Kermanshachi Honored

Sharareh “Sherri” Kermanshachi, a civil engineering assistant professor, has been selected as a recipient of the 2020 Women in Technology Award from the Dallas Business Journal. The awards celebrate and honor the tech mavericks who are forging the way for both women and future tech leaders in Dallas-Fort Worth. She was one of 25 women to receive the honor.

Dr. Kermanshachi is an expert in construction engineering and management, resilient and interdependent infrastructures, project performance optimization, and probabilistic risk analysis. She is also director of the Resilient Infrastructure and Sustainable Environment lab at UTA.

“The Women in Technology Award is a great honor,” she says. “It also encourages other women, both faculty and students, to persevere and excel in their engineering and science fields.”

In addition to supervising multiple doctoral and master’s students, Kermanshachi is the founder of UTA’s Design-Build Institute of America student chapter and currently serves as its faculty adviser.