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Dr. Jack Cermak, a pioneer of wind engineering, has been leading and developing the field since 1952.
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Dr. Jack Cermak, President Emeritus
Dr. Jack Cermak is President Emeritus of CPP, Inc. For more than 50 years, he has dedicated his career to the fields of fluid dynamics and atmospheric science, their applications to the modeling of boundary-layer winds, structural responses to wind, and the atmospheric transport of pollutants, snow, sand, and water.
As a professor at Colorado State University in 1952, he founded the Wind Engineering and Fluid Mechanics graduate program and pioneered the design and use of the turbulent boundary-layer wind tunnel. For his work, he received a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship to Cambridge University in 1961 and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1973.
One of his early notable projects was the wind tunnel testing of the WTC Twin Towers in New York City during their design phase in 1963-1964.
He is an Honorary Member of ASCE, a Fellow of AAAS, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and a member of ASME, AMS, A&WMA, AGU, ASEE, ASHRAE, ACI, SATA, AAWE and NAE. Dr. Cermak has authored hundreds of technical papers and articles, including the seminal 1974 Freeman Scholar Lecture, "Applications of Fluid Mechanics to Wind Engineering," which has been translated into 14 languages.
In 1986, CSU named Dr. Cermak a Distinguished Professor and in 2002, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) established the Jack E. Cermak Medal to be awarded annually for outstanding contributions in wind engineering.
Through his teaching, publications, presentations, and consultations, Dr. Cermak has created a lasting impression on the field of engineering and has guided and inspired many of the world’s engineering leaders.
