Dr. Khaled El-Rayes

Associate Professor

Construction Management

Ranked # 1

Graduate & Undergraduate

Civil Engineering Program

by US News & World Report

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AWARDS AND HONORS

Research Awards

2008
O’Neil Faculty Scholar in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

2007
ASCE Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize

The 2007 Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize prize is awarded for the paper entitled “Parallel Genetic Algorithms for Optimizing Resource Utilization in Large-Scale Construction Projects,” published in the Journal of Construction Engineering and Management. The prize is awarded to papers whose authors describe in detail accomplished works of construction or which are valuable contributions to construction management and construction engineering. The Thomas Fitch Rowland Prize was instituted by the American Society of Civil Engineers at the Annual Meeting of 1882 and was endowed in 1884 by Thomas Fitch Rowland, past Vice President and Hon.M.ASCE.

2003-2008
National Science Foundation CAREER Award

The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards for new faculty members. The CAREER program recognizes and supports the early career development activities of those teacher scholars who are most likely to become the academic leaders of the 21st century. CAREER awardees are selected on the basis of creative, career development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution

1999
Doctoral Prize of the Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science
The doctoral prize is awarded annually when merited to the most deserving graduate of the Doctor of Philosophy Programme, Concordia University

1993-1996
Excellence Award for Graduate Studies and Integration of Research

Nature and Technologies Research Foundation, Quebec, Canada

1993-1996
Concordia University External Grant Holder Doctoral Scholarship

1994
American Association of Cost Engineers Scholastic Scholarship Award

1993
Montreal Project Management Institute Excellence Award

1992
American Association of Cost Engineers Competitive Scholarship Award

1991
American Association of Cost Engineers Competitive Scholarship Award

Teaching Awards

Spring 2008
Named to the Spring 2008 Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Fall 2007
Named to the Fall 2007 Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Fall 2005
Named to the Fall 2005 Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Spring 2005
Named to the Spring 2005 Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Spring 2004
Named to the Spring 2004 Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent By Their Students
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1996
School of Graduate Studies Teaching Assistantship Award
Concordia University

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