SHM Person of the Year Award

A structural health monitoring person of the year (SHM-POY) will be selected by the editors and associate editors of Structural Health Monitoring: An International Journal. The Person of the Year should have made an outstanding contribution to the field of SHM that will benefit society. This contribution can be in the form of theory, analysis, applications, education, or other ways that support the discipline of SHM and benefit society. The award is meant to recognize accomplishments within the past year or few years.

Click here for more information about eligibility, nomination and selection procedure.

List of past recipients:
2003: Douglas E. Adams, Purdue University
Victor Giurgiutiu, University of South Carolina
2004: Keith Worden, University of Sheffield
Wieslaw J. Staszewski, University of Sheffield
2005: Michael D. Todd, University of California, San Diego
2006: Mark Schulz, University of Cincinnati
2007: Francesco Lanza di Scalea, University of California, San Diego
Gyuhae Park, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2008: Tribikram Kundu, University of Arizona
2009: Jerome P. Lynch, University of Michigan
Zhishen Wu, Ibaraki University
2010: Claus-Peter Fritzen, University of Siegen
Nobuo Takeda, University of Tokyo
2011: Hoon Sohn, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Billie F. Spencer, UIUC
2012: Zhongqing Su, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2013: Branko Glisic, Princeton University
Fuh-Gwo Yuan, NC State University
2014: Daniele Zonta, University of Trento, Italy
2015: Hui Li, Harbin Institute of Technology
Piervincenzo (Piero) Rizzo, University of Pittsburgh
2016: Srinivasan Gopalakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
2017: Yi-Qing Ni, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Shenfang Yuan, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics
2018: Kenneth Loh, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
2019: Sourav Banerjee, University of South Carolina
Genda Chen, Missouri University of Science and Technology

The Achenbach Medal

The Achenbach Medal has been created to recognize an individual (within 10 years of PhD) who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the field of Structural Health Monitoring. It is an international award and nominations from all over the world are encouraged.

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List of past recipients:
2010: Sourav Banerjee, University of South Carolina
2011: Andrei N. Zagrai, New Mexico Technological University
2012: Piero Rizzo, University of Pittsburgh
2013: Kenneth J. Loh, University of California Davis
2014: Salvatore Salamone, University at Buffalo
2015: Eric B. Flynn, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2016: Frederic Cegla, Imperial College, UK
2017: Yang Wang​, Georgia Tech
2019: Elizabeth Jane Cross, University of Sheffield
2020: Dr. Yanfeng Shen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, USA and Dr. Thomas Schumacher, Portland State University, USA.
2021: Dr. Joel B. Harley, University of Florida, USA

Best Paper Award

Sponsored by the Sensors Journal

The SHM Best Paper Award is presented to one or more individuals whose paper(s) are selected to have the highest quality and innovation from the Proceedings of the 2022 EWSHM. The Award Committee is formed by all the Session Chairmen for this Workshop. They may propose among the articles from the sessions of their speciality, one or two papers which may be candidates for the Award, justifying their proposal.

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List of past recipients:
2017: Jiaze He​, National Institute of Aerospace, USA
2019: Long Wang, University of California San Diego

Student Best Paper Award

The EWSHM organizing committee is pleased to invite students to submit abstracts for the 2022 EWSHM Student Best Paper Award Competition. Papers will then be evaluated by a committee of experts from academia, industry, and the research community.

Click here for more information about eligibility, nomination and selection procedure.

List of past recipients:
2017: Homin Song, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2019: Manuel A. Vega, University of California San Diego