CEE doctoral graduate, Mohamed Saeid Eid and Associate Professor Islam El-adaway were awarded the ASCE 2017 Journal of Management in Engineering Best Peer Reviewed Paper Award for their paper entitled “Sustainable Disaster Recovery Decision-Making Support Tool: Integrating Economic Vulnerability into the Objective Functions of the Associated Stakeholders”. Eid graduated with his PhD in Civil Engineering from UT in May of 2017 under the guidance of Dr. El-adaway. Their paper presents a holistic framework to allow decision makers to utilize post-disaster recovery efforts as an opportunity to decrease the economic vulnerability of the affected community.