Recognitions
He is Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of science, Bangalore.
Some notable recognitions he received include those from AIAA (the Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Medal; the Pendray Aerospace Literature Medal and the SDM Lecture Award); from the Federal Aviation Administration (“Excellence in Aviation Award”); from the ASCE (the Aerospace Structures and Materials Award); from the Society of Engineering Science (The Eringen Medal); from ICCES ( the "Hilbert Medal" and the "ICCES Gold Medal"); from JSME, Japan (the Computational Mechanics Medal); from the Greek National Association of Computational Mechanics (The Computational Mechanics Medal); from JSPS, Japan (JSPS Fellow, University of Tokyo); from the United States Secretary of Commerce (Distinguished Service Award, the President’s National Medal of Technology Committee); from Georgia Tech (the second annual Distinguished Professor Award in 1986; and twice the annual Outstanding Researcher Awards, in 1991 and 1993). From Sigma Xi (the Sustained Research Award); from the Science Citation Index (one of 100 most highly cited researchers in engineering, 1980–2000); from the National Academy of Engineering (Technical Achievement Award, 1995). He has been a Midwestern Mechanics Lecturer (1989), as well as a Southwestern Mechanics Lecturer (1987).
ICCES has established the Satya N. Atluri ICCES Medal in honor of its Founder. The Satya N. Atluri ICCES Medal was awarded to Subra Suresh of MIT in 2009, to Ratan Tata, Chairman of Tata Sons of Mumbai in 2010, and to Dr. Guangjing Cao, President, Three Gorges Dam Groups, China, in 2011.
On 26 January 2013, his motherland honoured him with the Padma Bhushan, in the category of Science & Engineering, to be awarded formally soon, by President Pranab Kumar Mukherjee, of the Republic of India, in ceremonies in New Delhi.
In 2012 he was awarded the Nadai Medal, the highest award of the Materials Division of ASME, in recognition of significant contributions and outstanding achievements which broaden the field of materials engineering .
In December 2005, his former students, colleagues and friends celebrated his 60th birthday at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in Chennai, India. This occasion was graced by Bharata Ratna Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the then President of the Republic of India.
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