Awards

Banaras University Gold Medals for Outstanding Performance (1961)
Award for best work in light metals from American Foundrymen’s Society (1969)
National Metallurgists’ Day Award from the Ministry, India (1976)
Indranil Award from Mining and Metallurgical Society of India (1978)
Gold Medal Award for Technology for the Future from Indian Research Centre (1981)
Elected to Fellowship Institution of Engineers, India (1981)
Binani Gold Medal from Indian Institute of Metals for best paper (1982)
Distinguished Alumnus Award from College of Mining and Metallurgy Banaras Hindu University (1983)
Elected to Fellowship of Indian Institute of Ceramics (1983)
Elected to the Fellowship of American Society for Metals (1984)
Distinguished Engineer Award from Association of Engineers from India (1984)
Elected to Fellowship of Institute of Metals, London (1985)
Received National Research and Development Corporation Award (1986)
World Intellectual Property Organization Award (1986)
VHP Award for Excellence (1987)
Outstanding Research Award from College of Engineering and Applied Science, UWM (1988)
Awarded the Samuel C. Weaver Professorship in Materials Engineering (1988)
Elected to the Fellowship of American Association of Arts and Sciences (1989)
Elected to the Corresponding Fellowship of Third World Academy of Sciences (1990)
Appointed to the Joint Commission of Metallurgical Transactions (1990)
Awarded the Ford/Briggs and Stratton Professorship (1991)
Received the UWM Foundation Outstanding Research Award (1991)
Received CEAS–UWM Outstanding Service Award (1992)
Elected to the Fellowship of Third World Academy of Sciences (1993)
Appointed Foundry Education Foundation Key Professor at UWM (1994)
Selected as ASM-IIM Lecturer (1994)
UWM Foundation Distinguished Service Award for Distinguished Public Service (1995)
Wisconsin Distinguished Professorship (1996)
Listed in 11000 Year Timeline of Metal Casting by the American Foundry Society (1996)
M. Schiel Award for Excellence in Metallography, First Prize, ASM, Milwaukee Chapter (2000, 2001, 2007)
Hall Heroult Scientific Merit Award by American Foundrymen’s Society (2000)
Silver Anniversary Lecture for Aluminum Division, American Foundrymen’s Society (2001)
Visiting Lecture Series for Milwaukee School of Engineering (2001)
M. Schiel Award for Excellence in Metallography, Third Prize, ASM, Milwaukee Chapter (2002, 2003, 2004,2008)
Microscopic Society of America Award for Physical Sciences to co-authored paper (2002).
Silver Jubilee Lecture, National Institute of Interdisciplinary Research (CSIR), Trivandrum, Kerala (2003).
NRI Institute Award of Excellence (2004)
Rohatgi Honorary Symposium on Metal Matrix Composites organized by TMS (held March 2006), with proceedings
Honorary Medal from Motor Transport Institute, Warsaw, Poland (2006)
Bharat Gaurav Award (2007)
Elected to Fellowship of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (2007)
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Distinguished Professor (2007)
College of Engineering and Applied Science, UWM: Award for Highest External Research Grant Dollars and Millionaire Research Grant Club membership (2008)
Among Ten Highest Funded Researchers Award, CEAS (2009)
ASME Innovative Research Award in Tribology (2010)
Elected to Fellowship of Society of Automotive Engineers (2010)
American Foundry Society and Foundry Education Foundation, Distinguished Professor Award (2010)
Received the Engineers and Scientists of Milwaukee Engineer of the Year Award (2011)
Elected to Fellowship of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) (2011)
Elected to Fellowship of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) (2011)
Elected to Fellowship of Materials Research Society (MRS) (2013)
Distinguished Alumnus Award for Excellence in Research from IITBHU (2013)
PANIIT award for Academic Achievement (Dec 2013)
Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, arts and letters Fellow (Jan 2014)
Chalmers Award for Materials Processing from TMS (Feb 2014)
Wisconsin Governors Business Plan Competition First Prize Advanced Manufacturing (2015)
Elected to Fellowship, National Academy of Inventors, (April 2015)
Global Vision Award from Vision World (Jan 2015)
Elected to Fellowship, Indian Institute of Metals (2016)
Samsanov Memorial Lecture IIT Kanpur, India (2017)
AFS Award of Scientific Merit, (April 2017)