Prestigious External Awards

National and International Academy Members

National Academy of Engineering (NAE)

  • Brian McClendon, adjunct professor of the practice - electrical engineering & computer science, 2015

National Academy of Inventors (NAI)

  • Bala Subramaniam chemical & petroleum engineering, 2015
  • Raghunath Chaudhari, chemical & petroleum engineering, 2016
  • Mark Shiflett, chemical & petroleum engineering, 2018
  • Brian McClendon, adjunct professor of the practice - electrical engineering & computer science, 2023
  • Ronald Barrett-Gonzalez, aerospace engineering, 2024
  • Steven A. Soper, mechanical engineering and chemistry, 2025
  • Lisa Friis, senior member, mechanical engineering, 2026

Turkish National Academy of Sciences

  • Candan Tamerler Behar, mechanical engineering

European Academy of Sciences

  • Victor Frost, electrical engineering & computer science
  • Karan Surana, mechanical engineering


Prestigious National Honors

American Association For The Advancement Of Science (AAAS) Fellow

  • Bala Subramaniam, chemical & petroleum engineering, 2003
  • Paulette Spencer, mechanical engineering, 2007
  • Steven Soper, mechanical engineering and chemistry, 2009
  • David Darwin, civil, environmental & architectural engineering, 2016
  • Candan Tamerler Behar, mechanical engineering, 2018
  • Michael Branicky, electrical engineering & computer science, 2024 

American Chemical Society

  • Mark Shiflett, chemical & petroleum engineering, Industrial Chemical & Engineering Division

American Concrete Institute (ACI)

  • David Darwin, civil, environmental & architectural engineering
  • Andres Lepage, civil, environmental & architectural engineering
  • Rémy Lequesne, civil, environmental & architectural engineering

Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP)

  • Stephen Randtke, civil, environmental & architectural engineering

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

  • ZJ Wang, aerospace engineering
  • Saeed Farokhi, aerospace engineering

American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)

  • Mark Shiflett, chemical & petroleum engineering
  • Trung Van Nguyen, chemical & petroleum engineering
  • Bala Subramaniam, chemical & petroleum engineering

American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)

  • Lisa Friis, mechanical engineering
  • Steven Soper, mechanical engineering and chemistry
  • Paulette Spencer, mechanical engineering
  • Candan Tamerler Behar, mechanical engineering

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)

  • Dave Darwin, civil, environmental & architectural engineering
  • Jie Han, civil, environmental & architectural engineering
  • Dennis Lane, civil, environmental & architectural engineering
  • Jian Li civil, environmental & architectural engineering
  • Bob Parsons, civil, environmental & architectural engineering

American Society Of Civil Engineers Moisseiff Award

  • David Darwin, civil, environmental & architectural engineering, 1991

American Society Of Civil Engineers Walter L Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize

  • David Darwin, civil, environmental & architectural engineering, 1985
  • Jian Li, civil, environmental & architectural engineering, 2025

American Society Of Civil Engineers Martin S Kapp Foundation Engineering Award

  • Jie Han, civil, environmental & architectural engineering, 2017

Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation Humboldt Research Fellowship

  • Ana Rita Colaco Morais, chemical & petroleum engineering, 2018

American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)

  • Theodore Bergman, mechanical engineering
  • Chris Depcik, mechanical engineering
  • Ronald Dougherty, mechanical engineering
  • Saeed Farokhi, aerospace engineering
  • Ken Fischer, mechanical engineering
  • Karan Surana, mechanical engineering
  • Ray Taghavi, aerospace engineering
  • ZJ Wang, aerospace engineering
  • Sara Wilson, mechanical engineering

Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists 

  • Elaina Sutley, physical sciences and engineering category

Electrochemical Society (ECS)

  • Trung Van Nguyen, chemical & petroleum engineering

International Meshing Roundtable

  • Suzanne Shontz, electrical engineering & computer science

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

  • Shannon Blunt, electrical engineering & computer science
  • Michael Branicky, electrical engineering & computer science
  • Joseph Evans, electrical engineering & computer science
  • Victor Frost, electrical engineering & computer science
  • James Rowland, electrical engineering & computer science

National Science Foundation CAREER Award

  • Rick Hale, aerospace engineering, 2000 
  • Craig Mclaughlin, aerospace engineering, 2006
  • Prasad Anil Kulkarni, electrical engineering & computer science, 2010
  • Suzanne Shontz, 2011
  • Emily Arnold, aerospace engineering, 2019
  • Juan Bravo Suárez, chemical & petroleum engineering, 2019
  • Elaina Sutley, civil, environmental & architectural engineering, 2019
  • Esam Eldin Mohamed Aly, electrical engineering & computer science, 2020
  • Gibum Kwon, mechanical engineering, 2020
  • Alex Bardas, electrical engineering & computer science, 2022
  • Justin Hutchison, civil, environmental & architectural engineering, 2023
  • Amy Hansen, civil, environmental & architectural engineering, 2024
  • Hongyang Sun, electrical engineering & computer science, 2025

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

  • Steven Soper, mechanical engineering and chemistry

Presidential Early Career Awards For Scientists And Engineers (PECASE)

  • Suzanne Shontz, electrical engineering & computer science, 2011
  • Gibum Kwon, mechanical engineering, 2025

Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS)

  • Steven Soper, mechanical engineering and chemistry

Structural Engineering Institute (SEI)

  • David Darwin, civil, environmental & architectural engineering