PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS,
ACTIVITIES, HONORS AND AWARDS
1. Member of the American Chemical Society, Society of Plastics Engineers, ASM International, and Metallurgical Society of AIME.
2. Initiated Auburn University Students Chapter, Soc. of Plastics Engineers (SPE). Served as the faculty advisor to Auburn Materials Society, SPE student chapter, ASM student chapter.
3.* Part of U.S. Team, International Working Group On Polymer Blends.
* Organizer and Session Chairman, Materials and Processing Sessions, 1988 SAE Conference and Exhibition on Future Transportation Technology.
* Member of Technical Committee, SAE FTTC
* Organizer and Chairman, International Symposium on NDE for Materials and Processing, Annual Meeting of AIME/TMS, Las Vegas, 2/1989.
* Sessions Chairman, Advanced Materials Conf., SPE RETEC, Los Angeles, Ca., Nov. 1988.
* Member, Board of Directors, Advanced Polymer Composites Division, SPE.
* Organizer and Session Chairman, Advanced Composites Division, Annual Technical Conf. Soc. of Plastic Engineers, NYC, 4/89.
* Chairman, the 2nd Alabama Materials Research Conference, 10/88.
* Chairman, 1990-1991, Technical Program Committee, Adv. Polymer Composites Div., SPE.
* Organizer and Chairman, Symposium on Advanced Polymer Composites, SPE ANTEC, 1991, Montreal, Canada.
* Keynote speaker, Inaugural ceremony, SAMPE Taiwan Chapter, 9/90.
* Session Chairman, 1st International Conference on Rapid Prototyping and Manufacturing, Beijing, China, July 22-14, 1998.
4.* Recipient of the 1987 Ralph Teetor Educational Award sponsored by the Society of Automotive Engineers.
* Fulbright Scholarship (1991-92) sponsored by the Fulbright Commissions (UK) and the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (USA) to work in the University of Cambridge.
* Fellow Commonership (1991-92), Churchill College, University of Cambridge.
* Alumni Professorship (1991-96), a five-year, non-renewable endowed chair professor position sponsored by the Alumni Association of Auburn University.
* EXXON Educational Awards, 1991 and 1992.
* Outstanding Professor of The Year--Materials Engineering Program,1987 and 1994.
* Outstanding Professor of The Year--Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1988, Auburn University.
* Professor of The Year, College of Engineering, Auburn Univ., 1988.
* Recipient of The Fred H. Pumphrey Teaching Award, Alumni Council, College of Engineering, Auburn University, 1988.
* 1990 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Award. * 1992 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Award.
* Professor of the Year, Materials Eng. Program, Auburn University, 1998.
5.* Referee for NSF Materials Engineering and Processing Program, US Army Research Office (both Engineering Sc. and Materials Sci. Divisions), Polymer Composites, Polymer Engineering and Sciences, Journal of Applied Polymer Sciences, J. Composite Materials, Materials and Manufacturing Processes, Carbon. * Editorial service * International Advisory Board, Science and Engineering of Composite Materials, an international journal. * Board Member of International Materials Review, ASM International. * Guest Editor, two special issues in 1992 of Polymer Composites, a journal sponsored by the Soc. of Plastics Eng.