Marios Panagiotou, assistant professor in the CEE Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials program, received the 2012 Alfred Noble Prize for the paper, "Displacement-Based Method of Analysis for Regular Reinforced-Concrete Wall Buildings: Application to a Full-Scale 7-Story Building Slice Tested at UC-San Diego." The paper was co-authored with Professor Jose Restrepo.
In selecting the paper for the award, the Alfred Noble Joint Prize Committee noted that the results cited can improve seismic codes and can potentially have far reaching impacts on saving lives and properties around the world.
The Alfred Noble Prize jointly by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, the Petroleum Engineers (AIME), and the Western Society of Engineers (WSE) is given to a paper when one of the authors is less than 35 years.