Awards and Honors
Fulbright Senior Specialist Program Fellow, August 2009
Fellow of the British Institute of Food Science and Technology, 2006
AIChE Outstanding Volunteer Service Award. 2006
IFT International Division Outstanding Volunteer. July 2005.
IFT Nicolas Appert Award, Institute of Food Technologists, 2005—Highest Award in Food Science and Technology granted by any institution around the world.
Fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists, The Society for Food Science and Technology, 2003
Elected permanent member of the International Academy of Food Science and Technology (IAFoST), 2003 (award received in Chicago, IL)
Elected to Governing Council of IUFoST (International Union for Food Science and Technology) for the term 2003-2006
Sir Frederick McMaster Fellowship for Excellence in Scientific Research. Government of Australia, 2002.
Member, National Academy of Engineering (Uruguay), Montevideo, Uruguay, 2001.
John Christian Fellowship to deliver a series of lectures in Food Process Engineering at Food Science Australia-CSIRO, Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, 2001.
International Award, Institute of Food Techologists, Chicago, IL, 2001.
Cited in Lexington’s Who’s Who, 1999-2000 Millennium Edition.
Faculty Excellence in Research Award, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Washington State University, 1999.
Institute of Food Technologists Scientific Lecturer, Chicago, IL. 1998-2001.
Institute of Food Technologists Scientific Communicator, Chicago, IL. 1998 – 2005
Cited in International Who’s Who of Professionals, 1998.
Sahlin Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Arts Finalist, Washington State University, 2000, 2001 and 2002.
Sahlin Faculty Award for Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Arts Nomination, Washington State University, 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2001.
Researcher of the Year, College of Engineering and Architecture, Washington State University, 1997.
Generalitat de Valencia Fellowship to conduct research for three months at IATA (Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos), Valencia, Spain, 1997.
Research Excellence in Biological Systems Engineering, College of Engineering and Architecture, Washington State University, 1996 and 1997.
Featured Researcher. College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Washington State University, 1996-1998.
ESCOP/ASOP Fellowship to receive training in administration leadership, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, 1996 (did not attend).
Transactions of the ASAE Paper Award, 1995.
Cited in American Men & Women in Science, 1994.
Distinguished International Professor. Government of Catalonia, Spain, 1994.
University of Lleida Fellowship to conduct research for two months at this Institution, Lleida, Spain, 1994.
Honorary Professor. University of Uruguay, Uruguay, 1993 – present.
Kharkov Exchange Faculty Advisor. College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Washington State University (not accepted due to academic schedule conflicts), 1992 and 1993.
Outstanding Teaching Faculty in Agricultural Engineering. College of Engineering and Architecture, Washington State University, 1992.
Featured Teacher, College of Agriculture and Home Economics, Washington State University, 1992.
Cited in Who's Who Among Hispanic Americans, 1992.
Dedication Ceremony. AIChE-Student Chapter, Mayagüez, PR, 1990.
NSF-EPSCoR Scholarly Productivity Award for Excellence in Research, NSF-EPSCoR Program, Mayagüez, PR, 1988 and 1989.
University of Massachusetts Fellowship for Ph.D. studies in Food Engineering, 1982-1985.
Fulbright Scholarship for Master of Science studies in Food Engineering at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1980-1982.
Government of Israel Scholarship, Ministry for Foreign Affairs: International Postgraduate Course in Computer Applications to Water Resources; Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, 1980.
Youth for Understanding Scholarship to study seven months at a US High School, 1967 (not accepted due to academic schedule conflicts).
Director
Center for Nonthermal
Processing of Food
Biological Systems Engineering (BSysE)
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