{"id":94022,"date":"2019-04-05T12:31:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-05T22:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=94022"},"modified":"2019-04-05T15:54:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-06T01:54:04","slug":"singh-award-innovation-research-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/05\/singh-award-innovation-research-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering professor earns award for innovation and research in construction"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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The American Society of Civil Engineers<\/a> (ASCE<\/abbr>) awarded University of Hawaiʻi<\/span> at M\u0101noa College of Engineering<\/a> professor Amarjit Singh<\/strong> the 2019 Construction Management Award at the annual ASCE<\/abbr> Construction Institute Summit in Atlanta, Georgia. The prestigious award, presented in March, is given once a year for “innovation and research aimed at improving construction around the globe.”<\/p>\n

Awarded by a large field of accomplished professionals and researchers, the accolade is granted on the basis of outstanding contributions to the field of construction management as a practitioner, educator or researcher either in the form of written presentations, scholarly work or notable performance.<\/p>\n

Singh was chosen for his many achievements in different countries, his publications on innovative and pioneering topics, and his cutting-edge research on mitigating wave energies in harbors and monitoring distress in airport pavements.<\/p>\n

Singh is the recipient of nine Best Paper awards and was a 2009 recipient of the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span>\u2019s highest teaching honor—the Board of Regents Excellence in Teaching Medal.<\/p>\n

In addition to his present position as professor of civil engineering, Singh is cooperating graduate faculty in the Department of Public Administration<\/a> at ¶«¾«Ó°Òµ<\/abbr> M\u0101noa. He is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amarjit Singh was honored for “innovation and research aimed at improving construction around the globe.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[179,182,598,224,9],"class_list":["post-94022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-engineering","tag-faculty-recognition","tag-public-administration","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94022"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94167,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94022\/revisions\/94167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}