2009

• JCEM Best Journal Paper Award
  Journal of Construction Engineering and Management, ASCE
  Reston, Virginia
  Awarded for the paper titled "Optimizing Post-disaster Reconstruction Planning for Damaged Transportation Networks." The paper was competitively selected from a large pool of 143 highly qualified papers that were published in the journal in 2009.

2007

• Citation in Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders, 1st Edition
  Marquis Who’s Who
  New Providence, New Jersey

2005 – Present

• Graduate Research Assistantship
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2005 – 2006

• Citation in Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 8th Edition
  Marquis Who’s Who
  New Providence, New Jersey

2005

• Citation in the Chancellor’s List
  Annually honors outstanding graduate students for their academic achievements

2004 – 2005

• Sargent and Lundy Pre-Doctoral Fellowship
  Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2001 – 2002

• Laboratory Instruction Graduate Fellowships in Engineering
  American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
  A merit-based fellowship awarded to graduate students based on their academic achievements.

1999

• Osman Ahmed Osman Scholarship
  American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt
  A merit-based scholarship awarded to one applicant to the ASCE sponsored program of “Certified Construction Project Supervisor”. The recipient is selected from a large pool of applicants who were graduated from national universities during a five years span prior to the application deadline.