The American Association for Wind Engineering is pleased to announce the following awards that will be presented at the AAWE Workshop 2021. These awards are typically given at the America’s Conference, which has been delayed until 2022.


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 PhD in Wind Engineering from a University in the ‘Americas Region’ of the IAWE is typically presented every 4 years at the America’s Conference on Wind Engineering. Award is accompanied by a certificate and a prize of $1000.

Requirements

  • Applicant must be an AAWE member in good standing
  • Applicants must have satisfied all PhD graduation requirements before December 2020 or graduated after March 1, 2017.
  • Applicant’s PhD dissertation must be in a topic related to Wind Engineering.

Application

  • Applicants should be nominated by their supervisor or someone familiar with their work.
  • Nominators should submit a 3-page resume and an extended summary of the applicant’s dissertation (5 pages maximum) and/or a single journal paper that best represents the applicants work.
  • Applicants can be nominated for either the Richard Marshall Award or the Robert Scanlan Award, but not for both awards.
  • Nominations/applications are due by April 1, 2021.

**Note Applications that do not meet the requirements above will not be reviewed
**Applicants may only nominate a single paper for this award

Please send all nominations/applications to [email protected]


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 typically presented every 4 years at the America’s Conference on Wind Engineering. Award is accompanied by a certificate and a prize of $1000.

Requirements

  • Applicant must be an AAWE member in good standing.
  • Applicants must have satisfied all PhD graduation requirements before December 2020 or graduated after March 1, 2017.
  • Applicant’s PhD dissertation must be in a topic related to Wind Engineering.

Application

  • Applicants should be nominated by their supervisor or someone familiar with their work
  • Nominators should submit a 3-page resume and an extended summary of the applicant’s dissertation (5 pages maximum) and/or a single journal paper that best represents the applicants work.
  • Applicants can be nominated for either the Richard Marshall Award or the Robert Scanlan Award, but not for both awards.
  • Nominations/applications are due by April 1, 2021

**Note Applications that do not meet the requirements above will not be reviewed.
**Applicants may only nominate a single paper for this award

Please send all nominations/applications to [email protected]


Best Journal Paper Award 2020

Description

The Best Journal Paper Award recognizes the contributions to Wind Engineering from an AAWE Member for the best journal paper within the 2020 calendar year. This prestigious award honoring AAWE member(s) is presented annually, and typically awarded at the America’s Conference on Wind Engineering and/or AAWE Workshop. Award is accompanied by a certificate and a prize of $250.

Requirements

  • Applicant must be an AAWE member in good standing, and half (a simple majority) of the authorship of the paper must be comprised of AAWE members in good standing.
  • Applicant must have published a paper in a refereed journal within the calendar year 2020, according to the DOI number of the publication.
  • The journal paper must be in a topic related to Wind Engineering.

Application

  • Applicants should submit a 3-page resume and a copy of the journal paper under consideration for this award.
  • Applicants nominated for this award can also be nominated for either the Richard Marshall Award or the Robert Scanlan Award.
  • Nominations/applications are due by April 1, 2021

**Note Applications that do not meet the requirements above will not be reviewed.
**Applicants may only nominate a single paper for this award

Please send all nominations/applications to [email protected]