The ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division presents the following awards each year at either the ASEE Annual Conference in June or the Frontiers in Education Conference in October. Previous awardees are listed below or via a linked page.
- ASEE ERM Distinguished Service Award
- ASEE ERM Best Paper Award
- ASEE ERM Diversity Paper Award
- ASEE ERM Apprentice Faculty Grants
- FIE Conference Benjamin J. Dasher Award
- FIE Conference Best Diversity Paper Award
- FIE Conference Helen L. Plants Award
- FIE Conference Ronald J. Schmitz Award
- FIE Conference New Faculty Fellows Grant
Four awards are presented at the ASEE annual conference: 1) Distinguished Service Award, 2) the ERM Best Paper Award, 3) the ERM Diversity Paper Award, and 4) Apprentice Faculty Grants. The awards are based on the ASEE Award policies.
- ASEE ERM Distinguished Service Award recognizes an individual for their service to the ERM Division each year.
- ASEE ERM Best Paper Award recognizes the best paper submitted to the ERM Division for the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition each year.
- ASEE ERM Diversity Paper Award recognizes the best diversity-focused paper submitted to the ERM Division for the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition each year.
- Apprentice Faculty Grants encourage and honor promising new researchers who have the potential for substantial contributions to engineering education. These are recognized at the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition each year.
In addition, a number of ERM members have been selected as ASEE Fellows, also recognized at the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. The ERM division also hosts a distinguished lecture annually at ASEE.
Awards are also presented at the annual Frontiers in Education (FIE) conference, which is co-sponsored by ASEE/ERM and IEEE: 1) the Benjamin Dasher Award given to the best paper/presentation (view Review Criteria); 2) the Helen Plants Award given for the best non-traditional presentation at the FIE conference; 3) the Ronald Schmitz Award given to an individual for service to the FIE conference; 4) the FIE Conference Best Diversity Paper Award; and 5) New Faculty Fellows Grants.
- The Benjamin Dasher Award recognizes the best paper/presentation at the annual FIE conference each year.
- The Helen Plants Award recognizes the best non-traditional presentation at the annual FIE conference each year.
- The Ronald Schmitz Award recognizes an individual member for their service to the FIE conference at the annual FIE conference each year.
- The FIE Conference Best Diversity Paper Award recognizes the best diversity-focused paper submitted to the annual FIE conference each year.
- The FIE New Faculty Fellows Grant provides assistance to recipients in traveling to the conference.
ASEE ERM Distinguished Service Award
| 2025 | 2024 | Holly Matusovich, Virginia Tech | 2023 | Stephanie Cutler, Pennsylvania State University | |
| 2022 | James Pembridge, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University | 2021 | Lisa Benson, Clemson University | 2020 | Matthew Verleger, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University |
| 2019 | Monica Cardella, Purdue University | 2018 | Julie Martin, Clemson University | 2017 | Archie Holmes, University of Virginia |
| 2016 | Elliot Douglas, University of Florida | 2015 | Maura Borrego, University of Texas, Austin | 2014 | Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder |
| 2013 | Richard Layton, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology | 2012 | Matt Ohland, Purdue University | 2011 | Jennifer Karlin, South Dakota School of Mines & Technology |
