Faculty Honors and Recognition

SSEBE faculty are internationally renowned scholars and educators who are widely recognized for their contributions, service, and impact. This webpage provides a listing of honors, awards, and recognition won by SSEBE faculty since 2015.

 

 

Morteza Abbaszadegan
2017 AWA Nathan Burbank Environmental Educator Award

Brad Allenby
2024 AcademicInfluence.com #8 Environmental Science

Samuel Ariaratnam
2022 Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
2022 Distinguished Member of ASCE
2021 Stephen D. Bechtel Pipeline Engineering Award
2019 Excellence in Pipeline Award (UESI)

2019 International Society for Trenchless Technology Gold Medal
2019 U.S. National Academy of Construction Member
2018 Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow
2015 ASCE Arthur M. Wellington Prize
2015 ASCE Fellow

Steven Ayer
2017 Cache Valley Electric Lecture Award
2017 SSEBE Teaching Award
2016 ASCE Outstanding Reviewer

Paul Basha
2016 Arizona Pavements/Materials Conference Community Service Award

Wylie Bearup
2017 Arizona Pavements/Materials Conference Community Service Award

Treavor Boyer
2022 AZ Water Association’s Quentin Mees Research Award
2021 AZ Water Association’s Nathan Burbank Educator Award

2019 SSEBE Service Award
2019 AEESP Distinguished Service Award

Mikhail Chester
2017 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize
2017 Fulton Faculty Exemplar
2015 Fulton Top 5% Teaching Award

Aaron Cohen
2015 SSEBE Teaching Award

Otakuye Conroy-Ben
2019 Technical Excellence Award-American Indian Science and Engineering Society

Anca Delgado
2023 Women in Environmental Science and Engineering (WISE) Symposium, Invited Speaker, Division of Environmental Chemistry, ACS Fall 2023
2023 German-American Frontiers in Engineering Symposium Fellowship, National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2022 Faculty Fellowship Program in Israel, JNF-USA
2021 SUN Award for Exemplary Service and Demonstrating Leadership, Arizona State University
2019 Special Congressional Recognition, U.S. Senator Martha McSally
2019 Quentin Mees Research Award, AZ Water Association
2018 Graduate College Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Outstanding Master’s Mentor Category, Arizona State University
2017 Environmental Engineering and Science Prize for Best Paper, Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science

Mounir El Asmar
2022 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)
2021 SSEBE Service Award
2021 ASU Sun Award, Leadership, the Entrepreneurial Mindset Initiative
2021 Featured Expert, in Engineering News Record annual lead article on the Top 100 Project Delivery Firms
2021 ASCE Editor’s Choice Selection, ASCE Journal of Management in Engineering
2020 Literati Award, Journal of Built Environment Project and Asset Management, Emerald Publishing
2020 SSEBE Service Award

2018 ASCE Construction Research Congress Best Paper Award
2018 Fulton Faculty Exemplar
2017 Arizona Pavements/Materials Conference Community Service Award

2017 Cache Valley Electric Lecture Award
2017 Design Build Institute of America Distinguished Leadership Award
2015 ASCE Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize
2015 SSEBE Service Award

James Ernzen
2019 PENTA Building Group Professor for Construction

Elham Fini
2022 Community Service Award, Arizona Pavements and Materials Conference
2020 ASCE Fellow
2020 Seventh Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium
2020 WTS NC Triangle Innovative Transportation Solution Award
2020 Innovative Transportation Solutions Award, Women in Transportation Society (WTS)
2019 Fellow of American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers
2019 Arab-American Frontiers of Science, National Academy of Science
2017 AAAS-Lemelson Invention Ambassador, Washington, DC
2017 BEYA STEM Innovation Award, Washington, DC
2017 Entrepreneurial Excellence Award, North Carolina BioTech Center, Durham, NC
2017 Transportation Research Board Advising Award, Washington, DC
2016 Fulbright Scholarship, Denmark-America Foundation

Peter Fox
2016 WEF Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal

Matthew Fraser
2021 Fulton Top 5% Teaching Award

2017 Fulton Top 5% Teaching Award

 

 

 

 

