Faculty Awards

The civil, materials, and environmental engineering faculty have received numerous awards for their scholarship, teaching, service, and other accomplishments. The sections below list the faculty recipients of each honor.

  • Hossein Ataei – UIC College of Engineering Advising Award, 2019
  • Sybil Derrible – UIC College of Engineering Advising Award, 2014
  • Eduard Karpov – UIC College of Engineering Advising Award, 2008, 2009, 2012
  • Abolfazl Mohammadian – UIC College of Engineering Advising Award, 2007
  • Didem Ozevin – UIC College of Engineering Advising Award, 2019
  • Karl Rockne – UIC College of Engineering Advising Award, 2012, 2013
  • Lesley Sneed – UIC College of Engineering Advising Award, 2022
  • Hossein Ataei – Fellow
  • Christopher B. Burke – Distinguished Member
  • Mohsen Issa – Fellow
  • Muthiah Kasi – Civil Engineer of the Year Award, 2008
  • Mustafa Mahamid – Fellow
  • Krishna Reddy – Fellow
  • Christopher B. Burke
  • Mohsen A. Issa
  • Mustafa Mahamid
  • Lesley Sneed 
  • Farhad Ansari – Editor-in-Chief – Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring, Springer, 2014-2019
  • Farhad Ansari – Guest Editor, Journal of Intelligent Materials Systems and Structures, Sage Publications, UK, 2007
  • Farhad Ansari – Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 1998-2000
  • Craig D. Foster – ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics, 2004 – present
  • Craig D. Foster – ASCE Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 2006 – present
  • J. Ernesto Indacochea – Associate Technical Editor, ASM Journal of Materials Engineering and Performance, 2003-present
  • J. Ernesto Indacochea – Associate Editor, ASME Journal of Offshore Mechanics and Arctic Engineering, 1996-2001
  • J. Ernesto Indacochea – Associate Editor and Principal Reviewer, The Welding Journal, American Welding Society, 1997 – present
  • J. Ernesto Indacochea – Board of Review Member, TMS/AIME Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 1998 – present
  • J. Ernesto Indacochea – Editorial Board, ASM- JMEP, 2001- 2003
  • J. Ernesto Indacochea – Peer Reviewer: ASME Journal of Materials Science and Engineering, Journal of Materials Research, Journal of Materials Science, Journal of the American Ceramic Society, ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology
  • Mohsen A. Issa – Board Member, ACI-Illinois Chapter, 2002-2003
  • Mohsen A. Issa – Member, Transportation Research Board Committee AFN20, Properties of Concrete, 2001-present
  • Mohsen A. Issa – Member, PCI committee, High Performance Concrete/Durability
  • Mohsen A. Issa – Member, PCI committee, Bridge Deck Panel Task Force
  • Mohsen A. Issa – Chairman, ACI Committee 444, Experimental Analysis of Concrete Structures, 2002-2008
  • Mohsen A. Issa – Member, ACI-ASCE Committee 343, Concrete Bridge Design
  • Mohsen A. Issa – Secretary, ACI Committee 444, Experimental Analysis of Concrete Structures, 2001-2002
  • Mohsen A. Issa – Member, ACI Committee 209, Creep and Shrinkage of Concrete
  • Jie Lin – Editorial Advisory Board, Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2008 – present
  • Jie Lin – Editorial Advisory Board, International Journal of Sustainable Transportation, 2011 – present
  • Jie Lin – Chair, TRB ADC20 Transportation and Air Quality Committee, 2011-2014
  • Michael J. McNallan – Key Reader, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions, 1998-2001
  • Michael J. McNallan – Co-editor with P.Y. Hou, R. Oltra, E.J. Opila, and D. Shores, High Temperature Corrosion and Materials Chemistry, The Electrochemical Society, Inc,. Pennington, NJ, 1998
  • Abolfazl Mohammadian – Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Transportation Letters: International Journal of Transportation Research, J. Ross Publishing, 2007
  • Abolfazl Mohammadian – Editorial Board Member, Journal of Advances in Civil Engineering, 2008
  • Krishna R. Reddy – North America Editor, Land Contamination & Reclamation Journal
  • Krishna R. Reddy – Editorial Board Member, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • Krishna R. Reddy – Editorial Board Member, Geotechnical Testing Journal, ASTM
  • Krishna R. Reddy – Editorial Board Member, Soil & Sediment Contamination: An International Journal, AEHS
  • Krishna R. Reddy – Editorial Board Member, Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, ASCE
  • Karl Rockne – Editorial Board Member, Journal of Soils and Sediments
