ASEE Fellows Named
The following members received the Fellow grade of membership in recognition of outstanding contributions to engineering or engineering technology education. This was conferred by ASEE's Board of Directors at the awards banquet held at the annual conference in Portland, Ore.
Adeyinka Adeyiga
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Hampton University
Nicholas Altiero
Dean, College of Engineering
Tulane University
Cristina Amon
Raymond Lane Distinguished Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Thomas Edgar
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Texas-Austin
John Lamancusa
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Carl Locke Jr.
Professor, Department of Chemical & Petroleum Engineering
University of Kansas
Jack Lohmann
Associate Provost
Georgia Institute of Technology
Thomas Regan
Professor Emeritus, Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Maryland-College Park
Joseph Shaeiwitz
Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
West Virginia University
Marwan Simaan
Bell Atlantic Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
John Steadman
Dean, College of Engineering
University of South Alabama
Benjamin Carver Lamme Award
Paul R. Gray, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California-Berkeley, received the Benjamin Garver Lamme Award recognizing his exemplary contributions to electrical engineering education through the guiding and mentoring of students, research, a textbook and universitywide academic leadership. Gray is coauthor of the textbook Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits, which is considered a leading textbook in its field. It has been translated into most major languages. A leader in research on analog and mixed signal integrated circuits for 30 years, his contributions are well documented in the archival and patent literature.
Established in 1928, the Benjamin Garver Lamme Award recognizes excellence in teaching, contributions to research and technical literature, and achievements that advance the profession of engineering college administration.
Frederick J. Berger Award
John Stratton, Professor of Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), received the Frederick J. Berger Award for his exemplary contributions to engineering technology education and his instrumental leadership of the engineering technology programs at RIT. Stratton has served for over 35 years at RIT and has been a leader of the school's engineering technology programs for over 20 years. He was the associate dean when the electrical/mechanical engineering technology department was developed and accredited. The telecommunications engineering technology program at RIT was the first telecommunications engineering technology program accredited by the Technology Accreditation Commission (TAC/ABET) in the United States.
The Frederick J. Berger Award was established in 1990 by Frederick J. Berger, and it recognizes and encourages excellence in engineering technology education. It is presented to both an individual and a school or department for demonstrating outstanding leadership in curriculum, techniques, or administration in engineering technology education.
Chester F. Carlson Award
Sudhir I. Mehta, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at North Dakota State University (NDSU), received the Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education. Mehta is recognized for creating outstanding innovations in engineering education including the development, implementation, assessment, and dissemination of "Statics: The Next Generation" materials. He is also recognized for his pioneering work in hypermedia-based learning, service learning, and leadership development. His work in using the hypermedia for developing CD-ROM-based resource modules for instrumentation and communication was selected for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) 1997 NSF Showcase. Mehta is the founder of the Excellence in Engineering Education (?-Cube) Club at NDSU.
The Chester F. Carlson Award, sponsored by the Xerox Corp., is presented annually to an individual innovator in engineering education who, by motivation and ability to extend beyond the accepted tradition, has made a significant contribution to the profession.
Clement J. Freund Award
Mike Mathews, Assistant Professor and Associate Director for Cooperative Education at Mississippi State University, received the Clement J. Freund Award for his exemplary leadership in cooperative education. His impact on the cooperative education program at Mississippi State University is demonstrated through his success over the past 29 years in establishing relationships with employers, placing students, and effectively working with university administration. Mathews's contributions to cooperative education are known on the regional and national levels. As a senior member in the cooperative education arena, he is involved in planning and hosting many regional and national cooperative education events, and he serves on regional and national boards, including involvement in ASEE's Cooperative Education Division and College Industry Education Conference.
The Clement J. Freund Award, established by the ASEE Cooperative Education Division in 1979, honors an individual in business, industry, government, or education who has made a significant positive impact on cooperative education programs in engineering and engineering technology.
Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education
Malgorzata S. Zywno, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Ryerson University, received the Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education, for her outstanding record of educational leadership and research and recognizing her as an expert in innovative pedagogy and the use of technology in engineering education. A 3M Teaching Fellow, Zywno's expertise in teaching with technology and her educational research have made her a sought-after speaker internationally. Teaching for more than 25 years, she has received consistently excellent teaching evaluations while at Ryerson and has received numerous teaching excellence and achievement awards, as well as Best Paper awards.
The Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education recognizes and honors outstanding women engineering educators who have an outstanding record in teaching engineering students and reasonable performance histories of research and service within an engineering school.
James H. McGraw Award
Mark A. Pagano, Dean of Continuing Education and Conferences at Purdue University, was awarded the James H. McGraw Award for his accomplishments as an outstanding educator, administrator, and contributor to engineering technology education. As a classroom teacher, he developed a number of courses in the thermal energy area and won awards for outstanding teaching at Purdue University and previously at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. At Purdue University, where he has served for the past 24 years, he is an Academic Leadership Fellow and recipient of the Outstanding Teacher Award for the mechanical engineering technology department. An active member of ASEE and the Engineering Technology Division (ETD) since 1985, Pagano served on the Frederick J. Berger and James H. McGraw Award committees and chaired the ETD Nominating Committee. He is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and now serves as chair of the Technology Accreditation Commission of ABET.
Established in 1950, the James H. McGraw Award is sponsored by the ASEE Engineering Technology Council and is funded by the Glencoe Division of MacMillan/McGraw-Hill. The award is presented for outstanding contributions to engineering technology education.
Fred Merryfield Design Award
Edward Cussler, Professor of Chemical Engineering & Material Science at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, received the Fred Merryfield Design Award for his contributions to chemical engineering through his groundbreaking book, Chemical Product Design, which he co-authored with Geoff Moggridge. Cussler has pioneered research in numerous areas, publishing over 200 articles and five books. He is the author of Multicomponent Diffusion (published in 1976), and Diffusion (published originally in 1984 with a second edition in 1997, followed recently by a Chinese edition). He is the co-author of Membrane Separation Systems, Bioseparations and most recently, Chemical Product Design, the English edition of which was published in 2001, followed since then by French and Chinese editions.
The Fred Merryfield Design Award, established in 1981 by CH2M Hill, recognizes an engineering educator for excellence in teaching of engineering design and acknowledges other significant contributions related to engineering design teaching.
Minorities in Engineering Award
Juan Gilbert, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University, received the Minorities in Engineering Award for his outstanding contributions toward increasing participation and retention of under-represented students in computer science and engineering. His model for recruiting, mentoring, retaining, and graduating women and minorities, "NSF-ITWF Scholars of the Future: An Implementation Model for Increasing Diversity in Information Technology," incorporates early exposure to research and mentoring. Gilbert has established a successful grass-roots effort in small county schools in Alabama to increase the high school graduation rate of African-Americans and has received state funding for the program. He brings high school students to the Auburn campus where they receive mentoring, learn computing, and are tutored in mathematics and science. Additionally, Gilbert and his research team have developed new software that assists institutions of higher education in maintaining diversity in their admissions process.
The Minorities in Engineering Award, sponsored by the DuPont Company, honors an engineering educator for exceptional achievement in increasing participation and retention of minorities and women in engineering.
National Outstanding Teaching Award
Ralph Flori, Associate Professor of Basic Engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR), was awarded the National Outstanding Teaching Award. Flori, who received 12 annual Outstanding Teaching Awards at UMR during 13 years of teaching, is also recognized as a leader in developing the use of technology in education through computer-assisted course teaching packages. A multidisciplinary engineer and a multimedia software developer, he teaches statics, dynamics, and mechanics of materials and is working with other faculty members to develop multimedia-based educational software (primarily BEST Dynamics) with the aim of transforming how these subjects are taught and learned. The BEST Dynamics project was funded by the U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) and has attracted both national and international interest. Flori leads a popular summer program, "Introduction to Engineering," for high school students, which is attended by 350 students each summer. A high percentage of these students subsequently enroll in engineering programs at UMR. At UMR, he developed the K-12 pipeline for engineering and retaining students during their first year in engineering.
