Honors & Awards
Distinguished Faculty Governance Award, Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs, 2012
Fellow, Institute of Materials, Minerals, and Mining, 2012
Service Excellence Award, College of Engineering, The University of Michigan, 2011
Achievement Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2010
Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2007
Joint work (with Shu Takayama from Biomedical Engineering) on "Fabrication of Reconfigurable Protein Matrices by Cracking," appeared on the cover of Nature Materials, 2005
David E. Liddle Research Excellence Award, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 2004
Listed as a "highly-cited researcher" in Materials Science category by ISI, 2003
Teaching Incentive Fund Award (ME382), Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, The University of Michigan, 2002
Teaching Incentive Fund Award (ME395), Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, The University of Michigan, 2001
Excellence in Teaching Award, MEAM, College of Engineering, University of Michigan, 1997
CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 1996-2000
R. F. Bunshah Award, Metallurgical Division, American Vacuum Society, 1990