Wilson H. Tang CEE Risk, Reliability and Decision Analysis Scholarship

This endowed Scholarship was established in 2017 by the family of Professor Wilson H. Tang who taught in CEE at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for 27 years before he left for HKUST, a new and up and coming Science and Technology University in Hong Kong. Professor Tang, a Fellow and distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, was an international leader in the field of engineering uncertainty and reliability analysis. He led the profession in pioneering the use of reliability-based methods for risk mitigation and design in various areas of civil engineering, particularly In Geotechnical Engineering. To recognize and honor his significant contributions a prestigious keynote lecture, the  Wilson Tang Lecture of the serial conferences of International Symposium on Geotechnical Safety and Reliability, was inaugurated in 2009. Also, an ASCE Special Publication 286, ‘Geotechnical Safety and Reliability: Honoring Wilson H. Tang’ was published in June of 2017 at the Geo Risk Conference in Denver, Colorado by his colleagues and students honoring his contributions in the area.

Scholarships will provide support for undergraduate students. Preference shall be given to students studying in the area of engineering risks, uncertainties and reliability analysis.

Past recipients:

2024     Jameson de Beaumont

2023     Kent Lullo

2022     Emma Velkme

2021     Charles Mallin

2020     Yuhao Peng

2019     Yijun Wu

2018     Catherine Seebauer