Awards and Medals

 

Sl. No.

Name and Nature of Award / Medal

Organization giving the Award

Year

1

Plaque of honor for “contributions to the field of Materials Science and Engineering, Materials & General Engineering Education and Research”. An international conference on “Advances in Materials Processing and Characterization” was also organized to coincide with the event.

At a function organized by several Indian academic and R&D organizations on the Guindy campus of Anna University, Chennai; the birth place of engineering education in India.

February 2013

2

Re-invitation under the Forschungspreis (Career Research Award) Program.

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

July – August 2012

3

Mercator Visiting Professorship of German Research Foundation (DFG) – a National Chair – at University of Muenster, Germany during January 2009 – December 2009.

Deutsch Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) – German Research Foundation, Bonn

2009

4

Selection for the Award under ‘Guest Scientist Program for Outstanding Scientists from Abroad’ (First recipient of the award)

Research Centre for Technology and Environment (FZK), Karlsruhe, Germany – a member of the Helmholtz Society of Research Institutions

2001- 2002 and June – August 2004

5

Re-invitation under the ‘Forschungspreis’ (Career Research Award) program

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

September – October 2000

6

Distinguished Alumnus Award, Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India

Department of Metallurgical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (now IIT-BHU), Varanasi, India

December 1998

7

Sc. D. degree (First Indian recipient in the area of Engineering/ Materials Science & Engineering) for “research contributions”

University of Cambridge, UK

July 1998

8

DFG Visiting Professorship at Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

Deutsch Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Bonn

August – November 1995

9

Forschungspreis (Career Research Award). (This is a career research award of the highest category of the Humboldt Foundation.  He is the FIRST INDIAN recipient.)

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

August 1994 – July 1995

10

“For the Sake of Honor” Award

Rotary Club, Chennai (Madras) Central, India

July 1994

11

CDC-DSIR Award (Certificate of Merit) for having set up a Superplastic Forming Facility at Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram, India, for making components for Space applications.

Consultancy Development Centre (CDC), Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India

January 1994

12

G D Birla Gold Medal (for continuing and outstanding contributions to Materials Science and Technology)

Indian Institute of Metals

November 1992

13

Kamani Gold Medal (for publishing the paper of the highest merit in the Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals during 1991)

Indian Institute of Metals

November 1992

14

Materials Research Society of India (MRSI) Medal

Materials Research Society of India

1990

15

Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany

Award first received in May 1985 – April 1986 ( worked at University of Aachen); re-invitations in 1989 (worked at University of Erlangen) and 1990 (worked at University of Aachen)

16

National Metallurgists’ Day Award for outstanding contributions to METAL SCIENCES and METALLURGICAL EDUCATION

Indian Institute of Metals and Ministry of Steel and Mines, Govt. of India

1983

17

A Research Grant of DM 3.2 million for augmenting Materials Testing Facility in his laboratory at IIT Madras, India

The Govt. of FRG (under the Indo-German Science and Technology Collaboration Agreement)

1983 - 1992

18

INSA Young Scientist Award in Engineering Sciences (year of inception)

Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi

1974

19

Pandya Memorial Medal (for publishing the best paper by an Associate Member of the Indian Institute of Metals in the Institute Transactions in the year 1973)

Indian Institute of Metals

1974

Honor

Sl. No

Name and Nature of the Honor

Organization giving Honor

Year of Honor

1

Prof. N P Gandhi Memorial Lecture, 2012

The indian Institute of Metals

2012

2

Honorary Membership of the Indian Institute of Metals

 The Indian Institute of Metals

 

2009

3

Appointment to the Editorial Board of Journal of Materials Processing Technology

Elsevier

September 2007    onwards

4

President, Materials Science Section, Indian Science Congress Association, 2003-2004

Indian Science Congress Association

January, 2003

5

Consulting Fellow, F.W.I.F.

