The 14th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering (14th ACWE) will be held in Lubbock, Texas from May 17-19, 2022. The ACWE brings together scholars and practitioners in areas such as wind climate, wind loading on structures, performance of structures in wind, environmental effects of wind, socioeconomic impacts of wind hazards, and wind energy. Submission of … Continued
Dear colleagues: I am writing to inform you of an open postdoc position with my group focused in one of the following thrust areas: Performance-Based Wind Engineering Coastal Community Resilience Metamodeling and Uncertainty Propagation Optimization of Uncertain and Dynamic Systems If you or a colleague have a student who will be graduating soon or has … Continued
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Applications are invited for an exceptional candidate in the area of WindEngineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering. The appointment is expected to be effective January 1, 2022or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful applicant will receive a Probationary (tenure-track) appointment at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor … Continued
Dear AAWE Community: There are several interesting online wind-related workshops and seminars in the near future. Roundtable on 2020 Midwest Derecho Organized by THWARTS and AAWE Thursday April 29th from 11-12:30PM Eastern Time The topic of the discussion is the 2020 Midwest Derecho with an emphasis on the vulnerability of metal grain bins. The moderator … Continued
Boundary Layer Wind Tunnel Simulation of Transient and Non‐synoptic Wind Events This one-day user workshop will first present the transient and non-synoptic flow simulation capabilities of the boundary layer wind tunnel at the University of Florida NSF NHERI Experimental Facility, enabled by the new Flow Field Modulator (FFM). University of Florida NSF NHERI Experimental Facility … Continued
The Research Group in Wind Engineering and Structural Dynamics of the University of Genoa, is organizing an online event in memory of our Dear Professor Giovanni Solari on April 19, 2021, at 2 pm (Italian time), (8AM EDT) 5 months after his death. The meeting is not of a scientific nature and will only include personal … Continued
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 … Continued
Don’t miss the final two seminars in a series announced by Chris Baker of the University of Birmingham. Purpose Because of the Covid19 pandemic, opportunities for the international wind engineering community to meet physically have been very much restricted and are likely to remain so for at least the next year. To enable the community … Continued
The 6th AAWE Workshop is May 12-14 2021, hosted online by Clemson University, and focused on providing graduate students and early career engineers with an opportunity to present their work in progress and discuss it with the wind engineering community. 6th AAWE Workshop May 7: Final day for registration April 16: Full program published May … Continued
