2008 Recipient:

Mohammed Ettouney, Ph.D., P.E. is Principal of Applied Research with Weidlinger Associates. He earned his Doctor of Science degree in Structural Mechanics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1976. He is a leading practitioner and researcher in multi-hazards safety of buildings and other structures, through his work on pioneering structural engineering projects. This includes the New Haven Coliseum Demolition Project, probabilistic Modeling of Progressive Collapse of Buildings (Air Force), experimental techniques for collapse of building and abnormal loading and blast mitigation of numerous buildings around the world; innovative concepts such as "Theory of Multihazards in Infrastructures", "Theory of Progressive Collapse"; (DoD), "Risk Model for Building Security Council (BSC) Rating System", and "Framework for Evaluation of Lunar Base Structural Concepts".

Mr. Ettouney has introduced numerous new practical and theoretical methods in the fields of earthquake engineering, acoustics, structural health monitoring, progressive collapse, blast engineering, and underwater vibrations. He has co-invented "Seismic-Blast" slotted connection, and has developed the theory of non-vertically propagating seismic waves for nuclear reactors and long-span bridges. His work on "Theory of Multi-hazards in Infrastructures" and "Theory of Progressive Collapse" is a pioneering effort towards developing multi-hazard design guidelines for structures subjected to earthquakes, blast, hurricanes and other natural/man made hazards. His participation in the original U.S. Embassy Anti-terrorist Engineering Guideline and protective design for US Embassies at Moscow, Congo, Niger, Armenia, Ottawa, Canada, and Cairo, Egypt, World Trade Center Control Room, Russian Storage Facility, and JFK East Parking Garage has addressed important practical issues on multi-hazard (seismic, blast and wind) design of important physical infrastructures around the world.

He has published more than 275 publications and reports, and has contributed to five books in cutting-edge areas of structural engineering. His service to the profession includes Elected Fellow of AEI, Past President and Board member of AEI, Board member of the Building Security Council (BSC), member of the FEMA Steering Committee for the ATC-58 "Second Generation of Performance-Based Seismic Design", Chair of the "Building Security Rating Systems" Committee and Chair of the "Continuing Education in Architectural Engineering".

His excellence in profession is demonstrated by his numerous awards and inventions, including Project of the Year Award, Platinum Award 2007 for the "New Haven Coliseum Demolition Project" (ACEC, NY), nomination by ASCE to be inducted to Inventors Hall of Fame (2007-08, announcement pending), fellowship of Architecture Engineering Institute (AEI), pioneering work on "Theory of Multi-hazards of Infrastructures", "Theory of Progressive Collapse" (DoD), Risk Model for Building Security Council (BSC) rating system and innovative green design method for protecting utilities from demolition / blasting (City of New Haven).

Past Recipients:

2006 Ysrael A. Seinuk
2004 Irwin G. Cantor
2002 George J. Tamaro
2000 Leslie E. Robertson
1998 Charles Thornton
1996 Mario G. Salvadori