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Engineering Laboratory

Materials and Structural Systems Division

Awards

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Long Phan Receives American Concrete Institute (ACI) Concrete Research Council Arthur J. Boase Award

This honor was bestowed specifically “in recognition of your research on the response of high strength/high performance concrete structures

2018 - Gold Medal Award---Marc Levitan, Emil Simiu, Adam Pintar

For extraordinary, innovative efforts to accurately characterize and map extreme winds across the U.S. to ensure a safe and economical built environment.

Dale Bentz Elected American Concrete Institute (ACI) Fellowship

For his outstanding contributions to the use of concrete materials, products, and structures in the areas of education, research

Paul Stutzman Receives the Bryant Mather Award from ASTM Committee C01

Paul was recognized for his contributions to the development of various committee standards related to quantitative analysis of Portland

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---H. S. Lew, Joseph A. Main, Fahim Sadek

For developing engineering methods and tools for mitigating disproportionate collapse in buildings to save lives and to reduce property losses.

Marc Levitan Receives the National Storm Shelter Association (NSSA) Kiesling Award

Presented this year to Marc Levitan of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), recently the (Acting) Director fo the

Selepak, Kuligowski, Fernandez, Reneke, Hagwood, Peacock, Averill

2016 - Bronze Medal Award---Richard Peacock, Paul Reneke, Charles Hagwood, Michael Selepak, Marco Fernandez, Jason Averill, Erica Kuligowski

For development, analysis, and dissemination of a building evacuation database to improve occupant safety during fire incidents.

2016 - Silver Medal Award---Therese McAllister, Erica Kuligowski, Stephen Cauffman, David Butry

For outstanding leadership in developing the Community Resilience Planning Guide, a planning process to help communities increase disaster resilience.

2016 - George A. Uriano Award---Xiaohong Gu

For leading the deployment of new measurement-science tools to industry, for service-life prediction and product-failure reduction in the solar-energy market.

Dr. John Harris selected Fellow, ASCE/SEI

ASCE members elected to Fellow status have made celebrated contributions and developed creative solutions that have enhanced lives.

Dustin Cook Receives 2023 Younger Member Award

The award recognizes early-career members who have made outstanding contributions to the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. Dr

Therese McAllister is a Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers

Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers

2022 Silver Medal Award--- Weigand, Marcu, Sadek, Phan, and Pintar

Awarded for achievements in science and engineering. The group is recognized for developing and executing an innovative research program to

Marc Levitan Receives Top 25 Newsmakers of 2021 - Award of Excellence

For his successful efforts getting the first-ever requirements for tornado-resistant design adopted in the 2022 version of ASCE 7

2022 Gold Medal Award---Levitan and Phan

Awarded for achievements in science and engineering. The group is recognized for technical innovations in conceiving and developing

