Honors/ Awards

Prof. Gupta has been honored with several of the sought-after awards and recognitions. Some of these are:

1.      Recipient of Padma Shri in 1991, amongst the very first in IIT System.

Receiving Padam Shri Award from President of India (Shri R. Venkataraman)

2.      Recipient of J. C. Bose Memorial Award, (by the Prime Minister of India)

Recipient of J C Bose Award from the Prime Minister of India (Dr. Manmohan Singh)

3.      O. P. Bhasin Award, (by the Vice – President of India)

4.      Millennium Plaques of Honour (ISCA) Award, (by the Prime Minister of India)

5.      Dr Zakir Hussain Award

6.      Erskine Research (New Zealand) award, (1991)

7.      Alexander von Humboldt Research  (Germany) Award

Receiving Humboldt research award from the president of Humboldt Foundation

8.      Alumni Award, IITD Golden Jubilee Award

Golden Jubilee Award by IIT Delhi

9.      Distinguished Mechanical Engg. Educator Award by Lt Governor of Delhi

Distinguished mechanical engineering educator award being given by the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi.

10.  Life time Achievements Award – Int. Soc of Agile Manufacturing

11.  K.S. Krishanan Memorial Award of INSA

12.  Honoured by the President of India for his contributions to the Scientific Education on 25^thAnniversary of Duty Society. 

Being honored by the president of India (Gyani Zail Singh) for his contributions to the scientific education on 25^th Anniversary of the Duty Society (AMU)

13.  Conferred Doctor honoris Causa by Russian Academy of Sciences in 2008

14.  Mercator Professorship by the DFG, Germany,2011-12

15.  Award by the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany for his life time contributions to the Science of Large deformations and Impact Mechanics. 

16.  Award by the Society of Experimental Mechanics, USA for long term outstanding service to IMPLAST conferences. 

Award from Society of Experimental Mechanics USA

17. Received Prestigious “DRDO  ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE AWARD”  2018.

  Award from Defence Research and Development Organization

                   

18. Award by Russian Academy of Sciences, Ishlinsky Institute of Problems in Mechanics for his life time contributions.

19. Number of other honor's and awards from various institutions, organizations and Societies including awards for his life time contributions. These include several invitations from various academies/ universities/ conferences for special lectures.

20.  His diversified interests like music, poetry and painting have helped him remain in touch with social and cultural fabric of the country. He has worked on issues of scientific temper and has been invited to speak in the seminars on Science Culture and Consciousness, proceedings of which have published his papers

21. An honour for Prof Gupta and India when International Society of Impact Engineering nominated him as one of the five Honorary members chosen from across the globe.

     

(b) Editorial Membership: It was indeed a rare honour for Prof. Gupta that  He is/was on the Editorial Boards of six international and six national journals,: (1)Int. J. Mechanical Sciences, (2) Int. J. Impact Engineering,(3)  Int. J. Crashworthiness,(4) Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures, (5) Thin Walled Structures, (6) Int. J. Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, (7) J. of the Aeronautics Society of India, (8) Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, (9) Sadhna, (10)  Everyman’s Science,  (11) J of the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and (12) Defence Science Journal.

As an Editor, Prof Gupta encouraged the Indian Scientists to contribute papers. Participation of Indian scientists positively increased.

(c) Conferences held in His Honor

The biggest honour for a teacher is the love and affection of his students and colleagues, and peer recognition, which Prof. Gupta received in abundance. Conferences to honour him on his 60^th, 65^th, 70^th, and 75^th birthdays were held both in India and abroad. These conferences received very good response* from rest of the world.

       I.            His students and colleagues held a “Symposium on Large deformations” in 2002, at India International Centre, New Delhi, to honour his contributions to the subject and to the scientific community, on his 60^th birthday. Two special issues of the Defense Science Journal were devoted to its proceedings. (Volume 53, No.1-2, 2003).

     II.            The international scientific community honoured him on his 65th birthday by holding an international conference in 2007 at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany.

A special proceedings was published in Germany, and the preface by Prof. Albert Meyers may be seen in picture. 

Preface in honour of Prof. N. K. Gupta on his 65th Birthday

A special issues of Defence Science Journal was devoted to his birthday. (Volume 58, No.2, 2008).

 III.            In honour of his 70^th birthday, two conferences were held in 2012, one at the Indian National Science Academy in India and the second – a special session by the international community in NTU Singapore. A special issue of the “Proceedings Indian National Science Academy” was devoted to his birthday. (Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy, volume 79, 4/December 2013

 IV.            As a great honour for his work, a special issue of the International Journal of Impact Engineering (Volume 110, 2017) is published by the ELSEVIER, which was released on his 75^th birthday. Contributions were received from all over the globe. Preface by Prof. Norman Jones may be seen in picture.

Conferences were held in his honour on his birthdays in both India and abroad. Defence Science Journal, International Journal of Impact Engineering and the Proceedings of Indian National Science Academy dedicated their special issues in his honour.   Prof. Gupta is academician of rare abilities and is recognized internationally as the one who brought India on to the world research map of "IMPACT MECHANICS".