G. Wayne Clough
G. Wayne Clough (* September 24, 1941 in Douglas, Georgia) is an American civil engineer ( geotechnical ).
Clough studied from 1960 at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Civil Engineering, with a bachelor 's degree in 1964 and a master's degree in 1965. It was founded in 1969 at the University of California, Berkeley PhD ( on the geotechnical design of lock chambers, U -frame Locks). He was an assistant professor at Duke University and professor at Stanford University, and from 1982 at Virginia Tech as a leader of geotechnical engineering. In addition, he was there from 1983 to 1990 Board of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and from 1990 to 1993 dean of the College of Engineering. He was Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Washington in 1993.
From 1994 to 2008 he was a follower of John Patrick Crecine president of Georgia Tech, which greatly expanded under his leadership. In his time, the Summer Olympics were in 1996, during which the campus served as the Olympic Village. About $ 900 million (including a center for nanotechnology ) and the research budget were put in the expansion of the university doubled. The number of students grew during his tenure from 13,000 to 18,000. Since 2008 he has been Head ( Secretary ) of the Smithsonian Institution.
As a geotechnical engineer he worked among others with earthquakes, the interaction structure - building, numerical modeling, for example, excavations, accompanied by and checked on the basis of on-site measurements. He wrote some common computer programs in geotechnical engineering.
He is co-founder (1993 ) and first president of the U.S. Universities Council of Geotechnical Engineering Research ( USUCGER ).
In 1994 he was Terzaghi Lecturer. 1982 and 1996 he received the Norman Medal of the American Society of Civil Engineers ( ASCE ) and he was awarded the State of the Art Award and 2004 Outstanding Projects and Leaders Award which. 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 is a multiple honorary doctorates (including Williams College, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Florida Southern College, University of South Carolina, University of Maryland ). In 2010 he was inducted 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 U.S. president and from 2004 a member of the National Science Board. He stood before the committee of the National Research Council for the prevention of further damage hurricane in New Orleans, evaluates, among other things, the work of the Army Corps of Engineers for the Department of Defense.