Distinctions

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

DISTINCTIONS

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

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