● July 2024. 2024 ASME Henry R. Worthington Medal “for the development of innovative and unique pumping concepts and devices with micro-, millimeter-, and macro-scale flow passage arrangements in consideration of the displacement of fluids subject to diverse physical phenomena.” American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

● July 2024. Employee Service Award, Ten Years of Service. University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

● May 2023. Invited Archival Journal Paper, “Relative Influences of Inertia and Polymeric Viscoelastic Effects on Nusselt Numbers within Rotating Couette Flows” (P. M. Ligrani, V. Hietsch, and M. Su), Fluids, Special Issue: Non-Newtonian Flow: Interfacial and Bulk Phenomena (Editors: D. Andrew S. Rees, Amir H. Hirsa, and P. T. Underhill).

● 2010-2012, 2012-2014, 2014-2016, 2016-2018, 2018-2020, 2020-2022. Distinguished Advisory Professor. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inje University, Gimhae, South Korea.

● 2019-2022. Guest Professor. School of Mechanical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, P. R. China.

● May 2022. Invited Archival Journal Review Paper, “Flow and Heat Transfer in Swirl Tubes – A Review” (F. Seibold, P. M. Ligrani, and B. Weigand), International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer.

● January 2022. Invited Archival Journal Paper, “Characterization of Effective Diffusion Within Viscoelastic Fluids With Elastic Instabilities” (V. Hietsch, P. M. Ligrani, and M. Su), Fluids, Special Issue: Transport in Viscoelastic Fluids (Editors: Robert Handler and Mahmoud Mamou).

● August 2020. 2020 College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Member Award. University Award, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

● August 2020. 2020 Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity Mentor Award. University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

● May 2020. Hermann Oberth Award in recognition of outstanding individual scientific achievement in the field of astronautics and advancement of the aeronautical sciences. AIAA – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Greater Huntsville Section of the AIAA, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

● March 2020. Five Years of Employee Service Award, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

● January 2019 to Present. Invited Member. European Union Academy of Sciences (EUAS). An international scientific organization and among the most prestigious in Europe. The academy is composed of distinguished members worldwide, including the world’s leading scientists, scholars and business people, aiming to promote excellence in science and technology. Membership was the result of an election done through President’s Council consisting of the distinguished members of the Board of Governors.

● June 2019. ASME IGTI Outstanding Service Award. Presented at ASME TURBO EXPO 2019, Phoenix, Arizona, USA. ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

● April 2019. 2019 University Distinguished Research Award for Excellence. 2019 University Distinguished Research and Creative Achievement and Scholar Performance Award. University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

● February 2019. Outstanding Senior Faculty Member Award for 2019. College of Engineering, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

● January 2018. Invited Book Chapter, “Full-Coverage Effusion Cooling in External Forced Convection: Sparse and Dense Hole Arrays,” on “Forced Convection – External Flow” to the Handbook of Thermal Science and Engineering, Springer Publishing Corporation, Editor: Francis A. Kulacki.

● November 2016. Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award, Marquis Who’s Who, New Providence, New Jersey, USA.

● March 2016. Invited Archival Journal Paper, “Jet Array Impingement Cooling Local Nusselt Number Variations: Effects of Hole Array Spacing, Jet-to-Target Plate Distance, and Reynolds Number,” for Heat Transfer Research, Special Issue: Heat Transfer Advances for Energy Conservation and Pollution Control (IWHT2013), (Guest Editors: Bengt Sunden, Qiuwang Wang), Vol. 47, No. 2, pp. 119-140, March 2016.

● February 2016. Outstanding Mechanical Engineer of the Year Award 2016, ASME – American Society of Mechanical Engineers, NAS – North Alabama Section, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

● January 2016 – Present. AIAA, Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

● December 2015. Certificate of Excellence. Propulsion Research Center. With recognition of the sustained and dedicated efforts of faculty and staff for their roles as mentors, educators, and leaders. Office of the Vice President for Research and Economic Development (OVPRED), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, Alabama, USA.

● July 2015. Distinguished Visiting Scholar, School of Energy and Power, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, P. R. China.