| 2010 | Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan | 2009 | Richard Felder, North Carolina State University | 2008 | Teri Reed-Rhoads, Purdue University |
| 2007 | Dan Moore, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology | 2006 | Eric Soulsby, University of Connecticut | 2005 | Dan Budny, University of Pittsburgh |
| 2004 | Larry Richards, University of Virginia | 2003 | Michael Pavelich, Colorado School of Mines | 2002 | Karl Smith, University of Minnesota |
| 2001 | Charles Yokomoto, IUPUI | 2000 | Richard Culver, University of Binghamton | 1999 | John Lindenlaub, Purdue University |
| 1998 | Billy Koen, University of Texas – Austin
Alisha Waller – Georgia State University |
1997 | – | 1996 | James Stice, University of Texas – Austin |
| 1995 | Wallace Venable, West Virginia University |
| Year | ASEE ERM Best Paper Award | ASEE ERM Diversity Paper Award | |
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| 2024 | Matthew Bahnson, Eric Trevor McChesney, Carlie Laton Cooper, Allison Godwin, Linda DeAngelo, & Kevin R. Binning
Equitable Engineering Identity? Race/Ethnicity and Gender Differences in the Predictors of Engineering Identity in First-Year Engineering |
Joel Alejandro Mejia
Latino/a/x Engineering Students and Nepantla: A Multi-Case Study within the U.S. Southwest |
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| 2023 | Matilde Luz Sánchez-Peña, Anne Marguerite McAlister, Nichole Ramirez, Douglas B Samuel, Syed Ali Kamal, and Xinrui (Rose) Xu
Stigma of Mental Health Conditions within Engineering Culture and Its Relation to Help-seeking Attitudes: Insights from the First Year of a Longitudinal Study |
Bryce Hughes and Sidrah MG Watson
In/authenticity in STEM Social Networks: How “Out” are LGBTQ Students with their Peers in STEM? |
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| 2022 |
Joyce Main & Amanda Griffith The Impact of Math and Science Remedial Education on Engineering Major Choice, Degree Attainment, and Time to Degree |
Robert Loweth, Shanna Daly, Leah Paborsky, Sara Hoffman, & Steve Skerlos
Professional Merit in Engineering Career Advancement: Student Perspectives and Critiques |
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| 2021 | Robert P. Loweth (University of Michigan), Shanna R. Daly (University of Michigan), Leah Paborsky (University of Michigan), Sara L. Hoffman (University of Michigan), and Steve J. Skerlos (University of Michigan)
“You Could Take ‘Social’ Out of Engineering and Be Just Fine”: An Exploration of Engineering Students’ Beliefs About the Social Aspects of Engineering Work |
Kristen Moore (University of Buffalo), Nathan Johnson (University of South Florida), Fernando Sanchex (University of St. Thomas), and Walter Hargrove
The Politics of Citation Practices in Engineering Education |
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| 2020 | Catherine McGough (Minnesota State University, Mankato) and Lisa Benson (Clemson University)
It’s the End of the World as We Know It, and I Need a Job: A Qualitative Exploration of Mid-Year Engineering Students’ Future Possible Careers |
Justin Charles Major, Matthew Scheidt, Allison Godwin, Edward J. Berger (Purdue) & John Chen (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
Effects of Test Anxiety on Engineering Students’ STEM Success |
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| 2019 | Matthew S. Barner, Shane A. Brown, and Sean L. Getson (Oregon State University)
Conceptual Representations in the Workplace and Classroom Settings: A Comparative Ethnography |
Maya Denton, Nathan Hyungsok Choe, Kevin A. Nguyen, Maura Borrego (University of Texas, Austin), David B. Knight, Whitney Wall Bortz, & Timothy Kinoshita (Virginia Tech)
