Institutional Service

College-level Service

- - Member, Effective Teaching Committee, 2024.
  - Member, College's Teaching Awards Committee, 2019 -- 2023.
  - College's advisory group for Research Computing, Spring 2019 -- present.
  - Elected representative for the Academic Honesty Pool: 2016 -- 2019, 2020 -- 2023, 2023 -- 2026 terms.
  - Member, Ad Hoc Research Computation Needs Group, College of Engineering, Summer 2014.
  - Member, search committee for Director of Engineering Computing, 2013.

Department-level Service

Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Houston

- - Department's Associate Chair: 2022 -- present.
    - - Manage TA/Lecturer budget: $300--400 K (varies yearly)
      - Schedule courses by interfacing with the UG director and graduate program directors
      - Assign teaching assistants for courses
      - Coordinate junior faculty yearly evaluations
  - Performance Review
    - - Nominated member, Post-Tenure Evaluation Committee: 2023.
      - Nominated member, Faculty Annual Performance Review (F-APR) committee: 2024 -- present.
      - Elected member, Enhanced Performance Evaluation (EPE) committee: 2024 -- present.
  - Undergraduate Studies
    - - Department's Pathway Professor for Mechanics I (Statics) and Mechanics of Solids: 2024 -- present.
      - Member of ABET Steering Committee (UG accreditation): 2022--present.
        In 2023, our department passed the ABET audit without any weakness.
      - Member of Undergraduate Curriculum Committee: Spring 2016 -- present.
  - Graduate Studies
    - - Chair, Graduate Program Committee: 2023 -- present.
      - Member, Graduate Program Committee: 2016 -- present.
      - Member, Best Dissertation Committee: 2023.
      - Coordinator, Qualifying Examination: SP12, FA17, FA19, SP23, FA23, SP24.
      - Member, Qualifying Examination Committee: FA11 -- present.
      - Coordinator, Graduate Seminar Series: FA13, FA18, FA23.
      - Chair of Beyer Distinguished Seminar Series: 2023 -- present.
  - Faculty & Lecturer Search Committees
    - - Member, search committee for Lecturer Positions, Construction Management (Katy Campus), 2023.
      - Chair, search committee for Instructional Assistant Professor, Construction Management (Katy Campus), 2022.
      - Chair, search committee for Instructional Lab Manager, 2022.
      - Member, search committee for Geo-Engineering Faculty Position: 2014 -- 2015 and 2020 -- 2021.
      - Member, search committee for Structural Engineering/Mechanics Faculty Position, 2017 -- 2018 and 2018 -- 2019.
  - Faculty Mentoring
    - - Serving as an official mentor for three junior faculty members: Dimitrios Kalliontzis (2020 -- present), Behrooz Ferdowsi (2021 -- present), and Ruda Zhang (2022 -- present).
  - Other Committees
    - - Member, Department Computer Committee: Fall 2012 -- present.
      - Member, Strategic Planning Committee on Research: Fall 2011.

Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University

- - Member, Qualifying Examination (Design and Solid Mechanics): FA09, SP10, FA10.
  - Department faculty representative for the Commencement Ceremony, August 2009.