Awards and Recognition:

M. Akinc

• ISU Alumni Association Faculty Citation
• Fellow of the American Ceramic Society
• Elected to European Academy of Sciences, 2003
• Excellence in Service Award, MSE Department, 2004
• Visiting Professor, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey 2004

I.E. Anderson

• Selected as 2006 Inventor of the Year by the Iowa Intellectual Property Law Association
• Elected to Board of Directors of the American Powder Metallurgy Institute (APMI) in 2001.
• Approved as Vice President of the Federation of Materials Societies (FMS) in 2001.
• Fellow of ASM International.
• Federation of Materials Societies (FMS)—President
• The Metals, Minerals, and Materials Society (TMS)—Board of Directors (incoming member), Public and Governmental Affairs Committee (incoming Chair), Strategic Planning Committee (member)
• ASM International (ASM)—Council of Fellows (member)
• American Powder Metallurgy Institute (APMI)—Board of Directors (member), Editorial Review Committee of "International Journal of Powder Metallurgy" (member).
• 2001 Energy 100 Award
• 1996 TMS Distinguished Service Award
• 1994 Fellow of ASM International
• 1991 R&D-100 Award
• 1991 Federal Laboratory Consortium, Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer

B. Gleeson

• Lee Hsun Lecture Series Award, "For Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Materials Science and Engineering." Awarded October 2003
  Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Best Poster Award, Gordon Conference on High Temperature Corrosion, July 2003.
  "Interdiffusion in Ni-rich Ni-Al-Pt alloys at 1150°C, " S. Hayashi, W. Wang, D. Sordelet,
  and B. Gleeson
• Research and Development 100 Award, R&D Magazine, October 2005, for "Novel High-Temperature Coatings with Pt-Modified Ni and Ni3Al Alloy Compositions," 2005
• Recipient of the Alan and Julie Renken Professorship in Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State's first named professorship in materials science and engineering, May 2006

K.A. Gschneidner, Jr.

• Award of Excellence for a Technical Paper, "Magnetic Cooling for Appliances," presented at the 50th Annual International Appliance Technical Conference, West Lafayette, IN, May 10-12,1999.
• Senior Editor of the Handbook of the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths, 1976 - present.
• Board of Advisory Editors of the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 1978 - present.
• Chairman of the Board Governors of Acta Materialia, Inc., 1996-present.
• Board of Directors of the Cryogenic Engineering Conference, 1997-2003.
• First Plenary Lecture at the Rare Earths'-2001 Brazil Conference in Campos de Jordao, Brazil, September 22-26, 2001.
• David R. Boylan Eminent Faculty Award in Research, College of Engineering, Iowa State University, 1997.
• Significant Implication in Materials and Engineering Physics, "The Giant Magnetocaloric Effect Materials, Gd5(SixGe1-)4, and their Impact on Refrigeration Technologies," Department of Energy's Materials Science Research Competition, 1997.
• 1998 Iowa Distinguished Faculty in Engineering Annual Lecture at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA.
• Honorary member of the European Rare Earth and Actinide Society, 1998.
• Science Alumnus of the Year 2000, University of Detroit, Mercy, 2000.
• Energy 100 Award for research on magnetic refrigeration from the U.S. Department of Energy as one of the 100 discoveries and innovations between 1997 and 2000 that resulted in improvements for American consumers; 2001.
• Iowa da Vinci Celebration and Conference for awards received in 1999 and in 2000, 2001.
• Honorary Membership in the Japan Institute of Metals, 2001.
• Fellow of the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society.
• Fellow of the American Society for Materials International.
• Elected member of the National Academy of Engineering.

D.C. Jiles

• Anston Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Iowa State University, 2002.
• Selected for Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 5th edition, 1999.
• Editor in Chief, IEEE Transactions on Magnetics

M.J. Kramer

• Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Materials Chemistry, J. Anderegg, M. Besser, T. Bloomer, M. Gierer, A.I. Goldman, C. Jenks, M. Kramer, T. Lograsso, D. Sordelet, P. Thiel, and M. Van Hove, "Surface Properties of Quasicrystals," Department of Energy's Materials Sciences Research Competition, 1998.

