This project is to hold a workshop on the subject of wind hazard and related fields. The two-day workshop will discuss ongoing research and practice in the subject area. The workshop is under the sponsorship of American Association for Wind Engineering (AAWE). Participation at the workshop will be by academicians, researchers and practicing architects and engineers. The venue of the workshop is Hyannis, Massachusetts. This is the third workshop in a series of workshops held every two years. The objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for young investigators to present and discuss their ongoing research. The subjects of wind hazard, wind engineering, and wind energy are of importance to the nation. Students and Post-doc fellows are encouraged to present their research on an informal setting. The forum provides an opportunity to present research to their peers and receive feedback to improve the quality of research.
The Third American Association for Wind Engineering (AAWE2012) Workshop was the third in a series of workshops held every 24 months by the American Association for Wind Engineering (AAWE). This event was held in the Conference Center of a Hotel at Hyannis, Massachusetts from August 12th to 14th, 2012. This event was built on the success of the previous two workshops, one in Vail, Colorado (2008) and the other in Marco Island, Florida (2010), to bring the latest developments of wind engineering, wind hazard mitigation and its related disciplines to a broad audience. This Workshop was organized, on behalf of AAWE (www.aawe.org/), by Professor Luca Caracoglia (workshop chairman), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA and Professor Partha P. Sarkar (workshop co-chairman, AAWE President in 2012), Department of Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA. The event recorded an increase in attendance, number of submitted abstracts, papers and presentations in comparison with previous editions. Participants included university researchers, graduate students, scientists at national laboratories, engineering practitioners and industrial leaders in the field. The NSF funding was utilized to support the travel costs incurred by graduate students, who were working at various universities in the United States and who participated in the event. This support was presented to 22 graduate students in the form of travel bursaries. The selection of the students was conducted by the conference chairman and co-chairman. It was based on two merit criteria: submission of a paper (later included in the electronic proceedings) and delivery of a presentation by the student at the workshop. All the abstracts submitted by the students who had requested to be considered for the bursary, were peer-reviewed by members of the organizing committee. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Report are those of the PI and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation; NSF has not approved or endorsed its content.
