Spotlight on ASME Awards Ralph Coats Roe Medal to G. Wayne Clough at the 2013 Honors Assembly

Focus on ASME Awards Ralph Coats Roe Medal to G. Wayne Clough at the 2013 Honors Assembly Focus on ASME Awards Ralph Coats Roe Medal to G. Wayne Clough at the 2013 Honors Assembly Focus on: ASME Awards Ralph Coats Roe Medal to G. Wayne Clough at the 2013 Honors Assembly G. Wayne Clough G. Wayne Clough, P.E., Ph.D., secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, is one of 10 designing trailblazers who will be regarded by the Society for their accomplishments this year at the ASME Honors Assembly. The lofty occasion will occur the night of Nov. 18, during the 2013 ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress Exposition in San Diego, Calif. Dr. Clough, an inhabitant of Washington, D.C., will get ASME's Ralph Coats Roe Medal during the function. The decoration, built up in 1972, perceives an extraordinary commitment toward a superior open comprehension and valuation for the architect's worth to contemporary society. Clough is being perceived with the honor for his numerous commitments to both advanced education strategy and U.S. innovation strategy; and for illustrating, through recognized authority of the Smithsonian Institution, that a practiced architect can be the watchman and essential promoter for saving and advancing our national social legacy. Clough became secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's biggest exhibition hall and examination complex, in 2008. The Smithsonian envelops 19 historical centers and displays, 20 libraries, the National Zoo and various exploration centers. It conducts exercises in almost 100 nations and backers instructive projects all through the United States by means of communicate media, the web and voyaging presentations. Since joining the Smithsonian, Clough has stressed the advancement of joint efforts with colleges and different associations including the Global Tiger Initiative with the World Bank, the promotion of the Space Shuttle Discovery with NASA, and the Haiti Cultural Recovery Project with the U.S. State Department. In 2012, the Smithsonian opened the Smithsonian-Mason School of Conservation in Front Royal, Va., in organization with George Mason University; as a feature of a qualification program, understudies lead research on jeopardized species with Smithsonian researchers. Prior to his arrangement to the Smithsonian, Clough was leader of the Georgia Institute of Technology from 1994-2008. In 2012, Georgia Tech opened the G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons Building to respect his pledge to undergrad students. Previously, he was an individual from the workforce at Duke University and Stanford University. He at that point joined Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, where he was leader of the branch of structural building and senior member of the College of Engineering. He at that point filled in as executive and VP for scholastic undertakings at the University of Washington in Seattle. What's more, Clough has filled in as seat of the National Academy of Engineering/National Research Council Committee on New Orleans Regional Hurricane Protection Reconstruction, an individual from the National Science Board, and an individual from President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He is right now an individual from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Commission on the Future of Humanities and Social Sciences. The ASME Honors and Awards program is supported by the ASME Foundation, through the administration of grant enrichment finances set up by people, partnerships or gatherings. The 2013 Honors Assembly â€" A Celebration of Engineering â€" is allowed to all Congress members. For more data on this occasion and every one of the current year's 10 honor beneficiaries, visit www.asmeconferences.org/Congress2013/Honors.cfm.