Dr. Ellingwood receives 2015 CERRA Lifetime Achievement Award

Dr. Bruce Ellingwood was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association on Tuesday, July 14th in Vancouver. This award was given at the 12th International Conference on Application of Statistics and Probability in Civil Engineering.

According to the CERRA award committees, some experts show a once-in-a-lifetime brilliant idea, others are able to organize and run a large group of graduate students, open a new field of application or produce a lifelong permanent flow of high level output. The present 2015 CERRA award committee decided that it had very good reasons to honor Dr. Bruce Ellingwood in this way and stated: “We are talking of someone with a really impressive publication and citation record, based on work that can be qualified as being of a high scientific standard as well as important engineering relevance. We also refer to a number of practically oriented contributions to several code and standard committees and, last but not least, we are talking about the driving force behind one of the most appreciated journals: Dr. Bruce Ellingwood.”

This has only been given several times in the last 15 to 20 years! Congratulations Bruce!