Ferry received the IEEE Cledo Brunetti Award for advances in nanoelectronics in 1999. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Ferry has authored or co-authored more than 950 research papers, written or co-written 20 textbooks, 34 chapters in science books and edited 8 other books, as well as writing 2 he describes as “quasi-scientific” (including “50 Years in the Semiconductor Underground” and the soon-to-be-published “The Copenhagen Conspiracy”). Collectively those writings have spanned a broad range of the many facets of electrical engineering, electronics and related physics and mathematics.