Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic has decided to award an Honorary Doctoral degree to Dr. Ning Pan in 2009.
Awarded the Nano 50 for 2005 by NASA Tech Briefs for an invention on Carbon Nanotube supercapacitor.
2007 Awarded 3 Year Guest Professor by Donghua University, Shanghai, China
2004 Awarded the Fellow status by the America Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
2002 Awarded Guest Professor by two prominent universities in Shanghai, China, Donghua University and East China Polytechnic University.
1995 Awarded the Fellow status by the Textile Institute, the major worldwide textile professional society Headquartered in England.
2006 Organizer of the Textile Engineering Division sessions, ASME 2006 IMECE in Chicago, IL, Nov. 5-10.
2004-2006 Chair of the Textile Engineering Division, ASME
2004 Organizer of the Textile Engineering Division sessions, ASME 2004 IMECE in Anaheim, CA, Nov. 13-19.
2001 Co-Organizer, the 2001 Fiber Society Fall Conference in Lake Tahoe, NE, Oct 31, Nov 2.
2000 Elected the President of the Fiber Society.
1999 Elected the vice President of the Fiber Society.
1998 Selected as one of the keynote speakers for a major international conference with the theme 100 Years of Modern Fiber Science held in the US.
1997 Selected as the Fiber Society Distinguished Lecturer for 1997-1998.
2002 - Invited to visit and lecture at two universities in China funded by an earmarked grant named Prominent Scholars Seminar Grant from the China Education Ministry.
2002 - Invited by the Dept. Applied Mechanics, Chalmers University in Sweden to act as the External Reviewer and opponent for an exit dissertation defense of a PhD student.
1997 - Invited as a visiting scientist by the University of New South Wales in Australia for 2 months supported by a grant from the Australia Research Council.
1996 - Invited and hosted by the Textile Research Symposium in Japan to present a seminar at Kyoto University entitled Textile Research at Universities in USA.
1994 - Invited for an oral presentation at the Gordon Research Conference on Fiber Science.
1994 - Invited by the Technical University of Liberec in Czech Republic as a visiting scientist for 2 months sponsored with a special grant established by the Education Ministry of Czech Republic to invite from Western countries the recognized scientists.