Best Paper Award for paper titled 'Teaching Cross-Disciplinary Teaming Through Design: Challenges and Lessons', Seventh Annual International Conference on Work Teams, Dallas, September 18-20, 1996
Government of India Scholarship, 1977-79
1999 ASME Curriculum Innovation Award for work titled, 'The Classroom of the Future: An Internet-Delivered National Course on Thermal Management of Electronics,' presented at the 1999 ASME IMECE, Nashville, November 1999 (Auburn University's first live in
Curriculum Innovation Award, Honorable Mention , for paper titled 'Cross-Disciplinary Teaming: A Bridge Between College and the Work Place', Innovations in Mechanical Enginering Curricula for the 1990s, 1996 ASME IMECE, Atlanta, November 17-22, 1996
Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Components and Packaging Technologies, 2000-present
General Chairman, Sixth Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena on Electronic Systems (ITherm-98), May 1998, Seattle, sponsored by ASME, IEEE, and NIST; also Program Chairman, ITherm-96, Orlando; Program Vice-Chairman, ITherm-94,
Executive Committee Member and Awards Committee Chairman, ITherm Conference, 1998-present
Appointed Awards Chairman, ASME INTERpack Conference, Maui, Hawaii, July 6-10, 2003
General Chairman, Workshop on Added Value Reclamation of Solid Waste, July 22-23, 1997, Auburn, AL, sponsored by the National Science Foundation
Member, ASME-Heat Transfer Division K-16 Committee on Heat Transfer in Electronics Cooling
Outstanding Faculty Member, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1998-99
Student Government Assoc. College of Engineering Faculty Member of the Year, 1995
Fred H. Pumphrey Teaching Award, 1995
Outstanding Faculty Member, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1994-95
Birdsong Merit Teaching Award, College of Engineering, 1992
Favorite Educator Award, Mortar Board, University-wide Selection, 1991
Best Research Paper Award (Runner-up), for paper titled 'Two_Phase Flow Characterization of an Expandable Polystyrene Injector for use in the Lost Foam Casting Process,' ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, New Orleans, Novem
Best Research Paper Award, for paper titled 'Re-entrant Cavity Heat Sinks Formed by Anisotropic Etching and Silicon Direct Wafer Bonding', Eighth Annual IEEE Semiconductor Thermal Measurement and Management Symposium, Austin, February 3-5, 1992
Best Research Paper Award, for paper titled 'Thermal Performance Comparison and Metallurgy of Direct Copper Bonded AlN, Al2O3 and BeO Assemblies', International Symposium on Microelectronics, San Francisco, October 19-21, 1992
National Science Foundation Research Initiation Award, 1991
Indumati Lalbhai Patel Gold Medal (awarded to the best graduating student), Bachelor of Engineering, Bangalore University, 1977
Seven scholarship honoraria (University top-ten ranks) for academic achievements, Bangalore University, Bachelor of Engineering 1972-77
Alumni Professorship, Auburn University, 2003-2008
Fellow, American Societyof Mechanical Engineers, 2003
William F. Walker Superior Teaching Award, Auburn University College of Engineering, 2001