Predictors of Engineering Doctoral Students’ Future Career Sector |
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| 2018 | Jonathan D. Stolk, Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, and Michael D. Gross
Gender, Motivation, and Pedagogy in the STEM Classroom: A Quantitative Characterization |
Jonathan D. Stolk, Yevgeniya V. Zastavker, and Michael D. Gross
Gender, Motivation, and Pedagogy in the STEM Classroom: A Quantitative Characterization |
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| 2017 | Samantha Brunhaver, Cheryl Carrico, Holly Matusovich, Mitikaa Sama, Rohini Abhyankar, Ruth Streveler, and Sheri Sheppard
Measuring students’ subjective task values related to the post-undergraduate career search |
Emily E Liptow, Coleen Carrigan, Michelle Helene Bardini, Noah Robert Krigel, and Monica Lauren Singer
Engaging engineers in inclusive cultural change through a new method, Articulating a Succinct Description |
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| 2016 | Allison Godwin
The Development of a Measure of Engineering Identity |
Stephen Secules, Andrew Elby, and Ayush Gupta
“Turning away” from the Struggling Individual Student: An Account of the Cultural Construction of Engineering Ability in an Undergraduate Programming Class |
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| 2015 | Stephanie Pulford, Nancy Ruzycki, Cynthia J. Finelli, Laura D Hahn, and Denise Thorsen
Making Value for Faculty: Learning Communities in Engineering Faculty Development |
Julie P Martin, Rachel K. Anderson, Frederick Paige, Lindsey Whitfield Cain, Shannon K Stefl, and Aubrie Lynn Pfirman
A Series of Singular Testimonies: A New Way to Explore Unearned Advantages and Unearned Disadvantages |
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| 2014 | So Yoon Yoon, P. K. Imbrie, Joe Jien-Jou Lin, and Kenneth Reid
Validation of the Student Attitudinal Success Inventory II for Engineering Students |
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| 2013 | Alice Pawley
“Learning from small numbers” of underrepresented students’ stories: Discussing a method to learn about institutional structure through narrative |
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| 2012 | David Knight
In Search of the Engineers of 2020: An Outcome-Based Typology of Engineering Undergraduates |
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| 2011 | Michael Prince, Margot Vigeant, and Katharyn Nottis
The Use of Inquiry-Based Activities to Repair Student Misconceptions Related to Heat, Energy, and Temperature |
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| 2010 | Lisa Lattuca and David Knight
In the Eye of the Beholder: Defining and Studying Interdisciplinarity in Engineering Education |
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| 2009 | Marissa Orr, Zahra Hazari, Philip Sadler, and Gerhard Sonnert
Career Motivations of Freshman Engineering and Non Engineering Students: A Gender Study |
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| 2008 | Ashely Ater Kranov, Carl Hauser, Robert Olsen, and Laura Girardeau
A Direct Method for Teaching and Assessing Professional Skills in Engineering Programs |
PAST FIE AWARD WINNERS
| Year | Benjamin Dasher Award | Helen L. Plants Award | Ronald Schmitz Award |
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| 2024 | |||
| 2023 | |||
| 2022 | Camilla Bjorn, Pontus Haglund, Katharina Munz, Filip Stromback | Virginia Grande, Bedour Alshaigy, Anne-Kathrin Peters, Mats Daniels | James Sluss |
| 2021 | Stephanie Lunn & Monique Ross | Brooke Coley and James Holly, Jr. | |
| 2020 | Toni Taipalus | Nadia Kellam, Vanessa Svihla, and Susannah Davis | Beth Eschenbach |
