Awards

Hind Rattan (Jewels of India) Award, Non-Residents of India Welfare Society, Delhi, India for outstanding life-long accomplishments.

Romesh C. Batra is the recipient of a 2015 American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ (ASME) Honorary Membership award, given to no more than five people world-wide annually.

ASME cited Batra for his “outstanding mentoring of more than 100 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows; and for pioneering work in applied mechanics including rubber-covered rolls, nonlinear elasticity, laminated plates, functionally graded structures, instabilities in microelectromechanical systems, mechanical characterization of carbon nanotubes, and adiabatic shear banding.” full story

Dr. Romesh C. Batra receives the Virginia Outstanding Scientist Award
Presented at the 2011 Virginia General Assembly Reception,
January 27, 2011, Richmond, VA

Romesh C. Batra, Virginia Tech professor of engineering science and mechanics (ESM), is a 2011 recipient of the Virginia Outstanding Scientist Award. He will be honored at an awards reception today with the Virginia General Assembly and sponsored by the Science Museum of Virginia. full story

Dr. Batra receiving the State Council of Higher Education Outstanding Faculty Award on February 18, 2010.

Romesh C. Batra, Virginia Tech professor of engineering science and mechanics, is a 2010 recipient of the Virginia Outstanding Faculty Award sponsored by the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV) and Dominion, an energy company based in Richmond, Va. full story

Lee Hsun Research Award Ceremony, Institute of Metals Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China, 10 May 2010. As a part of this award, Romesh Batra Delivered the following three lectures on May 10, 11 and 12, respectively.
1. Adiabatic shear bands in particulate composites.
2. Strain localization in polycarbonates.
3. Deduction of mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes from molecular statics/dynamics simulations.

Romesh C. Batra received the Engineering Science Medal of the Society of Engineering Science (SES) at the meeting of the 2009 Joint American Society of Civil Engineers-American Society of Mechanical Engineers-SES Conference on Mechanics and Materials that was held in Blacksburg, Va. full story

D. Sc (Honoris Causa), Thapar University, India, 2006: The honorary D.Sc. degree’s citation states“…His research has revealed new mysteries on the behavior of materials.”