Spring Structural Engineering Qualifying Exam Announcement
Spring 2022
The Structural Engineering QE is scheduled
to take place on Saturday, Feb 19th, 2022.
Candidates must notify by email Prof.
Elbanna (elbanna2@illinois.edu) and Ms.
Miller (marissam@illinois.edu) of their
intent to take the QE no later than
Wednesday, Feb 9th, 2021.
Northern Tornadoes Project: Systematically identifying, classifying, and examining the impacts of every tornado in Canada
Abstract: The Northern Tornadoes Project, founded in 2017, has been identifying and classifying every tornado in Canada since 2019 with the distinct goals of:
(i) systematically capturing data in remote and sparsely populated regions,
(ii) developing and utilizing the latest tools, techniques, and methods to improve identification, classification, and data associated with tornadoes, and
(iii) utilizing the data to examine the impacts in order to increase the resilience of society.
The presentation will discuss the current approaches and things we have learned, but also point out where there is need for new tools, methods, and research.
When: Tuesday, February 1, 2022, 2-3:30 pm ET/1-2:30 pm CT
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A new project by CEE professors Oscar Lopez-Pamies and X. Shelly Zhang, funded by a National Science Foundation EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research award, seeks to create a novel computational framework for automatically generating optimal microstructures for materials with improved fracture behaviors.
The Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division is pleased to announce and congratulate Professor Arif Masud, John and Eileen Blumenschein Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, as the recipient of the 2022 Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Division Award. This award, which includes a medal, a certificate, and an honorarium, will be presented at the AMD Honors and Awards Banquet, during the 2022 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, the dates and location of which will be announced by ASME in due course.
The Applied Mechanics Award was established in 1988 and renamed the Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award in 2008. This Award is given to an outstanding individual for significant contributions in the practice of engineering mechanics; contributions may result from innovation, research, design, leadership or education.
Professor Masud is being recognized for fundamental contributions to the theory of Stabilized and Variational Multiscale Methods in Computational Mechanics.
Professor Billie F. Spencer Jr. has been elected as a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE), in recognition of his distinguished contribution to civil engineering and to the promotion of China-America exchanges and cooperation.
Professor Paolo Gardoni has been elected to ASCE’s Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Board of Governors by the EMI membership. Gardoni’s term will run from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024. The Board of Governors is responsible for defining the strategic directions of EMI, overseeing its operations, and promoting its growth and development.
Professor Arif Masud has been elected as President-elect of the Society of Engineering Science (SES) 2023. Masud will serve as Vice President for one year, beginning January 2022, before his term as President begins in January 2023. Established in 1963, SES is an organization of leading experts from around the world who are exploring the porous boundaries of, and extending and strengthening the interfaces between, various disciplines in engineering, science and mathematics.
Masud was elected to the SES Board of Directors in 2020 and received the society’s prestigious G.I. Taylor Medal in 2019 in recognition of his “fundamental contributions to the theory of stabilized and variational multiscale methods in computational fluid dynamics as well as their widespread adoption and utilization in industry and at national laboratories.” He has been a member of SES since 2004 and an elected fellow since 2020.
Masud joined the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in 2006, where he is the John and Eileen Blumenschein Professor and Robert H. Dodds Faculty Scholar. In addition to his appointment in CEE, Masud also holds faculty appointments in The Grainger College of Engineering with the Department of Aerospace Engineering and the Holonyak Micro and Nanotechnology Lab, as well as in the Department of Biomedical and Translational Sciences at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine. He is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Academy of Mechanics, Society of Engineering Science, Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE, United States Association for Computational Mechanics and the International Association of Computational Mechanics.
Fall Structural Engineering Qualifying Exam Announcement
Structural Engineering Qualifying Exam
Fall 2021
The Structural Engineering QE is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Oct 16th, 2021.
Candidates must notify by email Prof. Elbanna (elbanna2@illinois.edu) and Ms. Miller (marissam@illinois.edu) of their intent to take the QE no later than Wednesday, September 29th, 2021.
Assistant professor Shelly Zhang (BS 12, MS 14) has been invited to become a review editor of the journal Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (SMO), considered the flagship journal in her research field.
“SMO journal is at the converging frontier of design, engineering, simulation, additive manufacturing, AI and digital-twins,” Zhang said. “I was very honored and excited to receive this editorship invitation.”
Typically only tenured professors are invited to serve as review editors for SMO, but the journal made an exception in Zhang’s case, citing the fact that Zhang has already built a very strong reputation through her research and her strong commitment to serving the research community and recognizing her to be “among the most active and qualified reviewers” for SMO.
The SMO journal explores a wide range of topics dealing with optimization involving at least one major engineering discipline such as solid, fluid, thermal, electric, electromagnetics and more. As of 2020, the impact factor of SMO is 4.542, meaning it is in the top 10 percent of journals in terms of the number of times its papers are cited.