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SHM Lifetime Achievement Award: Sponsored by The Boeing Company

An individual in the SHM community who has championed SHM over their career by advancing the state-of-the-art through their meritorious accomplishments in research, applications, education or sponsorship of the discipline will be selected to receive the prestigious SHM Lifetime Achievement Award by a committee of researchers, educators and practicing scientists and engineers.

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

List of past recipients:
2003: Charles Farrar, Los Alamos National Laboratory
2004: Fu-Kuo Chang, Stanford University
2007: Peter Cawley, Imperial College
2009: Dan Inman, Univ. of Michigan;
          Christian Boller, Fraunhofer Inst. of NDT
2011: Alfredo Guemes, Univ Politecnica de Madrid
2013: Keith Worden, The University of Sheffield
2015: Tribikram Kundu, The University of Arizona
2017: Anne Kiremidjian​, Stanford University
2019: Wieslaw Ostachowicz, Polish Academy of Sciences
2021: Michael D. Todd, University of California, San Diego

SHM Person of the Year Award: Sponsored by SAGE

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.

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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

2021: Shirley Dyke, Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States

2022: Salvatore Salamone, University of Texas at Austin, United States
2023: Babak Moaveni, Tufts University, United States

SHM Hans-Juergen Schmidt Award: Sponsored by Aerospace Journal

Individuals in the SHM community, recognized for their outstanding leadership in advancing technologies in industry and government, will be selected by an Award Committee representative of the world-wide SHM community to receive during every SHM workshop (International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring [IWSHM], European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring [EWSHM] and Asia-Pacific Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring [APWSHM]) the SHM Hans-Juergen Schmidt Award.

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List of past recipients:
2005: Mark Derriso, Air Force Research Laboratory
2006: Dr. Peter Lloyd, Ministry of Defence, UK
2007: Dr. Shih-Chi Liu, NSF
2009: Dr. Felix Wu, NIST
2011: Treven Baker, US Army Aviation
2012: Paulo Achieta da Silva, Embraer
2013: Helmut Wenzel, University of Life Sciences, Vienna
2016: David Stargel, WPAFB, USA
2017: Liming Salvino​, Office of Naval Research
2019: Ignacio Perez, Office of Naval Research
2021: Matthias Buderath, Airbus Defense and Space
2023: Fuh-Gwo Yuan, North Carolina State University, USA 

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
2021: Joel B. Harley, University of Florida
2023: Amir H. Gandomi, University of Technology, Sydney
        : Weibin Li, Xiamen University, China

Best Paper Award: Sponsored by The Boeing Company

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 2023 IWSHM. 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
2023: Yiska Goldfeld, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology

Multifunctional and Intelligent Composites Award: Sponsored by the Sensors Journal

Individuals recognized for their outstanding leadership in advancing composite materials with multifunctional capabilities for structural health monitoring (SHM) and smart structures applications in industry and/or government over their career, will be selected by an Award Committee to receive the Award at the International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring [IWSHM]. Please see below link for more information about eligibility, nomination and selection procedure.

2023: H. Felix Wu, US Department of Energy
        : Nobuo Takeda, The University of Tokyo, Japan.

Student Best Paper Award: Sponsored by DEStech Publications

The IWSHM organizing committee is pleased to invite students to submit abstracts for the 2023 IWSHM Student Best Paper Award Competition. Papers will then be evaluated by a committee of experts from academia, industry, and the research community.

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List of past recipients:
2017: Homin Song, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2019: Manuel A. Vega, University of California San Diego
2023: Johannes Wiedemann, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany

The Most Practical SHM Solution for Aerospace Award: Sponsored by Airbus

Airbus is proud to sponsor a prize for the Most Practical SHM Solution for Aerospace to be demonstrated in SHM in Action. The session will be judged by a panel of representatives from industry and government. The prize will be awarded at the end of the session.

List of past recipients:
2013: Franklin Li, Acellent Technologies, Inc (http://www.acellent.com)
2015: Fotis Kopsaftopoulos, Structures and Composites Lab, Stanford University(http://structure.stanford.edu/)
2017: Arun Chhabra, 8-tree
2019: Metis Design Corporation
2023: Seth Kessler, Metis Design Corporation

The Most Practical SHM Solution for Civil / Mechanical Systems Award

The session will be judged by a panel of representatives from industry and government. The prize will be awarded at the end of the session.

List of past recipients:
2013: Franklin Li, Acellent Technologies, Inc (http://www.acellent.com)
2015: Peter Runcie, National ICT Australia (http://www.nicta.com.au/)
2017: Abe Davis, Stanford
          Scott Dalgleish, PhaseIV
2019: Acellent Technologies, Inc (http://www.acellent.com)
2023: Fernando Moreu, University of New Mexico