Wenbin Yu, the Milton Clauser Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Purdue, received two significant honors this week at the American Society for Composites 39^th Annual Technical Conference in San Diego. He has been named Fellow and Outstanding Researcher by the ASC.

Yu also gave a talk on Three-Dimensional Structural Analysis of Shell Structures Using MSG-Based Beam Model. He discussed his first wind turbine project, conducted in collaboration with AAE doctoral students Akshat Bagla and Ernesto Camarena, about resolving some of the inconsistent practices in modeling of wind turbine blades in the wind turbine industry.

A Fellow of ASC is a distinguished member who has made genuinely outstanding contributions to the composites community through research, practice, education, and/or service.

An Outstanding Researcher is a distinguished member of the composites community who has made a significant impact on the science and technology of composite materials through a sustained research effort over a number of years.