Maria Garlock was doubly honored by ASCE:
In October 2024, she became a Fellow of the American Society for Civil Engineers (F.ASCE). The F.ASCE grade “represents 3% of the Society’s overall membership.”
In April 2025, she was awarded the George Winter Award by ASCE’s Structural Engineering Institute for “integrating engineering and art in her scholarship and for promoting structural engineering as a creative discipline to a wide public.” In response she states: “Receiving this award honors some important mentors in my life: Teoman Pekoz my advisor in Cornell University, who was a student of George Winter. And David Billington, at Princeton University, who taught me that structural engineering can be art, and that engineering is about people and culture. It is a privilege to receive this award for doing something that I love – which is to communicate to a wide audience that engineers are more than technicians – we are designers with a creative soul, and at our best we are artists.”