The Executive Committee of the ASCE Board of Direction approved the list of recipients of several prestigious 2025 Society awards administered by the Engineering Mechanics Institute. Many of these awards will be presented on May 29th during the EMI 2025 Conference.
Congratulations to all the award recipients!
Maurice A. Biot Medal
Herbert F. Wang, Ph.D.
"for significant contributions to experiments and theory of poromechanics and the application of poromechanics to field observations."
EMI Leonardo da Vinci Award
Alessandro F. Rotta Loria, Ph.D., M.EMI, M.ASCE
"for cross-disciplinary investigations into the mechanics of geomaterials and their impact on developing civil infrastructure with multifunctional capabilities."
George W. Housner Structural Control and Monitoring Medal
Satish Nagarajaiah, Ph.D., F.SEI, Dist.M.ASCE
“seminal contributions in structural control, seismic isolation, adaptive negative-positive stiffness systems, system identification with ML/AI and non-contact laser based optical strain sensing.”
Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prizes
Jian Li, Ph.D., P.E., F.ASCE
"for his exceptional contributions in advancing the field of structural health monitoring by developing and integrating innovative sensors, wireless sensor networks, computer vision, and data analytics, and for bridging laboratory innovations with field applications, elevating civil engineering practice worldwide."
Raymond D. Mindlin Medal
Anthony M. Waas, Ph.D.
"for outstanding experimental, numerical and analytical contributions to the understanding of defonnation response, damage and failure of fiber-reinforced composite materials and structures, including textile composites."
Robert H. Scanlan Medal
Marc Mignolet, Ph.D., M.ASCE
"for accomplishments in the fields of aeroelasticity and stochastic dynamics and seminal contributions towards the design and safety of rotating machinery and structures."
Masanobu Shinozuka Medal
Isaac Elishakoff, Ph.D.
"For seminal contributions to random vibrations, reliability, and nonlinear buckling simulation of shells."
Theodore von Karman Medal
Somnath Ghosh, Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE
"for pioneering advances in Computational Multiscale-Multiphysics Solid
Mechanics integrating Materials Science, ICME, UQ and machine learning,
leading to novel multiscale approaches for predicting multiscale response, fatigue
life and damage sensing in heterogeneous metallic and composite materials with
significant industrial impact."