Professor Andrawes was named the new Director of the Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory (NSEL) effective August 16, 2019

Professor Andrawes is invited to deliver a talk and chair a session on ” Electrical Magnetic, Optical and Thermal Properties of Smart Materials” at the 2017 BIT’s World’s Congress of Smart Materials in Bangkok, Thailand, March 16-18, 2017: (http://www.bitcongress.com/wcsm2017/default.asp)

News-Gazette features SMS group research on the application of shape memory alloys in the seismic retrofitting and emergency repair of bridge columns: (http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2016-01-18/special-equipment-helps-ui-engineers-shake-out-bridge-flaws.html)

Professor Andrawes is appointed by the SEI/ASCE as the founding chair of the new subcommittee on “Retrofit of Structures under Dynamic Loads“: (http://www.asce.org/templates/membership-communities-committee-detail.aspx?committeeid=000010202497)

Professor Andrawes joins the editorial board of the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering

Professor Andrawes is invited to deliver a talk at the 30th US-Japan Bridge Engineering Workshop that will be held in Washington, DC in October 2014 

Professor Andrawes was recognized as a 2012 Outstanding Reviewer by the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering.

Professor Andrawes receives a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award: (http://cee.illinois.edu/andrawes_career)