Nominations for National-Level ASEE Awards, November 22, 2019

ASEE recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of engineering educators with several national-level awards each year. The Education & Research Methods (ERM) Division currently has as a strategic goal to increase the number of ERM members who are nominated for and potentially win these awards. The nominations period for awards to be presented at the 2020 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition (June 21-24) in Montreal, Quebec, Canada is now open through January 15, 2020. Please consider nominating a fellow ERM member who you think deserves recognition, or consider nominating yourself!!

The ASEE awards nomination form can be accessed by logging in at www.asee.org, clicking on “Award Nominations” and choosing “2020 ASEE Awards.” Brief synopses of the awards presented at ASEE 2020 are given below. More information can also be found at the ASEE awards webpage: https://www.asee.org/member-resources/awards/full-list-of-awards/national-awards/

The ERM Directors can assist with coordinating nominations, e.g., putting people who would like to nominate the same individuals in touch, helping recruit potential letter writers, or sharing lists of previous ERM award winners. Please feel free to help out if you plan to nominate a fellow ERM member or if you plan to self-nominate – we would love to help out with the process!

Lastly, we also encourage you to check out the awards being offered by specific divisions with ASEE here. The ERM Division itself makes several awards each year, including the ASEE ERM Apprentice Faculty Grant. More information is available on the ERM website.

Best wishes,

The ERM Director Team

Samantha Brunhaver, sbrunhav@asu.edu

Stephanie Cutler, slc5822@psu.edu

James Huff, jlhuff@harding.edu

Aditya Johri, johri@gmu.edu

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SECTION (AND NATIONAL) OUTSTANDING TEACHING AWARD

· Purpose: To recognize an engineering or engineering technology educator for outstanding classroom performance, contributions to the scholarship of teaching, and ASEE participation.

· Eligibility: Teachers of any subject included in an ABET accredited engineering or engineering technology curriculum, including faculty teaching parallel courses at two-year or community colleges and those teaching humanities and social studies, mathematics, science, applied science and computing science.

· What to Submit: (1) ASEE awards nomination form, (2) bio (50 words max.), (3) documentation related to each of 16 award criteria (4 pages max.), (4) statement of teaching philosophy (500 words max.), (5) three letters of recommendation from current or past students, (6) three letters of recommendation from faculty, administration or industry peers, and (7) commitment to attend the ASEE Annual Conference if selected to receive award.

· How to Submit: ASEE members can submit nominations for Section Outstanding Teaching Award to their regional section leadership. Section leaders submit nominations for National Outstanding Teacher Award to ASEE HQ.

BENJAMIN GARVER LAMME AWARD

· Purpose: To recognize a distinguished engineering educator for contributions to teaching, research and technical literature, and the profession of engineering college administration.

· Eligibility: Current and former engineering administrators who have demonstrated improvement of engineering education through: (1) excellence in teaching, (2) research, books, or technical articles, (3) administration of engineering schools, (4) participation in the work of engineering or educational societies, and (5) achievements outside the field of teaching, such as in industry, consulting work, inventions, and government.

· What to Submit: ASEE awards nomination form

ASEE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION

· Purpose: To recognize individuals who have retired or near retirement and who have devoted their careers primarily to engineering education.

· Eligibility: Individuals who have demonstrated throughout their careers (1) excellence in teaching engineering and / or engineering technology courses, (2) mentorship of students beyond the classroom, (3) contributions to the understanding of teaching and learning through the conduct and publication of educational research, (4) demonstrated leadership through the administration of departments, schools or colleges of engineering or engineering technology, and / or (5) volunteer activity and leadership in education societies.

· What to Submit: ASEE awards nomination form

CHESTER F. CARLSON AWARD

· Purpose: To recognize an innovator who has made a significant contribution to engineering or engineering technology education.

· Eligibility: Individuals who have demonstrated: (1) creative innovation through a single significant contribution to engineering or engineering technology education, (2) recognition of and responsiveness to an educational need, (3) implementation of a concept carried forward with integrity, (4) external influence extending beyond the home institution, and (5) effectiveness in overcoming barriers and causing change.

· What to Submit: (1) ASEE awards nomination form, (2) curriculum vitae (1 page max.), (3) documentation related to award criteria (5 pages max.), and (4) five letters of recommendation.

ISADORE T. DAVIS AWARD

· Purpose: To recognize individuals who have demonstrated excellence in collaboration or partnership between engineering or engineering technology education and industry.

