- 2024 Elected to the National Academy of Engineering for “laser-based measurements to understand and control high-speed reactive and nonreactive flows”
- 2022 Awarded the AIAA Aerodynamic Measurement Technology Award “for the development and application of innovative laser-based imaging techniques to bring new insight into the physics of complex turbulent flows”
- 2019 Elected Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- 2019 Appointed to the Clare Cockrell Williams Centennial Chair in Engineering
- 2018 AIAA High Speed Air Breathing Propulsion Best Paper Award from 2018 AIAA SciTech for the paper titled “Supersonic Isolator Shock-Train Dynamics: Simple Physics Model for Closed Loop Control of Shock Train Location,” (AIAA paper 2018-1618) by Leon Vanstone, Joe Lingren and Noel Clemens.
- 2013 Technical Chair of the 7th AIAA Flow Control Conference
- 2013 AIAA Measurement Technology Best Paper Award for: “NO PLIF Visualization of the Orion capsule in LENS-I,” by C. Combs, N. Clemens, P. Danehy, B. Bathel, R. Parker, T. Wadhams, M. Holden, B. Kirk (AIAA paper 2013-0033)
- 2013 Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics
- 2011 Lockheed Martin Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching
- 2011 AIAA Aerodynamic Measurement Technology Best Paper Award for: “Requirements, Capabilities and Accuracy of Time-Resolved PIV in Turbulent Reacting Flows,” by Mirko Gamba and N. Clemens (AIAA paper 2011-0362)
- 2011-present Member AIAA Fluid Dynamics Technical Committee
- 2010 Awarded the Bob R. Dorsey Professorship in Engineering (endowed position)
- 2009-2012 Editor-in-Chief, Experiments in Fluids
- 2007-2009 Associate Editor, AIAA Journal
- 2007 Awarded the Engineering Foundation Professorship (endowed position)
- 2006 Turbulent Combustion Colloquium Co-chair for the 31st International Symposium on Combustion, Heidelberg, Germany
- 2003 Associate Fellow of the AIAA
- 2000-2010 Member AIAA Advanced Measurement Technology Committee
- 2000 Awarded the Robert and Francis Stark Centennial Fellowship in Engineering
- 2000 ASE/EM Departmental Teaching Award
- 1998 College of Engineering Award for Outstanding Teaching by an Assistant Professor
- 1997 College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Award
- 1996 Outstanding Entry, APS Gallery of Fluid Motion – “Hydrogen/Helium Planar Turbulent Diffusion Flames” (with J.E. Rehm). See related images within the Flowfield Imaging Lab Homepage
- 1996 Recognized by the College of Engineering for excellence in teaching by an assistant professor
- 1995 NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow Award
- 1992 Outstanding Entry, APS Gallery of Fluid Motion – “Mach Waves Radiating from a Supersonic Jet” (with P.H. Paul). A better reproduction of the image.