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Recent CSEE faculty

2005

M. Bruneau — CSEE PhD candidate Jeffrey Berman and Professor Michel Bruneau were honored by the American Society of Civil Engineers with the J. James R. Croes Medal for their paper entitled: "Plastic Analysis and Design of Steel Plate Shear Walls," which appeared in the November 2003 issue of the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering.

Andrei M. Reinhorn and Michael C. Constantinou — Charles Pankow Award for Innovation, for the design of the Torre Mayor Tower in Mexico

2004

M. Constantinou — SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activity.

T.T. Soong — SUNY Distinguished Professor.

2003

C. Basaran — IMAPS 2002 Best Student Paper Honorable Mention for paper written by Ye, H., Hopkins, D., Basaran, C.: "Measurement and Effects of High Electrical Current Stress in Solder Joints," presented at the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society Symposium, Denver, Colorado, September 4-6, 2002.

S. Chen — Student Outreach Liaison Award, given by the Association for Bridge Construction and Design, for "outstanding contribution to the Association as a Student Outreach Liaison and recognition of your dedication to your profession." Association for Bridge Construction and Design, May 2003.

J. Jensen — Received recognition for teaching excellence at UB, February 2003.

Andrei M. Reinhorn and Michael C. Constantinou — Finalists, Charles Pankow Award for Innovation, for the design of the Torre Mayor Tower in Mexico

Andrei A. M. Reinhorn — named Clifford C. Furnas Eminent Professor, SEAS.

2002

Michael C. Constantinou — Diamond Award, New York Association of Consulting Engineering Companies (with Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers and Andrew S. Whittaker) for excellence in the engineering design of the Ataturk International Airport, 2002.

Michael C. Constantinou — Grand Award, American Council of Engineering Companies (with Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers and Andrew S. Whittaker) for excellence in the engineering design of the Ataturk International Airport, March 2002 (award was based on review of over more than 700 nominated projects by engineering companies in the U.S.)

Andrei M. Reinhorn — 2002 Engineer of the Year Award, Erie-Niagara Chapter of the New York State Society of Professional Engineers.

Andrei M. Reinhorn — named Clifford C. Furnas Eminent Professor, 2002

Tsu TehT.T. Soong — ASCE Nathan M. Newmark Medal, 2002

A. S. Whittaker — Best paper, Conference: Fifth World Congress on Joints, Bearings, and Seismic Systems for Concrete Structures; Rome, Italy, October 2001, American Concrete Institute.

A. S. Whittaker — Diamond Award, New York Association of Consulting Engineering Companies (with Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers and Michael C. Constantinou) for excellence in the engineering design of the Ataturk International Airport, 2002.

A. S. Whittaker — Grand Award, American Council of Engineering Companies (with Thornton-Tomasetti Engineers and Michael C. Constantinou) for excellence in the engineering design of the Ataturk International Airport, March 2002 (award was based on review of over more than 700 nominated projects by engineering companies in the U.S.)

2001

Amjad Aref — The Charles Pankow Award for Innovation. A, awarded by the Civil Engineering Research Foundation; awarded jointly to NYSDOT, Academic, and Industrial Collaborators for the "Effective Rehabilitation Of of a Steel Truss Bridge Using FRP Deck".

Joseph F. Atkinson — Fulbright Senior Scholar, U.S.-Israel Fulbright Foundation, September 1999-August 2000, supported visiting professorship at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

George C. Lee — Second prize Prize for Western New York Inventor of the Year: Patent for Low Low-Frequency Seismic Accelerometer (co-recipients: Z. Liang and T. C. Niu).

Alan Rabideau, John E. Van Benschoten, Chandragupta Ganguly, C. Huang — Rudolph Hering Medal, 2001; awarded by the American Society of Civil Engineers to "the authors of the paper which contains the most valuable contribution to the increase of knowledge in, and to the advancement of, the environmental branch of the engineering profession."

1999

Dr. Tsu Teh Soong — ASCE Norman Medal

1998

Prasanta Banerjee — NASA Technology Development Award

Michael C. Constantinou — Finalist, Charles Pankow Award for Innovation, awarded by the Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF)

George C. Lee — named Samuel P. Capen Professor of Engineering

Other Faculty Awards

SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching

J. Atkinson, 1991

S. Ahmad, 1997

J. Jensen, 1994

S. P. Prawel

NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award

S. Chen, 1989

M. C. Constantinou, 1988

ONR Young Investigator Award

C. Basaran, 1997

Fellows of Professional Societies

A. M. Reinhorn, ASCE, 1994

R. P. Shaw, ASME, 1994

T. T. Soong, 1998

Alexander Von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award

T. T. Soong, 1987



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