Academic Excellence Award of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State to Mr. R. Nandan for scholastic accomplishments during graduate studies. His research is on "Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Laser and Electron Beam Welding." (2007).

American Welding Society Graduate Fellowship ($25,000 per year, renewable for three years) to Mr. R. Nandan for doctoral research. (2007).

Kennametal Fellowship to Mr. R. Rai for scholastic accomplishments during graduate studies. His thesis research is on "Numerical Simulation of Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in Laser and Electron Beam Welding." (2007).

Henri Granjon Prize of International Institute of Welding, Villepinte, France to Dr. W. Zhang for best doctoral thesis in welding in any year (2006). His thesis was on "Probing Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow and Microstructural Evolution during Fusion Welding of Alloys."

Kennametal Fellowship to Mr. R. Nandan for scholastic accomplishments during graduate studies. His thesis research is on "Quantitative Understanding of Friction Stir Welding." (2006).

William Spraragen Memorial Award of American Welding Society to Dr. W. Zhang, Dr. T. A. Palmer and Dr. J. Elmer for the best research paper printed in the Welding Journal during the twelve month period ending with the December issue. (shared with T. DebRoy) (2005).

Second Prize, Materials Science and Engineering Departmental Poster Contest to Mr. A. Kumar. His poster was entitled "A Bi-directional Model to Calculate Weld Geometry using a Phenomenological Model, a Neural Network and Evolutionary Principles" (2005).

Kennametal Fellowship to Mr. A. Kumar for scholastic accomplishments during graduate studies. His thesis research is on "Tailoring Weld Attributes using a Genetic Algorithm and a Neural Network Trained with Convective Heat Transfer Calculations." (2004).

First Prize, Materials Science and Engineering Departmental Group Poster Contest to Mr. W. Zhang, X. He, A. Kumar, S. Mishra and Y. Fan. Their poster was entitled "Computational Materials Processing" (2004).

Kenneth Easterling Best Paper Award to A. Kumar, W. Zhang, and C. L. Kim, International Institute of Welding and Technical University of Graz, Graz, Austria, for the best research paper presented at the 7^th International Seminar on Mathematical Modeling of Welding, 2003 (shared with T. DebRoy).

American Welding Society Graduate Fellowship ($25,000 per year for three years) to Mr. A. Kumar for doctoral thesis research. (2003).

Kennametal Fellowship to Mr. W. Zhang for scholastic accomplishments during graduate studies. His thesis research is on "Heat Transfer, Fluid Flow and Phase Transformation Kinetics during Fusion Welding" (2002).

Best of Show Award in a poster contest in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Penn State to Mr. W. Zhang. His poster was entitled "Modeling of Macro and Microstructure during Welding" (2001).

Geoffrey Belton Award of American Iron & Steel Society to Dr. T. A. Palmer for best doctoral thesis on iron and steel. His thesis was entitled "Nitrogen in Plasmas and Steel Weld Metal" (2001).

William Spraragen Memorial Award of American Welding Society to Dr. Z. Yang for the best research paper printed in the Welding Journal during the twelve month period ending with the December issue (shared with J. Elmer, J. Wong and T. DebRoy) (2001).

American Welding Society Fellowship ($25,000 per year for three years) to Mr. W. Zhang for doctoral thesis research. (2000).

ASM International Graduate Student Paper Contest Winner, Mr. T. A. Palmer. His research paper was entitled "A study of nitrogen dissolution into the weld metal during arc welding" (November 1999).

Warren F. Savage Memorial Award of American Welding Society to K. Mundra for innovative research resulting in a better understanding of the metallurgical principles related to welding, 1998 (shared with S. Babu, S. A. David, and T. DebRoy).

American Council winner, Granjon International Prize Competition to Mr. T. A. Palmer for best graduate thesis research (1997-98).

American Welding Society Foundation Fellowship ($25,000 per year for three years) to Mr. T. A. Palmer for research on "Partition of Nitrogen between Weld Metal and its Plasma Environment." (1995-1998)

Charles H. Jennings Memorial Award of American Welding Society to Mr. K. Mundra. For the most valuable paper published by a college student or faculty in Welding Journal during the previous calendar year. (shared with W. Pitscheneder, R. Ebner and T. DebRoy) (1997).

Second Prize, Student Poster Contest, 76^th Annual Meeting of the American Welding Society, Cleveland, OH to Mr. T. A. Palmer (1995).

McKay Helm Award of American Welding Society to Mr. K. Mundra for the best technical paper on the welding of steel published in the Welding Journal in the previous calendar year ( shared with T. DebRoy) (1994).

Dow Chemical Award to Mr. K. Tankala for outstanding doctoral thesis research (1994).

Graduate School Fellowship of the Pennsylvania State University to Mr. H. Venugopalan. (1993-94).

First Prize, Student Poster Contest, 74^th Annual Meeting of American Welding Society, Houston, TX to Mr. K. Mundra and Mr. D. Madey (1993).

Second Prize, Student Poster Contest, 74^th Annual Meeting of American Welding Society, Houston, TX, to Mr. K. Mundra (1993).

American Vacuum Society Award to Mr. K. Tankala for outstanding scholarship (1992).

First Prize, Student Poster Contest, 73^rd Annual Meeting of American Welding Society, in Chicago, Ill to Mr. K. Mundra (1993).

Xerox Research Award for doctoral thesis research accomplishments to Mr. K. Tankala (1991).

Jerry Silver Memorial Award of Iron and Steel Society of AIME, to Mr. M. Alam for outstanding research (1986).

Xerox Research Award for doctoral thesis research accomplishments to Mr. M. Alam (1984).

Xerox Research Award for doctoral thesis research accomplishments to Mr. U. B. Pal (1982).