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DISTINGHUISHED MEMBER, Elected by Board of Directors, ASCE, 2011.

DISTINGUISHED ALUMNI Award, (among eight),  VJTI - University of Bombay, India, 2010.

NATHAN M. NEWMARK MEDAL, Structural Engineering and Engineering Mechanics Institutes, ASCE, 2009.

HIND RATTAN (JEWEL OF INDIA) Award by the Non-Resident Indian Welfare Society, New Delhi, India, 2009.

 

CENTENNIAL DISTINGUISHED Lecture, at 100 Anniversary, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, 2008.

 

DIAMOND JUBILEE Honor by Indian Geotechnical Society, India, 2008.

SUKLJE AWARD/LECTURE by Slovenian Geotechnical Association, Slovenia, 2008/2009.

PAUL F. KENT MEMORIAL DISTINGUISHED Lecture, in Transportation, University of Illinois, Urbana, Il,  2008/2009.

KARL TERZAGHI AWARD, Geo-Institute, ASCE, 2007.

FELLOW (Elected), American Academy of Mechanics, 2001.

CLOCK AWARD for Outstanding Contributions to the field of application of engineering mechanics and thermal sciences for prediction and prevention of thermal stress failures in electronic packaging structures, EEPD (Electrical and Electronics Packaging Division), ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers), 2000.

BEST PAPER AWARD with K.G. Sharma and A. Varadarajan, The Indian Society for Rock Mechanics and Tunnelling Technology (ISRMTT), New Delhi, India, 2002.

BEST PAPER PRIZE  for Constitutive Modelling for Geologic Materials, for paper, "Material Constants for a Constitutive Model: Determination and Use," coauthor: A. Varadarajan, Indian Geotechnical Society, New Delhi, India, 1994.

SIGNIFICANT PAPER AWARD, “Interface Model for Dynamic Soil-Structure Interaction,” coauthors: M.M. Zaman and E.C. Drumm, IACMAG, 1994.

SIGNIFICANT PAPER AWARD, "Implementation of Hierarchical Single Surface
do and d1 Models in Finite Element Procedure," coauthors: K.G. Sharma, G.W. Wathugala and D.B. Rigby, IACMAG, 1994.

OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS IN MECHANICS MEDAL, Czech Society of Mechanics of Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 1992.

DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTIONS MEDAL, International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics, 1991.

PRIZE FOR BEST PAPER on "Constitutive Modelling of Geologic Materials," Indian Geotechnical Society, New Delhi, 1989 (jointly with Professor A. Varadarajan).

ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT STIFTUNG: SENIOR U.S. SCIENTIST AWARD by the West German Government, 1976 79. Awarded to outstanding U. S. senior scientists and engineers of international standing in recognition of accomplishments in research and teaching.

MERITORIOUS CIVILIAN SERVICE AWARD by U. S. Army Corps of Engineers for
significant advances in research., 1972. This is the highest Civilian Award by the
Chief of Engineers.

WALLACE PREMIUM (SENIOR) PRIZE by the Institution of Structural Engineers,
London, England, 1963.

DR. THEODORE COOK MEMORIAL Prize, University of Bombay, India, 1958.

115 (about) Invited, KEYNOTE, STATE OF THE ART or FEATURED LECTURES at
Major International and National Conferences; only a part of the invitations were
accepted.