The National Outstanding Teaching Award recognizes an engineering or engineering technology educator for excellence in outstanding classroom performance, contributions to the scholarship of teaching, and participation in ASEE section meetings and local activities.
William Elgin Wickenden Award
Michelle Johnson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Medical College of Wisconsin, and Sheri D. Sheppard, Senior Scholar of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University, received the William Elgin Wickenden Award in recognition of their paper, "Relationships Between Engineering Student and Faculty Demographics and Stakeholders Working to Affect Change," which was published in the April 2004 issue of the Journal of Engineering Education.
Michelle Johnson completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory at the Scoula Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. She received her B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (1990), her M.S. degree in mechanical engineering with an emphasis on Robotics from the University of California-lrvine (1994), and her doctoral degree in mechanical engineering with an emphasis in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Design from Stanford University (2001). Her research interests are focused on improving methods for design and development of robotic and mechatronic technology for rehabilitative and assisted living environments.
Sheri D. Sheppard is principally responsible for the Preparations for the Professions Program (PPP) engineering study at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. At Stanford University, besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design-related classes, she conducts research on weld fatigue and impact failures, fracture mechanics, and applied finite element analysis. Sheppard was recently named co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation grant to form the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, along with faculty at the University of Washington, Colorado School of Mines, and Howard University. Sheppard is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Before joining Stanford University, she held several positions in the automotive industry, including senior research engineer at Ford Motor Company's Scientific Research Lab.
The William Elgin Wickenden Award, sponsored by the Journal of Engineering Education editorial review board, recognizes the author of the best paper published in ASEE's Journal of Engineering Education (JEE), the scholarly research journal for the Society. JEE's editorial review board selects the best paper published during the previous January to October publication cycle.
ASEE Annual Conference Best Paper Awards
"This award recognizes high-quality papers that are presented at the annual conference. Papers awarded are from those that were presented at the conference the previous year. Six outstanding conference papers are selected: one from each of the five ASEE Professional Interest Councils (PICs) and one overall conference paper. The award consists of $1,000 for each PIC paper and $3,000 for the best conference paper.
Best Conference Paper
Presented to: Steven Zemke, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jennifer Beller, Washington State University; and Donald Elger, University of Idaho, Moscow
For: "Tailoring Cooperative Learning Events for Engineering Classes"
Session: 2131
Best Paper, PIC I
Presented to: Thomas M. Adams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
For: "An Undergraduate MEMS Course for Everyone"
Session: 3566
Best Paper, PIC II
Presented to: James J. Houdeshell, Sinclair Community College, and Gilah Pomeranz, Sinclair Community College.
For: "Preliminary Results From a NSF-ATE Funded Distributed Hybrid Instructional Delivery Project"
Session: 1648
Best Paper, PIC III
Presented to: Jean Hertzberg, University of Colorado-Boulder
For: "A Course in Flow Visualization: The Art and Physics of Fluid Flow"
Session: 2480
Best Paper, PIC IV
Presented to: Steven Zemke, University of Idaho, Moscow; Jennifer Beller, Washington State University; and Donald Elger, University of Idaho, Moscow
For: "Tailoring Cooperative Learning Events for Engineering Classes"
Session: 2131
Best Paper, PIC V
Presented to: Clifton Johnston, University of Calgary, and Daryl Caswell, University of Calgary
For: "Fundamentals of a First-Year Engineering Design and Communication Course: Familiarization, Functionality and Testing"
Session: 1793
Best Zone Paper
Presented to: Eric Matson and Scott DeLoach, Kansas State University
For: "Using Robots to Increase Interest of Technical Disciplines in Rural and Under Served Schools"
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