Honors:

• Colorado School of Mines Alumni Teaching Award, 2007
• Outstanding CSM Graduate Faculty Member Award, Mechanical Engineering, as voted on by the graduates students Spring 2007
• Outstanding CSM Faculty Member Award, Mechanical Engineering, as voted on by the graduating senior class Spring 2005
• Outstanding CSM Faculty Member Award, Mechanical Engineering, as voted on by the graduating senior class Fall 2004
• Outstanding CSM Faculty Member Award, Mechanical Engineering, as voted on by the graduating senior class Spring 2004
• Outstanding CSM Faculty Member Award, Mechanical Engineering, as voted on by the graduating senior class Fall 2003
• R&D 100 Award for  Microstructure-Property Model Software, 2000
• Honorary Professorship, East China Institute of Metallurgy, 2000
• Outstanding CSM Faculty Member Award, Engineering, as voted on by the graduating senior class 1997
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award 1995-1999
• Outstanding Teacher Award in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at ISU out of 49 eligible faculty members 1993
• Outstanding Teacher Award in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at ISU out of 50 eligible faculty members 1992