Fellowships, Prizes, and Awards

1. 2006, selected for membership in Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni, Georgia Institute of Technology. Membership is reserved for alumni of the engineering college under forty years of age who have distinguished themselves through professional practice and or service to GT, the profession, or society-at-large.
2. 2005-2006 Outstanding Professor AIAA award. Each year students in the Aerospace department vote for the “… professor deemed to be the best teacher in courses over the past academic year”.
3. Invited by the National Science Foundation to be a part of the US delegation for US-Japan Young Researcher in Nano Program, in US March 2006, in Japan Oct 2006.
4. Won best paper in session award for conference paper: M.Armani, S.Walker, B.Shapiro, “Modeling and Control of Electrically Actuated Surface Tension Driven Micro-Fluidic Systems”, Joint 2005 International Symposium on Intelligent Control & 13th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (2005 ISIC-MED), Cyprus, Greece, 27-29 June 2005.
5. Patent awarded Invention of the year in 2004 at the University of Maryland within the Physical Science category. One winner was chosen in each of the six categories by the Office of Technology Commercialization and by an external review process. B.Shapiro, E.Smela, P.Abshire, D.Wirtz “Cell Sensor Based Pathogen Detection”. Provisional patent filed by OTC office Sept 2004.
6. Awarded ‘rainmaker’ status by the Vice President of Research, University of Maryland for securing major contract and grant support. Sept 2004.
7. Conference paper chosen as best presentation at conference: G.Barrett, E.Smela, B.Shapiro, S.Fanning, L.H.Oh, M.S.Furst, J.Wallace, P.Sheth, N.Thakor, A.Natarajan, “The Development of a MEMS Based System for the Treatment of Urinary Incontinence”, 19th ASME Nanomechanics conference, Reno, Nevada, 18 May 2004.
8. Invention of the year finalist, one of three for invention of the year 2003 at the University of Maryland. B.Shapiro, S.Chaudhary, M.Armani, R.Probst “Arbitrary and Simultaneous Control of Multiple Particles in Micro-Fluidic Systems”. Invention of disclosure submitted to UMD Office of Commercialization on 14 Dec 2002. Patent filed 5 Sept 2004.
9. 2003 NSF CAREER Award “CAREER: Feedback Control of Micro-Fluidic Packets and the Bio-Particles Within Them”, funded by Dr. Maria Burka (CTS) and Dr. Kishan Baheti (ECS) for research on modeling and control of bio-chemical micro flows.
10. 1995-98 NSF fellowship for PhD studies.