Affiliations
Member, TRB Committee AFS90 on Chemical and Mechanical Stabilization of Soils, Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., March 2002 – Present.

Member, TRB Committee AFP60 on Engineering Behavior of Unsaturated Soils, Transportation Research Board, Washington D.C., March 2001 – Present.
Technical Committee Member, Logistics Manager, State-of-the-Art Panelist, UNSAT2006: Fourth International Conference on Unsaturated Soils, Sponsored by ASCE Geo-Institute, April 2-5, 2006, Carefree, Arizona.

Awards
Outstanding Civil & Environmental Engineering Instructor Award. February 2005 Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
Outstanding Young Faculty Member Award. February 2003 College of Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
Outstanding PhD Graduate Award. December 1998 College of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
George F. Sowers Distinguished Graduate Student Award. June 1997 Geosystems Engineering Program, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Alfredo Estrada Distinguished Hispanic Graduate Student Award. December 1995 International Office, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

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