MAE Faculty members have earned numerous peer recognitions for their intellectual leadership. The MAE Department includes 12 members of the National Academy of Engineering, members of six other academies in the U.S. and abroad, 12 Fellows of APS, 8 Fellows of IEEE, 5 Fellows of ASME, 4 Fellows of AIAA, 2 Fellows of IFAC, 12 winners of the NSF Career Award, and recipients of many career medals, prizes, other young investigator awards, and best paper awards.