AWARDS
- 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
- 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
- Technical Conference co-Chair, International Conference and Expo on Materials Science and Engineering, Chicago USA, October 22-24, 2012
- 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).
- Instruction Matters: Purdue Academic Course Transformation (IMPACT) Program Fellow 2012-13: Given for course redesign and improvement in AAE-352
- Editor-in-Chief: International Journal of Experimental and Computational Biomechanics (2013-18), Journal of Materials Nanoscience (since 2014)
- Associate Editor: ASME Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology (2015-2021);
- Key Reader: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A (since 2014);
- Associate Editor: Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology (2011-2016);
- Cover Article, 2015 Journal of Materials, Issue on Interfaces and Thin Films
- 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