Awards

Awards and Honors

• 2025 Graduate Student Service Award - Deva Prasaad Neelakandan, Materials Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn ( 4 May, 2025)

• 2021 TMS Best Paper Contest – 1st Place, TMS 2021, 150th Annual Meeting & Exhibition (17 March, 2021) 

• 2020 Chancellor’s Citation Award - Extraordinary Professional Promise, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (21 April, 2020)

• 2019 Chancellor’s Citation Award - Extraordinary Professional Promise, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (16 April, 2019) 

• 2018 Chancellor’s Citation Award - Extraordinary Professional Promise, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (17, April 2018) 

• 2016 The Best student poster award "Investigation of microstructure evolution in NbTaTiV and NbTaTiVZr refractory high-entropy alloys" at 2016 Center for Nanophase Materials Science (CNMS) User Meeting, Knoxville, TN, USA (11 Aug, 2016) 

• 2012  An excellent paper award, “Improvement of the mechanical properties of Ti-Fe-Sn alloys by dendrite phase selection” at the 2012 Spring conference of Materials research society of Korea, Korea (May, 2012)