B.E.S.T. (bright, energetic, skilled, trail blazer) Award presented to Habib Dagher, AEWC Director, brom Composites Manufacturing Magazine, September 2009. 

Ocean Energy Academic Pioneer Award, June 17, 2009, awarded at the OceanEnergy 2009 Conference. 

American Composites Manufacturers Association, Most Creative Product to AEWC's blast resistant panels, January 16, 2009.

American Composites Manufacturers Association, Best Technical Paper, Green Composites Category, at ACMA's annual conference, January 16, 2009, to Danial Alvarez, AEWC graduate student, Habib Dagher, AEWC Director, civil engineering associate professors Roberto Lopez-Anido and William Davids, and professor of wood science and technology Douglas Gardner for their paper Behavior of Natural-Fiber/Thermoplastic Sheet Piling.

Named Champion for Economic Development, Sept 18, 2008, by the Maine Development Foundation.

Society of Wood Science & Technology first prize in poster presentations to Gloria Oporto, AEWC graduate student, for her poster "Production and testing of wood plastic composites manufactured from hot water extracted wood" SWST 51st Annual Convention, Concepcion, Chile, Nov 10-11, 2008.

2008 Forest Products Society L.J. Markwardt Award to Doug Gardner, Steve Shaler, for Evaluation of Load Transfer in the Cellulosic-Fiber/Polymer Interphase Using a Micro-Raman Tensile Test ( co-authors William Tze, Shane O’Neill, Carl Tripp), presented at 62nd Forest Products Society International Convention, June 23, 2008.

SAMPE 08 Conference, First Place for Outstanding Paper to Rodrigo Silva-Munoz, AEWC graduate student, and Roberto Lopez-Anido, AEWC faculty, for their paper Monitoring of Marine Grade Composite Doubler-Plate Joists Using Embedded Fiber Optic Strain Sensors. May 21, 2008.

Society of Plastics Engineers, First Prize for an outstanding poster at Polymer Nanocomposites 2008 to AEWC graduate students, Alper Kiziltas and Jason Stevens for their poster Mechanical properties of thermoplastic polymer nanocomposite filled with cellulose crystals. March 5, 2008.

American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) People’s Choice Award for exhibiting the highest degree of design, innovation, creativity and the best use of composite materials  to Modular Ballistic Protection System. Oct 15, 2007.

American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) Best of Show Award, recognized as the highest composites industry award, for being the year’s finest product, to Modular Ballistic Protection System. Oct 15, 2007.

America’s Best Timber Bridges Award of Merit to the Milbridge Pier, designed by the AEWC Center. This award program highlights the elegance, strength, economy and historical role of timber bridges. September 2005. 

2004 Markwardt Wood Engineering Award for the most outstanding research paper in the field of wood as an engineering material presented June 29, 2004 to Stephen Shaler, AEWC Associate Director, for his paper Mechanical Properties of Individual Southern Pine Fibers. Part I. Determination and Variability of Stress-Strain Curves With Respect to Tree Height and Juvenility, published in Wood and Fiber Science with co-authors L. Groom and L. Mott.

Governor’s Award for Accomplishment in Maine’s Natural Resource-Based Industry presented November 17, 2003 to the AEWC Center for leadership in developing sustainable uses of Maine’s natural resources.

Mara Award First Place for excellence in writing and research from the Society for Wood Science and Technology to AEWC Research Associate L. Muszynski, L.F. Wang, and AEWC Assistant Director S. M. Shaler for their paper Short Term creep tests on phenol-resorcinol-formaldehyde(PRF) resin undergoing moisture content changes. 2003.

2002 National Timber Bridge Award of Merit in the category of Rehabilitation of an Existing Bridge by APA – The Engineered Wood Association, American Institute for Timber Construction, USDA Forest Service, Federal Highway Administration, American Wood Preservers Institute and Roads and Bridges Magazine for replacement of an aging bridge utilizing new FRP reinforced glulam bridge deck on the Skidmore Bridge located in Union, Maine.

2002 National Timber Bridge First Place Award in the category of Rehabilitation of an Existing Bridge by APA – The Engineered Wood Association, American Institute for Timber Construction, USDA Forest Service, Federal Highway Administration, American Wood Preservers Institute and Roads and Bridges Magazine for rehabilitation of the historic Tohickon  Aqueduct with FRP glulam trusses.

2002 Award for Composites Excellence in the Market Expansion category from the Composites Fabricators Association for development of FRP Composite Drain for Highway Bridge Decks which exhibits the potential to produce the greatest ongoing impact to open and expand markets for composite fabricators.

1st Prize, Society of Wood Science and Technology Poster Competition, Wood Adhesives 2000 Conference, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, June 2000, to Shane O'Neill, AEWC Laboratory Engineering Specialist, entitled "Effect of Various Chemical Additives on VOC Emissions from Southern Pine Flakeboard".