Honors & Awards

2007

Elected Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology.

2006

Elected Director, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, FPB Division.

2003

Division Lecturer, Food, Pharmaceuticals & Bioengineering Division, AIChE, San Francisco,CA.

Lindsay Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

Miller Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, IA.

Outstanding Faculty Research Award, A. James Clark School of Engineering, UMCP.

2002

Bronze Medallion, 23rd Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL.

Best Paper, Biotechnology Section, 23rd Army Science Conference, Orlando, FL.

2001

Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Opponent (fakultets), Dr. A. Rozkov, Dept. of Biotechnology, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Elected Fellow, American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

1999

Opponent (fakultets), Dr. Mats Akesson, Dept. of Automatic Control, Lund Institute of Technology, Lund, Sweden.

1998

Allan C. Davis Medal, State of Maryland's Outstanding Young Engineer, Maryland Science Center.

Outstanding Teacher Award, Celebrating Teachers Program, University of Maryland.

1997

Visiting Professor, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Dept. of Bioprocess Engineering, Johor Bahru, Malaysia.

Outstanding Faculty Award, University of Maryland College Park, College Park Association of Parents (CPAP).

Finalist, Outstanding Advisor Award, University of Maryland College Park, given by CPAP.

1996

Schering-Plough Young Investigator Award, Society of Industrial Microbiology.

Outstanding Achievement in Engineering Sciences Award, Washington Academy of Sciences.

Honorary Fellow, Washington Academy of Sciences.

1995

Dow Outstanding New Faculty Award, American Society for Engineering Education, ASEE.

1990

Research Initiation Award, National Science Foundation.

1989

Research and Creative Work Award, University of Colorado.

1983

Robert York Fellowship Award, Cornell University.