Leroy Chiao - Awards and Honors

Awards and Honors

• NASA Distinguished Service Medal (2004).
• Recipient of four NASA Space Flight Medals (2004, 2000, 1996, 1994).
• Four NASA Individual Achievement Awards (2004, 2003, 2002, 2001).
• NASA Going the Extra Mile Award (2004).
• Recipient of the 2003 Excellence Award in Science and Technology, from the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce.
• Recipient of the 100 Most Influential Asian Americans in the 1990¹s Award from A-Magazine (2000).
• Two NASA Exceptional Service Awards (2000, 1996).
• Keynote Commencement Speaker for the Departments of Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, and at Santa Barbara, in 1996.
• Two NASA Group Achievement Awards (1997, 1995).
• Recipient of Distinguished Alumni Award from University of California, Santa Barbara (1995).
• Recipient of numerous Federation Aeronautique Internationale awards, including the Korolev Diploma (2002), Komarov Diploma (1996) and De La Vaulx Medal (1994).
• Recipient of two Phi Kappa Tau awards - the Taylor A. Borradaile National Alumnus of the Year Award (1996) and the Nu Chapter Alumnus of the Year (1991) award.
• Listed in Who's Who in Science and Engineering (1990).
• Invited contributor to the International Encyclopedia of Composite Materials (1989).
• Invited to give technical seminars on honeycomb material and bonded panels, as well as cure modeling of aerospace composite materials, at the Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, and at the Changsha Institute of Technology, 5th Department, in the People's Republic of China.