Awards & Honors

• 2024  American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Milek Fellowship. [link] [MSC article (pg. 64)]

• 2023 and 2024 Outstanding Reviewer in the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering [link].

• 2022 ASCE ExCEEd Fellow.

• The 2022 Harry C. Bigglestone Award. [link] [Ceremony]

• The 2021 Best Paper Award & Editor’s Choice [link] [link2] in Fire Technology. [doi] [Pre-print draft] 

• The 2020 Jack Watts Award for Outstanding Reviewer of Fire Technology.

• Inducted into the 2020 AUS Alumni Wall of Fame. 

• ANSYS Hall of Fame (2017).

• Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

• Award for Outstanding Graduate Achievement. 

• Graduate School Dissertation Completion Fellowship.

• Fitch H. Beach Award for Outstanding Graduate Research. 

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Awards & Honors for my research group/students

• Moe Albashiti receives the 2024 American Concrete Institute (ACI) Foundation Fellowship ($10,000 grant) [link] [press release].

• Moe Albashiti receives the 2024 Emerging Leaders Annual Fellowship from Clemson University ($5,000 grant).

• Arash Tapeh receives the 2024 Engineering “ART” Annual Fellowship from Clemson University ($5,000 grant).

• Arash Tapeh receives the 2024 Outstanding Civil Engineering Graduate Teaching Award from Clemson University.

• Arash Tapeh has been invited to submit an extended journal paper on his presentation at The 12th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SiF 2022), Hong Kong. 

• Moe Albashiti wins the Best Student Presentation at The 12th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SiF 2022), Hong Kong. 

• Haley Hostetter received the Best Delivery and Best Overall at the research symposium at the Glenn Department of Civil Engineering.

• Deanna Craig received a “Student Research Grant” from the Society of Fire Protection Engineering (SFPE) ($5,000 grant). [link]