Dr Goh was conferred the National Day Award—the “Public Administration Medal (Bronze)” by the President of the Republic of Singapore in 2010. The honor is bestowed in recognition of her contribution to education in Singapore as well as services to the University. Dr Goh received the Singapore Women’s Weekly “Great Women of Our Time” Awards, under the Science & Technology category in 2011. Dr Goh is one of the first 12 fellows to be inducted into the NTU Teaching Excellence Academy, which promotes best teaching practices by award-winning NTU professors and lecturers.

Dr Goh had received numerous teaching awards. She was given three in 2013—the Nanyang Education Award (University award), the Inaugural Nanyang Education Award (College Level), and the year-2 Nanyang Education Award (School level). Dr Goh first received the Nanyang Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007, which is the highest teaching honor given to a faculty at the university level. Her other teaching accomplishments at the school’s level includes the EEE Teaching Excellence Awards she received in 2005, 2006, and 2009, and the EEE Students’ Choice “Best Teacher” Awards in year 1997, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. Her recent awards include the 2021 National Day Long Service Award and the Renaissance Engineering Programme Teacher of the Year (Engineering Science) received in 2018.