CEE Faculty Profile

Honors

1. ASTM, Outstanding Article in the Journal of Testing and Evaluation: Garas, Victor; Kahn, Lawrence; and Kurtis, Kimberly; “Tensile Creep Test of Fiber-Reinforced Ultra-High Performance Concrete,” Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Vol. 38, No. 6, American Society of Testing and Materials (www.astm.org) paper JTE102666, June 2010.
2. Best Paper award, TMS Journal, (2007) for the paper “Effective Pier Model for the Nonlinear In-Plane Analysis of Individual URM Piers,” The Masonry Society Journal, vol. 23, n. 1, December 2005, authored by Yi, Tianyi; Moon, Frank; Leon, Roberto; and Kahn, Lawrence.
3. The Masonry Society, President’s Award, May 2006
4. Elected Fellow, The Masonry Society, May 2006
5. Institute Outstanding Professional Education Award, April 2005
6. Outstanding Doctoral Thesis, presented by The Masonry Society to Dr. Franklin Moon with Drs. Lawrence Kahn and Roberto Leon, Advisors, October 2004
7. Outstanding Paper Award, authored by Moon, Frank; Yi, T.; Leon, R.T.; and Kahn, L.F.; 9th North American Masonry Conference, June, 2003
8. ANAK Award, Institute wide award for outstanding professor given by ANAK Honor Society, 2003
9. Outstanding Professor in Civil Engineering, Georgia Tech (voted by ASCE student chapter), 1978, 1979, 1981, 1993 and 1995.
10. Composite Institute "Best Paper" with Dr. Abdul Zureick and Mr. B. J. Bandy, 1994
11. Elected ACI Georgia Section "Distinguished Chapter Member", 1994
12. Nominated, Outstanding Teacher Award, 1990
13. Who's Who in Engineering
14. Elected Fellow of the American Concrete Institute, 1983
15. Raymond C. Reese Research Prize, ASCE, 1980
16. Outstanding Graduate Student in Civil Engineering, University of Michigan, 1975
17. Sigma Xi Honor Fraternity, 1975
18. Chi Epsilon Honor Fraternity, 1975 (Elevated to Honor Member Georgia Tech 2011)
19. Rackham Doctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1975
20. National Science Foundation Traineeship, 1971
21. Graduation "With Distinction", Stanford University, 1966