Margaret Garcia
2020 NSF CAREER Award

Sergio Garcia-Segura
2024 SNO Emerging Investigator Award
2022 Water Young Investigator Award
2022 Alejandro J. Arvia Young Researcher Award, Iberoamerican Society of Electrochemistry (SIBAE)
2020 ISE Elsevier Prize for Applied Electrochemistry
2018 ‘Jóvenes Investigadores’ Award, Electrochemistry group of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry
2016 Antonio Aldaz Award, Electrochemistry Group of the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry
2015 Green Talents, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the German Research for Sustainable Development (FONA)
2014 International Society of Electrochemistry Prize for Environmental Electrochemistry

G. Edward Gibson
2020 ASCE Distinguished Member
2020 NAC Richard L. Tucker Outstanding Service Award
2018 ASCE Construction Research Congress Best Paper Award
2017 SSEBE Service Award
2016 ASCE Peurifoy Construction Research Award
2005 U.S. National Academy of Construction

David Grau
2020 Best Poster Award, Construction Research Congress, American Society of Civil Engineers, Tempe, AZ
2018 KEEN Innovative Teaching Faculty Fellow, KEEN
2017-2018 Cache Valley Electric Lecturer Award, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University
2017 Outstanding Researcher Award, Construction Industry Institute
2017 CII Outstanding Instructor Award
2016-2017 Cache Valley Electric Lecturer Award, School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment, Arizona State University
2016 Visiting International Scholar Fellow, Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST), Government of Taiwan
2014 Best Poster Award, Construction Research Congress, American Society of Civil Engineers, Atlanta, GA
2012 Distinguished Professor Award, Construction Industry Institute

Udaya B. Halabe
2016 WVASCE Outstanding Civil Engineering Educator of the Year Award
2014 SEI-ASCE Fellow, Structural Engineering Institute
2012 James M. Robbins Excellence in Teaching Award, Chi Epsilon National
2012 Cumberland District Excellence in Teaching Award, Chi Epsilon
2012 ASNT Fellow, American Society for Nondestructive Testing
2007 ASCE Fellow

Rolf Halden
2019 J.M. Kaplan Innovation Prize

Kerry Hamilton
2023 Quentin Mees Research Award, AZ Water
2024 Article featured on cover, Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology
2020 Participant, National Academy of Engineering’s Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
2019 Article featured on cover and received Editors’ Choice Award, Environmental Science & Technology

Keith Hjelmstad
2018 ASU President’s Professor

Christian Hoover
2023 Fulton Schools of Engineering Top 5% Teaching Award
2021 NSF Career Award, NSF

Sandra Houston
2017 ASCE Karl Terzaghi Award
2015 Daniel Jankowski Legacy Award

Kamil Kaloush
2020 FORTA Professorship
2017 Fulton Top 5% Teaching Award
2009 Arizona Pavements/Materials Conference Community Service Award

Edward Kavazanjian
2024 Kersten Lecturer, University of Minnesota
2023 C.W. Lovell Distinguished Lecturer, Purdue University
2022 ASCE Karl Terzaghi Lecturer
2022 Shamsher and Sally Prakash Lecturer, Missouri University of Science and Technology
2021 Osterberg Lecturer, Northwestern University
2018 ASCE Distinguished Member
2018 University of California Berkeley Civil & Environmental Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni
2016 Spencer Buchanan Lecturer, Texas A&M
2015 ASU Regents Professor
2013 National Academy of Engineering
2012 Arizona Pavements/Materials Conference Community Service Award

Rosa Krajmalnik-Brown
2021 ASCE Rudolph Hering Medal
2020 AZ Bioscience Researcher of the Year
2019 Distinguished Alumni Award from Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana
2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar

Anthony Lamanna
2022 President’s Award, American Council for Construction Education
2020 ASCE Editor’s Choice Award
2017 Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers
2016 Distinguished Engineer in Education, American Society of Civil Engineers Kentucky Section
2016 Fellow, American Concrete Institute
2015 Kentucky Colonel, State of Kentucky

 

 

Michael Mamlouk
2010 Arizona Pavements/Materials Conference Community Service Award

Giuseppe Mascaro
2019 SSEBE Teaching Award

Larry Mays
2016 Academy of Civil Engineers at the Missouri University of Science and Technology
2016 ASCE Ven Te Chow Award
2016 International Water Association Fellow
2015 Universities Council on Water Resources Warren A. Hall Medal

Barzin Mobasher
2021 ACI Charles S. Whitney Award
2016 ACI Delmar L. Bloem Distinguished Service Award
2013 Arizona Pavements/Materials Conference Community Service Award

