Research Award awarded by the American Institute of Architects-Oregon Chapter during the 2019 Resilience Symposium.
2017 Engineering Educator of the Year Award, awarded by the Erie-Niagara Chapter of the New York Society of Professional Engineers.
Best Doctoral Dissertation Award awarded by The Masonry Society for the best doctoral dissertation in 2010 on masonry.
NSF Award for the “Most Effective Education, Outreach and Training Activity” for Integrating NEES Research into California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS).