Nominations for 2014 T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award due August 1

by Jonathan McGaha | 23 June 2013 12:00 am

Nominations are now being accepted for AISC’s prestigious T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award, which includes a $15,000 cash award. The award recognizes an outstanding lecturer and author whose technical paper or papers, published during the eligibility period, are considered an outstanding contribution to the engineering literature on fabricated structural steel. The winner will be recognized at the 2014 NASCC: The Steel Conference, March 26-29 in Toronto, and will present their lecture at various professional association events throughout the year.

AISC encourages those involved in the steel design and construction industry to submit nominations by August 1, 2013. Nominations should include the following information:

Name and affiliation of individual nominated (past winners may not be nominated again).
Title of the paper(s) for which the individual is nominated, including publication citation.
If the paper has multiple authors, identify the principal author.
Reasons for nomination.
A copy of the paper(s) as well as any published discussion, must accompany the nomination. The author must be a permanent resident of the U.S. and available to fulfill the commitments of the award. The paper or papers must have been published in a professional journal within the five-year period from January 1, 2008 to January 1, 2013. The 2014 award winner will give a minimum of six presentations of the lecture on selected occasions during the year.

The award will be made to a nominated individual on the basis of two criteria: his/her reputation as a lecturer; and the jury’s evaluation of the paper or papers named in the nomination. Papers will be judged for originality, clarity of presentation, contribution to engineering knowledge, future significance, and value to the fabricated structural steel industry.

Please send your nominations for the T.R. Higgins Lectureship Award to:

T.R. Higgins Award Nomination
c/o Janet T. Cummins
Engineering & Research Coordinator
American Institute of Steel Construction
One East Wacker Drive, Suite 700
Chicago, IL 60601

Or, you may submit your nominations to Janet Cummins via email at cummins@aisc.org.

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