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The award has been established in honor of Lynn S. Beedle, an international authority on stability and the development of code criteria for steel and composite structures. He has been a leader and outstanding contributor to the work of the Structural Stability Research Council for a period of more than 50 years, establishing the council as the pre-eminent organization worldwide in the area of structural stability. Through Lynn Beedle’s dedicated work and leadership in the national and international arenas, the structural engineering profession has seen advanced concepts developed into practical engineering tools. He has striven consistently and successfully to advance collaboration between researchers, engineers and code writers worldwide.
Recipients of the Lynn S. Beedle Award must meet the following criteria:
- Long time member of SSRC.
- A worldwide leading stability researcher or designer of structures with significant stability issues.
- A leader in fostering cooperation between professionals worldwide.
- Significant contributions to national and international design code development.
- The SSRC Executive Committee will serve as the award committee. The award may be presented as frequently as annually. An individual can only receive the award once.
The award will be presented at the SSRC
Annual Stability Conference. It consists of a framed certificate,
signed by the SSRC Chair and Vice Chair.
2007
Award Winner
Professor D.J. Laurie Kennedy,
University of Alberta
Presented April 20, 2007
 The
2007 Beedle Award recipient was Professor Laurie Kennedy, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.
Prof. Kennedy is a longtime member of SSRC. His research on steel structures has emphasized limit states design for many years. He has chaired the three Canadian Standards Association committees for the [limit states] design of steel fixed offshore structures, steel bridges and steel buildings, the latter for almost 40 years. The introduction of limit states design for steel buildings in Canada in 1974 has led to limit states design being adopted as the sole design philosophy for buildings and bridges of all structural materials Canada wide. He was a partner in the consulting firm Morrison Hershfield for 20 years and is a Past-President of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering.
Past
Beedle Award Winners
| 2002 |
Prof.
T.V Galambos |
University
of Minnesota
- Twin Cities Campus |
| 2004 |
Prof.
Yuhshi Fukumoto |
Fukuyama
University |
| 2005 |
Prof.
William McGuire |
Cornell
University |
| 2006 |
Prof.
Joseph Yura |
University of Texas at Houston |
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