· Eligibility: Nominees can be a faculty member, researcher, administrator, industry leader or employer, or organizational team. While the collaborative project being honored may have a large group of individuals associated with it, no more than two individuals will be selected to be honored in one year.

· What to Submit: (1) ASEE awards nomination form, and (2) curriculum vitae or bio. The accomplishments section should specify the nominee’s role in each collaboration between engineering and / or engineering technology education and industry (i.e., as an educator, as a researcher, as an administrator, as an industry leader or employer, or a combination). The ASEE member number or corporate membership number for each nominee should be listed as well.

CLEMENT J. FREUND AWARD

· Purpose: To recognize an individual in business, industry, government or education who has made a significant impact on cooperative education programs in engineering and engineering technology.

· Eligibility: Individuals whose professional duties and accomplishments have furthered cooperative education in ABET accredited engineering or engineering technology programs.

· What to Submit: ASEE awards nomination form.

DUPONT MINORITIES IN ENGINEERING AWARD

· Purpose: To recognize an engineering or engineering technology educator with outstanding accomplishments in recruiting and retaining underrepresented students within graduate and undergraduate engineering and engineering technology programs.

· Eligibility: Individuals who demonstrate leadership in the conception, organization and operation of precollege and college activities designed to increase participation of underrepresented students in engineering or engineering technology.

· What to Submit: ASEE awards nomination form. The accomplishments section should include evidence of significant growth rates of underrepresented graduates during the years of the nominee’s influence, such as increases in enrollment and graduation rates of underrepresented students.

JOHN L. IMHOFF AWARD

· Purpose: To recognize an individual who has made outstanding contributions in the field of industrial engineering education.

· Eligibility: Individuals who (1) are a current industrial engineering faculty member in an accredited institution, (2) have at least five years teaching experience in an engineering school, (3) have demonstrated excellence in teaching, (4) have demonstrated global cooperation and understanding through leadership and other initiatives, (5) are committed to the success of students in the classroom and in professional engineering student organizations, and (6) are a current ASEE member.

· What to Submit: ASEE awards nomination form.

SHARON KEILLOR AWARD

· Purpose: To recognize a woman engineering educator with an outstanding record in teaching engineering students and reasonable performance histories of research and service.

· Eligibility: Women who hold an earned doctoral degree in an engineering discipline or related field and who have at least five years of teaching experience in an engineering school.

· What to Submit: ASEE awards nomination form.

MERIAM/WILEY DISTINGUISHED AUTHOR AWARD

· Purpose: To recognize excellence in the authorship of engineering textbooks.

· Eligibility: Individuals who have contributed to the advancement of technical and professional competence at the undergraduate or graduate level through the authorship of an engineering textbook still in its first edition and written within four years of the award deadline.

· What to Submit: (1) ASEE awards nomination form, and (2) examination copies of the book upon receipt of the names and addresses of each of the committee members. The name, address and telephone number of the publisher’s representative should be included in the nomination package.

NATIONAL ENGINEERING ECONOMY TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARD

· Purpose: To recognize an individual who has demonstrated classroom teaching excellence and teaching scholarship in engineering economy.

· Eligibility: Current or former full-time engineering teachers who have taught engineering economy courses in an ABET or CEAB accredited engineering or technology curriculum frequently for a substantial period of time. Nominees should also satisfy each of 9 criteria related to classroom performance and teaching scholarship.

· What to Submit: ASEE awards nomination form

ROBERT G. QUINN AWARD

· Purpose: To recognize outstanding contributions in providing and promoting excellence in experimentation and laboratory instruction.

· Eligibility: ASEE faculty members who have made outstanding, sustained contributions to the teaching of laboratory or experimentation courses in engineering or engineering technology, and who have developed courses, course materials, facilities or equipment that exhibit innovation, relevance to the real world, experiential learning, and student motivation.

· What to Submit: ASEE awards nomination form.

WILLIAM ELGIN WICKENDEN AWARD

· Purpose: To recognize the author(s) of the best paper published in the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE), the scholarly research journal for ASEE.

· Eligibility: Authors of a refereed article published in JEE during the previous volume year.

· What to Submit: The selection is made by a committee composed of the journal’s associate editors and four members of the journal’s international advisory board, and chaired by the immediate past editor of the journal. All papers published are automatically considered. However, any ASEE member may nominate a qualified paper for this award. A letter explaining the basis for the nomination should be forwarded to Lisa Benson, lbenson@clemson.edu, JEE editor.