| Awards and Honors |
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2007 Donald Q. Kern Award
Recognizes an individual's expertise in a given field of heat transfer or energy conversion. From the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) Abstract of Lecture |
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2007 Classical Paper Award
Recognizing past exceptional papers and authors. From the Heat Transfer Division, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) For the paper "On Transition Mechanisms in Vertical Natural Convection Flow," J. Fluid Mech, 66, 309-337, 1974 (with B. Gebhart) |
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2006 Hawkins Memorial Lecture in Heat Transfer
The lecture series provides an opportunity for a leader in heat transfer research to present topics of broad interest to the University community. Awarded by the School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University |
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2003 Robert Henry Thurston Lecture Award
as an outstanding leader in pure or applied science or engineering to present a lecture that encourages stimulating thinking on a subject of broad technical interest to engineers From the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) View Thurston lecture |
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2002 Max Jakob Memorial Award
for outstanding achievements in the field of Heat Transfer From the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) View Max-Jakob Lecture View ASME News Release |
| Named Board of Governors Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Rutgers University in 2001 for "pioneering and lasting contributions in a wide variety of fundamental and applied areas in fluid mechanics and heat transfer" |
| 2000 Freeman Scholar Award for the application entitled "Fluid Flow Phenomena in Materials Processing" From the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) View Freeman Lecture View ASME News Release |
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ASME Worcester Reed Warner Medal
for outstanding contribution to the permanent literature of engineering: 1999 From the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) View ASME News Release |
| ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award for Science for significant research contributions to the science of heat transfer: 1995 From the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) |
| Distinguished Alumni Award awarded by the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi: 1994 |
| Fellow, Amerian Society of Mechanical Engineers: 1991 |
| Certificate of Recognition awarded by National Bureau of Standards, USA, for research on fire induced flows in a room: December 1982 | The Young Scientist Medal and Award for Research in the area of Natural Convection presented by the Indian National Science Academy: 1979 |
| McMullen and Cornell Graduate Fellowships awarded by Cornell University: 1972-74 |
| Institute Silver Medal and Certificate of Merit for standing first in Mechanical Engineering awarded by Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi: 1970 |
| National Science Talent Scholarship and Certificate of Merit awarded by National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), New Delhi: 1965 |
| National Scholarship, New Delhi: 1965 |