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