CISMMS Associate Director, Jamie Guest is the recipient of the 2015 Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) Leonardo da Vince Award. The aim of this award is to recognize outstanding young investigators early in their careers for promising ground-breaking developments in the field of Engineering Mechanics and Mechanical Sciences as relevant to Civil Engineering. The EMI Leonardo da Vince award will be presented to him at the EMI 2015 Conference. Prof. Jamie Guest has been selected due to his work in the field of topology optimization methods.