Honours and Awards

Significant Honours

1 First engineering academic in the country to receive of the prestigious 1979 Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust (U.K) Scholarship Award by the Government of India.
Visiting Faculty at the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea SA2 8PP, United Kingdom under the auspices of the above from October 1979 to October 1982.

2 Recipient of the 1992-'93 European Community (EC) Post-Doctoral (Senior) Fellowship Award by the Government of India.
Visiting Professor at Cambridge University Engineering Department, March-August 1993 under the auspices of the above exchange programme.

3 Elected a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) in 1998.

4 Elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) in 2003.


Other Honours

1 Elected President of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM) for the year 1999.
2 Re-elected President of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ISTAM) for the year 2000.
3 Nominated Founder Life Member of International Society for Computational Engineering and Science (ISCES)
4 Founded the Indian Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) on 1 January 2000.
5 Elected Founder President of the Indian Association for Structural Engineering (IASE) on 8 January 2000.
6 Nominated a member of the National Committee for International Union of Theoretical & Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) by the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) for a period of 3 years with effect from 1 July 2000.
7 Cited in the newest edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World which was published in December 1996. Includes the biographies of most influencial and important people in the international community.
8 Nominated for citation in the 2000 Outstanding People of the 20th Century to be published by the International Biographical Centre in Cambridge, England in late 1998.
9 Nominated a Fellow of The World Innovation Foundation (U.K) in October 2001.


Awards

1 Recipient of the Burmah Shell Best Paper Award for a contribution in the Journal of The Aeronautical Society of India (1975).
2 Recipient of PARAM Second Prize Award in the category of Scientific & Engineering Applications on 1 April 1995 by the C-DAC Awards Committee for the work entitled Parallel Finite Element Based Composite Analysis Package on PARAM
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