and 2016 The Physics of Life: The Evolution of Everything. He credits these books for his award of the Ralph Coats Roe Medal from the ASME in 2017. He was cited for "permanent contributions to the public appreciation of the pivotal role of engineering in an advanced society through outstanding accomplishments as an engineering scientist and educator, renowned communicator and prolific writer". In November 2017 the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia announced that Bejan would be awarded the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering. He was cited for "his pioneering interdisciplinary contributions in thermodynamics and convection heat transfer that have improved the performance of engineering systems, and for constructal theory, which predicts natural design and its evolution in engineering, scientific, and social systems." On 27 June 2019, in Berlin, the Humboldt Foundation awarded Prof. Bejan the Humboldt Research Award for lifetime achievement. He was cited for "his pioneering contributions to modern thermodynamics and "Constructal Law" – a law of physics that predicts natural design and its evolution in biology, geophysics, climate change, technology, social organization, evolutionary design and development, wealth and sustainability". On 30 December 2019, in Ankara, the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) awarded Prof. Bejan the TÜBA International Academy Prize in the category of Basic and Engineering Sciences "for his remarkable number of creative works such as combining thermodynamics and heat transfer in the field of thermodynamics, developing design as a science that brings together all fields, and putting forth "Constructal Theory". On 20 February 2020, in Durham, the French government awarded Prof. Bejan the title of Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms. On 18 July 2021, the International Association for Green Energy (IAGE) gave Prof. Bejan the IAGE Lifetime Achievement Award “For revolutionary contributions to thermal sciences through entropy generation minimization and the original development of a new law in physics, the constructal law, for predicting natural design and its evolution as climate, social ecosystems, and sustainability.” Selected awards and honors Bejan has received multiple awards and honorary degrees. Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), elected October 1987 Max Jakob Memorial Award (ASME and AIChE), 1999 Ralph Coats Roe Award, American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE), 2000 Honorary Member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2011 Member of the Academy of Europe, elected 2013 Member of the national academies of Mexico, Turkey, Romania and Moldova. Ralph Coats Roe Medal, ASME, 2017