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

Year Award / Recognition Level
1975 Burmah-Shell Best Paper Prize by The Aeronautical Society of India National
1979 Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust (UK) Scholarship by the Government of India National / International
1993 European Commission (EC) Senior Faculty Exchange Fellowship by the Government of India National / International
1995 PARAM Second Prize award in scientific & engineering applications by C-DAC for Parallel Finite Element Based Composite Analysis Package on PARAM National
1999 Elected a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) National
2004 Elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc) National
2007 HH Mathur Award for excellence in applied sciences by IIT Bombay for work in mechanics of composites National
2007 Elected a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (INSA) National
2009 Khosla National Award for Lifetime Achievement in Engineering by IIT Roorkee National
2010 IIT Bombay research paper award National
2011 Elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) National
2012 Lifetime Achievement Award by IIT Bombay National
2013 Honoured as legend by ICCS17 in Porto, Portugal for pioneering work in mechanics of composites International
2013 APACM Senior Scientist Award at APCOM2013, Singapore International
2015 ICCES Lifetime Achievement Medal in Reno, USA for contributions to composites and education International
2017 Conferred title of Professor Emeritus by IIT Bombay National
2018 Lifetime Achievement Award by BITS Pilani National
2019 INSA Professor Brahm Prakash Memorial Medal (lecture delivered in 2021 at IIT Delhi) National
2020 Prof Tarun Kant Endowed Chair Professorship established in Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay National
2020 Ranked in top 0.3659% globally in “materials” field by Stanford University (Nov 2020) International
2021 VASVIK Award for Mechanical & Structural Science & Technology (2020) National
2022 Lifetime Achievement Award at 12thSEC2022, MNIT Jaipur National
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