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Professor Ahmet Aydilek, a faculty member in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland (UMD), has been selected as a 2026-27 Distinguished Scholar-Teacher by the university.
Each year, through the DST program, UMD honors faculty who have demonstrated outstanding scholarly achievement, along with equally remarkable accomplishments as teachers, and who serve as models of excellence for the faculty of a top research university. Nominations are reviewed each year by a panel of former DST awardees, convened by the Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs.
Aydilek, a member of the UMD CEE faculty since 2001, is a noted expert on sustainability in geotechnical infrastructure design. Through a combination of experimental and numerical methods, he explores the mechanical, hydraulic, and environmental behavior of industrial byproducts and soft soils to assess their possible reuse in highway construction, and develops design methodologies for various highway materials.
He has received a succession of prestigious honors in recognition of his contributions to geotechnical, geoenvironmental, and geosynthetic engineering. The American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) awarded him the Walter Huber Prize, the Arthur M. Wellington Prize, the Arthur Casagrande Award, the Collingwood Prize, and the ExCEED Teaching Award. The ASCE Maryland Section honored him with the Outstanding Civil Engineering Educator Award. UMD, meanwhile, awarded him a Lilly-Teaching of Excellence Fellowship. He is a Fellow of ASCE and has served on the editorial board of ASCE journals.
In conjunction with the award, Aydilek will deliver a lecture this fall on a topic related to his research. He is the second Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering faculty member to have received this honor within the last five years, following Professor Allen P. Davis, who was named a DST in 2022.
May 4, 2026
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