The University of Texas at Austin
College of Engineering

Faculty Awards & Honors

Akella, Maruthi Elected Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2007
Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship Program, 2005
Babuska, Ivo Most Cited Author 2005-2008 Award, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2009
Selected Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2009
Received Honorary Title from Czech Technical University, 2007
Awarded Honorary Medal "De Scientia Et Humanitate Optime Meritis" by the Academy Council of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 2005
Elected Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2005
Bennighof, Jeffrey Billy & Claude R. Hocott Award, 2006-2007
Bishop, Robert

Elected Fellow, American Astronautical Society, 2009

Selected to serve as Associate Director of the Texas Space Grant Consortium, 2009
Elected to serve as a Director for the American Astronautical Society, 2009
First Year Signature Course Program Instructor, 2008-2009
Elected Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2007
Endowed Professorship, 2005

Buckley, Sean Cockrell School of Engineering Outstanding Assistant Professor, 2008
Recipient of the 2006-07 Departmental Teaching Award, Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, 2007
Chaput, Armand J. Selected to serve as NASA Peer Reviewer, 2009
Clemens, Noel Selected to serve as Editor-in-Chief of Experiments in Fluids, 2008
Lockheed Martin Excellence in Engineering Teaching, 2008
Dawson, Clint Honored for support and guidance to students with disabilities by Services for Students with Disabilities, 2005
Demkowicz, Leszek Recipient of the 2009 Computational and Applied Sciences Award by the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), 2009
Awarded the Olgierd Cecil Zienkiewicz Medal by the Polish Assocation for Computational Mechanics (PACM), 2009
Awarded Endowment for Distinguished Visitors from the University of California, Berkeley, 2006
Fowler, Wallace University Honors Colloquium, 2008-2009
First Year Signature Course Program Instructor, 2008-2009
Faculty Undergraduate Studies, 2008-2009
Selected as recipient of Women in Engineering's Advocate Award, 2007
Elected Life Member, American Society for Engineering Education, 2005
Huang, Rui Awarded grant by the NSF Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program, 2006
Hughes, Thomas

ASME Special Achievement Award for Young Investigators in Applied Mechanics Renamed in His Honor, 2008
Most Cited Author 2005-2008 Award, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2009
Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists, 2009
2009 Theodore von Karman Medal, Engineering Mechanics Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 2009
Selected Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2009
Elected to the National Academy of Sciences, 2009

Honorary Doctorate from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 2009
Received the Grand Prize, Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science, 2008
Elected Foreign Member of the Italian Academy Instituto Lombardo, Accademia di Scienze e Lettere in Mathematics, 2007
Delivered the Newmark Distinguished Lecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2007
Chosen to be awarded the Laurea Honoris Causa in Civil Engineering by Pavia University in Italy, 2007
Chosen to receive honorary doctorate in Civil Engineering from the University of Padua, Italy, 2007
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2007
Timoshenko Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2007
Served on the National Science Foundatin Blue Ribbon Panel on Simulation-Based Engineering Science, 2006
Elected Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005
Elected Fellow, American Society of Civil Engineers, 2005

Hull, David Elected Fellow, American Astronautical Society, 2005
Kyriakides, Stelios Receive Honorary Doctorate (Honoris Causa Doctorate) from INSA Lyon (Institut National des Sciences Appliqueés de Lyon, France, 2009
Selected to receive the Warner T. Koiter Medal, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2009
Joe. E. King Professional Engineering Achievement Award, 2007
Elected into the National Academy of Engineering, 2007

Selected as Editor of International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2005

Elected President of the American Academy of Mechanics, 2006
Lockheed Martin Excellence in Engineering Teaching, 2006
Career Research Excellence Award of the University Cooperative Society, 2006
Endowed Chair, 2005

Landis, Chad Selected to receive the ASME Thomas J.R. Hughes Young Investigator Award, 2008
Liechti, Kenneth

Selected Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2009

Elected to Board of Editors, International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2006
Elected Secretary of the Fellows of the American Academy of Mechanics, 2006

Lightsey, Glenn Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship Award, 2006
Chancellor's Council Outstanding Teaching Award, 2005-2006
Selected as Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, 2005
Selected Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2005
Chosen to receive the Tycho Brahe Award from the Institute of Navigation, 2005
Marchand, Belinda Selected for a Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, 2008
Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, 2007
Mark, Hans Honored by the International Space Foundation with the 2008 General James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award, 2008
Honored with the U.S. Navy's Distinguished Public Service Award, 2007
Honored for Contributions to the U.S. Military Space Program by the American Astronautical Society, 2006
Mear, Mark Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2009
Selected to receive the 2006 Texas Exes Teaching Award, 2005
Oden, J. Tinsley Selected Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2009
Special Edition of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering dedicated in honor of his 70th birthday, 2009
Earned the 2009 Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Prize for Distinguished Service to the Profession, 2009
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, 2009
Civitatis Award, 2007
Awarded the O. C. Zienkiewicz Medal, Polish Association for Computational Mechanics (PACM), 2007
Served as Chairman on the National Science Foundatin Blue Ribbon Panel on Simulation-Based Engineering Science, 2006
Awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa degree, Ecole Normale Superieure Cachan (ENSC), France, 2005
Awarded $1.2M Multiscale Modeling Grant, DoE, 2005
ICES and M.D. Anderson to Team on NSF Project for Treatment of Prostate Cancer, 2005
Elected Honorary Member, ASME International, 2005
Raman, Venkat National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2008
Ravi-Chandar Elected President of the International Congress on Fracture, a member society of IUTAM, 2005
Recipient of the Murray Medal Award, Society of Experimental Mechanics, 2003
Rodin, Gregory Co-author of paper chosen for the 2008 Highlights of the journal Physical Biology, 2009
Schutz, Bob E. Named recipient of the 2008 Dirk Brouwer Award by the American Astronautical Society, 2008
Selected to serve on the NASA Earth Science Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council, November 2008
Billy & Claude R. Hocott Award, 2003-2004
Varghese, Philip Named Chairman-elect, 2009
Freshman Reading Round-up, Book Discussion Leader, 2008-2009
Selected as Member of UT-Austin's Academy of Distinguished Teachers, 2005
Wheeler, Mary Selected the winner of the 2009 SIAM Theodore von Karman Prize and the SIAM SIAG/GS Career Prize, 2009
Winner of the W. A. "Tex" Moncrief, Jr. Simulation-Based Engineering & Sciences (SBES) Grand Challenge Faculty Award, 2009
Honorary Doctor of Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, 2008
Awarded the Joe J. King Professional Achievement Award, 2006
Appointed Member, Board of Governors, Argonne National Laboratory, 2006
Selected to Receive Honorary Doctorate from Universiteit Eindhoven, 2005