G. Wayne Clough
Gerald Wayne Clough (born September 24, 1941 in Douglas , Georgia ) is an American civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ).
Clough studied civil engineering from 1960 at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), with a bachelor's degree in 1964 and a master's degree in 1965. He received his doctorate in 1969 from the University of California, Berkeley (on the geotechnical design of lock chambers, U-frame Locks). He was Assistant Professor at Duke University and Professor at Stanford University and from 1982 at Virginia Tech as head of the geotechnical department. He was also head of the Faculty of Civil Engineering from 1983 to 1990 and Dean of the College of Engineering from 1990 to 1993. In 1993 he became Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington .
From 1994 to 2008, he succeeded John Patrick Crecine as President of Georgia Tech, which expanded significantly under his leadership. The 1996 Summer Olympics also took place during his time , during which the campus functioned as an Olympic Village . Over $ 900 million was put into expanding the university (including a center for nanotechnology) and the research budget was doubled. The number of students grew from 13,000 to 18,000 during his tenure.
From 2008 to 2014 he was the 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution .
As a geotechnician, he dealt, among other things, with earthquakes, the interaction between building and subsoil, numerical modeling, for example of excavations, accompanied by and checked on the basis of measurements on site. Some common computer programs in geotechnics come from him.
He is co-founder (1993) and first President of the US Universities Council of Geotechnical Engineering Research (USUCGER).
In 1994 he was a Terzaghi Lecturer . In 1982 and 1996 he received the Norman Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and he received their State of the Art Award and in 2004 their Outstanding Projects and Leaders Award. In 1986 he received the George Westinghouse Award from the American Society for Engineering Education. In 1990 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering . In 2009 he was inducted into the Georgia Technology Hall of Fame. In 2002 he received the National Engineering Award from the American Association of Engineering Societies. He has multiple honorary doctorates (including Williams College , Jiao Tong University Shanghai, Florida Southern College, University of South Carolina , University of Maryland). In 2010 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . A building at Georgia Tech is named after him.
From 2001 to 2008 he was a member of the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology of the US President and from 2004 a member of the National Science Board . He chaired the committee of the National Research Council for the prevention of further hurricane damage in New Orleans , which, among other things, evaluates the work of the Army Corps of Engineers for the Department of Defense .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Clough Past and Future of Computing in Geotechnical Engineering , Geo Institute 2006 Congress, Atlanta, pdf
- ^ Committee members New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Projects
Joseph Henry (1846–1878) | Spencer Fullerton Baird (1878-1887) | Samuel Pierpont Langley (1887–1906) | Charles Doolittle Walcott (1907-1927) | Charles Greeley Abbot (1928-1944) | Alexander Wetmore (1944–1952) | Leonard Carmichael (1953-1964) | S. Dillon Ripley (1964-1984) | Robert McCormick Adams (1984-1994) | I. Michael Heyman (1994-1999) | Lawrence M. Small (2000-2007) | G. Wayne Clough (2008-2015) | David Skorton (2015–)
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| SURNAME | Clough, G. Wayne |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Clough, Gerald Wayne (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American civil engineer (geotechnical engineering) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Douglas , Georgia |