<div dir="ltr"><span class="m_6866809586625695126gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:14.95px"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Mark your calendars:</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:14.95px"><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:14.95px"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">What: 5th AAWE Workshop (5AAWE)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:14.95px"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">When: August 12th – 14th, 2018</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:14.95px"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">Where: Miami, Florida</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:14.95px"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:14.95px"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The 5th American Association for Wind Engineering Workshop (5AAWE) will take place in Miami in August 2018. The three-day event will include keynote lectures, technical presentations and social activities. The workshop is organized by the Natural Hazard Engineering Research Infrastructure (NHERI) Experimental Facility<span> </span><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__fiu.designsafe-2Dci.org_&d=DwMFaQ&c=lhMMI368wojMYNABHh1gQQ&r=TYRo20NqO8CaSknKuyPD-A&m=UCn2fzMfzQjDauBob2S395a_o4epmpFKd8rooZwV5HY&s=8_nsbn1vmKTV7lOAju0PqDDVNSEpG00QwpdUBXN2-Xk&e=" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">Wall of Wind (WOW) at Florida International University</a><span> </span>as a part of the NSF-NHERI outreach activities.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:14.95px"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:6pt;line-height:9.2px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:14.95px"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The location of the workshop is in the heart of Key Biscayne at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science on the University of Miami Campus. The area features plenty of parks, long beaches, mangroves and tropical forest inhabited by birdlife, butterflies and loggerhead turtles while being minutes away from Miami’s Business Center and Brickell Avenue.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;line-height:14.95px"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;line-height:14.95px"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The 5AAWE Workshop is an excellent opportunity for interaction between engineers, students, scientists, architects, planners and practitioners in the various fields of wind engineering and related disciplines.</span><font color="#000000"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:16.8667px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">A Student Competition will be also held. Registration and submission are now OPEN. More details can be found in the workshop webpage: <a href="https://aaweworkshop.fiu.edu/" target="_blank">https://aaweworkshop.fiu.edu/</a>   </span></font><s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