- Editor’s Choice of the Best paper in Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering, ASCE 2022
- Fellow, ASCE, 2021
- Adjunct Professor, Lanzhou University of Technology, China, 2015-2018
- Honorable Mention Award, Best Geosynthetics International Paper for 2013
- Faculty Teaching Award, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, 2011
- Walter L. Huber Prize, ASCE, 2011
- Honoree, 3rd Annual University-Wide Celebration of Scholarship and Research, University of Maryland, College Park, 2010
- Wellington Prize, ASCE, 2006
- Arthur Casagrande Award, ASCE, 2006
- IGS Award, International Geosynthetics Society, 2006
- Collingwood Prize, ASCE, 2006
- ExCEED Teaching Award, ASCE, 2006
- Outstanding Civil Engineering Educator Award, ASCE-Maryland Section, 2004
- International Outstanding Achievement Award(Geosynthetics Project Category), Industrial Fabrics Association International ( IFAI), 2003
- Engineering Achievement Award, ASCE-Wisconsin Section, 2002
- Lilly Teaching Fellow, Center for Teaching Excellence, University of Maryland, 2002-2003
- Norman Severson Geotechnical Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000
