ASCE has honored Jerome P. Lynch, Ph.D., F.EMI, M.ASCE, with the 2024 George W. Housner Structural Control and Monitoring Medal for advances in wireless sensing and information systems for intelligent infrastructure, including wireless sensor networks, distributed computing, and cyber-physical systems to perform structural health assessment with applications to real-world civil engineered structures.
Lynch has made highly innovative and impactful contributions toward the realization of intelligent civil infrastructure systems. He is a preeminent and internationally recognized leader in structural control technology and monitoring of civil infrastructure systems. His work was among the first in designing wireless sensor networks for structural health monitoring. He deployed wireless sensor networks for several large-scale bridge structures. The second major direction is distributed computing, which he employed to process the data from wireless censors. This distributed computing architecture has been applied beyond civil engineering, to industrial machines and automobiles. The third major direction is development of cyber-physical systems by linking wireless sensing networks to cloud computing, thus enabling real-time computing and processing of sensor data.
His pioneering research in the above three directions led to new sensing methodologies and computing architectures, and produced results that have a significant impact on engineering practice. Lynch has received several prestigious awards and has served in leadership positions in the International Association of Structural Control and Monitoring; he has also chaired the EMI Technical Committee on Structural Health Monitoring and Control.
The George W. Housner Structural and Monitoring Medal recognizes outstanding research contributions to the broad field of structural control and health monitoring.
