Honors and Awards

Episilon Pi Tau(EPT) International Society Award for academic leadership, College of Technology, CT
2005 Silver Medal from the Connecticut Quality Council for Innovation at the Engineering Applications Center, Awarded in October 2005
2003 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Curriculum Award for innovative integrated engineering curriculum (Award was made in the special session of ME Chairs)
2000 American Society of Mechanical Engineers Distinguished Faculty Award- Region 1
2000 (May) Society of Manufacturing Engineers, Hartford Chapter, Honor Award
1997 Edward S. Roth National Award for Manufacturing Standards Curriculum Innovation, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, MI
1994 University of Hartford, James E. and Frances W. Bent Award for Outstanding Scholarly or Artistic Creativity. Presented at the University Commencement
Elected to the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE)
Elected to the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (CAAS)
Engineering Research Council, American Society of Engineering Education
Elected to the Board of CONNSTEP (State and federally funded industry organization)
Elected to the Board of Entegram (E-Commerce Organization)

Key Note Speaker

Keynote lecture at the International Conference on CAD/CAM, Automation and the Factory of the Future, Vellore August 2006, Vellore
Plenary lecture at the Caribbean Regional Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management, Trinidad, West Indies, June 2006
Keynote lecture Connecticut Business Industry Seminar (CBIA) September 2003
Keynote lecture American Society of Engineering Education NY?NJ?Lawrence, Wilkes University, (Nov. 1996)
Keynote lecture International Kodak Conference on Taguchi Design, Rochester, N.Y (1995)
Plenary session presentation at UNESCO Conferences on Technology Transfer in the Caribbean, Organized by United Nations(1995)
Keynote lecture International Production Engineering Research Conference, Finland (1993)
Keynote lecture Information Technology Conference, Organized by Institution of Engineers in Singapore (1991)

AT & T Foundation Award nomination sponsored by the American Society of Engineering Education
George Westinghouse Award nomination sponsored by American Society of Engineering Education
United Nations Expert in Engineering (1996?98 for the Caribbean)
Phi Tau Sigma award
Eugene Merchant Textbook Award nomination for the best textbook in 1998
International Co-Chair, Conference on Robotics, Automation, and Factories of the Future (1999-2000)
Member of the ASME Task Force for Distance Education on Engineering Management