World Innovation Foundation (WIF), London

September 2002

6

Election to the Membership of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials

Asia Pacific Academy of Materials

October 2000

7

Election to the Fellowship of the National Academy of Sciences, India – FNASc

The National Academy of Sciences-India, Allahabad

September 2000

8

Prof. Daya Swarup Memorial Lecture

Indian Institute of Metals Annual Convention

November 1999

9

Prof. Brahm Prakash Memorial Lecture

Indian Institute of Metals Bangalore Chapter

August 1999

10

Membership of the Editorial Board of Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research and Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi

1998-2007

11

Invitation to write an expert-level book ‘Superplastic Flow: Phenomenology and Mechanics’

Springer Verlag, Heidelberg/ Berlin, Germany

June 1998 (book was published in March 2001)

12

Appointed to the International Advisory Board and an Associate Editorship of ‘Materials Transactions, JIM’

Japan Institute of Metals (JIM)

January 1996- Dec. 2000

13

Election to the Fellowship of the Indian Academy of Sciences-F.A.Sc.

Indian Academy of Sciences, Bangalore

Jan. 1994

14

Election to the Fellowship of the Indian National Academy of Engineering – F.N.A.E.

Indian National Academy of Engineering, New Delhi

October 1993

15

Election to the Life Fellowship of the Indian Institute of Metals – F.I.I.M

Indian Institute of Metals

September 1992

16

Appointment to the Editorial Board of the “Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals”

Indian Institute of Metals

July 1992

17

Election as an Honorary Academician of the Bashkirian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation (formerly Urals Division of the USSR Academy of Sciences; First foreigner to be elected an Honorary Academician by the above Academy)

Bashkirian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation

January 1992

18

 

 

Appointment to the Editorial Board of ‘Journal of Materials Processing and Manufacturing Science’

Technomic Publishing Company, Lancaster, Pa., USA

December 1991 to 2003

19

Election as a Member of the Materials Research Society of India

   Materials Research 
Society of India

1989

20

Fellowship of the Institution of Engineers (India) – F.I.E.

Institution of Engineers (India)

1985

 21

Fellowship of the Institute of Metals (now Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining), London, FIMMM.  
Chartered Engineer in the U.K.-C. Eng. (U.K.)

Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, London

 

The Engineering Council, U.K.

 

1981
(Fellow)

 

1971
(Chartered Engineer)

 22

Colombo Plan Short Term Expert in Metal Forming at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka

IIT Madras and the Dept. of Economic Affairs, Govt. of India

May -July 1981

 23

Invitation to write the first-ever comprehensive expert level book in English on Superplasticity

Springer Verlag, Heidelberg/ Berlin, Germany

1977/78 (the book was published in August 1980)

 24

Invitation to work at the University of Sheffield, U.K., as a Visiting Scientist

The British Council

July-Sept. 1976

25

A number of projects for researches in different areas of Mechanical Behavior of Materials and Materials Forming

 

 

Indian National Science Academy, New Delhi
University Grants Commission, New Delhi
Aeronautics R & D Board, New Delhi

Liquid Propulsion Systems Centre, Trivandrum
Defence R&D Lab., Hyderabad
Department of Science & Technology, New Delhi
Steel Authority of India Limited
Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai
VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram
Indian Stainless Steel Development Association
Tata Steel
Indo-US Program

Integrated Long Term Program of Research Collaboration between India and Russia
Volkswagen Foundation, Germany
Indo-German Project in the area of       ‘Fatigue in Steels’ (Department of    Science and Technology, Government of India and BMBF, Bonn, Germany)
Aeronautical Development Agency (ADA)

1974-76

1975-79

1981-85

1987-91

1984-85
1985-86
2000-03
1988-92
1993-96
1991-95

1992-93
1994-96
1994-97

1993-97
1997-2004

  1991-2004

 

 

 

2013-2015

 

 

Springer Verlag, Heidelberg-Berlin, Germany, one of the world’s leading publishers of scientific literature, have published a few thousand books in the period 1842 – 2005 (163 years). Of these, about 40 books were selected by them as “renowned” and were reissued as eBooks as well as in print form, under a new series “Springer Book archives”. The book “SUPERPLASTICITY”, written by Padmanabhan and G J Davies in 1980, is one of them and is being sold under the banner “Great Minds never go out of print”.