AWARDS
British Aerospace Engineering Research Award: Summer 1996 [Department of Civil Engineering; University of Wales- Swansea; UK].
Fulbright Research Award (Department of State-US): January - June, 2000 [Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics; Virginia Tech.- Blacksburg; Virginia-USA].
British Aerospace Engineering Research Award: Summer 2005 [School of Engineering & Physical Sciences "Center of Computational Mechanics"], Department of Mechanical Engineering; Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh-Scotland; UK.