Professor Liu was most fortunate to receive the 2025 Warren K. Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the highest international honor for educators in the field. 

For details, see:

·       Virginia Tech's Y. A. Liu Will Receive AIChE’s Warren K. Lewis Award for ChE Education | AIChE

·       Y.A. Liu receives Warren K. Lewis Award for chemical engineering education | Virginia Tech News | Virginia Tech

·       Professor Y.A. Liu Honored with Warren K. Lewis Award, Pioneering Chemical Engineering Education Innovation     and Sustainability - Forward Pathway

Recent International and National Recognitions Received by Graduate Students

·       The Humboldt Research Fellowship, Germany, to Adam McNeeley (2025).

·       AIChE Process Development Student Paper Award to Adam McNeeley (2024).

·       American Chemical Society, Editors’ Choice Article, February 16, 2024 - Adam McNeeley and Y. A. Liu., “Assessment of PET         Depolymerization Processes for Circular Economy: 2. Process Design Options and Process Modeling Evaluation of Methanolysis,         Glycolysis and Hydrolysis”,  Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 2024, 63, 3400-3424.

·       AIChE Separations Division, Graduate Student Research Award to Adam McNeeley, 2023.

·       Wiley, Top Downloaded Article in the AIChE Journal for Calander Year 2022, Niket Sharma and Y. A. Liu, ” A Science-Guided Machine         Learning (SGML) Approach to Modeling Chemical Processes: Review”,   AIChE Journal, 68, e17609 (2022).     

·       AIChE 2020 Process Development Student Paper Award to Niket Sharma.