STUDENT AWARDS
- Advisor, NASA RASC-AL-2009 (Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage) undergraduate student team in Aerospace engineering (won consolation prize at competition: On the feasibility of a reflecting satellite-based solar power augmentation system for long-term lunar habilitation stability)
- 2009 US National Congress on Computational Mechanics Conference Travel Awards to Students Ming Gan and Devendra Dubey
- 2009 National Science Foundation Workshop on Biomaterials and Biomechanics Fellowship to Students Devendra Dubey and Vikas Samvedi
- 2012-13 Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship to Student Ming Gan
- 2013 ASME-National Science Foundation Poster Competition Second Best Poster Award to Student Ming Gan at ASME-IMECE 2013
- 2013 National Science Foundation Travel Fellowship to Student Ming Gan to Attend ASME-IMECE 2013 (Given to 44 with approximately 5% success rate)
- 2013 National Science Foundation Workshop on Material Genome Developments to Students Ming Gan and Hongsuk Lee
- 2013 National Science Foundation Workshop on Extreme Resolution Bioimaging Technologies to Students Devendra Verma, Yang Zhang and Tao Qu
- 2013 Graduate Student Excellence Award (only one awarded among all masters students at Purdue): Devendra Verma
- 2014 11th WCCM-World Congress on Computational Mechanics Conference Travel award to student Dev Verma to Present his Work in Barcelona Spain (July -2014)
- 2014 Chorafus Foundation Best PhD Dissertation Finalist, Ming Gan
- 2014-15 Purdue College of Engineering Computational Science and Engineering Lynn Fellowship (Chandra Prakash)
- 2015 College of Engineering Outstanding Service Award to Devendra Verma
- 2015 SES meeting conferece travel award to Devendra Verma and Sudipta Biswas
- 2015 Mitchell Scholarship to Milad Alucozai (First ever in Purdue’s History)
- 2016 ASME AMD-Haythornthwaite Foundation grant (Devendra Verma)
- 2016 Texas A&M University Multiscale Modeling Institute Travel Grant (Chandra Prakash)
- 2016 Purdue Nominee for Best Masters Thesis MAGS Award (Dhrubajyoti Dutta)
- 2017 Chandra Prakash AAE Teaching Scholarship
- 2018 William Kellerhals OUR Scholarship from Purdue
- 2018 NASA Pathways Fellowship to Ayotomi Olokun
- 2018 World congress on Computational Mechanics Travel Awards to Bing Li and Chandra Prakash
- 2019 Purdue OUR Scholarship to Hanson Lee-Harjono
- 2020 Deans Teaching Fellowship to Bing Li
- 2020 Naval Research Enterprise Internship Program (NREIP) Fellowship award to Casey Jones
- Woodruff Fellowship for the highest score in mechanical engineering PhD qualifying exams (Spring 2002) at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Nano-Science and Technology (NaST) fellowship (2003-2004) recipient at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
- The US-Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFoSR) Young Investigator Program Award (2009)
- The minerals, metals, and materials society (TMS: http://www. tms.org) Early Career Faculty Fellow-Honorable Mention (2010)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Materials Division “Orr” Family Award for excellence in failure of materials research (2010)
- Elsevier-Materials Science and Engineering-C Young Researcher Award for excellence in research at the interface of biology and materials engineering by a researcher under age 35 (2010)
- Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation(LSAMP)-Indiana outstanding mentor award (2011)
- NSF-Junior Oberwolfach Fellow, Mechanics of Materials Workshop, The Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, Germany-2012: This is an award given to young faculty in computational mechanics who were invited to this workshop to present their work.
