Cheng has published four books:
Analysis of Linear Systems (1959, translated into Chinese; Indian Student Edition, 1988),
Field and Wave Electromagnetics (1st. ed. 1983, translated into Chinese, 2nd ed. 1989), He has won several best paper awards, an Achievement Award of the Chinese Institute of Engineers, a Distinguished Service Award of the Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society and an annual research award of the Society of Sigma Xi. He was a Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). a Fellow and Chartered Engineer of the British Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He was a member of the
New York Academy of Sciences,
Sigma Xi, and
Eta Kappa Nu (Electrical Engineering Honorary). In 1960–61 He was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship to study and conduct research in London and Munich. He was selected by the National Academy of Sciences to be an Exchange Scientist to Hungary in 1972, to Yugoslavia in 1974, and to Poland and Romania in 1978. In 1975–76 he served as a Liaison Scientist at the London Branch of the
Office of Naval Research. The IEEE Antenna and Propagation Society appointed him as the European Lecturer under the Distinguished Lecturer Program for the same period. Cheng was a member of the IEEE Publications Board for 1968-70. He was the Consulting Editor of an Electrical Engineering Monograph Series for Intext Educational Publishers. From 1961 to 1978 he served as a Consulting Editor for Electrical Science books published by Addison Wesley Publishing Company. He was a consultant for GE, IBM, TRW and Syracuse Research Corporation. He was an Honorary Professor of the Northwest Institute of Telecommunication Engineering, the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and the Shanghai Jao Tong University (SJTU). He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Engineering degree by the Chiao Tung University in Taiwan in 1985 as well as an Honorary Doctors degree by the Xidian University in Xi'an, China in 1998. He is listed in a number of biographical references, including Who's Who in America, Who's Who in American Education, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in Electromagnetics, Dictionary of International Biography (U.K.) and Who's Who Among Asian Americans. In 1996, the centennial year of SJTU, Dr. Cheng established and funded an Award for Teaching and Research Excellence at the School of Electronics and Information Technology. Every year a selection committee is chosen to select one exceptional teacher, one outstanding research professor and three outstanding graduate students to receive the awards. ==See also==