| 2019 | Emma Hocker, Ellen Zerbe, and Catherine Berdanier | Emily Dringenberg, Ruth Wertz, Cynthia Atman, Elif Miskioglu, Kelly Cross, and Giselle Guanes Melgarejo | |
| 2018 | Beverly Ma, Jacqueline Doyle, Jacqueline Rohde, Hank Boone, Allison Godwin, Geoff Potvin, Lisa Benson, and Adam Kirn
Understanding the Pathways of Students with Normative Attitudes in Engineering |
Sarah Zappe, Stephanie Cutler, and Thomas Litzinger
Teaching to Promote a Growth Mindset |
Stephen Frezza |
| 2017 | Beth Rieken, Mark Schar, and Sheri Sheppard
Trait Mindfulness in an Engineering Classroom: An exploration of the relationship between mindfulness, academic skills, and professional skills |
Stephanie Cutler, Thomas Litzinger, Sarah Zappe, and Michael Alley
Innovation T-Ball: Everybody Wins!! |
Edwin C. Jones, Jr. |
| 2016 | Natasha Nesiba, Enricon Pontelli, and Tomothy Staley
DISSECT: Exploring the Relationship Between Computational Thinking and English Literature in K-12 Curricula |
James Huff, Brent Jesiek, Carla Zoltowski, Joachim Walther, and William Oakes
Qualitative Research on Psychological Experience: A Starting Point for Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis |
Melany Ciampi |
| 2015 | Lecia Barker and Jane Gruning
The Student Prompt: Student Feedback and Change in Teaching Practices in Postsecondary Computer Science |
Rebbeca Bates, Lisa Benson, Alan Cheville, Cynthia Finelli, Jennifer Karlin, Susan Lord – Agents for STEM Change
Articulating the Goals of Our Community |
Robert Hofinger |
| 2014 | Hansi Keijonen, Jaakko Kurhila and Arto Vihavainen
Carry-on Effect in Extreme Apprenticeship |
Stephanie Cutler, James Pembridge, Matthew Verleger, Lauren D. Thomas
The Lord of PhD: Fellowship of the Dissertation; A Guide to the Engineering PhD |
Cynthia Finelli |
| 2013 | Robin Adams, Alice Pawley, and Brent Jesiek
Applying Philosophical Inquiry: Bringing Future Engineering Education Researchers into the Philosophy of Engineering Education |
Lynn Andrea Stein, Caitrin Lynch
Connecting with Community: Empathy, Experience, and Engineering with Elders |
Jennifer Karlin |
| 2012 | Kristi Shryock, Arun Srinivasa and Jeffrey Froyd
Developing Instruments to Assess First-year Calculus and Physics Mechanics Skills Needed for a Sophomore Statics and Dynamics Course |
Senay Purzer and Jonathan Hilpert
Cognitive Processes Critical for Ill-Defined Problem Solving: Linking Theory, Research, and Classroom Implications. |
Arnold Pears |
| 2011 | Jeffrey Newcomer
Inconsistencies in Students’ Approaches to Solving Problems in Engineering Statics |
Mark Somerville, David Goldberg, Sherra Kerns and Russell Korte
A War of Words: Using Sticky Language to Effect Change in Engineering Education |
Susan Lord |
| 2010 | Glenda Stump, Jenefer Husman, Wen-Ting Chung and Aaron Done
Student Beliefs about Intelligence: Relationship to Learning |
Russell Korte and Karl Smith
Developing Engineering Students’ Philosophical Inquiry Skills |
Dan Moore |
| 2009 | Stephen Krause, Robert Culbertson, Mike Oehrtman and Marilyn Carlson
William Leonard, C.V. Hollot, and William Gerace Mastering Circuit Analysis: An Innovative Approach to Foundational Sequence |
Lisa Benson, William Moss, Scott Schiff, Sherrill Biggers, Marisa Orr, and Matthew Ohland | Russ Meier |
| 2008 | Eric Hamilton and Andrew Hurford | Maura Borrego, Lynita Newswander and Lisa McNair
Applying Theories of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Research and Teaching Practice |
Ted Batchman |
| 2007 | Donna Riley and Gina-Louise Sciarra | – | Joseph Hughes |
| 2006 | – | Ruth Streveler, Ronald Miller, and Karl Smith | Jane Chu Prey |
| 2005 | Gregory Moses and Michael Litzkow
