THWARTS 2019 occurred October 14 & 15 in Champaign, IL and was a great success. The symposium was structured as a single-track conference with presentations from experts and early researchers in wind science and engineering, atmospheric science, structural engineering, social …
NIST GRANT FUNDS THE GROUP
We are excited to announce we are the recipient of a NIST Disaster Resilience grant. The group will investigate extreme near-surface wind and wind loading characteristics using novel instrumentation.
Further information can be found at https://cee.illinois.edu/news/nist-grant-funds-wind-research-illinois…
Group participates on ICWE 15th
The Wind Engineering Research Laboratory participated on the 15th International Conference on Wind Engineering September 1-6, 2019, in Beijing, China.
The group participated with 8 oral presentations. ICWE 15 was a great venue to expose the work the Wind Engineering …
Prof. Lombardo receives IAWE Junior Award
CEE Assistant Professor Franklin T. Lombardo has been awarded the Junior Award by the International Association for Wind Engineering (IAWE). The award is given annually to one engineer under the age of 40 who has established a record of outstanding …
Group Participates at IAS17
Four group members, Guangzhao Chen, Justin Nevill, Daniel Rhee, and Antonio Zaldivar, participated on the 17th International Advanced School on Wind and Structural Engineering held in Beijing, China from August 30 to September 01, 2019.
The course covered wind flow …
Zach Wienhoff joins group
UIUC WindLab is pleased to announce that Zachary B. Wienhoff is joining us as a graduate research assistant. Zach brings expertise in supercell and tornado dynamics, and radar meteorology. The WindLab is eager to see how Zach will contribute to …
M.S. Alexander S. Zickar
Congratulations to Alexander S. Zickar for graduating with his M.S. thesis titled “ENHANCEMENT OF THE UNITED STATES EXTREME WIND DATABASE AND IMPLICATIONS FOR EXTREME WIND CLIMATOLOGY”
Alex will be joining Kimley Horn.…
CEE Faculty Visit Guangzhou University
CEE faculty Bill Spencer, Erol Tutumluer, Larry Fahnestock, Frank Lombardo and Jinhui Yan visited Guangzhou University and delivered lectures as part of a two-day workshop (June 29-30) on potential research collaboration. Guangzhou University is a new 3+2 …
Wired In: Frank Lombardo
Assistant Professor, Frank Lombardo interviewed by the News-Gazette May 29, 2019 discussing research in Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois’ Wind Engineering Research Laboratory. For the full article, click here.…
M.S. Rishabh Moorjani
Congratulations to Rishabh Moorjani for graduating with his M.S. thesis titled “INFLUENCE OF ARCHITECTURAL FORM ON THE WIND-INDUCED RESPONSE OF
TALL BUILDINGS”
Rishabh will be working at SOM‘s Chicago Office.
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