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Selected Awards and Honors
International and National Honors and Awards
Honorary Member , Romanian Academy , Section: Engineering Sciences, Elected in 2017
Civil Engineer of the Year 2016, American Society of Civil Engineers - Lehigh Valley Section , 2017: this award focuses on civil engineers who have distinguished themselves by outstanding achievements and contributions to the civil engineering profession, to the education and support of younger engineers and future engineers, and to the community at large (referring to the local, regional, national, and international communities)
Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Chile Group , 2017
Foreign Member , Royal Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts , Section: Technical Sciences, Elected in 2016
Alfredo Ang Award on Risk Analysis and Management of Civil Infrastructure (ASCE), Inaugural Recipient: for exceptional efforts in advancing, advocating and persistently promoting the life-cycle cost analysis of structures and structural systems, and their integration into reliability-based structural analysis and design, 2016 (Society Awards Presentation ,
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OPAL (Outstanding Projects and Leaders) (Recipients , ASCE News , PDF ) Leadership Award for Lifetime Accomplishments in Education: for demonstrated excellence in furthering civil engineering education, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016Official Video (webpage);Video Script (pdf file);Official Video including Acceptance Remarks (webpage);ASCE News - Pioneer of Life-Cycle Cost Analysis Honored with 2016 OPAL for Education (embeded video);Recipients ; 2. Receiving the OPAL Lifetime Achievement Award - Education from ASCE President Mark Woodson (right) and ASCE Executive Director Thomas Smith (left) ; 3. Delivering Acceptance Remarks
Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate - Laurea Magistrale ad Honorem in Civil Engineering), Polytechnic University of Milan (Politecnico di Milano), Milan, Italy, 2016
Committee Members ; 2 and 3. Lecture (Photos 2 and 3 ); 4 and 5. Awarding Laurea Magistrale ad Honorem
(Photos 4 - Rector Giovanni Azzone (right) and 5 - Dean Barbara Betti (left) and Rector Giovanni Azzone (right) ) JSPS Fellowship Award for Research in Japan (short-term), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science , 2016
Fellowship Award for Research in Spain from “Horizon 2020-The EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation, " Polytechnic University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain, 2016
Honorary Professor, Hunan University , Hunan, China, 2016
Alfred Noble Prize (Recipients ), The award recognizes the exceptional merit of a paper published across all the technical publications of five major engineering societies in the US (ASCE, AIME, ASME, IEEE, WSE), American Society of Civil Engineers , 2015
(Official Video , Official Picture by David Hathcox/ASCE )
Foreign Member , Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe, London), Section: Physics & Engineering Sciences , List of Members , Elected in 2015
Honorary Professor, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University , Melbourne, Australia, 2015
Honorary Professor, Beijing Jiaotong University , Beijing, China, 2015
Honorary Professor, Chongqing Jiaotong University , Chongqing, China, 2015
Honorary Professor, Changsha University of Science and Technology , Changsha, China, 2015
Honorary Member, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Japan Group, 2015
Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate), Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iaşi , Iași, Romania, 2014
J. James R. Croes Medal (Recipients ), one of the most prestigious awards given by ASCE for a paper published in one of its 34 journals, American Society of Civil Engineers (Official Awards Ceremony ), 2014
Vice-President of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of ASCE (2014-15), and member of its Board of Governors , 2013-15 Honorary Member, Foundation of the Polytechnic University of Timișoara , Romania, 2014
Honorary Professor, Dalian University of Technology , Dalian, China, 2014
Honorary Member, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Australia Group , 2014
Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Brazil Group , 2013
Honorary President, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - Italy Group , 2013
Inaugural Fellow, Engineering Mechanics Institute , ASCE, 2013 (EMI Fellows )
Honorary Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology , Harbin, China, 2013
Vice-President of the International Association for the Structural Safety and Reliability (IASSAR) , 2013-
Arthur M. Wellington Prize (Recipients ), American Society of Civil Engineering , 2012, (Official Video , Official Picture by David Hathcox/ASCE )Fazlur R. Khan Life-Cycle Civil Engineering Medal , IALCCE , 2012Inaugural Fellow, Structural Engineering Institute , ASCE, 2012 (SEI Fellows )
Senior Prize, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety , 2012
Special Service Award, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety , 2012
Honorary Professor, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Hong Kong, China, 2012
Honorary Professor, Chang'an University , Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, 2012
Honorary Member, International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety - China Group , 2012
Honorary Professor, Southeast University (Award Ceremony ), Nanjing, China, 2011
Honorary Professor, Tianjin University , Tianjin, China, 2011
Distinguished Member of the American Society of Civil Engineers , 2010Official Video (webpage); Video Script (pdf file);ASCE Press (pdf file);List of 2010 Distinguished Members (webpage)
Honorary Professor, Tongji University (Award Ceremony), Shanghai, China, 2009
ISHMII Fellowship Award, International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure , 2009
Doctor Honoris Causa (Honorary Doctorate), University of Liège , Liège, Belgium, 2008
Visiting Chair Professor, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology , Taipei, Taiwan, 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 , for the best paper of the year published in 2006 in Engineering Structures , 2007
IABSE OPAC Award (Outstanding Paper Award), for the best paper published in 2006 in Structural Engineering International , the Journal of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2007List of recipients of the Outstanding Paper Award (webpage)Ernest E. Howard Award (Recipients ), American Society of Civil Engineers , 2007T. 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 , 2006IFIP Award, International Federation for Information Processing, Working Group on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems , 2006
