Fellow of ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers)
Fellow of SME (Society of Manufacturing Engineers)
Fellow – of ISNM (International Society for Nanomanufacturing)
James N. and Nancy J. Farley Professor in Manufacturing and Entrepreneurship (1999)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (2004)
Distinguished Honorary Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, India (2004)
2008 Visiting Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia (2008)
Adjunct Chair Professor, Chung Yuan Christian University, Chung-Li, Taiwan (2006)
Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Royal Academy of Engineering at Cardiff University (2009)
Visiting Professor, Institut fuer Werkzeugmaschienen und Fabrikbetrieb (IWF), Technische Universitaet – Berlin (2009)
2008 SME Gold Medal
2009 ASME/MED Outstanding Service Award
2010 NAMRI/SME Kornel Ehmann Outstanding Lifetime Service Award
2012 ASME: Blackall Machine Tool and Gage Award
2012 ASME: Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal
2018 SME Education Award
2018 Hideo Hanafusa Outstanding Investigator Award (American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the Institute of Systems, Control and Information Engineers (ISCIE) in Japan)
2019 ASME Kornel F. Ehmann Manufacturing Medal
2021 SME Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal