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 ASEE annual conference in Salt Lake City.
Robert N. Braswell
Professor, Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering
Florida A&M University and Florida State University
Marvin E. Criswell
Professor, Civil Engineering
Colorado State University
Jose B. Cruz, Jr.
Chair, Electrical Engineering
Ohio State University
Stephen W. Director
Dean of Engineering
University of Michigan
Richard C. Dorf
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California-Davis
Renata S. Engel
Associate Vice Provost for Teaching Excellence
Pennsylvania State University
Lucy C. Morse
Professor, Engineering Technology
University of Central Florida
Robert H. Todd
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Brigham Young University
William Troxler
President
Capitol College
Jack L. Waintraub
Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering Technology
Middlesex County College
Ward O. Winer
Chair, George W. Woodruff School of
Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
David N. Wormley
Dean of Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
Grants
In May, ASEE was awarded a three-year grant
by the National Science Foundation for the "Rigorous
Research in Engineering Education: Creating a Community of
Practice" project. ASEE will be working on this project
with the Colorado School of Mines and the University of Minnesota-Twin
Cities.
Benjamin Garver Lamme Award
Stephen W. Director, dean of engineering at
the University of Michigan, was awarded the Benjamin Garver
Lamme Award in recognition of his leadership in engineering
education and for his national and international roles in
reforming engineering curriculum and accreditation philosophy.
As an education administrator, he has led two major engineering
schools to higher levels of excellence in education and is
a leading authority in computer-aided design. His pioneering
textbook Circuit Theory: The Computational Approach (John
Wiley, 1975) was one of the first to introduce computer usage
and numerical techniques into the circuits sequence. In 1989,
while head of the electrical and computer engineering department
at Carnegie Mellon University, he initiated a reform of the
electrical and computer engineering curriculum resulting in
a new bachelor's degree in electrical and computer engineering.
This curriculum has received both national and international
acclaim and has motivated change at other universities.
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.
W. Leighton Collins Award
John A. Weese, Regents Professor of Mechanical
Engineering at Texas A&M University, was awarded the W.
Leighton Collins Award for a lifetime of significant contributions
to engineering and engineering technology education and for
distinguished and unusual service to the engineering education
community and to ASEE.
Weese has been involved in ASEE for over 45 years. Active
at the national, sectional, and regional levels, he served
as ASEE president in 1999; vice president for public affairs;
chair of the engineering research council; chair of the ASEE
Publications Policy Committee; chair of the ASEE Awards Policy
Committee; and a member of the ASEE Projects Board and Long
Range Planning Committees.
Established in 1971, the W. Leighton Collins Award for Distinguished
and Unusual Service is given for significant individual contributions
to education in engineering, engineering technology, and allied
fields.
Distinguished Service Citation
Lawrence Wolf, professor and program director
for manufacturing engineering technology and mechanical engineering
technology at the Oregon Institute of Technology, received
the ASEE Distinguished Service Citation for his long, continuous,
and distinguished service to education in engineering and
engineering technology through his active participation in
the work of ASEE. A fellow of ASEE and ABET, Wolf served as
chair of the ASEE International Division; vice chair and program
chair for the ASEE Engineering Technology Division; ASEE vice
president for Institutional Councils; and vice chair and newsletter
editor for the ASEE Academy of Fellows. He has served as president
of Oregon Institute of Technology; professor and dean of the
college of technology at the University of Houston; and associate
professor and department head of manufacturing engineering
technology at Purdue University.
The Distinguished Service Citation is granted to an ASEE
member in recognition of long, continuous, and distinguished
service to education in engineering and engineering technology
through active participation in the work of ASEE. The citation
recognizes the kind of diligent, steadfast, and persevering
service that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Donald E. Marlowe Award
Stanley T. Rolfe, the Albert P. Learned Professor
of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering at
the University of Kansas, was awarded the Donald E. Marlowe
Award in recognition of his 23 years as a department chair
at the University of Kansas and his strong technical contributions.
His efforts as an administrator have lead to recruitment and
mentorship of a number of outstanding faculty and major improvements
in the civil, environmental, and architectural engineering
department. He is internationally known for his expertise
in fracture mechanics through the three editions of a textbook
and his national committee contributions. Through his efforts
as interim chair of the civil, environmental, and architectural
engineering department at the University of Kansas (2002-2003),
the Robinson-Veatch Family Departmental Office Complex was
funded entirely by private sources, and the design of the
complex was completed.
Established in 1981 by the ASEE Board of Directors, the Donald
E. Marlowe Award recognizes an individual administrator who
has made significant ongoing contributions to engineering
and engineering technology education by unusually effective
national leadership and example beyond accepted tradition.
