Honors and Memberships
| 2003 | Member of NSF Proposal Review Panel: January 19, 2003 at the National Science Foundation. Panel: Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Teams (NIRT); Program: Design and Manufacturing |
| 1999 | Member of NSF Proposal Review Panel: July 15, 1999 at the National Science Foundation. Program: Mechanics and Materials. |
| 1999 | Maro Publications Future Technology Award for a paper presented at the Society of Plastics Engineers Annual Technical Conference, May 1999, New York City. Title of Paper: “The Effect of Shrinkage Induced Interface Gap on the Thermal Contact Resistance Between the Mold and Plastic in Injection Molding”. |
| 1995 | Best Symposium Paper Award, Polymer Analysis Division, Society of Plastics Engineers Annual Technical Conference May, 1995, Boston, MA. Title of Paper: "Rheo-Kinetic Measurements for the Determination of Stress-Induced Crystallinity in PET." |
| 1996 | Honorable mention, Best Conference Paper, Polymer and Alloys Division of SPE, SPE ANTEC '96, May, 1996, Indianapolis, IN. |