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ASEE 2020 Awards Program 2020 ASEE AWARD Honorees ASEE AWARDS ASEE AWARDS TABLE OF CONTENTS OUTSTANDING ZONE CAMPUS REPRESENTATIVES AWARDS 1 OUTSTANDING ZONE CAMPUS REPRESENTATIVE AWARDS ASEE initiated this award to recognize those ASEE Campus Representatives who have achieved excellence in their roles as the Society’s representative on campuses within each of the four geographic zones. The ASEE Campus 2 ASEE 2019 BEST PAPER AWARDS Representative serves as a liaison to help determine members’ interests and reactions to Society programs and publications, to stimulate interest among the faculty in section and national meetings, and to promote individual 3 WILLIAM ELGIN WICKENDEN AWARD membership and involvement. 5 ROBERT G. QUINN AWARD 6 JOHN L. IMHOFF AWARD ZONE I ZONE III Ilya Y. Grinberg 7 DUPONT MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING AWARD Buffalo State College, The State University of New York Sara E. Wilson University of Kansas 8 SHARON KEILLOR AWARD ZONE II ZONE IV Ann D. Christy Ohio State University Paul M. Nissenson 9 JAMES H. MCGRAW AWARD California State Polytechnic University, Pomona 10 NATIONAL ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY TEACHING AWARD PAST WINNERS 11 NATIONAL ENGINEERING ECONOMY TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD 2010 George Sutherland, John Brocato, 2015 Navarun Gupta, Terri M. Lynch-Caris, Walter W. Buchanan, Craig Johnson Byron Garry, Carolyn Labun 12 FREDERICK J. BERGER AWARD 2011 Navarun Gupta, J. P. Mohsen, Steven Hietpas, 2016 Kanti Prasad, Cindy Waters, Amir Rezaei Walter W. Buchanan, Kevin Amende NATIONAL OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARD 13 2012 Kanti Prasad, Larry G. Richards, 2017 Kassim Tarhini, Terri M. Lynch-Caris, Walter W. Buchanan, Agnieszka Miguel Jay Wierer, Sam Spiegel 14 ISADORE T. DAVIS AWARD 2013 Surendra Gupta, Christopher J. Rowe, 2018 Justin Kile, Larry G. Richards, William Schell Kevin Drees, David Lanning 15 BENJAMIN GARVER LAMME AWARD 2019 Navarun Gupta, Jenna P. Carpenter, Winston F. Erevelles, 2014 Kanti Prasad, John W. Brocato, Krishna Pakala Matthew Kuhn 16 ASEE 2020 FELLOW MEMBER HONOREES 17 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 18 ASEE SECTION AWARDS 19 PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNICAL DIVISION AWARDS 23 PAST NATIONAL AND SOCIETY AWARD RECIPIENTS AND FELLOW MEMBER HONOREES For more information visit: 2020honors.asee.org For more information visit: 2020honors.asee.org 1 ASEE AWARDS ASEE AWARDS ASEE 2019 BEST PAPER AWARDS WILLIAM ELGIN WICKENDEN AWARD These awards recognize outstanding papers presented during Society year 2018–2019. One outstanding This award, sponsored by the Journal of Engineering Education editorial review board, recognizes the author(s) conference paper is selected from each of the four ASEE Zones. The Best Overall Zone Paper award consists of of the best paper published in ASEE’s scholarly research journal during the previous January-to-October $1,000. One outstanding conference paper is selected from each of the five ASEE Professional Interest Councils publication period. It is named in honor of the distinguished engineer, educator, philosopher, administrator, (PICs) and each receives an award of $1,000. The Best Overall PIC Paper award consists of $3,000. The Best and humanitarian who throughout his career devoted himself to the personal and professional development Overall Diversity Paper may be nominated from any paper presented in a PIC or Zone during Society year of younger members of the engineering fraternity. His wisdom and leadership so infused the monumental 2018–2019. “Report of the Investigation of Engineering Education, 1923–1929” that it has been popularly referred to as the Wickenden Report ever since. His publication The Second Mile has helped thousands of young engineers form a sound conception of engineering as a career. Awardees receive a commemorative plaque. BEST OVERALL PIC PAPER BEST PIC PAPER – PIC IV Paper: Beyond Pipeline and Pathways: Ecosystem Metrics Assessment of Project-Based Learning Courses Using Student Views on their Role in Society as an Engineer Crowd Signals and Relevant Ethical Issues Authors: Susan Lord, University of San Diego; Matthew Ohland, Purdue University; Richard Layton, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; and Michelle Camacho, University of San Diego GEORGIOS GEORGALIS AND KAREN MARAIS, PURDUE UNIVERSITY ANGELA BIELEFELDT, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER; DAVID ZHAO; ALEXANDRA KULICH, TUFTS UNIVERSITY; MADELINE POLMEAR, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER; NATHAN BEST OVERALL ZONE PAPER CANNEY, CYS STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS, INC.; CHRIS SWAN, SUSAN LORD MATTHEW OHLAND Implementation and First-Year Results of an TUFTS UNIVERSITY; DANIEL KNIGHT, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO Professor and Chair of Engineering, and Professor and Associate Head of Engineering Spatial Skills Enhancement Program BOULDER Professor of Electrical Engineering Engineering Education University of San