Frederick J. Berger Award
Ronald H. Rockland, associate dean of the
Newark College of Engineering and associate professor of engineering
technology at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, received
the Frederick J. Berger Award for his significant contributions
to the field of engineering technology education, both as
an educator and as a member of the engineering technology
community. He is a member of the executive committee for the
ASEE Engineering Technology Division (ETD), and is vice chair
of programs. He was responsible for the ETD program for the
2004 ASEE annual conference and also served as general chair
for the 2002 ASEE Conference on Industrial and Educational
Collaboration. He served as ETC newsletter editor and has
been a reviewer for both the ETD and Instrumentation Division
for the ASEE conference.
The Frederick J. Berger Award was established in 1990 by
Frederick J. Berger to recognize and encourage 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
Sheri Sheppard, associate professor of mechanical
engineering at Stanford University, was awarded the Chester
F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education for
her role as a national leader in developing a research-based
approach to teaching and learning in engineering education.
Results from her research include curricula for learning engineering
through mechanical dissection and the efficacy of interactive
multimedia courseware in engineering education. She is co-organizer
of the MePEER Project, sponsored by AAHE and the provost's
office at Stanford University. The project is working to create
a model of peer involvement in teaching and its evaluation.
Since 1998, Sheppard has also been principal investigator
of the NSF-sponsored Scholars Workshop at Stanford University,
which aims to introduce junior engineering faculty from around
the country to a variety of teaching methods and provide them
with strategies for integrating teaching, learning, and life
balance.
She is involved with the NSF Center for the Advancement of
Engineering Education, a project that involves researchers,
faculty members, and students at the University of Washington
(lead school), Colorado School of Mines, Howard University,
and Stanford University. She leads the center's research
element, which seeks to contribute significant insight into
the learning of engineering across diverse student populations
and environments.
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.
Sharon Keillor Award for
Women in Engineering Education
Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Cockrell Family
Chair in Engineering and Distinguished Teaching Professor
at the University of Texas-Austin, received the Sharon Keillor
Award for Women in Engineering Education for her contributions
to teaching and research, and as a leading authority in optical
engineering and biomedical imaging techniques. As associate
chair for research of the biomedical engineering department,
Richards-Kortum's has become one of the leading authorities
on early cancer detection by optical methods. Her research
group is developing miniature microscopes and spectrometers
to enable early detection of precancerous changes in living
tissue. Her research group is currently developing fluorescence-based
techniques for the diagnosis of cervical precancer in vivo,
and she is collaborating on clinical trials of this technique
involving over 1,500 patients at the University of Texas MD
Anderson Cancer Center.
The Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education
recognizes and honors outstanding women engineering educators.
James H. McGraw Award
Robert L. Mott, Professor Emeritus of Engineering
Technology at the University of Dayton, was awarded the James
H. McGraw Award for his discernable contributions to engineering
technology education. He has promoted the professional advancement
of engineering technology, led the development of curricula,
made major scholarly contributions, and provided excellent
administrative leadership. His widely adopted textbooks have
had a considerable impact on how engineering technology is
taught today. Mott pioneered the interdisciplinary team-based
course Design of Systems in the Engineering Technology Division
at the University of Dayton. He patterned the course on the
ASEE/NASA Summer Institute in Systems Engineering Program.
He also established the Honors Systems Design course, now
an integral part of the University of Dayton Honors Program.
He currently serves as a principal investigator, project director,
and senior personnel responsible for curriculum coordination
for the NSF-sponsored National Center for Manufacturing Education.
The James H. McGraw Award is sponsored by the ASEE Engineering
Technology Council and is presented for outstanding contributions
to engineering technology education. Established in 1950,
the award is funded by the Glencoe Division of MacMillan/McGraw-Hill.
Fred Merryfield Design Award
John S. Lamancusa, professor of mechanical
engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, was awarded
the Fred Merryfield Design Award for his impact as an engineering
design educator and innovator, as evidenced by the continued
growth of Penn State's Learning Factory. The Learning
Factory, which Lamancusa co-founded and directs, is a university-industry
partnership to integrate design, manufacturing, and business
realities into the engineering curriculum.
The Learning Factory has been a model for similar programs,
both nationally and internationally. Begun with a $2.75 million
NSF/ARPA grant, it is now self-sustaining with continuing
financial support from industry. Over 400 projects, for 118
corporations and nonprofit organizations have been completed
since 1995, involving over 2,000 students from electrical,
mechanical, industrial, aerospace, and computer science and
engineering. Over $5 million of external support has been
generated by the Learning Factory to support active learning
in the college of engineering.
A member of ASEE since 1994, Lamancusa served as ASEE vice
president for Professional Interest Councils (PIC), and Chair
of PIC I.
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
Gary S. May, executive assistant to the president
and professor of electrical & computer engineering at
the Georgia Institute of Technology, was awarded the Minorities
in Engineering Award for his outstanding contributions in
recruiting, mentoring, and educating members of underrepresented
groups in science and engineering careers. A nationally recognized
leader in efforts to promote engineering in the underrepresented
minority community, May has developed successful intervention
programs and contributed to widely disseminated reports to
government agencies on the status of underrepresented groups
in science and engineering.
