2024
SMTA Founder’s Award
The Founder’s Award, SMTA’s highest honor, recognizes members who have made exceptional contributions to the electronics manufacturing industry, and to the SMTA.
2023
SEMI’s R&D Achievements
Flexi Award
The award, which recognizes world-class research originality in demonstrating the commercial potential for flexible hybrid electronics (FHE) or printed electronics, was conferred at the FLEX Conference held in San Francisco July 11-13.
2022
ASME’s Avram Bar-Cohen Memorial Medal
The ASME Avram Bar-Cohen Memorial Medal recognizes contributions to academic, research and industrial communities in the broad field of heat transfer and related electronics, photonics, mechanics and packaging phenomena.
2020
IEEE Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award
IEEE Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award for 2020, which recognizes those who have made outstanding contributions to the electrotechnology profession through teaching in industry, government or in an institution of higher learning.
2019
NextFlex Fellow
NextFlex, America’s Flexible Hybrid Electronics Manufacturing Institute, recognized Pradeep Lall at its recent FLEX conference in Monterey, California, as an individual who has accelerated the growth of the flexible hybrid electronics industry.
2018
Auburn Research Advisory Board’s Advancement of Research and Scholarship Achievement Award
The award recognizes Lall for his research achievements in the fields of harsh-environment electronics and flexible electronics. The award was established to recognize significant research and scholarly activity that exemplify and advance Auburn’s research and scholarship mission. The recipient of the annual award receives a $25,000 grant to further his or her research.
2018
IEEE Outstanding Sustained Technical Contributions Award
2018 recipient of the IEEE’s outstanding Sustained Technical Contributions Award for outstanding sustained contributions to the design, reliability and prognostics for harsh environment electronics systems.
2016
NSF Alex Schwarzkopf Award for Technological Innovation
Lall received the 2016 Alexander Schwarzkopf Prize for Technological Innovation for his work as director of Auburn University’s NSF Center for Advanced Vehicle and Extreme Environment Electronics, or CAVE3, which partners with industry, government, and academic agencies to address major technological challenges through pre-competitive research on automotive and harsh environment electronics.
2016
Wright A. Gardner Award Of The Alabama Academy Of Science
Recipient of the Wright A. Gardner Award of Alabama Academy of Science for his contributions to the development of methodologies for prognostication of electronics based on leading indicators of failure that have been adopted by the automotive industry for the development of next-generation onboard diagnostic systems.
2014
IEEE Exceptional Technical Achievement Award
Lall received the award for his exceptional contributions to the field of electronics reliability and manufacturing. His seminal work in the use of high speed imaging for measurement of interconnect and board assembly strains under shock and vibration has enabled the development of solutions for electronics survivability in high-g environments.
2013
ASME Mechanics Award
Lall was recognized for his research on finding methods to make electronics systems safer, more reliable, energy efficient and survivable in harsh conditions. His work includes the development of dynamic models for electronic assemblies and products subjected to mechanical shock and accidental drop, as well as prognostics to identify impending electronic failures based on leading indicators. His work in these areas has had a profound impact on product design and development.
2013
SMTA Member of Technical Distinction Award
Lall was recognized for his research in the area of electronics reliability and prognostics through Member of Technical Distinction Award by the Surface Mount Technology Association. Member of Technical Distinction Award recognizes individuals who have made significant and continuing contributions to the SMTA and the electronics manufacturing industry.
2013
Auburn University’s Creative Research and Scholarship Award
2013 Creative Research and Scholarship Awards for contributions through his research on not just any problems—tough ones that will make a contribution to society or improve the quality of human life. He especially enjoys working with his students on solutions.