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