Honors & Awards
Outstanding contribution to engineering, PVP Division of ASME
Certificate of Recognition for Bone tissue analyzer and method, NASA (1987)
Claude Pepper Award, NIH (1988)
Humboldt Senior Fellowship Award, Germany (1994)
Honorary Ph.D., Zaporozhye State University, Ukraine (1997)
Eminent Academician, Ukrainian Academy of Higher Education (1998)
Warner T. Koiter Medal, ASME (1999)
Academy of Distinguished Graduates, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University (October 2001)