On May 27, a letter from Professor Ahsan Kareem of the University of Notre Dame, USA, who is the president of the International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE), and a foreign member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, arrived at Professor GE Yaojun from College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, congratulating him on his winning the Senior Award (Alan G. Davenport Medal) of IAWE 2022. He became the second scholar from China’s mainland who received this honour after Professor XIANG Haifan of Tongji University won this award for the first time in 2013.
Professor GE Yaojun from College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University
Davenport Medal
IAWE is one of the most active professional engineering associations in the world with a 60-year-long history. It has group members from more than 20 countries and individual members from nearly 100 countries or regions. In 2003, the Steering Committee of IAWE decided to set up an award to commemorate Professor Alan G. Davenport, an outstanding wind engineering expert, the founder of boundary layer wind tunnel and of modern wind engineering. The IAWE Senior Award named after him as Alan G. Davenport Medal, A Senior Award is awarded to a person who has a record of outstanding achievement, within the previous ten years, in at least two out of: i) significant and original contribution to wind engineering research; ii) applications to wind engineering practice; iii) educational contributions in the field of wind engineering; and iv) international community involvement. The Award Committee of IAWE voted for Professor GE Yaoju to be the winner of Alan G. Davenport Medal 2022.
At the same time, the Award Committee of IAWE also voted for Dr. CAO Jinxin, an Associate Professor from College of Civil Engineering, Tongji University, to be the winner of the Junior Award (for scholars under the age of 40) of IAWE 2022. A Junior Award is awarded to a person who has a record of outstanding achievement, within the previous five-year period, in at least one of: i) significant and original contribution to wind engineering research; ii) applications to wind engineering practice; and iii) educational contributions in the field of wind engineering. For the first time in the history of IAWE, both the Senior and Junior Awards went to the same country and, in particular, to the same university.
