ECpE Associate Professor Manimaran Govindarasu and CCEE Associate Professor Sri Sritharan recently won the Best IT Innovation Award at the Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation’s 6th Annual Meeting. The award names their real-time system visualization tool (“RSVtool”) as the best new IT technique or product developed during the past year.
The RSVtool helps to effectively engage researchers participating remotely in experiments, particularly in large-scale tests of concrete walls at the University of Minnesota’s Multi-Axial Subassemblage Testing Laboratory.