● March 2015. Sponsored Representative, CVD – Congressional Visits Day, U. S. Senate and House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. Sponsored by Greater Huntsville Section of the AIAA – American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

● January 2014. Invited Book Chapter, “Recent Developments in Impingement Array Cooling, Including Consideration of the Separate Effects of Mach Number, Reynolds Number, Temperature Ratio, Hole Spacing, and Jet-to-Target Plate Distance,” Impingement Jet Cooling in Gas Turbines (Editors: R. S. Amano, B. Sunden), WIT Press, Southampton, United Kingdom, Chapter 3, pp. 63-102, 2014.

● June 2011. Silver Winner – Annual 26th Educational Advertising Awards, for Brochure – Graduate Program Profile – Saint Louis University – Parks College, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. Higher Ed Marketing, Higher Education Marketing Report.

● April 2011. Distinguished Lecture Award, Over-Tip Shock Wave Structure and Its Impact on Turbine Blade Tip Heat Transfer Including the Effects of Varying Tip Gap, CEAS Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.

● November 2006. Degree of Master of Arts by Resolution, Register of Congregation, University of Oxford, High Street, Oxford OX1 4BG, United Kingdom.

● January 2006 – Present. Member, Distinguished Editorial Review Board, Advances in Transport Phenomena, Book Series, Springer Publishing Corporation.

● March 2003. Invited Archival Journal Review Paper, “Comparison of Heat Transfer Augmentation Techniques,” AIAA Journal, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 337-362.

● September 2002. Recognition for highest ranked course taught in Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Ranking provided by seniors graduating in Spring Semester of 2002.

● May 2001, June 2002, June 2004. Invited Visiting Scholar, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Engineering Thermophysics, Kiev-57, 252057, Ukraine.

● December 2000 – Present. ASME, Fellow, American Society of Mechanical Engineering.

● April 2000-June 2000. Guest Professor, Institut fuer Thermische Stroemungs-maschinen, Universitaet Karlsruhe, Kaiserstrasse 12, 76128 Karlsruhe, Germany.

● June 1999-August 1999. AGTSR Faculty Fellowship at General Electric Corp.-Corporate Research and Development Center. Funded by the SCERDC, South Carolina Energy Research and Development Center. Schenectady, New York, USA.

● June 1995. Professor of the Year Award, presented by the undergraduates of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah for exceptional teaching.

● November 1991. NASA Space Act Tech Brief Award, ARC-12228-1, “Development of Subminiature Multi-Sensor Hot-Wire Probes.”

● October 1991, October 1990, October 1989. Naval Postgraduate School Faculty Performance Awards.

● December 1990. Carl E. and Jessie W. Menneken Faculty Award for Excellence in Scientific Research.

● September 1974-June 1975. Stanford University Fellowship.

● May 1974. Bachelor of Science Degree with Highest Honors, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA.

● April 1970. Moody Foundation Scholar. The Moody Foundation, 704 Moody National Bank Building, Galveston, Texas, 77550, USA.

● Cited in Marquis Who’s Who in the World, Marquis Who’s Who in the USA, Marquis Who’s Who in America, Marquis Who’s Who in the American West, the International Directory of Distinguished Leadership, Who’s Who in the International Gas Turbine Institute, Strathmore’s Who’s Who, Marquis Who’s Who, Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, A. C. Black Who’s Who, Academic Keys Who’s Who in Engineering Higher Education, and American Men and Women of Science.

● Commendation letters for outstanding teaching – ranked in top 15% of the University of Utah College of Engineering course instructors. (i) ME EN 7660-Advanced Convection Heat Transfer, Spring Semester of 2004. (ii) ME EN 5810 / ME EN 6810-Thermal Systems Design, Autumn Semester of 2003. (iii) ME EN 7660-Advanced Convection Heat Transfer, Spring Semester of 2003. (iv) ME EN 7660-Advanced Convection Heat Transfer, Spring Semester of 2002. (v) ME EN 3600-Thermodynamics II, Autumn Semester of 2001. (vi) ME EN 3600-Thermodynamics II, Spring Semester of 2001. (vii) ME EN 3600-Thermodynamics II, Autumn Semester of 1999. (viii) ME562-Thermal Systems Design, Spring Quarter of 1998. (ix) ME665-Advanced Heat Transfer II, Winter Quarter of 1997. (x) ME562-Thermal Systems Design, Spring Quarter of 1996. (xi) ME360-Engineering Thermodynamics, Fall Quarter of 1995. (xii) ME362-Power Thermodynamics, Winter Quarter of 1995. (xiii) ME362-Power Thermodynamics, Spring Quarter of 1994.