Woodie Flowers is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and recipient of an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Daniel Webster College. He was recently selected to receive a Public Service Medal from NASA and the Tower Medallion from Louisiana Tech University.

Flowers is a director of four companies and is on the board of Technology Review magazine. He is a member of the Lemelson-MIT Prize Board Executive Committee, and is National Advisor and Vice Chairman of the Executive Advisory Board for FIRST, a national organization that promotes youth involvement in science and technology.

Flowers received a B.S. from Louisiana Tech University and S.M., M.E., and Ph.D. degrees from MIT. Elizabeth Basha