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Honor/Awards

Miller Scholar Award, FY2007-2008, School of Engineering, the University of Kansas

 

Best Paper Award, Soil Mechanics Section, Transportation Research Board, 2008

 

Miller Professional Development Award for Distinguished Service to the Engineering Profession, FY2006-2007, School of Engineering, the University of Kansas

 

Bellows Scholar Award, FY2005-2006, School of Engineering, the University of Kansas

 

Recognition Honor for Outstanding Contributions to the Organization of GeoShanghai International Conference 2006, Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji University, China, June 2006

Member, ASCE Geo-Institute Geosynthetic Committee

Widener Faculty Development Option Award, awarded on March 3, 2003

Member, TRB A2K07 Committee on Geosynthetics

Member of Organizing Committee and Session Chair, the 1st World Forum of Chinese Scholars in Geotechnical Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, P.R. China, August 21-23, 2003

Chair of Sessions, Use of Wastes in Construction and Landfill Covers and Liners, the 18th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia, USA, March 23-26, 2003

Who's Who, Americas Registry of Outstanding Professionals, 2003-2004

Member, the Editorial Board of the ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering

The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Short-Term Invitation Fellowship for Research in Japan, awarded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and recommended by U.S. National Science Foundations, 2002

Invited speaker for Panama Geotechnical Community, Fall, 2002

Member, Segmental Retaining Wall (SRW) Standards Committee, the National Concrete Masonry Association (NCMA)

Member, Advisory Board, Center for Geotechnical Composite Systems, Virginia Tech, 2001

Chair of Session, Advances in Land Disposal and Remediation, the Seventeenth International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management, Philadelphia, October 21-24, 2001.

Member, Advisory Board/Editorial Panel, International Journal of Geomechanics, 2000

Invited Top Name Speaker, Geosynthetic-Reinforced and Pile Supported Embankments, ASCE/Pa DOT Geotechnical Seminar, Hershey, PA, April 14-16, 1999

Whatever It Takes - Outstanding Technology and Software Development Award, Tensar Earth Technologies, Inc., 1998

Distinguished Future Leader in Geosynthetics, presented by the North American Geosynthetic Society and the Industrial Fabrics Association International, 1997. 

Finalist Paper for the General Award Competition at the Conference of Geosynthetics 97

Finalist Paper for the Student Paper Award Competition at the Conference of Geosynthetics 97

Co-author of the 2nd Best Book, Soil Improvement and Underpinning, awarded by Ministry of Construction, the People's Republic of China, December 1996

Outstanding Young Faculty in Tongji University, 1992 & 1993

Outstanding Young Faculty in Shanghai, 1992

Invited Keynote Speaker, Stone Column Technologies, the 3rd Chinese Soil Improvement Conference, Qengwangdao, P.R. China, 1992

Invited Keynote Speaker, Underpinning, the 3rd Chinese Soil Improvement Conference, Qengwangdao, P.R. China, 1992

Soft Soil Session Chair, First Young Asian Geotechnical Engineers Conference, AIT, Bangkok, Thailand, January 7, January 11, 1991

Member, Soil Improvement Committee, the Chinese Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Eng., 1990-1993

Member, Editorial Board of Chinese Journal of Soil Improvement, 1990-1993