Established in 1980, the ERM Division has sponsored the Distinguished Lecturer Mini Plenary at the ASEE annual conference every year. The plenary brings to the conference thought provoking new ideas by notable speakers, usually from outside of the engineering education community.
Past ERM Distinguished Lecturers
| Year | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | – | – |
| 2021 | Kelly Cross, James Holly, Leroy Long, & Ebony McGee | Continuing the Conversation: Working Towards Anti-racist Engineering Education |
| 2020 | Lisa Benson | Talking the Talk and Walking the Walk: How Our Publications Reflect the Engineering Education Community |
| 2019 | Alice Pawley | “Come Get your People!” Breaking Silences about Equity in Engineering Education Research |
| 2018 | – | – |
| 2017 | James Pellegrino | The Integration of Teaching, Learning, and Assessment: A Design-based Approach |
| 2016 | Donna Riley | Mind the Gap – What the ABET Crisis Can Teach Us about Connecting Research and Practice |
| 2015 | Susan Elrod | A Framework for Catalyzing Change in Engineering Education |
| 2014 | Peggy McIntosh | A Bell Labs Daughter Speaks About Equity in Engineering Education |
| 2013 | Wendy Newstetter | |
| 2012 | Charles Henderson | The Challenges of Spreading and Sustaining Research-based Instruction in Undergraduate STEM |
| 2012 | John Heywood | Engineering at the Crossroads: Implications for Educational Policy Makers |
| 2011 | David Williamson Shaffer | Measuring Innovation with Epistemic Games |
| 2010 | David Jonassen | Learning to Solve Engineering Problems |
| 2009 | James Stice | Things I Have Learned, In Spite of Myself |
| 2008 | Lauren B. Resnick | What Would It Take To Expand The Pipeline of Minority Students Coming Into Engineering? |
| 2007 | Keith Sawyer | Creativity, Innovation and the New Sciences of Learning: Implications for Engineering Education |
| 2006 | Sheri Sheppard | Taking Stock – A Look at Engineering Education at the End of the Twentieth Century and Beyond |
| 2005 | Jack Wilson | Creating New Learning Environments for Engineering Education: How Educational Research Drives Change |
| 2004 | James Pellegrino | How People Learn: Incorporating Theory and Research into Instructional Practice |
| 2003 | Elaine Seymour | Establishing the Benefits of Research Experiences for Science Undergraduates: First Findings from a Pilot Study |
| 2002 | Sue Rosser | Will Engineering Criteria 2000 Make Engineering More Female Friendly? |
| 2001 | John D. Bransford | When the Learning Sciences Meet Classrooms and Technology: Implications from the National Academy of Science Report How People Learn |
| 2000 | Michelene T. H. Chi | Three Ways in which Students Can Fail to Understand |
| 1999 | Richard M. Felder | Schooling Versus Education and Other Balancing Acts |
| 1998 | Thomas Angelo | Doing Assessment as though Learning Mattered Most |
| 1997 | David and Roger Johnson | Getting Students More Active Involved and Successful Through Cooperative Learning Strategies |
| 1996 | Woodie C. Flowers | Engineering: Commodity or Profession? |
| 1995 | Peter R. Seldin | The Teaching Portfolio |
| 1994 | Sheila Tobias | Neglected Minorities and the Neglected Majority: Expanding Engineering Education for the 21st Century |
| 1993 | Ernest L. Boyer | Scholarship Reconsidered |
| 1992 | Alan H. Schoenfeld | Learning to Think Mathematically (or in other disciplines, for that matter) |
| 1991 | K. Patricia Cross | College Teaching: What Do We Know About It? |
| 1990 | Frederick Reif | Engineering Human Knowledge and Thinking: Opportunities for Better Engineering Education |
| 1989 | William G. Perry, Jr. | Students’ Evolution of their Definition of Knowledge and Their Expectations of Teachers |
| 1988 | Donald A. Schon | Marrying Applied Science and Artistry in Engineering Education |
| 1987 | Benjamin S. Bloom | A Search for Methods of Instruction as Effective as One-on-One Tutoring |
| 1986 | Moshe F. Rubinstein | Rational and Imaginative Thinking in the Computer Age |
| 1985 | Fred F. Keller | Testimony of an Educational Reformer |
| 1983 | Samuel N. Postlewait | Using Science and Technology to Teach Science and Technology |
| 1982 | Wilbert J. McKeachie | Student Anxiety, Learning and Achievement |
| 1981 | Robert F. Mager | Academic Applications of Educational Methods Developed in Industry |
| 1980 | Burrhus F. Skinner | The Future of Technology and Education |
Related Retired ERM Lecturer Awards
| Year | Distinguished Lecturer Award | Eminent Lectureship Award |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | – | Lewis B. Mayhew |
| 1970 | – | Robert M. Gagne |
| 1969 | J.A. Perkins | Harold E. Mitzel |
| 1968 | L. DuBridge | – |
| 1967 | R.W. Fleming | – |
| 1966 | R.W. Tyler | – |