Awards & Honors

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