UWM Distinguished Professor Pradeep Rohatgi was elected as an honorary member of the Metals, Minerals and Materials Society of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME-TMS) – the organization’s pinnacle award – in March at the 2025 annual meeting.
Rohatgi was recognized as a world leader in research on solidification processing of metal matrix composites, education of materials professionals, and founder of laboratories for materials research.
Rohatgi also is a Fellow of TMS and has served on TMS technical committees. He has served as the founder and director to two national laboratories of CSIR in Trivandrum and Bhopal, India, and the UWM Centers for Advanced Materials Manufacture and Composites at UWM.
He is a recipient of number of awards for research excellence from all over the world, a fellow of 10 professional societies, and a member of the National Academy of Inventors.