Awards

Selected Honors and Awards

  • Best Presentation Award, European and Mediterranean Structural Engineering and Construction Conference, Leipzig, Germany, 2022
  • Best Seller #1 New Release, Amazon, for the book The Secrets to Construction Business Success, in two categories (construction industry and civil engineering), 2022
  • Outstanding Service Award, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment (SSEBE), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2021
  • SUN Award, Leadership, the Entrepreneurial Mindset Initiative at Fulton Schools of Engineering (EM@FSE), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2021
  • Featured Expert, in Engineering News Record (ENR)’s annual lead article on the Top 100 Project Delivery Firms, ENR, 2021
  • ASCE Editor’s Choice Selection, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Management in Engineering, 2021
  • Literati Award, Journal of Built Environment Project and Asset Management, Emerald Publishing, 2020
  • peer Leadership Academy (peerLA), Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2019–2020
  • ASCE Editor’s Choice Selection, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Journal of Management in Engineering, 2019
  • National Academies Certificate of Appreciation,Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, Washington, DC, 2019
  • 40 under 40 Honoree, Desert Vision Forum, Scottsdale, AZ, 2019
  • Fulton Exemplar Faculty, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Tempe, AZ, 2018–2019
  • Best Paper Award, ASCE Construction Research Congress, New Orleans, LA, 2018
  • Fulton Exemplar Faculty, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering, Tempe, AZ, 2018
  • Distinguished Leadership Award, Design-Build Institute of America, Philadelphia, PA, 2017
  • Community Service Award, Arizona Pavements/Materials Conference, Tempe, AZ, 2017
  • ASCE Top Read, the Journal of Management in Engineering, May 2017
  • Outstanding Service Award, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University (ASU), 2016
  • Cache Valley Electric Lecturer Award, IAFSE, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2016 and 2017
  • Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2015
  • Recognition of Outstanding Contribution, International Road Federation (IRF), 2015
  • Distinguished Professor Award, Construction Industry Institute (CII), 2014
  • Featured PI, and Featured Research Project, the National Center for Strategic Transportation Policies, Investments and Decisions, 2014
  • Invited Opening Keynote Speech, the Euro-Mediterranean Institute for Sustainable Development (EUMISD), 2014
  • ExCEEd Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2013
  • CII New Scholar, Construction Industry Institute (CII), 2013
  • Best Performance Award,The University of Wisconsin Law School , 2011
  • Best Paper Award,  Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 2010

Selected Professional Service and Leadership

  • Board Member for ASCE JCEM and TRR journal
  • Research Coordinator for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Delivery Methods Committee and Member of the TRB Construction Management Committee
  • Chair of the CRC 2020
  • Chair of the DEWSC Academic Affairs and Curriculum Committee
  • Chair of the Engineering NFAC Advisory Council
  • Reviewer for federal funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)
  • ExCEEd Teaching Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
  • Mentor for international exchange students and researchers