T.A. Lograsso

• Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer, Federal Laboratory Consortium, 1996.
• Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Materials Chemistry, J. Anderegg, M. Besser, T. Bloomer, M. Gierer, A.I. Goldman, C. Jenks, M. Kramer, T. Lograsso, D. Sordelet, P. Thiel, and M. Van Hove, "Surface Properties of Quasicrystals," Department of Energy's Materials Sciences Research Competition, 1998.
• Service Provide Impact Award, Iowa Manufacturing Extension Partnership, Co-Recipient, 2000.
• Best Poster Award, M. J. Kramer, T. A. Lograsso, and Y. Q. Wu, "Local Order in Single Grain Cd-Yb Icosahedral Phase", Materials Research Society, Fall Meeting, 2003

R.E. Napolitano

• Inducted to the Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2000.
• Iowa State Department of Materials Science & Engineering Excellence in Research Award, 2004.
• Editorial Board of Review, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions

V.K. Pecharsky

• Materials Science Award for Significant Implication for Department of Energy Related Technologies in the Materials and Engineering Physics Research, "The Giant Magnetocaloric Effect Materials, Gd5(SixGe1-x)4, and their impact on Refrigeration Technologies. In collaboration with K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., October 1997.
• USDOE's Energy 100 Award for the "Magnetic Refrigeration Unit." Details at http://www.ma.doe.gov/energy100/ In collaboration with KA. Gschneidner, Jr., January 2001.
• Award of Excellence for a Technical Paper, "Magnetic Cooling for Appliances," presented at the 50th Anniversary Conference of the International Appliance Technical Conference at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, May 1999. In collaboration with K.A. Gshneidner, Jr. and C.B. Zimm.
• Technical editor for the "Advances in Cryogenic Engineering," Vol. 45 - Proceedings of the Cryogenic Engineering Conference/International Cryogenic Materials Conference held in Montreal, July 1999.
• Technical editor for "Advances in Cryogenic Engineering," Vol. 46 - Proceedings of the Cryogenic Engineering Conference/International Cryogenic Materials Conference held in Madison, WI, July 1999.
• Editor, "Handbook on Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths." North Holland Publ. Since January 2001.
• Federal Laboratory Consortium's Mid-Continent Award for Outstanding Regional Partnership between DOEs Ames Laboratory and Astronautics Corporation of America on Magnetic Refrigeration Technology, K.A. Gschneidner, Jr., V.K. Pecharsky, and C.B. Zimm, 2002
• Materials Science and Engineering Department Award for Excellence in Research, 2003

D.J. Sordelet

• Outstanding Scientific Accomplishment in Materials Chemistry, J. Anderegg, M. Besser, T. Bloomer, M. Gierer, A.I. Goldman, C. Jenks, M. Kramer, T. Lograsso, D. Sordelet, P. Thiel, and M. Van Hove, "Surface Properties of Quasicrystals," Department of Energy's Materials Sciences Research Competition, 1998.
• Research and Development 100 Award, R&D Magazine, October 2005, for "Novel High-Temperature Coatings with Pt-Modified Ni and Ni3Al Alloy Compositions," 2005

J.E. Snyder

• Selected for Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 5th edition, 1999.
• Appointed Senior Member, IEEE, 1999.
• 1999 Inventory Incentive Award, Department of Energy.
• Selected for Who's Who in America, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.
• Selected for Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1997, 1999, 2001.
• Named Senior Member of IEEE, 1999.
• Received Inventor Incentive Award, Ames Laboratory, 1999.
• NationalResearch Council Research Associateship, 1994-96.

R.B. Thompson

• Anson Marston Distinguished Professor of Engineering, Iowa State University, 1997.
• David Boylen Eminent Faculty Award for Research, Iowa State University, 2001.
• Fellow of IEEE.
• Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2003.
• Lester Honor Lecture, 2004.
  

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