-Dorothy Marshall Faculty Excellence Award for Research, College of Engineering, URI, 2005.
-ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award for pioneering research in numerical and experimental heat transfer with applications to electronics cooling, melting and solidification, and microscale thermal processes, International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition, Anaheim CA, Nov. 14-19, 2004.
-Fellow of Wessex Institute of Great Britain, in recognition of publications of books in Developments in Heat Transfer Series, July 2004.
-Certificate of Appreciation for serving as Associate Editor of Journal of Heat Transfer, ASME International, November 2003.
- Certificate of Appreciation, Society of Air-Conditioning and Refrigerating Engineers of Korea, Muju, Korea (July 2-4, 2003)
- Wnnergren Foundation Fellowship, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden (2002)
- Wnnergren Foundation Fellowship, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden (1998, 2000)
- Tokyo Metropolitan University Fellowship, Tokyo, Japan, (1998)
- Wnnergren Foundation Fellowship, Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden (1996)
- Fellow of ASME (Elected 1994)
- 150th Anniversary Professor, Chalmers University, Sweden (1993-94)
- Tokyo Metropolitan University Fellowship, Tokyo, Japan (1993)
- ASME Certificate Award, Region I (1988)
- University of Rhode Island Faculty Research Fellowship (1984)
- Administrative Award, Ministry of Power (1981)
- Distinguished Service Award, Ministry of Power (1981)
- Outstanding Faculty Research Award (1980)
- UNESCO Faculty Fellowship (1977)
- Best Teaching Award (1976)
- University of California Scholarship Award (1965-1969)
- Honorary Texas Citizen awarded by John Connally the Governor of Texas (1964)
- American Field Service Student Award (1964)