Awards

• Fellow of Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME), 2022

• Coal and Energy Distinguished Service Award, Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration (SME), 2019

• Medal of Honor, TH Georg Agricola University, Bochum, Germany, 2019

• Honorable Medal, University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB), China, 2018

• Erskine Ramsay Medal Award, American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers (AIME), 2017

• WVU SME Student Chapter Award, 2010, 2015, 2016 and 2017
  

• Outstanding Advisor Award, WVU Statler College of Engineering and Mineral Resources, 2016
  

• Prazen Award for serving as the 2015 SME Program Chair
  

• Coal & Energy Division Chair Award, Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, 2014

• Stephen McCann Award for Excellence in Education, The Pittsburgh Coal Mining Institute of America, 2013

• Distinguished Professorship, West Virginia University, 2012

• WVU SME Student Chapter Award, awarded to "an outstanding faculty member in mining engineering," 2010-2011

• SME Robert Peele Memorial Award presented to graduate student, Ruben Terrazas for a joint refereed journal publication entitled “Multi-attribute fuzzy methodology for the selection of Mining Shovels,"  2010

• Henry Krumb Lecturer, Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, 2008-2009

• Centennial Career Development Professorship in Mining Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, 2005-2009

• George H. Deike, Jr., Research Award, The Pennsylvania State University, 2004

• Wilson Research Program Award, The Pennsylvania State University, 2003