Diego Purdue University ALEX DE ROSA AND MAXINE FONTAINE, STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BEST PIC PAPER – PIC V Mapping & Strengthening Curriculum-Based Industry/ BEST OVERALL DIVERSITY PAPER Academia Intersections Work in Progress: Aligning What We Want with What KATHERINE MCCONNELL, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER, We Seek: Increasing Comprehensive Review in the DENVER Graduate Admissions Process Susan M. Lord is professor and chair of integrated engineering Matthew Ohland is professor and associate head of BEST ZONE I PAPER at the University of San Diego. She earned a B.S. with distinction engineering education at Purdue University. He earned a Ph.D. LA’TONIA STINER-JONES AND WOLFGANG WINDL, OHIO STATE in civil engineering from the University of Florida, M.S. degrees Implementation and First-Year Results of an from Cornell University in materials science and electrical UNIVERSITY in materials engineering and mechanical engineering from Engineering Spatial Skills Enhancement Program engineering and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She codirects the National Effective Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and a B.S. in engineering and B.A. in religion from Swarthmore College. He codirects the BEST PIC PAPER – PIC I ALEX DE ROSA AND MAXINE FONTAINE, STEVENS INSTITUTE OF Teaching Institute (NETI) with Matt Ohland and Michael Prince. Effects of Alternative Course Design and Instructional TECHNOLOGY National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI) with Susan Lord and Her research focuses on the study and promotion of diversity Michael Prince. His research has been funded by over $20 Methods in the Engineering Classroom in engineering, including student pathways and inclusive BEST ZONE II PAPER million, mostly from the National Science Foundation. Along LINDY HAMILTON MAYLED, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA; LYDIA ROSS, teaching. Her research has been sponsored by the National with his collaborators, he has been recognized for his work on UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA; CASEY JANE ANKENY, NORTHWESTERN Research to Practice: Leveraging Concept Inventories Science Foundation. Lord was among the first to study Latinos longitudinal studies of engineering students with the William UNIVERSITY; JAY OSWALD, ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY in Statics Instruction in engineering and coauthored The Borderlands of Education: Elgin Wickenden Award for the best paper published in the Journal of Engineering Education in 2008 and 2011. He has RUTH WERTZ, VALPARAISO UNIVERSITY, AND THERESA GREEN, Latinas in Engineering with Michelle Camacho. A Fellow of BEST PIC PAPER – PIC II UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY the IEEE and ASEE, she is active in the engineering education also been recognized for the best paper in IEEE Transactions on Education in 2011 and 2015, multiple conference Best Paper Assessment of Project-Based Learning Courses Using community, including serving as general cochair of the Frontiers in Education Conference, president of the IEEE Education Society, awards, and the Betty Vetter Award for Research from the Women Crowd Signals BEST ZONE III PAPER in Engineering Proactive Network. The CATME Team Tools and associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education (ToE) developed under Ohland’s leadership and related research have GEORGIOS GEORGALIS AND KAREN MARAIS, PURDUE UNIVERSITY Blended Learning: Electrical Circuits for Non-EE and the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE). She and her Students been used by over 1.46 million students of more than 20,000 coauthors received the 2011 and 2019 Wickenden Awards faculty at more than 240 institutions in 87 countries. The tools BEST PIC PAPER – PIC III THERESA SWIFT AND AMARDEEP KAUR, MISSOURI UNIVERSITY OF for the best paper in JEE and the 2011 and 2015 Best Paper were recognized with the 2009 Premier Award for Excellence in Do They Understand Your Language? Assess Their SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Awards for the IEEE ToE. In Spring 2012, Lord spent a sabbatical Engineering Education Courseware and the Maryellen Weimer Fluency with Vector Representations at Southeast University in Nanjing, China, teaching and doing Scholarly Work on Teaching and Learning Award in 2013. BEST ZONE IV PAPER research. She is on the USD team implementing “Developing Ohland received the Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in ERIC DAVISHAHL, WHATCOM COMMUNITY COLLEGE; TODD Assessing Student Assessment in a Flipped Classroom Changemaking Engineers,” an NSF-sponsored Revolutionizing Engineering Education from the American Society for Engineering HASKELL, WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY; JILL DAVISHAHL, Education (ASEE) for his leadership of that project. He is a Fellow WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY; LEE SINGLETON, WHATCOM Engineering Education (RED) project. She is the 2018 recipient BRYAN J. MEALY, CALIFORNIA STATE
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