Major Awards

Civil and Environmental Engineering

• The G. Brooks Earnest Lecture Award, Cleveland Section, American Society of Civil Engineers
• Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers

• American Concrete Institute, Clyde E. Kessler Education Award (2022)

• American Ceramic Society, Brunauer Award (2020)

• Most Influential People in the Concrete Industry, Concrete Construction Magazine (2019)

• Oklahoma Foundation for Excellence Research Professor of the Year (2018)

• American Ceramic Society Global Ambassador (2017)

• American Concrete Paving Association, Marlin J. Knutsen Innovation Award (2017)

• American Concrete Institute, Walter P. Moore Jr. Faculty Achievement Award (2013)

• Member, Czech National Academy of Engineering

• Distinguished Member, American Society of Civil Engineers

Industrial and Engineering Management

• David Baker Distinguished Research Award, IISE

• Fred Crane Distinguished Service Award, IISE

• Technical Innovation Award, IISE

• Reed-Apple Lifetime Achievement Award, MHI

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Oklahoma Innovator of the Year (with Rand Elliott and Associates)

• Jamey Jacob: AIAA Technical Committee Distinguished Service Award

• Jamey Jacob: SAE Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award

• Jamey Jacob: Kentucky Governor’s Award for Research Excellence

• Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award, Society of Manufacturing Engineers

• Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award

• Distinguished Service Award, American Society for Precision Engineering

• Honorary Doctorate (Dr.h.c.), Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany

• Mercator Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany

• Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal, Society of Manufacturing Engineers

• Member, German National Academy of Science and Engineering

• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Exceptional Service Award

• Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Alternative Energy Technology at Chalmers Technical University, Sweden

• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers E.K. Campbell Award

• American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers Crosby Field Award

• Distinguished Service Award, American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-conditioning Engineers

Materials Science & Engineering

• Albert Sauveur Achievement Award of ASM International

• Whitney Gallery of Technical Achievers for Pioneering MI-CMC Technology GE-CR&D

• Distinguished Service Awards Argonne National Lab, GE-CR&D