CCNY's Anil Agrawal is the recipient of ASCE's George Winter Award.
The American Society of Civil Engineers’ (ASCE) Structural Engineering Institute is presenting its 2026 George Winter Award to Anil K. Agrawal, Professor and Chair of Civil Engineering in The City College of New York’s Grove School of Engineering. The honor is for “outstanding contributions in both structural engineering and mentoring of high school students in STEM.”
Agrawal will receive a medal and honorarium at ASCE’s Structures Congress in Boston, Massachusetts on May 1.
The award was instituted by the ASCE Board of Direction in April 1990, and is named after Dr. George Winter, a world renowned teacher and researcher at Cornell University, who died in 1982. It recognizes the achievements of an active structural engineering researcher, educator or practitioner who best typifies Dr. Winter's humanistic approach to his profession: namely an equal concern for matters technical and social, for art as well as science, and for soul as well as intellect.
Agrawal’s latest accolade comes a year after ASCE, the oldest national engineering society in the United States, bestowed three honors on him: the 2025 Moisseiff Award, the ASCE State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award, and the ASCE Collingwood Prize.
Agrawal is a Distinguished Member of ASCE, and past chief editor of the ASCE’s Journal of Bridge Engineering. He has served as chair of the ASCE SEI Committee on Bridge Inspection, Rehabilitation and Monitoring and the ASCE SEI Committee on Structural Control and Sensing. He has also chaired the Engineering Mechanics Committee of ASCE’s Metropolitan Section since 2013 and served as vice-chair of ExCom of the SEI Technical Community Committee between 2023 and 2025.
Agrawal’s numerous other honors include: the 2015 CCNY President’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Teaching and Service; the 2020 ASCE Richard R. Torrens Award; the 2022 ASCE Arthur M. Wellington Prize; the 2022 Metropolitan Section Civil Engineer of the Year Award for character, professional integrity, contribution to academia, and years of outstanding service; the 2022 ASCE Ernest E. Howard Award for “significant contributions in structural engineering for extreme hazard mitigation and blast and impact protection of highway bridges.” He also won the 2023 Raymond C. Reese Research Prize.
He’s the founding Chief Editor of the International Journal of Bridge Engineering, Management and Research, founded in collaboration with the FABRE Consortium of Italy in September 2024. That same year, Agrawal founded the Journal of High School Research to encourage high school students to engage in research and critical writing.
Agrawal has published more than 142 peer-reviewed papers, 26 major reports and more than 200 conference papers.
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