering. Award is accompanied by a certificate
and a prize of $1000.
Awardees
2021
Giacomo Lamberti, Stanford University, USA
Dissertation: “A Multi-Fidelity Numerical Framework for Predicting Wind Loads on Buildings”
2017
Teng Wu, University of Notre Dame, USA
Dissertation: “Nonlinear Bluff Body Aerodynamics”
2013
Eri Gavanski, University of Western Ontario, Canada
Dissertation: “Behaviour of Glass Plates under Wind Loads”
2009
Lijuan Wang, University of Notre Dame, USA
Dissertation: “Stochastic Modeling and Simulation of Transient Events”
2005
Lizching Chen, Texas Tech University, USA
Dissertation: “Vector Time-Varying Autoregressive (TVAR) Models and Their Application to
Downburst Wind Speeds”