CEE Faculty Profile

Honors

1. Engineer of the Year in Education, Georgia Engineering Alliance, 2010
2. Engineer of the Year in Education, Georgia Society of Professional Engineers, 2009
3. Nominated by the Georgia Section of the American Consulting Engineers Council for Engineer of the Year in Education, October 2007.
4. Invited to be a Member of the International Academic Committee for the International Conference on Engineering & Technology Sciences 2000 (ICETS2000), Civil Engineering in the 21st Century Branch, Chinese Engineering Academy (CEA), Beijing, China, October 2000.
5. Faculty of the Year Award, 1999-2000, ASCE Student Chapter, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2000.
6. Software Development Award (with Dr. K. M. Will), School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2000.
7. Computing in Civil Engineering Award, 1996, American Society of Civil Engineers, for "outstanding achievements and contributions in the promotion of the effective use of computers in the practice of civil engineering," presented at the Third Congress on Computing in Civil Engineering, Anaheim, California, June 1996.
8. Invited Visiting Professor, Second Two Week Series of Lectures on the Advanced Use of Computers for Structural Engineering Analysis and Design, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University Technology Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, November 1995.
9. Invited Visiting Professor, First Two Week Series of Lectures on the Advanced Use of Computers for Structural Engineering Analysis and Design, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University Technology Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia, December 1994.
10. Invited to be Vice-Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Engineering & Design, Beijing, China, October 1993
11. Member of Panel of Judges for the 1993 Engineering Excellence Awards Competition, Consulting Engineers Council of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, February 1993.
12. HONORARY PROFESSOR AWARD "for contributions enhancing higher education in China," conferred by Shaanxi Institute of Mechanical Engineering, Xian, People's Republic of China, April 1989.
13. Invited by United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) to act as a Technical Advisor on the commercialization of university developed CAE/CAD software in structural engineering to the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, funded by UNIDO and the Government of India, March 1987.
14. Cited as one of "Atlanta's Best and Brightest" in Atlanta Magazine, April 1983.
15. Invited to be a Guest Overseas Speaker at the "Symposium on Developments and Applications of Finite Element Software Systems," Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, China, August 1983
16. National Science Foundation Division of International Programs Travel Grant for a scientific visit to Bucharest, Romania, to discuss a possible joint research project entitled, "Large Scale Integrated Engineering and Construction Software Research and Development for Mini/Midi Computers," June 1977
17. Listed in Dictionary of International Biography, 1979
18. Listed in WHO'S WHO in the South and Southwest, 1977 78 and 1980 81 (17th Edition), and in WHO'S WHO in Engineering, 1982 (5th Edition)
19. Invited Speaker to present "The University Viewpoint," NSF sponsored workshop on SOFTWARE COORDINATION IN THE UNIVERSITY ENVIRONMENT, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, November 1976
20. Nominated by the Structural Division, American Society of Civil Engineers, for the 1977 ASCE STATE OF THE ART OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AWARD for the paper, "Epoxy Repaired Bolted Timber Connections," Journal of Structural Division, April 1976 (with Dr. R. R. Avent, R. H. Howard and C. L. Chapman)
21. Listed in WHO'S WHO IN COMPUTER EDUCATION AND RESEARCH (U. S. Edition), 1975, and in WHO'S WHO in North America, 1976 77
22. National Science Foundation Division of Engineering Travel Grant to attend the 12th International ICES Users Group Conference, Munich, Germany, January 1974
23. National Science Foundation Research Initiation Grant Recipient, 1974 76
24. Listed in WHO's WHO in Georgia, 1973, 1976
25. Listed in PERSONALITIES OF THE SOUTH, 1973 1976
26. LEON S. MOISSEIFF AWARD, 1973, American Society of Civil Engineers, for "outstanding contributions to the field of structural design by the paper, Storywise Plastic Design for Multistory Steel Frames," published in the Journal of the Structural Division, January 1972 (with Dr. W. A. Litle)
27. American Iron and Steel Institute Engineering Fellowship, M.I.T., 1968 69
28. National Science Foundation Graduate Traineeship, Georgia Tech, 1965 66
29. Armco Foundation Scholarship, Georgia Tech, 1964 65
30. Member of Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Honorary Society
31. Member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon, and Phi Kappa Phi