Awards
- 2018 SME Distinguished Faculty Advisor Award
- 2018 ASEE Manufacturing Division David Wells Service Award
- 2016 TTU College of Engineering Teacher Scholar Award
- 2016 SME Distinguished Faculty Advisor Award
- 2015 TTU QEP Award for Excellence in Innovative Instruction
- 2015-2018 TTU Faculty Fellow in Innovation and Techno-Entrepreneurship
- 2015 TTU College of Engineering Teacher Scholar Award
- 2014 SME Award of Merit
- 2014 TTU College of Engineering Teacher Scholar Award
- 2013 TTU College of Engineering Teacher Scholar Award
- 2013 HERE Award by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities
- 2013-2014 Non-Instructional Faculty Assignment Award
- 2013 National Academy of Engineering-FOEE Award
- 2013 SME-DOE IAC Participation Award
- 2013 THEC Howard Love Award
- 2013 TTU Leighton E. Sissom Innovation and Creativity Award
- 2012 TTU Distinguished Professional Service Award
- 2011 International Extreme Redesign Contest – 1st Place Educator
- 2011 TTU Brown Henderson Outstanding Engineering Faculty Award
- 2010 SME Annual Conference: Poster / Members Choice Award
- 2010 Fulbright Senior Scholar
- 2009 Distinguished Research Award of the Allied Academies
- 2008 TBR Lana Doncaster Innovation Award
- 2006 TBR Lana Doncaster Innovation Award
- 2004 TTU Leighton E. Sissom Innovation and Creativity Award
- 2004 SME President’s Award
- PTC Awards 2004-Certificate of Design Excellence
- 2003 IEEE/IEMT Recruitment Award
- 2003 SME Jiri Tlusty Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award
- 2003 PTC Certificate of Excellence
- 2003 Tennessee Tech University Exemplary Course Project Award
- 2002 Provost ‘Utilization of Technology in Instruction’ Award
- 2002 Technology Award by the Institute of Technological Scholarship
- 2001 NAIT Outstanding Professor Award