1964-65 Walter P. Murphy Fellowship, Northwestern University
1966-67 Ford Foundation Fellowship, StanfordUniversity
1970-71 Frederick Gardner Cottrell Fellowship, Research Corporation
1976 Senior Visiting Research Fellowship, British Science Research Council
1986-87 Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Delaware
1988 Special Faculty Award, College of Engineering, University of Delaware
1989-02 Named Professor, University of Delaware
1994 Honorary Professor, BeijingUniversity of Aeronautics&Astronautics, China
1996 Charles Russ Richards Memorial Award, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1997 Honorary Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
1998 Distinguished Research Award, American Society for Composites
1998 Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1999 Fellow, ASM International
2001 Fellow, American Society for Composites
2001 Francis Alison Medal, University of Delaware
2002 Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics
2002 Fellow, American Ceramic Society
2002 Highly Cited Researchers, ISI
2002 Worcester Reed Warner Medal, ASME
2003- Unidel Pierre S. du Pont Chair
2005 Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
2008 Fellow, The Mineral, Metals and Materials Society (TMS)
2009 Medal of Excellence in Composite Materials, University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials
2011 Named among top 100 materials scientists of the decade (2000-2010) by Times Higher Education (ranked 34th)
2011 World Fellow, International Committee on Composite Materials
2013 Honorary Professor, Tongji University, Shanghai, China
2013 Nadai Medal, ASME
2014 ASC/DEStech Award in Composites, American Society for Composites
2015 Honorary Professor, Southwest Jiaotong University, China
2017 Albert Sauveur Achievement Award, ASM International
2018 Honorary Advisor of the Innovation Center for Advanced Nanocomposites, SINANO, Suzhou, China.
2019 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Shinshu University, Japan