page_title: Ahsan Kareem
section_title: Membership to Academies of Engineering
hierarchical_section_title: Ahsan Kareem / Awards and Honors / Membership to Academies of Engineering
caption_attribution_description: English: Ahsan Kareem at the 2009 US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) induction
context_page_description: Ahsan Kareem is the Robert M. Moran Professor of Engineering in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at the University of Notre Dame. He is Director of the Nathaz Modeling Laboratory and served as the past Chair at the Department of CEEES at the University of Notre Dame. He currently serves as the President of the International Association for Wind Engineering. He was also the former President of the American Association for Wind Engineering. His fundamental contributions to aerodynamics and aeroelasticity has led to advances in the analysis, design and performance assessment of tall buildings and long span bridges. He has conducted from wind tunnel modeling to stochastic and CFD based simulations and finally to the full-scale monitoring of some of the signature buildings around the world including more recently Burj Khalifa. It utilizes a novel “SmartSync” system featuring “Internet-of-Things” concept with built in layers of intelligence for data management and analysis.
context_section_description: 2009, Member, US National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
  2017, Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Engineering (CNAE)
  2020, Foreign Member, The Engineering Academy of Japan (EAJ)
  2010, Foreign Fellow, Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)
caption: Ahsan Kareem at the 2009 US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) induction flanked by NAE Chair Irwin M. Jacobs (left) and NAE President Charles M. Vest (right)
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