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
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
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-
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-
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)