Profshawsgroup

• Fellow, ASM International (since 2004).
• Fellow, World Academy of Materials and Manufacturing Engineering Poland (since 2005).
• Member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (since 2006)

Research Awards and Featured in Various Magazines:

• “Energy Award” in 2018 presented by International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM).
• Energy Award Lecture in the Plenary Session of the 20^th Assembly of the European Advanced Materials Congress 2018: “Hierarchical Design and Synthesis of Si Anodes for Next-Generation Li-ion Batteries”.
• “Key Scientific Article contributing to the Excellence in Energy Research” featured by Renewable Energy Global Innovations in June 2015.
• Keynote Presentation at the 2^nd International Conference on Materials Science and Materials Chemistry: “Coating as a Potent Method to Enhance the Specific Capacity, Charge Rate and Cycle Life of Cathodes for Next-Generation Li-ion Batteries”, London, United Kingdom, March 20 – 21, 2019.
• Keynote Presentation at THERMEC’2016: “Hierarchical Design and Synthesis of Nanomaterials to Enable High Capacity Rechargeable Battery Electrodes,” Graz, Austria, May 29 – June 3, 2016.
• Keynote Presentation at Cleantech 2014: “High Voltage, High Capacity, Ambient Temperature Sodium-Based Flow Batteries,” Washington DC, June 15 – 19, 2014.
• Keynote Presentation at ISPlasma2013: “Energy Storage Enabled by Nanomaterials and Advanced Processing,” Nagoya, Japan, January 28 - February 1, 2013.

• NSF Highlights: “Next Generation Bone Implants: More Like the Real Thing” for the NSF Project: Functionally Graded Orthopedic Implants via the             Slurry Mixing and Dispensing Process (2011).

• Outstanding Poster Award, MS&T’ 2011, October 16 – 20, 2011, Columbus, OH (2011).

• “Highly Commended Paper for Excellence 2006” by Emerald Group Publishing Limited (2006).

• Best Poster Award for the 14th Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF) Annual Meeting, Austin, TX (2003).

• Second place of the 1991 Excellent Academic Papers, the Science Association of Fujian, China (1991).

• “Novel Synthesis of Nanostructured Carbides” featured in Chemical Engineering, 105 [2] 27 (1998); in Am. Ceram. Soc. Bull., 77 [5] 24 (1998); and in         Sealing Technology, No. 54, p. 6 (1998).

• “Thermal Spraying of Nanostructured Al2O3-TiO2 Coatings & Nanostructured WC-Co Coatings” featured in High Tech Ceramics News, 14 [4] 3                 (2002) and in Small Times Magazine, Sept 19, 2002.

• “Low Cost, High Performance Nanostructured Bulk WC-Co Materials” featured in Cutting Tool Engineering, 55 [3] 78 (2003).
• "Functionally Graded Implants Fuse Strength with a Bioactive Surface" featured in Medical Production engineering News, March 2010, p. 6.
• “Shaw Pioneers New Nanomaterials,” featured in UConn Magazine, Spring 2010, p. 10.
• “Cool It! Molecular-Level Mechanism for Hydrogenation in Hydrogen Storage System Revealed,” featured by EMSL, published online at                               www.emsl.pnl.gov.

• “PNNL and Connecticut New Low Temperature Hydrogen Solid Storage” featured by The Hydrogen Journal, published online at              http://www.h2journal.com/ displaynews.php?NewsID=575.
• "Catch-and-Release Solid-State Fuel Cell Material Operates Coolly,” featured by Battelle Newsletter – the Business of Innovation, December 3, 2010.

• 2018 – ASM Chicago Regional Chapter Carl Samans Award for outstanding research in Li-ion batteries (Mr. Maziar Ashuri)
• 2018 – The First Place winner in the poster competition at the 2018 Joint Advanced Photon Source/Center for Nanoscale Materials(APS/CNM) Users Meeting, Argonne National Laboratory, May 8, 2018 (Ms. Qianran He).
• 2018 – The First Place winner at the ASM Chicago Regional Chapter Poster Competition (Ms. Shan-Ju Chiang).
• 2018 – Armour College of Engineering 2018 Scholarship for Research in Engineering for outstanding research in Na-ion batteries (Ms. Mei Luo).
• 2018 – The First Place winner in the MMAE Department poster competition at the PhD student category (Ms. Qianran He).
• 2018 – The Third Place winner at the ASM Chicago Regional Chapter Poster Competition (Ms. Mei Luo).
• 2010 – Outstanding Graduate Student Award of the Materials Science and Engineering Program, UConn (Dr. Tippawan Markmaitree)
• 2011 – Graduate Excellence in Materials Science (GEMS) Award (Dr. Yang Zhong), MS&T’ 2011, October 16 – 20, 2011, Columbus, OH.
• 2011 – Engineering Outstanding Women Graduate Student Award, UConn (Dr. Xuefei Wan)
• 2009 – Outstanding Graduate Theses Award of the School of Engineering, UConn (Dr. William A. Osborn).

Award-Winning Faculty Advisor to the Student Chapters at the University of Connecticut (1998 – 2001 & 2002 – 2004) with the following national and international awards:

• ASM/TMS Chapters of Excellence for Technical Programming in 1999
• ASM/TMS Chapters of Excellence for Technical Programming in 2001
• ASM/TMS Chapters of Excellence for Promotion of the Field in 2003
• The First Place Winner of the 2003 AIST, ASM, TMS World Materials Outreach Day Award
• The First Place Winner of the 2004 AIST, ASM, TMS World Materials Outreach Day Award

Other Awards (Dr. Shaw):

• 2010 – Nominated for the 2010 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience.
• 2010 – The John & Virginia Towers Distinguished Lecture, Michigan Technological University.
• 2011 – Nominated for the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor at the University of Connecticut.
• 2006 – Outstanding Faculty Member of the Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering Dept., University of Connecticut.
• 2001 – UConn Metallurgy and Materials Engineering 2001 Outstanding Department Member Award.
• 2000 – UConn School of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, 2000.
• 1999 – Honorary Advisory Professorship of Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.
• 1999 – Honorary Guest Professorship of Fuzhou University, Fuzhou, China.
• 1995 – Olin Junior Faculty Development Award, Olin Corporation.
• 1994 - Los Alamos National Laboratory J. Robert Oppenheimer Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.
• 1992 – First place of the ASM International Graduate Student Paper Contest, ASM International.
• 1992 – Oak Ridge National Laboratory Eugene P. Wigner Fellowship Award, 1992.