Rebecca Muenich
2022 University of Arkansas College of Engineering Early Career Alumni Award
2021 FWA Award for Outstanding Faculty Mentor
2020 Arkansas Academy of Biological and Agricultural Engineers
2020 NAE U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium
2020 New Faces of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers

Narayanan Neithalath
2016 ASCE Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize
2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar

Kristen Parrish
2023 AE Outstanding Educator Award
2021 Fulton Top 5% Teaching Award
2018 CII Outstanding Instructor Award
2017 Fulton Top 5% teaching Award
2016 CII Distinguished Professor Award
2015 Fulton Top 5% Teaching Award                                                                               

Ram M. Pendyala
2022 TRB Pyke Johnson Award in Planning & Environment
2019 Arizona Pavements/Materials Conference Community Service Award
2018 Fulton Faculty Exemplar
2017 ARTBA S.S. Steinberg Award

Francois Perreault
2020 Seventh Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium
2017 AZ Water Quentin Mees Research Award
2017 Emerging Investigator Award, Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization

T. Agami Reddy
2014 ASME Yellott Award (Solar Energy Division)

Subramaniam Rajan
2020 NASA Group Achievement Award, NASA
2010 Outstanding Engineering Educator of the Year, Greater Phoenix Area Engineer’s Week
2008 Top Five Percent Faculty Award, Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering
2000 Best Teacher Award, ASCE Student Chapter
1995 Best Teacher Award, ASCE Student Chapter

Bruce Rittmann
2024 AcademicInfluence.com #3 Environmental Engineering
2021 WEF Camp Applied Research Award
2021 ASCE Rudolph Hering Medal
2020 Shanghai Governmental International Collaboration Prize
2020 Elected to Sigma Xi

2018 Stockholm Water Prize
2017 Telford Premium Award
2017 Daniel Jankowski Legacy Award
2017 Fellow, NAI
2016 Fellow, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors

2016 AAEES Gordon Maskew Fair Award
2016 Perry L. McCarty AEESP Founders’ Award
2015 Washington University Engineering Alumni Achievement Award
2009 ASU Regents Professor

 

 

Thomas Schleifer
2016 College of Fellows of the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors’ National Association

Richard Standage
2021-2022 William W. Badger Endowment Award
2017 Fulton Top 5% Teaching Award

Jeffrey Stempihar
2018 Arizona Pavements/Materials Conference Community Service Award

Kenneth Sullivan
2018 Fulton Faculty Exemplar
2017 PENTA Building Group Faculty Fellowship

Pingbo Tang
2017 Cache Valley Electric Lecture Award

Junliang Tao
2018 NSF CAREER Award

B. Shane Underwood
2015 Arizona Pavements/Materials Conference Community Service Award
2015 Fulton Faculty Exemplar

Enrique Vivoni
2023 Governor’s Award for Arizona’s Future, Arizona Forward
2023 Engineering for One Planet Faculty Fellow
2022 International Award, Mexican Carbon Program
2022 Curriculum Innovation Award, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
2021 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science
2021 AZ Water Association Quentin Mees Research Award
2016-Present PLuS Alliance Fellow
2016-Present U.S. Fulbright Specialist Roster
2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar
2015-2016 U.S. Fulbright Scholar
2015 Leopold Leadership Fellow

Zhihua Wang
2023 International Association for Urban Climate The Timothy Oke Award

Edwin Weaver
2017 Top 5% Teaching Award

Paul Westerhoff
2023 National Academy of Engineering
2021 Daniel Jankowski Legacy Award
2020 A.P. Black Research Award
2019 NWRI Clarke Prize Laureate
2018 IWA Fellow
2018 Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Award for Significant Research Contributions
2018 WEF Fair Distinguished Engineering Educator Medal
2017 Lifetime Achievement Award, Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization
2016 ASU Regents Professor
2016 Fulton Faculty Exemplar

Avi Wiezel
2017 Fulton Top 5% Teaching Award

Matthew Witczak
2016 ASCE Carl L. Monismith Lecture on Pavement Engineering

Claudia Zapata
2021 Dr. William Yslas Velez Outstanding S.T.E.M. Award (Sponsored by The Pete C. Garcia Victoria Foundation)
2018 Fulton Top 5% Teaching Award
2011 Arizona Pavements/Materials Conference Community Service Award