• American Council of Construction Education program evaluator training.
• ABET, Inc. training for program evaluator for both EAC and TAC.
• Tennesseee Board of Regents Academic Leadership Program
• Tennessee Board of Regents Academic program auditor
• Kentucky Ready-Mixed Concrete Association Level II Concrete Technician Certification, December 1998 American Concrete Institute Level I Certification for Field Testing of Concrete, October 1998
• Workshop on "Thinking about Teaching: Saving Grading Time and Making Classes More Interactive" on May 12th and 13th, 1998 at EKU.
• Faculty development workshop "Teaching Appalachian Students," October 16, 1998 at EKU
• Kentucky School-to-Work Program, Educator/Business Exchange, August 6, 18, and 20, 1998 at James N. Gray Company in Lexington, Kentucky and Lebanon, Kentucky
• Eastern Kentucky University, Construction Workshop, Summer 1997, 1998
• Texas A&M Center for Construction Education, Advisory Board Member, 1991-1993
• Texas A&M Center for Construction Education, TQM/Ci Workshop, Faculty Committee, 1991
• Texas A&M Center for Construction Education, Construction Management Program, Safety Workshop, Fall 1991, Spring and Fall 1992, 32 students average, workshop coordinator

Invited Seminars / Lectures / Presentations:

• "Excavation and Leveling," Lunar Site Preparation and Outpost Setup Workshop, Huntsville, AL, October 20-21, 2009
• "From Innovation towards Industrial Production: The States of Industrial Production," Cherbourg School of Engineering, Cherbourg, France, summer 2006, summer program opening lecture
• "The Potential for Straw Bale Home Construction in Kentucky," Associated Schools of Construction Great Lakes Regional Conference, Milwaukee, WI, November 4, 2000
• "Space and Robotics 2000 Student Robotics Contest - Past Perspectives and Future Directions," Space 2000-Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space Conference, Albuquerque, NM, February 29, 2000
• "American Society of Civil Engineers/NASA Student Robotics Contest," Richmond, Ky Kiwanis Club, September, 1998
• "Robotics," Invited speaker to The Texas Regional Concrete Pavement Conference, November 2, 3, and 4, 1993, Austin, TX
• "Applications of Robotics and Other Automated Techniques to the Construction, Maintenance, and Inspection of Highway Systems," TxDOT Area 2 Meeting, October 4, 5, and 6, 1995, Dallas, TX
• "Performance-Based Evaluation of Lunar Base Construction Equipment and Methods," ASCE Conference: Space 92, May 31 - June 4, 1992, Denver, CO
• "Enhancing Decision Analysis Techniques for Lunar Base Construction Research," ASCE Conference: Space 92, May 31 - June 4, 1992, Denver, CO
• "A Construction Operations Study for an Evolutionary Lunar Base," ASCE Conference: Space 90, Engineering, Construction, and Operations in Space, April 23-26, 1990, Albuquerque, NM
• "A Methodology for Modeling Construction Requirements for a Manned Lunar Base," ASCE Conference: Space 88, August 29-31, 1988, Albuquerque, NM
• "Drilling and Digging Techniques for the Early Lunar Outpost," Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Lunar Resource Assessment, April 6, 7, 1992, Santa Fe, NM, Sponsored by NASA - Johnson Space Center, DOE - Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Lunar and Planetary Institute - Houston, TX, invited keynote speaker
• Invited guest speaker Construction Science Seminar, Texas A&M University on April 26, 1994