Nathan M. Newmark Medal , (Recipients ) American Society of Civil Engineers , 2005Kajima Research Award, Kajima Corporation , 2004
State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award (Recipients ), American Society of Civil Engineers , 2004Moisseiff Award (Recipients ), American Society of Civil Engineers , 2003JSPS 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 , 2001J. James R. Croes Medal (Recipients )American Society of Civil Engineers , 2001Distinguished Service Appreciation as Chair of the Technical Division Executive Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers , 2001
Honorary Member , Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences , Elected in 2000State-of-the-Art of Civil Engineering Award (Recipients ), American Society of Civil Engineers , 1998Award 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
Lehigh University Awards
University of Colorado Awards
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
The Faculty Research Award, College of Engineering and Applied Science , 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
Other Selected Honors
Member of the Advisory Committee of the National Academies (NAS, NAE, NAM) within TRB Committee to Review FHWA R&D Long-Term Infrastructure Program (LTIP), 2017-20
Member of the International Joint Research Center for Engineering Reliability and Stochastic Mechanics (CERSM ) established at Tongji University in 2016
Invited by the Marine Board of the National Academies (Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine) as an Expert on Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) to attend the Expert Forum on SHM for providing expert opinions to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Irvine, CA, May 2016
Certificate of Appreciation in recognition of distinguished service to Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) as the Vice President (2014-15) and Member of the Board of Governors (2013-15), Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI) , American Society of Civil Engineers , 2015
Member of the TRB Expert Task Group (ETG) for Review of the Long-Term Bridge Performance Program (LTBP) Special Activities (BSPEC), 2015-18
Member of the Management Committee Observer Group (represented by an expert per continent) of the Transport and Urban Development COST Action TU1406 (Quality specifications for roadway bridges, standardization at a European level (Bridge Spec)), 2015-19
Member of the External Panel to Review Candidates for Chair Professorships, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) , China, 2015–
Member of the Technical Region Board of Governors, American Society of Civil Engineers , 2014-15
Member of the Society Awards Committee of the American Society of Civil Engineers , 2013-14
Member of the Board of Governors of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of the American Society of Civil Engineers , 2013-15
Member of International Advisory Committee of the Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University , Hong Kong, 2013-
Guest Professor, Wuhan University of Science and Technology , Wuhan, Hubei, China, 2013-
Founding Chair of the IASSAR Technical Committee TC4 on Life-Cycle Performance Cost and Optimization , 2012-
International Expert Evaluator for the Research Assessment of the Royal Institute of Technology , Final Report, Stockholm, Sweden, 2012
International Expert Evaluator of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG) at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, 2012
International Expert for the Academy of Finland , Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering, Helsinki, Finland, 2011-
Guest Professor, University of Paris-Est , Marne-la-Vallée, France, 2011
Guest Professor, French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport, Development and Networks (IFSTTAR) , Paris, France, July 2011
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 , 2009Announcement (webpage)
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 , 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, 2006-
Fellow, International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering , 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), 2006-13
Chair, IABSE Working Commission 1 on Structural Performance, Safety and Analysis, and Member of the IABSE Technical Committee, 2005-09
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), 2004-
Chair, Awards Committee of the Structural Engineering Institute , Technical Activities Division, American Society of Civil Engineers , 2004
Chair, International Advisory Board of the Research Unit on Life-Cycle Science and Engineering, Kansai University , Osaka, Japan, 2004-07
Chair, WG 7.5 on Reliability and Optimization of Structural Systems , International Federation for Information Processing , 2004-07
Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science , 2003-
Honorary Technical Advisor, Korea Infrastructure Safety and Technology Corporation (KISTEC), Seoul, Korea, 2003-
Director and Co-Founder, Consortium on Advanced Life Cycle Engineering for Sustainable Civil Environments, COALESCE , University of Colorado, 2001-06
Board Member, Joint Committee on Structural Safety (JCSS), IABSE representative, 2001-09
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-
Fellow, American Concrete Institute , 1997-
Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers , 1993-2010
Senior Scientist Fellowship, Royal Norwegian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Trondheim, Norway, 1991-92
Visiting Professor/Scholar at Universities in Austria, Canada, China, England, Germany, Italy, Japan, and Switzerland
External Member, Dissertation 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; Vienna University of Technology, 2014), Canada (University of Waterloo, 1993, and twice in 2007), Denmark (University of Aalborg, 2001), England (University of Surrey, 2005), France (University of Paris-Est and LCPC, 2008), India (Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 2006), Ireland (University College Dublin, 2014), Italy (University of Pavia, 2009; Technical University (Politecnico) of Milan, 2010), the Netherlands (Delft University of Technology, 2007), New Zealand (University of Auckland, 2016), Portugal (University of Minho, 2005), Serbia (University of Belgrade, 2015), 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)
