LSU ME Professor Receives STLE International Award
May 28, 2026
STLE President Steffen Bots (left) presents Khonsari with the 2026 STLE International Award during the STLE President’s Luncheon & 80th Annual Meeting on May 19 in New Orleans.
LSU Mechanical Engineering Professor Michael Khonsari was recently awarded the Society of Tribologists and Lubrication Engineers (STLE) International Award, which is STLE’s highest technical honor and bestows lifetime honorary membership on the recipient. The award, which was established in 1948, is given in recognition of the recipient’s outstanding contributions in tribology, lubrication engineering or allied fields.
Khonsari is a Boyd professor and holds the Dow Chemical Endowed Chair at LSU. He is the director of the NSF Center for Innovations in Structural Integrity Assurance (CISIA) and was the Editor-in-Chief of ASME Journal of Tribology from 2012-2022. He currently serves on the editorial board of 10 scientific journals and is the Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering. Khonsari is a Fellow of AAAS, NAI, ASME, and STLE. He is a recipient of numerous awards and honors, including ASME Mayo Hersey, ASME Burt NewKirk, and NLGI Clarence E. Earle Memorial. He concurrently serves as Associate Commissioner for Research at the Louisiana Board of Regents. He is a Governor appointee to the Louisiana Innovation Council established in 2010.