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Tom Murray receives ASCE Ernest E. Howard Award
Posted by : Estela Moen - May 12, 2009 18:44:27
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 Professor Emeritus Tom Murray has been selected to receive the Ernest E. Howard Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).
The Ernest E. Howard Award is given to a member of the Society who has made a definite contribution to the advancement of structural engineering through research, planning, design or construction. The 2009 Ernest E. Howard Award was presented to Dr. Murray for his sustained and notable contributions to the fundamental understanding and mitigation of floor vibrations due to human occupants in steel buildings. Murray is best known as the world’s foremost expert on the problems related to the vibration of building and bridge structures under human, industrial and environmental excitation. This is evidenced by his many awards, including election to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for leadership in developing criteria for floor serviceability and major contributions to structural-steel design engineering practice.
Murray was responsible for the construction of large laboratories at the University of Oklahoma and Virginia Tech, and he founded Virginia Tech’s Structures and Materials Laboratory, where he and his graduate students developed alternate methods for connecting beams and columns in buildings in areas that experience high levels of seismic activity. His research and teaching interests include steel connections, pre-engineered building design, and light gage design.
He was the first recipient, in 1998, of the Charles E. Via Jr. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering’s Alumni Excellence Teaching Award, an honor accorded him again in 2003. The Virginia Tech ASCE student chapter presented him with the Faculty of the Year Award in 2002. In 2006, Murray was one of fifteen college and university faculty selected to receive the commonwealth’s highest honor for faculty, the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia. He was conferred the "professor emeritus" title by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors in November 2008. |
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