HONORS and AWARDS
    International and National Honors and Awards

• Honorary Professor, Southeast University, Nanjing, China, 2011-
  
• Honorary Professor, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China, 2011-
  
• Distinguished Member (formerly called Honorary Member) of ASCE, American Society of Civil Engineers, Video Script, Video, 2010
• Honorary Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, 2009-
  
• ISHMII Fellowship Award, International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure, 2009
• Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate), University of Liège, Belgium, 2008
• IALCCE Senior Award, International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, 2008
• RAE Distinguished Visiting Fellowship Award, The Royal Academy of Engineering, for Research at the University of Surrey, 2008
  
• Munro Prize, Elsevier - Engineering Structures, for the best paper of the year published in 2006 in Engineering Structures, 2007
• IABSE OPAC Award (Outstanding Paper Award), for the best paper among all papers published in 2006 in all issues of Structural Engineering International, the Journal of the International Association for Bridge and Structural  Engineering (IABSE), 2007
• Ernest E. Howard Award, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007
• T. Y. Lin Medal,  T.Y. Lin  International and  International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety, 2006
• Honorary Member, Portuguese Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety, 2006-
• IFIP Award, International Federation for Information Processing, Working Group on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems, 2006
  
• Nathan M. Newmark Medal,  American Society of Civil Engineers , 2005
• Kajima Research Award, Kajima Corporation, 2004
• State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers , 2004
  
• Moisseiff Award, American Society of Civil Engineers , 2003
  
• JSPS Fellowship Award for Research in Japan, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science ,  2003
• Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate), Technical University of Civil Engineering, Bucharest, Romania, 2001
• IASSAR Senior Research Prize in the area of  System Reliability and Optimization, International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability , 2001 
• J. James R. Croes Medal, for the second best paper among all ASCE journals, American Society of Civil Engineers , 2001
• Honorary Member, Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, Elected 2000
• State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award, American Society of Civil Engineers , 1998
• Award of Appreciation, Federal Highway Administration , 1998
• Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award, Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) International , 1996 (First Winner of this Award)
• Congress of the United States Official Proclamation upon Receiving the SAE International Distinguished Probabilistic Methods Educator Award, 1996
• Distinguished Service Appreciation as Chair of the Technical Division Executive Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute,  American Society of Civil Engineers , 2001
  

• Faculty Assembly of the University of Colorado at Boulder Excellence in Research, Scholarly and Creative Work Award, Boulder Faculty Assembly, University of Colorado, 2004
• Clarence L. Eckel Faculty Prize for Excellence, Dept. of Civil, Env. and Arch. Engineering , University of Colorado , 2003
  
• College of Engineering and Applied Science's Faculty Research Award, University of Colorado , 1999
• Service Award, Dept. of Civil, Env. and Arch. Engineering , University of Colorado , 2002
• Distinguished Achievement Award, Dept. of Civil, Env. and Arch. Engineering ,  University of Colorado , 2000
• Research Development Award,  Dept. of Civil, Env. and Arch. Engineering ,  University of Colorado , 1988 and 1998
• Teaching Award, Dept. of Civil, Env. and Arch. Engineering , University of Colorado , 1987

• Member of International Group of Experts Selected to Evaluate the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG) at Swiss Fedral Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, 2012
  
• Guest Professor, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, Changsha, Hunan, China, 2010-
• Distinguished Scientist and Member of the Advisory Board for the SmartEN Marie Curie ITN, EU Project, Cyprus University of Technology, 2009-
• Board Member of the Advisory Committee for the Taiwan Building Technology Center of the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Project on Frontier Technologies  for Enhancing the Reliability of Critical Infrastructures, 2009-
• Dissertation Supervisor of the PhD Student (Nader M. Okasha) who received the 2009 Nevada Medal for Distinguished Graduate Student Paper in Bridge Engineering, 2009
  
• Visiting Chair Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, January 2008-
• Guest Professor, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria, June 2008
  
• Advisory Board Member of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Long-Term Bridge Performance (LTBP) Program, Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation, 2008-09
• Founder and Chair of the ASCE-SEI Technical Council on Life-Cycle Performance, Safety, Reliability and Risk of Structural Systems (Approved by ASCE-SEI on November 7, 2008), 2008-
• Initiator and Organizer of the Fazlur Rahman Khan Distinguished Lecture Series at Lehigh University, 2007-
• Panel Member for the Expert/Peer Review of the Bridge Management Information System (BMIS) at the Turner-Fairbank Research Center (TFHRC), Federal Highway Administration, McLean, VA, June 2007
• Member of Electoral Board of the Cyprus University of Technology, Lemesos, Cyprus, 2006-
• External Expert for the Habilitation Committee for the Venia Docendi at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Science, Vienna, Austria, 2006
  
• First Holder of the Fazlur Rahman Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University, Appointed 2006
• Founding President and Executive Board Chair, International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering, IALCCE, 2006-
  
• Honorary Member, International Federation for Information Processing, Working Group on Reliability and  Optimization of Structural Systems, 2006-
  
• Chair, Executive Board of the International Association for Structural Safety and Reliability, IASSAR , 2006-
• Coordinator, Working Group on Bridge Life-Cycle, Cost/Benefit, and Value, Federal Highway Administration, 2005
  
• Vice-President, Member of the Executive Committee, Member of the Council and Co-Founder of the  International Society for Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructures, ISHMII, Elected 2004-
• Honorary Technical Advisor, Korea Infrastructure Safety and Technology Corporation, KISTEC , Seoul, Korea, Appointed 2003-
• Chair, WG 7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems , International Federation for Information Processing , 2004-2007
  
• Director and Co-Founder, Consortium on Advanced Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Civil Environments, COALESCE , University of Colorado, 2001-2006
  
• Chair,  IABSE Working Commission 1 on Structural Performance, Safety and Analysis, Elected 2005-   , and Member, IABSE Technical Committee, 2005-
  
• Board Member, Joint Committee on Structural Safety, JCSS, IABSE  representative, Elected 2001-
• Chair, Awards Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute , Technical Activities Division, American Society of Civil Engineers , 2004
  
• Chair, Executive Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute , Technical Activities Division, American Society of Civil Engineers , 1999-2000
• Founding President and Executive Committee Chair,  International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety , IABMAS , 1999-
• Chair, International Advisory Board of the Research Unit on Life-Cycle Science and Engineering, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan, 2004-2007
• Fellow, International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, 2006-
• Fellow,  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2003-
  
• Fellow, American Concrete Institute, Elected 1997-
• Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, Elected 1993-2010
• Visiting Professor/Scholar at Universities in Austria, Canada, China, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Switzerland
• Senior Scientist Fellowship, Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Trondheim, Norway,1991-92
• External Member, Main Advisor, and/or President of PhD Thesis Committees at Universities in Australia (University of Newcastle, 1993), Austria (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Vienna, 2008), Canada (University of Waterloo, 1993, and twice in 2007), Denmark (University of Aalborg, 2001), England (University of Surrey, 2005), France (University of Paris-East ald LCPC, 2008), India (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 2006), Italy (University of Pavia, 2009; Technical University (Politecnico) of Milan, 2010), the Netherlands (Delft University of Technology, 2007), Portugal (University of Minho, 2005), Spain (Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, 1996), Sweden (Lulea University of Technology, 1998), Switzerland (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne, 1991, 2001), and the United States (University of California, Los Angeles, 1991)