Advanced communications
-Open Radio Access Network (Open-RAN)
-Quantum communications
-Spectrum sharing
-Wireless (RF)
Bioscience
-Bioeconomy
--Biological data
-Bioimaging
-Bioinformatics
-Biomanufacturing
-Biomaterials
-Biometrology
-Biosecurity
--Biosurveillance
--Genomic cybersecurity
--Nucleic acid sequence screening
-Cell measurements
-Engineering / synthetic biology
--Biofabrication
--Cell-free systems
--Genome engineering
--Protein engineering
-Gene delivery systems
-Genome editing
-Genomics
-Glycomics
-Metabolomics
-Microbial measurements
-Proteomics
-Transcriptomics
Buildings and Construction
-Building codes and standards
-Building control systems
-Building damage and repair
-Building economics
-Building materials
-Energy efficiency
-Heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment
-Indoor air quality
-Structural engineering
-Thermal comfort
Chemistry
-Analytical chemistry
-Chemical engineering and processing
-Chemical thermodynamics and chemical properties
-Molecular characterization
-Theoretical chemistry and modeling
-Thermochemical properties
Electronics
-Electromagnetics
-Flexible electronics
-Magnetoelectronics
-Optoelectronics
-Organic electronics
-Semiconductors
-Sensors
-Superconducting electronics
Energy
-Alternative energy
-Conventional energy
-Electric power / smart grid
-Fuels
Environment
-Air / water / soil quality
-Climate Measurements
-Environmental health
-Greenhouse gas measurements
-Marine science
-Sustainability
Fire
-Fire detection
-Fire dynamics and science
-Fire fighting
-Fire modeling
-Fire risk reduction
-Materials flammability
-Structural fire resistance
-Wildland urban interface fire
Forensic Science
-Digital evidence
-Drugs and toxicology
-Firearms and toolmarks
-Forensic biometrics
-Forensic genetics
-Trace evidence
Health
-Biopharmaceuticals
-Cell and gene therapy
-Clinical diagnostics
--Cancer
--Medical imaging
-Food and nutrition
-Human microbiome
-Precision medicine
-Regenerative medicine and advanced therapy
--Flow cytometry
Information technology
-Artificial intelligence
--AI measurement and evaluation
--Applied AI
--Fundamental AI
--Hardware for AI
--Machine learning
--Trustworthy and responsible AI
-Biometrics
-Cloud computing and virtualization
-Complex systems
-Computational science
-Conformance testing
-Cyber-physical systems
--Smart cities
-Cybersecurity
--Cryptography
--Cybersecurity education and workforce development
--Cybersecurity measurement
--Identity and access management
--Privacy engineering
--Risk management
--Securing emerging technologies
--Trustworthy networks
--Trustworthy platforms
-Data and informatics
--Human language technology
--Information retrieval
--Natural language processing
-Federal information processing standards (FIPS)
-Health IT
-Internet of Things (IoT)
-Interoperability testing
-Location based services
-Mobile
-Networking
--Mobile and wireless networking
--Network management and monitoring
--Network modeling and analysis
--Network security and robustness
--Network test and measurement
--Next generation networks
--Protocol design and standardization
--Software defined and virtual networks
-Privacy
-Software research
--Software testing
-Usability and human factors
--Accessibility
-Video analytics
-Virtual / augmented reality
-Visualization research
-Voting systems
Infrastructure
Manufacturing
-Additive manufacturing
-Factory communications
-Factory operations planning and control
-Interoperability in manufacturing
-Machining
-Manufacturing economics
-Manufacturing quality assurance
-Manufacturing systems design and analysis
-Monitoring, diagnostics and prognostics
-Process improvement
-Process measurement and control
-Product data
-Robotics in manufacturing
--Agility and adaptability
--Collaborative robots
--Dexterous grasping
--Manipulation
--Mobility and industrial autonomous vehicles
--Navigation / actuation / control
--Sensing and perception
-Supply chain
-Sustainable manufacturing
-Systems engineering
-Systems integration
-Technology commercialization
Materials
-Ceramics
-Composites
-Concrete / cement
-Materials characterization
--Composition and structure
--Mechanical properties
--Thermal properties
-Metals
-Modeling and computational material science
-Polymers
-Superconductors
Mathematics and statistics
-Experiment design
-Image and signal processing
-Modeling and simulation research
-Numerical methods and software
-Statistical analysis
-Uncertainty quantification
Metrology
-Amount of substance
-Dimensional metrology
-Electrical / electromagnetic metrology
-Flow metrology and rheology
-Force metrology
-Humidity metrology
-Ionizing radiation metrology
-Mass metrology
-Metric
-Optical / photometry / laser metrology
-Pressure and vacuum metrology
-Thermometry metrology
-Time and frequency metrology
-Weights and measures
Nanotechnology
-Nanobiotechnology
-Nanochemistry
-Nanoelectronics
-Nanofabrication / manufacturing
--Lithography
--Self-assembly
-Nanofluidics
-Nanomagnetics
-Nanomaterials
-Nanomechanics
-Nanometrology
-Nanophotonics
-Nanophysics
-Nanoplasmonics
Neutron research
Performance excellence
-Assessment tools and services
-Baldrige award
-Baldrige examiners
-Baldrige Framework and Criteria
-Best practices
-Leadership development
Physics
-Atomic / molecular / quantum
-Biological physics
-Condensed matter
-Electron physics
-Magnetics
-Nuclear physics
-Optical physics and communications
-Quantum information science
-Radiation
-Spectroscopy
-Thermodynamics
-Time and frequency
Public safety
-Chemical / Biological / Radiological / Nuclear / Explosives (CBRNE)
-First responder preparedness
-Law enforcement
-Public safety communications research
-Response robots
Resilience
-Community resilience
--Recovery
--Resilience metrics
-Disaster and failure studies
-Earthquake risk reduction
-Resilience economics
-Resilient materials
-Windstorm impact reduction
Standards
-Accreditation
-Calibration services
-Conformity assessment
-Documentary standards
-Frameworks
-Quality assurance
-Reference data
-Reference instruments
-Reference materials
-Standards education
Technology transfer
Transportation
-Aerospace
-Automotive