Advanced Manufacturing Processes Laboratory

2023 Inaugural DeVor-Kapoor Manufacturing Medal, ASME – for a body of impactful achievements in the field of manufacturing

2023 Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award 2023 from the ASME Applied Mechanics Division

2022 Researcher to Know, selected by Illinois Science & Technology Coalition

SME NAMRC Outstanding Paper 2022, “Data-driven prediction of next-layer melt pool temperatures in laser powder bed fusion based on co-axial high-resolution Planck thermometry measurements”

Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2022

ISFA Best Application Paper Award at the ISFA 2020, “Kinematic Calibration and Data-Based Error Compensation of a Parallel Robot-Based Incremental Sheet Forming Machine”

ASME Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal, to recognize significant fundamental contributions to the science and technology of manufacturing processes, 2020

SME Gold Medal, to recognize outstanding service to the manufacturing engineering profession in technical communications through published literature, technical writings or lectures, 2020

Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellow, Department of Defense, 2019

Distinguished Achievement Team Award, DOE EERE Vehicle Technologies Office, 2019 – to recognize outstanding industry-university-government partnerships, with Ford, Dow Chemical and NIST.

Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2019

Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) 2018 – for best journal paper published by ASME in manufacturing processes and systems in the last two years, “Pressure and Draw-in Maps for Stamping Process Monitoring”, ASME J. Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 138(9), 2016.

Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, ASME and Pi Tau Sigma, 2017 - to recognize outstanding achievement by an individual who graduated in mechanical engineering more than 20 years ago.

Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal, 2016 - to honor significant published research leading to a better understanding of materials, facilities, principles, operations and their application to improve manufacturing processes.

Fellow, The International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP), 2014

Best Paper Award, Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers, 2014 - among all the papers published in 2013 by STLE’s associated journals in the field of surface engineering, “Surface Texturing of Drill Bits for Adhesion Reduction and Tool Life Enhancement”, Tribology Letter, Vol. 52, pp.113-122.

Best Application Paper Award, International Symposium on Flexible Automation (ISFA) co-sponsored by ASME and ISCIE, 2014 – “Design and evaluation of an embedded pressure sensor for microrolling process monitoring”, Awaji-Island, Hyogo, Japan.

Distinguished Service Award, ASME Manufacturing Engineering Division, 2013

Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award, ASME, 2012 – for best journal paper published by ASME in manufacturing processes and systems in the last two years, “An Investigation on Deformation-based Micro Surface Texturing”, ASME Journal of Manufacturing Science and Engineering, Vol. 133(6), 2011.

Dedicated Service Award, ASME, 2011 - for unusual dedicated voluntary service to the Society marked by outstanding performance, demonstrated effective leadership, prolonged and committed service, devotion, enthusiasm and faithfulness.

Fellow, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2010

Best Poster Award, ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference, 2008, “Deformation Machining: A New Hybrid Process”, Woody, B., Smith, K.S., Cao, J., Ziegert, J., Belytschko, T., Foecke, T. and Li, M

Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2007

Thomas J. R. Hughes Young Investigator Award, ASME/Applied Mechanics, 2006 – for special achievement of young investigators in Applied Mechanics, the candidate must not have reached her/his 41st birthday by December 31st of the year of the awards presentation.

Kalpajian Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, 2002 – to recognized manufacturing engineers, age 35 or younger, who have made exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry.

Outstanding Young Investigator Award, Japan-US Flexible Automation, 2002 - for the outstanding young contributors of automation who are 35 years old or younger at the time of awarding.

Young Chinese Leader, Dragon Foundation, Hong Kong, 2002

Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award, International Society of Automotive Engineers, 1999

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation 1997-2001

ALCOA Foundation award 1997

General Electric Chair Professor, endowed chair, Northwestern University, 1996-199