- Engineering Foundation Faculty Excellence Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 1987.
- Engineering Foundation Award for Outstanding Engineering Teaching by an Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, 1988.
- Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, 1993.
- Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Teaching Award, Spring 2001.
- Stanley P. Finch Centennial Professor in Engineering, 2002–2019.
- The Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company Award for Excellence in Engineering Teaching, 2003.
- Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2004.
- Academy of Distinguished Teachers, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005.
- Fellow, European Conference for Aero-Space Sciences (EUCASS), 2009.
- Professor of the Month (October 2011), Professor of the Year (2012), UT Senate of College Councils.
- Rector’s Fellowship, University of New South Wales, Canberra, Australia, 2013.
- Senior Member, Optical Society of America, 2014.
- Moncrief Grand Challenge Award, Institute for Computational Engineering and Science, UT Austin, 2015.
- University of Texas Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, 2016.
- Zarrow Centennial Professorship in Engineering, 2019-2021.
- Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering, 2021