Arno Römmeler, former doctoral student in Professor Dual's group at the Institut for Mechanical Systems received the René-Hornung Prize for his dissertation entitled " Air coupled ultrasonic defect detection in thin walled polymer specimen with Lamb waves"

Dhananjay Deshmukh, doctoral student in Professor Dual's group at the Institute for Mechanical Systems, received a poster prize at SSB+RM.

Alen Pavlic, doctoral student in Prof. Dual's group at the Institute for Mechanical Systems, received the W. Terence Coakley Award 2021 for the best flash-talk presentation at Acoustofluidics 2021 entitled: "Microstreaming and acoustic interaction forces between two particles in a standing wave within a viscous fluid".  He is the fifth award winner in a row of distinguished young researchers.