- Kauffman Entrepreneurship Learning Academy Award 2013-14: Given after university wide competition based on 2-page essay. Only one in AAE and one out of 4 in CoE in 2013-14
- 2015 AIAA Associate Fellow
- 2016 ASME Fellow
- 2016 University Faculty Scholar at Purdue University
- 2017 CT Sun Research Award by School of Aeronautics and Astronautics
- 2017 Seeds for Success Award at Purdue University
- 2018 Seeds for Success Award at Purdue University
- 2019 VAJRA Award from Govt. of India for Scientific Contributions in Dynamic Behavior of Materials
- 2019-2020 W A Gustafson Award for Teaching voted by Juniors and Seniors in AAE
- 2020 College of Engineering Most Impactful Faculty Inventor Award
- Featured article in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology-June 2009 (A collection of best papers in the area)
- Featured article in Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research-Jan 2010 (A collection of best papers in the area)
- Top 10 most downloaded article at ASME-Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, November 2011-April 2012
- Associate Editor: Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology (2011-16);
- Technical Conference co-Chair, International Conference and Expo on Materials Science and Engineering, Chicago USA, October 22-24, 2012
- Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT) Program Fellow 2012-13: Given for course redesign and improvement in course AAE-352
- Advisory-Editor to Elsevier Publishers for Development of Integrated Computational Materials Engineering Portfolio (2013-2014): Dr. Tomar was involved in helping formulate new Elsevier portfolio in the emerging area of integrated computational materials engineering (ICME).
- Editor-in-Chief: International Journal of Experimental and Computational Biomechanics (2013-18), Journal of Materials-Nanoscience (since 2014)
- Editorial board member, Journal of Multifunctional Nanocomposites (since 2013)
- Key Reader: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (since 2014);
- Associate Editor: ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology (2015-2021);
- Cover Article, 2015 Journal of Materials, Issue on Interfaces and Thin Films
- International Advisory Committee, 2016 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Vanderbilt University, American Society of Civil Engineers
- International Advisory Committee, 2017 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, University of California San Diego, American Society of Civil Engineers
- International Advisory Committee, 2018 Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, American Society of Civil Engineers;
- International Advisory Committee, 2019 International Conference on ERCAM-Bangalore-India; 2019 2nd International Conference on New Frontiers in Engineering, Science & Technology (NFEST 2019)-Kurukshetra-India
- Panel Reviewer for the following organizations:
- o National Science Foundation (NSF-2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017);
- o Hong-Kong University of Science and Technology (2009),
- o Department of Energy (DoE)-Basic Energy Sciences (Basic Energy Science-2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017) (Nuclear Energy-2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
- o Army Research Office (2018)
- o Air Force Office of Scientific Research (2016, 2018, 2019)
- o Swiss National Science Foundation (2010)
- o Croatian Science Foundation (2012)
- o ARIESTA (GreeK) (2013)
- o NASA Post-doctoral fellowship (2013)
- o King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (2017)
- o European Commission (2017)
- Associate Fellow (2015), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)
- o Member: AIAA Materials Technical Committee
- o Member: AIAA-ASME Structures and Materials Technical Committee
- Fellow (2016), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
- o Associate Editor: ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, 2015-21
- o Chair: ASME-USACM Computational Mechanics Committee (Applied Mechanics Division) 2013-15
- o Member: Multifunctional Materials Tech Committee (Materials Division), Composite Materials Tech Committee (Materials Division), Fracture and Failure Tech Committee (Applied Mechanics Division), Nanoengineering Council
- Member, The Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS)
- o Elected Member, Society Level Executive Functional Committee on Publications (2020-2023)
- o Member: Material Processing and Manufacturing Division; Functional Materials Division
- o Key Reader (associate editor), Metallurgical and Materials Transactions-A, 2014-now
- Guest Editor, Journal of the Minerals Metals and Materials Society (April 2011-Issue on Combining Multiscale Experiments with Multiscale Models, January 2017-Issue on Interface Strength Measurements, February 2017-Issue on Interface Characterization, April 2018 Issue on Interface characterization, September 2018 issue on Flexible Electronic Devices)
- Member, American Society for Metals (ASM), American Association for Advancement in Sciences (AAAS), Society for Experimental Mechanics (SEM)
- 2020 Top-25 Most Downloaded Paper (Li-ion Battery Failure Prevention Detection Control) at Nature-Scientific Reports Journal