Honors & Awards
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• HOST/SHPE Educator of the Year, Hispanic Association of Students in Technology and Society if Hispanic Professional Engineers, 2009

•  Certificate of Appreciation, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 2007

•  Recipient of Leighton and Margaret Orr Award for Best Paper, ASME Materials Division, 2004

•  Listed in Who’s Who in America, 57^th Edition, 2002.

•  Recipient of Richard Teare Award for Excellence in Engineering Education, Carnegie Mellon University, 1996

•  Outstanding Professor of the Year Award, ASCE Pittsburgh Section, 1994

•  Recipient of George Tallman Ladd Research Award, Carnegie Mellon University, 1990

•  Presidential Young Investigator Award, National Science Foundation, 1990

•  Recipient of Ralph R. Teetor Award, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1988

•  Recipient of Admiral Ralph Earle Medal, Worcester Engineering Society, 1987