Professional Honors, Awards & Societies

• U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award

• Fellow, Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (U.K.).

• Fellow, Society of Plastics Engineers

• Registered Chartered (Professional) Engineer

• Visiting Professor, Department of Materials , Institute for Polymers Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH-Zurich), Zürich, Switzerland

• Chartered Scientist (UK)

• Best Paper Award, 12th Annual Rio Grande Regional Symposium on Advanced Materials, 2000.

• Best Paper-Polyolefins Award, Society of Plastics Engineers-ANTEC’97

• Selected as an Honored Member in Who’s Who of American Inventors, 1998-1999

• Elected to the Board of Directors, Society of Plastics Engineers-EPSDIV

• Iowa State University, College of Engineering Patent Recognition Award for United States Patent # 6,171,4333, 2001