  
  Greetings. On behalf of AAWE, I wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2012. I sincerely hope that you had a wonderful and productive 2011. This... Read More...  President's Corner
Greetings. On behalf of AAWE, I wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2012. I sincerely hope that you had a wonderful and productive 2011. This past year will be remembered for multiple disaster-related and sociopolitical events that were quite unique. The good news is that it is all over. First, I want to welcome the new AAWE members to this association and thank all the continuing members (individual and corporate) for their support through their 2012 memberships. I also thank all of those who contributed to the AAWE newsletters in 2011 by sharing their research findings and work of interest. The current newsletter has a theme of full-scale testing that we all know is extremely important. In this newsletter, there is an article on full-scale tests on wind-driven water entry in residential buildings conducted at the IBHS Research Center and another article on measurement of wind turbine wake using a research radar at Texas Tech University. I hope you will enjoy reading these articles. Now I want to share a few highlights of AAWE-related activities in 2011 that follow. *AAWE awarded travel grants to 16 graduate students, 2 postdocs and 9 faculty from 9 US universities and 3 Canadian universities to attend the 13th ICWE that was held in July 2011. A total amount of $22,870 was distributed including $3,300 from AAWE funds and the rest through a grant from NSF administered by JHU (courtesy of Dean Nick Jones). *The AAWE Board of Directors meeting was held on July 14th for 2.5 hrs at Amsterdam during the 13th ICWE. The Board discussed several action items during the meeting including AAWE-related awards process, membership, newsletter/website, participation in damage-survey activities, conferences and workshop, finances and engagements with IAWE and other wind organizations. You can view the detailed minutes of this meeting on the AAWE website. *Good progress has been made in the initial organizational setup for the 12th Americas Conference on Wind Engineering (12ACWE), co-chaired by Drs. Dorothy Reed and Anurag Jain, that will be held from June 16-20, 2013 at Seattle. AAWE sponsors this event by providing seed money. Preparations are also underway for the Third AAWE Workshop that is now scheduled to be held in summer 2012. It is being organized by Dr. Luca Caracoglia from Northeastern University. Details will follow soon. This workshop, held every 1.5 to 2 years, particularly encourages student participation. While I am on the topic of conferences, I want to remind you about the approaching deadline of Jan. 15, 2012 for abstract submission for the 2012 Joint Conference of the Engineering Mechanics Institute and 11th ASCE Joint Specialty Conference on Probabilistic Mechanics and Structural Reliability (EMI /PMC 2012) that will be held at the University of Notre Dame from June 17-20, 2012. This year's conference is organized by the members of our wind engineering community, Drs. Ahsan Kareem, Tracy Kijewski-Correa and Alexandros Taflanidis. Sincerely, Partha P. Sarkar Current
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The 15th AWES Workshop will be in Sydney next year. A wind load handbook and seminar will be part of the event. The ASCE Technical Council on Wind Engineering has generated this brief White Paper on future wind-engineering research needs. Call for papers. In the 20th anniversary year (2012) of Hurricane Andrew ATC and ASCE will host this event in Miami. The Cyclone Testing Station at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, has issued this report on a major cyclone in early 2011. |
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