Engineering Distinguished Researcher Award

The Engineering Distinguished Researcher Award recognizes sustained and consistent research excellence by a full-time full professor within the college. The award was established in 2016 to recognize significant achievements over a person’s research career, and awardees receive a $3,000 cash prize. The selection committee uses the following criteria for this award:

Sustained and consistent research activities including most of the following:

  • External funding support and expenditures
  • Refereed publications and citations
  • Intellectual products including patents and disclosures
  • National and international research awards
  • Research mentoring and team building including collaborative funding
  • Graduate program accomplishments including Ph.D. student mentoring
  • Outstanding impact of work on his/her profession and K-State

Nominations are due March 15, 2024 and application packets are due May 1, 2024.

Distinguished researcher award information (docx)

 

Current recipient

photo of Hayder Rasheed

Hayder A. Rasheed

This year’s recipient is Hayder Rasheed, professor in the civil engineering department.

  • Rasheed is a highly accomplished researcher with significant contributions to the field of FRP strengthening of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. His contributions are considered unique and critical to the advancement of this research area.
  • Rasheed’s contributions have been acknowledged by his appointment as an associate editor of the ASCE Journal of Engineering Mechanics and on the Editorial Board for Structural Stability and Dynamics. He is also a fellow of four professional societies/institutes, which is a rank held by only a small fraction of these societies’ membership.

 

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