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Bilal M. Ayyub

Phone: 301-405-1956
Email: ba@umd.edu

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Professional and Service Awards
bulletBSCE with the first honor degree
bulletThe Kuwaiti Foundation for the Advancement of Science Fellowship for the MSCE and PhD degrees, 1980-83
bulletThe "Jimmie" Hamilton Award for the best paper in the Naval Engineers Journal during 1985, American Society of Naval Engineers
bulletThe award for "The Outstanding Research Oriented Paper" published in the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management in 1987, Water Resources Planning and Management Division, American Society of Civil Engineers
bulletThe Edmund Friedman Young Engineer Award for Professional Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1989
bulletThe "Jimmie" Hamilton Award for the best paper in the Naval Engineers Journal during 1992, American Society of Naval Engineers
bulletU.S. Army Corps of Engineers Award in recognition of contributions to the success of the 1995 Corps of Engineers Structural Engineering Conference, Fort Worth District, San Antonio, Texas, 1995
bulletThe K.S. Fu Award for Professional Service, the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 1995. The Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize, American Society of Civil Engineers, 1997
bulletCertificate of Appreciation, Research Task Force on Risk-Based Inspection Guidelines, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1998
bulletCertificate of Appreciation from the Risk-based Technology Research Committee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) for contribution to several ASME research projects on risk-based inspection of industrial facilities, risk-informed design of mechanical systems, and applications of risk-based technology to U. S. Coast Guard marine systems, 1998
bulletCertificate of Appreciation for Contributions to the Classification Guide of the Mobile Offshore Base, Office of Naval Research, Science and Technology Program, U. S. Navy, 1999
bulletThe "Jimmie" Hamilton Award for the best paper in the Naval Engineers Journal during 2000, American Society of Naval Engineers. The State of Maryland Governor’s Citation for “positive contributions, leadership and distinguished service … in honor and appreciation of your selfless efforts on behalf of the community,” signed by Governor Paris N. Glendening, and Secretary of State John J. Willis, State of Maryland, January 10, 2003
bulletThe "Jimmie" Hamilton Award for the best paper in the Naval Engineers Journal during 2002, American Society of Naval Engineers
bulletThe "Jimmie" Hamilton Award for the best paper in the Naval Engineers Journal during 2003, American Society of Naval Engineers, 2004
 
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Professional Honors
bulletSabbatical Leave Fellowship, American Society of Engineering Education, funded by the Office of Naval Research, U. S. Navy, 1993-94
bulletChair of the organizing committee for the Workshop on Risk-based Technologies: U. S. Coast Guard Applications, December 12-13, 1995
bulletGeneral Chair and Organizer of the International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis, ISUMA90, ISUMA93, ISUMA95, ISUMA03, 1989- present
bulletGeneral Chairman, the Annual Conference of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society, University of Maryland, College Park, September 1995
bulletInvited Speaker, Advances in Structural Reliability, the USACE Structural Engineering Conference, August 28 - September 1, 1995
bulletSabbatical Leave Fellowship, American Society of Engineering Education, funded by the Office of Naval Research, U. S. Navy, 1993-94
bulletAssociate Editor of the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering, 1995-98. Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, member since 1981 and fellow since1999
bulletFellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, member since 1990 and fellow since 2000
bulletFellow, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, member since 1989 and fellow since 2000. Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, member since 1993 and senior member since 1999
bulletProfessional Engineer Registration, State of Maryland, License Registration Certification Number 16521, July 1988 - present
bulletChair of the Naval Engineers Journal Committee, ASNE, 2000-present
bulletMember of the Journal of Ship Research Committee, Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 1997-present
bulletChairman of the Panel on Design Procedures & Philosophies for Ship Structures (HS-4), Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, 1996-present
bulletInvited Keynote Speaker, “Hierarchical Ignorance Categories and Uncertainty Types in Engineering Systems,” Second International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematical Methods in Pavement and Geomechanical Systems, organized by N. O. Attoh-Okine, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, August 2000
bulletSabbatical Leave Fellowship, American Society of Engineering Education, funded by the Office of Naval Research, U. S. Navy, 2000-01
bulletInvited Keynote Speaker, "From Dissecting Ignorance to Solving Algebraic Problems," Workshop on Epistemic Uncertainty, Sandia National Laboratories, August 2002
bulletInvited by the Executive Office of the President of the United States, Office of Science and Technology Policy to represent the American Society of Mechanical Engineers for establishing policy and R&D priorities for protecting the nation’s physical infrastructure, the White House Conference Center, September 23-24, 2002
bulletActed as a prospectus leader on risk analysis methods and guidance for protecting the nation’s physical infrastructure. Member of the Executive Committee of the Safety Engineering and Risk Analysis Division (SERAD), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2002-present
bulletAppointed to the ASME Codes and Standards Working Group on Valves (SG-D) (SC III) (N20070335), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, May 2002 to May 2007
bulletGeneral Co-chairman, the fourth International Symposium on Uncertainty Modeling and Analysis (ISUMA'03), University of Maryland, College Park, September 2003
bulletAppointed to the ASME Risk Assessment Group of the Critical Assets Protection Initiative Committee, 2002
bulletAppointed to the ASME Codes and Standards Working Group on Probabilistic Methods in Design (SG-D) (SC III) (N20070365), American Society of Mechanical Engineers, February 2003 to February 2008
bulletCo-chair of the Research Task Force to Develop ASME Guidance Document and Standard on Risk-Based Protection of Critical Assets, 2003
bulletAyyub, B. M., (invited Distinguished Lecture by the Brazilian Research Agency) "Risk-informed Inspection of Industrial Equipment," 17th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering, COBEM2003, São Paulo, Brazil, November 2003, 10 pages
 


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