Education in wind engineering

The author maintains that an adequate education in a discipline as vast and articulated as wind engineering cannot fail to recognize first its origins, developments, fundamentals, advancements and prospects. In this context, an analysis of the actual state of education should identify its limits, gaps and strengths, as well as the hard core of knowledge that should constitute the common basis for a mature and modern discipline capable of generating figures endowed with broad views and specialized skills. This vision may enhance new strategies to exploit technological evolution and communication systems, rationalize co-operative educational programs on wide territorial scales, involve different skills as in-depth as they are varied in the wind engineering community, reach those who need to establish and consolidate this culture, but do not have the opportunity to personally experience the manifold initiatives in the discipline, seize the interest of people towards wind engineering, spread its culture and know-how into everyday life and into society.