​  Honors & Service
  • 2017: Emerging Leaders Award
  • 2016: Association of Technology Management and Applied Engineering Exemplary Contribution and Services award 
  • 2016: President: Distance Education Division: Association of Technology Management and Applied Engineering 
  • 2013: Georgia Natural Gas Natural Leader award 
  • 2011: Chair of the VSU Curriculum and Academic Issues Committee (CAIC) 
  • 2011: VSU At-Large faculty senator 
  • 2011: VSU Representative at the American Council of Education’s Creating Global Citizen project 
  • 2010: Program reviewer for the Association of Technology Management and Applied Engineering (ATMAE)
  • 2010: Chair of the Industrial and Logistics Technology program accreditation self-study committee
  • 2009: Vice secretary of the VSU Faculty Senate
  • 2008: Board member of the Independent Living Center of Eastern Indiana 
  • 2007: Purdue University Graduate Student Award for Outstanding Teaching, 
  • 2005: Purdue University Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate (AGEP) Scholar
  • Best Ergonomics Paper Award at the IIE Conference in 2004 in Houston, TX, 2004
  • North Carolina A&T State University Star Fellow, 2004
  • Outstanding Academic Achievement Award, North Carolina A&T State University, 2003
  • Who’s Who among Universities and Colleges Award, 2003
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Grants & Scholarships
  • 2016: NSF Advanced Technological Education grant  
  • 2016: Epsilon Pi Tau: Exemplary Scholarship Award
  • 2014: NSA Cybersecurity Workforce Pipeline Consortium Grant 
  • 2013: Georgia Natural Gas Community Grant 
  • 2013: Design, Implementation and Evaluation of a Database Application for Savannah River Remediation Grant
  • 2013: Employee Communications Survey System Design at Savannah River Remediation Grant
  • 2010: Dominion Foundation Grant
  • 2008: Sloan-C Conference Minority Scholarship
  • 2008: Indiana Campus Compact Scholarship of Engagement Grant
  • 2007: Purdue University Alliance for Graduate Education and Professoriate (AGEP) Grant
  • 2006: “The Study of Risk of Awkward Postures and Repetitive Tasks Related to Obesity”. Grant Funded by Navistar Corporations
Emerging Leaders  Award