• Inducted to the Dominican Republic National Researcher Career, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology, December 11th, 2019.
  • Best Paper Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineering, Computer & Information in Engineering (CIE) Conference, Virtual Environments & Systems, 2019
  • Outstanding Paper Award, American Society for Engineering Education Conference & Exposition 2019, New IE Educator: Dr. Omar Ashour NSF CLICK project PI.
  • Outstanding Graduate Student Awards, College of Engineering Multicultural Engineering Program, the Pennsylvania State University, Spring 2019. (see post)
  • First place at the College of Engineer Research Symposium 2019, Industrial Systems and Design section. (see post)
  • Best Paper Award, American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Mid-Atlantic Conf., 2018. (see post)
  • First place at the Harold and Inge Marcus Dept. of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Research Poster Competition 2018. (see post)
  • NSF Travel Grant (#CMMI-1838333) for the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition (IMCE) 2018. (see post)
  • Tapia NSF Scholarship, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conf. 2018. (see post)
  • Travel grant from the American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) for the 2018 IDETC/CIE Conference, CIE Graduate Research Poster session. (see post)
  • Second place at the College of Engineer Research Symposium 2018, Industrial Systems and Design section. (see post)
  • Travels grant through the Center for Engineering Outreach and Inclusion for the ASEE Mid-Atlantic Conf. 2018. (see post)
  • NSF ASSIST Travel Grant  (#EEC-1548197) for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) National Conf. 2017, Early-Faculty Development Symposium. (see post)
  • Keynote Speaker at the SHPE National Conf. 2017, Biomedical and Bioengineering Science Symposium section. (see post)
  • Second place at the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award Corporation (HENAAC) Great Minds in STEM Conf. Research Poster Graduate Competition 2017, Engineering/Technology section. (see post)
  • NSF ASSIST Travel Grant (#EEC-1548322) for HENAAC Great Mind in STEM Conf. 2017, Early-Faculty Development Symposium. (see post)
  • Tapia NSF Scholarship (#CNS-1733570), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conf. 2017. (see post)
  • Second place at the College of Engineer Research Symposium 2017, Industrial Systems and Design section. (see post)