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Announcing the 2025 Beedle Award Winner

SSRC is excited to announce that Dr. Todd Helwig has been selected to be the 2025 recipient of the SSRC’s Lynn S. Beedle Award. We invite you to join us in congratulating Dr. Helwig on this accomplishment and encourage you to attend his accompanying presentation at the 2025 Annual Stability Conference, titled “A 30-Year Career Led by Buckling and Bracing Problems.”

2025 Beedle Award


The Beedle Award is SSRC's premier award and recognizes long-time members of the SSRC who have carried out world-class research or structural design in the field of structural stability, been a leader in fostering cooperation between professionals worldwide, and made significant contributions to code development. It was established in honor of the late Lynn S. Beedle, who was an international authority on stability and the development of code criteria for steel and composite structures.


Dr. Helwig will receive his award on April 1, 2025, at the upcoming 2025 SSRC Annual Stability Conference, which will be held in conjunction with NASCC: The Steel Conference in Louisville, Ky. He will also give a presentation during SSRC's conference. We all look forward to celebrating Todd’s work by enjoying what will certainly be a superb lecture.


Meet Dr. Helwig


Todd Helwig, Ph.D., P.E. has had a 30-year career teaching and conducting research in the field of structural engineering. He holds the Jewel McAlister Smith Professorship in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. His primary area of interest is the design and behavior of steel structures with an emphasis in full-scale testing, field monitoring, structural stability, fatigue, and stability bracing requirements.


He is a member of several technical committees within the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), the AASHTO/National Steel Bridge Alliance Collaboration (NSBA), the Design Advisory Group and Steel Bridge Task Force for AASHTO, and the Structural Stability Research Council (SSRC). He is a member of the AISC Committee on Specifications. He served on the Executive Committee for SSRC from 2002-2019 and served as Chair from 2016-2019.


His research has been recognized with several awards including the 2023 George Richardson Medal presented at the International Bridge Conference, 2022 Richard S. Fountain Award given by AASHTO/ AISI/NSBA, the 2022 AISC Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2017 AISC T. R. Higgins Lectureship Award, the AISC Special Achievement Award, the ASCE Collingwood Research Prize, the ASCE Moisseiff Award, and the ASCE Shortridge Hardesty Award.    

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