  • Karl Rockne – Editorial Board Member, PLoS ONE
  • Lesley Sneed  – Associate Editor, Engineering Structures, 2020 – 2023
  • Lesley Sneed  – Associate Editor, ASCE Journal of Composites for Construction, 2018 – present
  • Hossein Ataei – American Society of Civil Engineers, 2017
  • Christopher B. Burke – Distinguished Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2014
  • J. Ernesto Indacochea – ASM International, 2003
  • Mohsen A. Issa – American Society of Civil Engineers, 2007; American Concrete Institute International, 1999
  • Mustafa Mahamid – American Concrete Institute, 2019; American Society of Civil Engineers, 2016; Structural Engineering Institute of ASCE, 2016
  • Michael J. McNallan – ASM International, 1998
  • Lesley Sneed – American Concrete Institute, 2016
  • Thomas C. Ting – American Society of Mechanical Engineers; American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1995
  • Craig D. Foster – National Science Foundation International Research Fellowship, 2006-2007; Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Stanford Graduate Fellowship, 2000-2003
  • Eduard Karpov – Fellowship grants at the NSF Summer Institute on Nano Mechanics and Materials, 2003-2005 and 2007-2008
  • Sara Kadkhodaei – Graduate Student Fellowship (Prager Fellowship), Brown University, 2010-2011
  • Abolfazl Mohammadian – Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2001
  • Mohsen A. Issa
  • Abolfazl Mohammadian
  • Krishna R. Reddy
  • Matthew Daly: Order-induced heterogeneities in the deformation behavior of FCC concentrated solid solutions
  • Sybil Derrible: Understanding the Fundamental Principles Driving Household Energy and Resource Consumption for Smart, Sustainable, and Resilient Communities
  • Didem Ozevin: Engineered Spatially Periodic Structure Design Integrated with Damage Detection Philosophy
  • Karl J. Rockne: Active Capping for Contaminated Sediment Remediation
  • David E. Boyce – UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award, 2000
  • Sheng-Wei Chi – ICACM Young Investigator Award, 2013
  • Matthew Daly: TMS Young Leaders Professional Development, 2023
  • Mohsen A. Issa – UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award, 1999
  • Eduard Karpov – UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award, 2012
  • Jie Lin – UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award, 2006, 2009
  • Abolfazl Mohammadian – National Academies, Transportation Research Board, 2008 Fred Burggraf Award; UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award, 2008; UIC 2010 Interdisciplinary Research Award, 2005
  • Didem Ozevin – UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award, 2014
  • Krishna R. Reddy – UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award, 2001
  • Karl J. Rockne – Faculty Scholar Award, Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, 2003-2004; UIC College of Engineering Bronze Research Award, 2006; UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award, 2008
  • Lesley Sneed – Stanford University’s World’s Top 2% Scientists for Single Year Impact, 2021, 2022, 2023
  • Mohsen A. Issa
  • Mustafa Mahamid
  • Lesley Sneed
  • Hossein Ataei – UIC College of Engineering Teaching Award, 2018 and 2019
  • David E. Boyce – University of Illinois Alumni Association UIC Flame Award for Teaching Excellence, 2001
  • Matthew Daly: UIC College of Engineering Teaching Award, 2022
  • Sybil Derrible – UIC College of Engineering Teaching Award, 2014
  • Mohsen A. Issa – Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2000; Teaching Recognition Program Award, Council for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 2000
  • Eduard Karpov – UIC College of Engineering Teaching Award, 2013
  • Mustafa Mahamid – UIC Master Teaching Scholar, 2015-2016; College of Engineering Teaching Award, 2014
  • Abolfazl Mohammadian – UIC College of Engineering Teaching Award, 2006, 2009, 2012; UIC Teaching Recognition Program Award, 2009
  • Didem Ozevin – UIC Teaching Recognition Award, 2014; Chris Burke Teaching Excellence Award, 2013
  • Krishna R. Reddy – Edmund Burke Teaching Award, 2004; Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2007
  • Karl J. Rockne – Teaching Recognition Award, 2008
  • Lesley Sneed – UIC College of Engineering Teaching Award, 2023
  • Farhad Ansari, 2016
  • Mustafa Mahamid, 2015
  • David E. Boyce, Inventor of the Year, 2000
  • Krishna Reddy, Researcher of the Year, 2014
  • Krishna R. Reddy, 2007