May's program, Georgia Tech Summer Undergraduate Research
in Engineering/Science, provides underrepresented minority
students with practical research experience and encourages
them to pursue graduate education. Through an NSF grant, he
established the program Facilitating Academic Careers in Engineering
and Science (FACES), a collaborative effort that involves
the Georgia Institute of Technology, Morehouse College, and
Spelman College designed to increase the number of underrepresented
students receiving doctoral degrees and pursuing careers in
academia.
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
Medal
Stephanie Farrell, associate professor of
chemical engineering at Rowan University, received the National
Outstanding Teaching Award for her contributions in laboratory
methods to introduce emerging topics in engineering at all
levels throughout the curriculum. She has pioneered efforts
to employ inductive teaching methodology throughout the chemical
engineering curriculum and has shared her work in course,
curriculum, and laboratory innovation extensively through
workshops, conference presentations, and publications. Farrell
has developed novel experiments that have been adopted by
faculty across the country to introduce students to chemical
engineering applications in emerging fields. She has presented
her pedagogic methods and laboratory innovations at regional,
national, and international conferences and workshops, including
ASEE, AIChE, and ICEE. Her contributions in laboratory innovation
have been published in the Journal of Engineering Education,
International Journal of Engineering Education, and Chemical
Engineering Education.
An active member of ASEE, Farrell serves as a mentor to new
engineering professors at Rowan University to encourage involvement
in ASEE activities and has established a travel grant for
faculty to travel to ASEE workshops.
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.
Robert G. Quinn Award
Charles Ume, professor of mechanical engineering
at the Georgia Institute of Technology, was awarded the Robert
G. Quinn Award for his leadership and outstanding contributions
in promoting mechatronics education, through his sustained
innovative and creative teaching methods made possible by
a world-class mechatronics laboratory, mechatronics courses
(graduate and undergraduate) with their laboratory exercises,
and a lab manual that he has developed.
Ume is director of the Advanced Electronic Packaging &
Laser Processing Laboratory and the Mechatronics Instructional
Laboratory in the Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering
at Georgia Tech. He has developed three popular and highly
subscribed mechatronics courses at Georgia Tech. The hands-on
and multidisciplinary design courses are taken by students
from all engineering disciplines. The courses are supported
by the state-of-the-art mechatronics laboratory, which he
developed with funding from the National Science Foundation,
Siemens Corp., and Georgia Tech. Over 200 graduate and undergraduate
students are trained in the science, design, and development
of intelligent mechatronics machines, devices, and products
every year at Georgia Tech. Under Ume's leadership and
vision, a large number of engineering students receive hands-on
training, designing and building intelligent machines, products,
and devices before they graduate. Some of the final group
projects from these courses have been featured in ASEE's
Prism magazine (May 2001), American Society of Civil Engineering
magazine (2002), US Black Engineer magazine (January 2003),
and various Atlanta area news outlets.
The Robert G. Quinn Award was established by Agilent Technologies
in memory of Robert G. Quinn and his contribution to thousands
of engineering students and his direct influence on the Agilent
Higher Education Program. The award recognizes outstanding
contributions in providing and promoting excellence in experimentation
and laboratory instruction.
William Elgin Wickenden Award
Gary S. May, executive assistant to the president
and professor of electrical and computer engineering at the
Georgia Institute of Technology, and Daryl E. Chubin,
senior vice president for policy and research at the National
Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. (NACME),
were awarded the William Elgin Wickenden Award for their paper,
"A Retrospective on Undergraduate Engineering Success
for Underrepresented Minority Students," published in
the January 2003 issue of the Journal of Engineering Education.
Note: Gary S. May is also the recipient of the 2004 ASEE
Minorities in Engineering Award. See his biographical sketch
under that award.
Daryl E. Chubin spent over 14 years in federal service, his
last three as senior policy officer for the National Science
Board at the National Science Foundation. He is a fellow of
the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),
past chair of the AAAS section on Societal Impacts of Science
and Engineering, past president of the Commission on Professionals
in Science and Technology, co-chair of the 2002 Gordon Research
Conference on Science and Technology, a member of the National
Academy of Engineering Committee on Diversity in the Engineering
Workforce, and an integrator for BEST (Building Engineering
and Science Talent), a public-private partnership created
to implement the recommendations of the Morella Commission.
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, the society's scholarly research
journal. The journal's editorial review board selects
the best paper published during the previous January to October
publication cycle.
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The
American Association of University Professors selected "An
Unsettling State of Affairs," by Corinna Wu, as a
finalist for the 2004 Iris Molotsky Award for Excellence
in Coverage of Higher Education.
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