Honors and Awards

• Young Faculty Development Award, OU College of Engineering (1984, 1985).
• Associates Distinguished Lectureship Award, OU College of Engineering (1986, 1987).
• CoE Distinguished Lectureship Award, OU College of Engineering (9/1988 to 8/1993).
• Regents’ Award for Superior Teaching, The University of Oklahoma (1990).
• Regents' Award for Superior Research and Creative Activity, The Univ. of Oklahoma (1992).
• Who’s Who in Science and Engineering (1993, 1996/1997).
• C.S. Desai Biennial Prize, Indian Geotechnical Society (1994) for the best paper (“Creep Constitutive Modeling of Rock Salt and Evaluation of Model Parameters Using Optimization Technique,” Vol. 27, No. 3, pp. 221-240) published in Indian Geotechnical Journal during 1991-1992.
• Who’s Who in the World (1995, 1996, 2000).
• Citation of Meritorious Achievement by Intl. Biographical Center, Cambridge, England (1996).
• CoE Distinguished Lectureship Award, OU College of Engineering (1997, 1998).
• IACMAG Award for Significant Paper in Computational and Analytical “Contact Element Model for Dynamic Analysis of Jointed Concrete Pavements,” ASCE Transportation Journal, Vol. 121, No. 5, pp. 425-433, Nov. 1997.
• Kerr McGee Presidential Professor, University of Oklahoma (March 1997- March 2001).
• ASEE Paper Award (Third Place) “Impact of Computer-Based Learning Tools in Rigid Body Mechanics.” 33rd Midwest Section Conf., American Society for Engineering Education, Salina, Kansas.
• ASEE Midwest Section Outstanding Teaching Award, American Society for Engineering Education, (1998).
• ASEE Agilent Technologies Award for Excellence in Laboratory Instruction, American Society for Engineering Education, 2000.
  
• David Ross Boyd Professor (lifetime title for exemplary accomplishment in teaching)

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