Honors and Awards – Most Recent

Fellow, ASCE, 2020

Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award, ACI, 2019

Fellow, ACI, 2017

Board member: International Congress of Polymers in Concrete (ICPIC), January 2016

UNM Distinguished professor, 2018

UNM defines distinguished professors as those who “have demonstrated outstanding achievements and are nationally and internationally renowned as scholars.” It is the highest faculty title the university bestows, and only a handful of professors are honored with the rank each year.

14th Ain Shams University Structural Engineering Conference, Honorary Award, Cairo, Egypt, 2015

UNM School of Engineering, Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award, May 2010

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New Mexico Society of Professional Engineers (NMSPE) Service Award, 2007.

Sigma-Xi Young Investigator Award, Sigma-Xi University of New Mexico Chapter, 2007

Egypt State Award (ESA), Academy of Scientific Research, Cairo, Egypt 2005

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award, 2004

Institute of Navigation (ION) Best Paper/Presentation Award, for research on Fuzzy Logic for Positioning Research, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2003

Best PhD Thesis, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgary, Canada, 2000

Egyptian Government Scholarship for top listed students, 1988 – 1993

Awards for Research Team

  • Borowski, Department of Defense National Scholarship for PhD, 2017.
  • Borowski, E., Sigma-Xi Research Excellent Award, UNM Sigma-Xi Chapter, 2016.
  • Salas, C., Best Graduate Student Award, Biomedical Engineering Program, UNM 2014.
  • Borowski, E., Space Grant Fellowship for Graduate Students, New Mexico Space Grants, 2014.
  • Twitchell, E., Space Grant Scholarship for Undergraduate Students, New Mexico Space Grants, 2014.
  • Jalalpour, M., Best Graduate Student Award, Department of Civil Engineering, UNM, 2012.
  • Fan, T., Best Graduate Student Award, Sigma-Xi, UNM Chapter, 2011.
  • Soliman, E., Best Graduate Student Award, Department of Civil Engineering, UNM, 2011.
  • Foley, E., SRA Award, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), 2010.
  • Grahn, R., Appointed to Los Alamos National Laboratory Summer School, 2010.
  • Neidigk, S., Appointed to Los Alamos National Laboratory Summer School, 2009.
  • Azarbayejani, M., Sigma-Xi Research Award, 2009.
  • Garner, A., SRA Award, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), 2008.
  • Kim, J., Best Paper Award, 5th ASCE Int. Eng. & Const. Conference (IECC’5), Irvine, CA, 2008.
  • Salas, C., NSF-IGERT Fellowship on Nano-Materials, 2008.
  • Reinhardt, A., SRA Award, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), 2007.
  • Meshgin, P., New Mexico Society of Professional Engineers’ Scholarship, 2007.
  • Azarbayejani, M., School of Engineering Scholarship, UNM 2006.
  • McCuskey, M., Received NSF Scholarship, April 2006.
  • McCuskey, M., Structural Engineering Foundation Scholarship, Illinois, 2006.
  • McCuskey, M., Appointed to Los Alamos National Laboratory Summer School, 2006.
  • Sheyka, M., Sigma Xi Superior Undergraduate Award, 2006.
  • McCuskey, M., Outstanding Senior Student Civil Engineering Department, UNM 2006.
  • Schnalzer, R., SRA Award, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), 2005.
  • Sheyka, M., SRA Award, Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA), 2005.
  • McCuskey, M., UNM President’s Award, Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2005.
  • Sheyka, M., Tom Cummings’ Engineering Award, Undergrad Research Symposium, 2005.
  • McCuskey, M., School of Engineering Award, Undergraduate Research Symposium, 2005.