• U.S. Defense Science Study Group Member, Sponsored by DARPA, 2008-2009.
• NAE Frontiers in Engineering Symposium, Invited Participant, September 2007.
• Xerox Award for Faculty Research, UIUC College of Engineering, 2006.
• Willett Faculty Scholar Award, UIUC College of Engineering, 2005-2008.
• 2004 H. A. Wheeler Applications Prize Paper Award, from the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, for the paper "Analysis and Design of Broad-band Single-Layer Rectangular U-slot Microstrip Patch Antennas," S. Weigand, G. Huff, K. Pan, and J. T. Bernhard, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 457-468, March 2003. The H. A. Wheeler Award recognizes the paper considered to be the best applications paper in the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation for the past year.
• Willett Faculty Scholar Award, UIUC College of Engineering, 2002-2005.
• Best Paper of the Year, NASA Communications Technology Division, 2000. For R. R. Romanofsky, J. T. Bernhard, F. W. Van Keuls, F.A. Miranda, G. Washington, and C. Canedy, "K-band phased array antennas based on Ba0.60Sr0.40TiO3 thin-film phase shifters," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques, vol. 48, no. 12, December 2000, pp. 2504-2510.
• NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship, NASA Glenn Research Center, 2000.
• NASA-ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship, NASA Glenn Research Center, 1999.
• Vice President's Discretionary Fund Award, University of New Hampshire, 1996 - 1997.
• Summer Faculty Fellowship, University of New Hampshire, 1996.
• Class of 1944 Professorship, University of New Hampshire, 1995 - 1998.
• NSF Graduate Fellowship, Duke University, 1990 - 1993.