Organization honors and recognitions:
Deep South ITE (Institute of Engineers) sponsored Epps/Dart Award for Excellence in Teaching, Inaugural recipient, November 2007
iSMARTi – international Society for Maintenance And Rehabilitation of Transport infrastructures, President, 2004-2007
University Representative, Transportation Research Board, 2004- present
Value Engineering (VE) Expert Task Group Member, appointed by the US DOT Federal Highway Administration as university representative since September 2004
Transportation and Development Institute, American Society of Civil Engineers, Charter member certificate, 12 September 2003
Order of the Engineer, May 1997; Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1994
Chi Epsilon – National Civil Engineering Honor Society, 1983; now Life member
UK Government full scholarship for Master’s degree at AIT, Bangkok, Thailand, 1973-75
University of Mississippi honors and awards:
First recipient of Faculty Service award by the University of Mississippi School of Engineering for outstanding performance in service, 12 October 2001
Selected, by voting, as the best faculty in the department and nominated for regional “best teacher” award by the University of Mississippi Student Chapter of Chi Epsilon (National Civil Engineering Honor Society), Fall 1999
Paper awards:
First best paper award on a peer reviewed paper “Transportation Related Environmental Impacts and Societal Costs For Life-Cycle Analysis of Costs and Benefits,” (Authors: W. Uddin, Kanok Boriboonsomsin, and Sergio Garza), International Symposium on Pavements Recycling, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 14-16 March 2005
Paper awards to student advisees:
Katherine Osborne received runner-up paper award in the Undergraduate Student Paper Competition by the Southern District of ITE, with $50 cash prizes, March 2008
Jessica Headrick received Runner-up paper award in the Under Graduate Student
Technical Paper Competition by the Deep South Section of ASCE, March 2008
Preston Denson received first best paper award in the UG Student Paper Competition by the Southern District of ITE, with $100 cash prize on “A Study of Road Safety in Mississippi,” March 2006
Sergio Garza and Kanok Boriboonsomsin received runner-up paper award in the Graduate Student Paper Competition by the Southern District of ITE, with $50 cash prizes to each student advisee, May 2002
Graduate student advisee (Lia Ricalde) and senior UG student (Ned Mitchell) at the University of Mississippi received a citation letter from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) for the 1999 International Contest on LTPP Data Analysis; their paper was included in a special ASCE-FHWA publication, 2001
Other honors:
Award plaque from National Institute Transportation (University of Science & Technology), Risalpur, Pakistan, 28 June 2008 (invited lecture)
Award plaque from Brunei Public Works Department, Brunei Darussalam, November 19, 2007 (invited lecture at the Executive Conference on Road Safety)
Award plaque from Department of Civil Engineering, University of Pisa, Italy, May 2004
Award plaque from Mackenzie University, São Paulo, Brazil to CAIT for outstanding service related to the organization of the Second International Symposium on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements and Technological Control, Auburn, July 29-August 1, 2001
Award plaque from Mackenzie University, São Paulo, Brazil to Uddin for keynote lecture at the First International Symposium on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements and Technological Control in São Paulo, Brazil, 21-25 May 2000
Liaison Officer for Saudi Arabia and UAE, Asian Information Center for Geotechnical Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok, Thailand, 1976-81