He has been awarded with
a Fellow or honorary member of five different
professional societies. He is a co-inventor on nine U.S.
and international patent applications.
About seven years ago,
Suresh began a programme to create novel graded
materials, two or more different materials combined such
that the proportion of one is greater at the surface but
is gradually replaced by another with depth. This work
created the first theoretical and experimental basis for
the study of indentation of graded materials with
applications in fields as diverse as biomechanical
implants, geo-mechanics, advanced structural coatings
and microelectronics.
Prof. Suresh's research
is in the following areas:
The list of honors and
awards that he has been accredited with are given below
| S.No |
Year |
Honor/Award
given |
| 1 |
2002 |
Appointment
as a Ford Professor of Engineering |
| 2 |
2002 |
General
Electric Distinguished Lecturer, Rennsellaer
Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY |
| 3 |
2002 |
Selected
as one of the most “highly cited researchers”
in the world in the broad area of Materials
Science by the Institute for Scientific
Information, PA. |
| 4 |
2002 |
Elected
to the U. S. National Academy of Engineering. |
| 5 |
2002 |
R. B.
Trull Distinguished Lecturer in Engineering, The
University of Texas, Austin, TX |
| 6 |
2001 |
Kelly
Distinguished Lecturer, Cambridge University, UK,
June 2001. |
| 7 |
2001 |
Lead PI
on the ONR Defense University Research Initiative
on NanoTechnology (DURINT) Award on Nanostructured
Materials, for 5-year, research program. |
| 8 |
2001 |
“2001
TMS Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award” for
the Structural Materials Division of The Minerals,
Metals and Materials Society. |
| 9 |
2000 |
Elected
Fellow of TMS. Citation: “For pioneering
contributions to the understanding of mechanical
behavior and mechanics of materials, and for
leadership in materials education”. The youngest
among only 100 living fellows of the Society at
any one time from among a worldwide membership of
approximately 9,000. |
| 10 |
2000 |
Sectional
Lecturer, International Conference on Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics, Chicago, Illinois, August
2000. |
| 11 |
1999-2000 |
Clark B.
Millikan Endowed Chair at California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, for visiting professorship. |
| 12 |
1997 |
Distinguished
Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras |
| 13 |
1997-1998 |
TFR
Swedish National Chair in Engineering. National
visiting professorship in Sweden by the Swedish
Research Council (TFR) at the Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm |
| 14 |
1997 |
Southwest
Mechanics Lecturer |
| 15 |
1996 |
Elected
Honorary Member of the Materials Research Society
of India |
| 16 |
1996 |
Elected
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers (ASME). |
| 17 |
1996 |
Forum
Lecturer, ASME Summer Meeting, Johns Hopkins
University. |
| 18 |
1996 |
Sauveur
Lecturer, ASM International New England Chapter |
| 19 |
1995 |
Shell
Distinguished Lecturer, Northwestern University |
| 20 |
1995 |
Elected
Fellow of the American Ceramic Society |
| 21 |
1994-1995 |
Midwest
Mechanics Lecturer |
| 22 |
1994 |
Elected
Fellow of ASM International "For
contributions to fatigue fracture and
micromechanisms of deformation of metals, ceramics
and composites, especially for pioneering studies
on fracture in cyclic compression of brittle
materials". |
| 23 |
1993 |
R. P.
Simmons Endowed Professorship, MIT |
| 24 |
1992 |
Ross
Coffin Purdy Award (The American Ceramic Society,
for the best paper published in J. A. Ceram. Soc.
during 1990, lead author). |
| 25 |
1990 |
Allied
Signal Foundation Merit Award |
| 26 |
1989 |
Allied
Signal Foundation Research Award |
| 27 |
1989 |
Technical
Analysis Corporation Teaching Award "For the
member of the Engineering Faculty at Brown, who
through example and instruction, has most inspired
undergraduate students in engineering."
Selected by honor students in engineering. |
| 28 |
1986
|
Distinguished
Overseas Guest Lecturer (Exterior Ministry of
France and the French Embassy,Washington, DC. To
deliver keynote lectures at several French
research institutions) |
| 29 |
1985-1987 |
Ford
Foundation Research Award |
| 30 |
1985-1990 |
Presidential
Young Investigator Award
(National Science Foundation and The White House) |
| 31 |
1985 |
Champion
H. Matthewson Gold Medal (The Metallurgical
Society of AIME)
Citation: "For Outstanding Contributions to
the Understanding of Fatigue and Fatigue Crack
Growth'' |
| 32 |
1983
|
Robert
Lansing Hardy Gold Medal (The Metallurgical
Society of AIME)
Citation: "For Exceptional Promise of a
Successful Career in the Broad Field of
Metallurgy, by a Metallurgist Under the Age of
30'' |
| 33 |
1982 |
Outstanding
Scientific Accomplishment Award (U.S. Department
of Energy) |
known for leading the advanced materials programme
of the Singapore-MIT alliance, and is credited with
making major contributions to the fields of
micro-mechanics and nano-mechanics of thin films,
mechanical properties, fracture and fatigue, and the
multidisciplinary area of graded materials.