In-class Active Learning and Frequent Assessment Reform of Nuclear Reactor Theory Course |
Ruth Streveler, Ronald Miller and Barbara Olds
Cognitive LEGOS: Helping Your Students Construct Scientifically Accurate Mental Models |
Robert Hofinger |
| 2004 | Matthew Ohland, Guili Zhang, Timothy Anderson, and Brian Thorndyke
Grade-Point Average, Changes of Major, and Majors Seleted by Students Leaving Engineering |
Susan Lord, Elizabeth Eschenbach, Alisha Waller, and Eileen Cashman | James Roberts |
| 2003 | Glenn Ellis, Gail Scordilis, and Carla Cooke | William Oakes
Integrating Service Learning in Engineering and Computer Science Courses |
Larry Richards |
| 2002 | Zeynep Dilli, Neil Goldsman, Lee Harper, Steven Marcus, and Janet Schmidt
A New Pedagogy in Electrical and Computer Engineering: An Experiential and Conceptual Approach |
– | Goranka Bjedov |
| 2001 | – | – | David Soldan |
| 2000 | David Petr
Measuring (and Enhancing?) Student Confidence with Confidence Scores |
– | Larry Shuman |
| 1999 | Wayne Burleson, Aura Ganz and Ian Harris | Melinda Piket-May and Julie Chang | Robert Herrick |
| 1998 | Bruce Carlson, William Jennings, and Paul Schoch
Teaching Circuit Analysis in the Studio Format: A Comparison with Conventional Instruction |
Alice Agogino
A Hands-on Discussion of “Dissection”: Coalitions Lessons Learned |
Dan Budny |
| 1997 | Edwin Kashy, Sheryl Wolfe, Michael Thoennessen, Yihjia Tsai, and Nancy Davis
Using Networked Tools to Enhance Student Success Rates in Large Classes |
Karl Smith, James Jones, Elizabeth Eschenbach, and Barbara Karanian | Richard Culver |
| 1996 | Val Hawks
Rediscovering Learning: A Survey of Factors that Affect Student Learning in Engineering Education |
Alisha Waller, Edward Doering, and Mark Yoder | William Sayle, II |
| 1995 | Curtis Carver and Richard Howard
An Assessment of Networked Multimedia and Hypermedia |
Burks Oakley and Mark Yoder | David Voltmer |
| 1994 | Burks Oakley and Roy Roper | Billy Koen | David Kerns, Jr. |
| 1993 | Daniel Hull and Arthur Guenther | John Lindenlaub and Alisha Waller | Bruce Eisenstein |
| 1992 | Dan Budny and William LeBold | Barbara Olds, Ronald Miller, Michael Pavelich | Victor Schutz |
| 1991 | Robert Whelchel | Troy Kostek | Karl Smith |
| 1990 | Cindy Greenwood | – | Edwin Jones |
| 1989 | Richard Compton and Robert York | Karl S. Smith | Lyle Feisel |
| 1988 | Richard Felder | – | James Rowland |
| 1987 | David Conner, David Green, Thomas Jannett, James Jones, M.G. Rekoff, Dennis Smith, and Gregg Vaughn | John Lindenlaub | George Burnet |
| 1986 | Richard Culver | Martha Nord and Patricia Whiting | John Lindenlaub |
| 1985 | Billy Koen | Billy Koen | Lawrence Grayson and Joseph Biedenbach |
| 1984 | Billy Koen | David Johnson and Karl Smith | Carol Schmitz |
| 1983 | Davood Tashayyod, James Trosino, and Banu Onaral | Charles Yokomoto and Dendy Sloan | |
| 1982 | Albert Riemenschneider and Lyle Feisel | Karl Smith and Harold Goldstein | |
| 1981 | Martha Montgomery | ||
| 1980 | Marilla Svinicki | John Lindenlaub and James Russell | |
| 1979 | Donald Woods, Cameron Crowe, Terrence Hoffman, and Joseph Wright | Helen Plants | |
| 1978 | Albert Morris | ||
| 1977 | John Renner | ||
| 1976 | John Hipwell and David Baume | ||
| 1975 | John Hames Allan and J.J. Lagowski | ||
| 1974 | Richard Hooper | ||
| 1973 | Walter D. Storey |
ERM ASEE Fellows
| 2025 | 2024 | Alejandra Magana Tamara Moore David Silverstein |
2023 | Adam Carberry Alan Cheville Pamela Lottero-Perdue Denise Simmons |
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| 2022 |
Rebecca A Bates |
2021 | Elliot P. Douglas Sharon A. Jones Donna C. Llewellyn |
2020 | Maura Borrego Monica Cardella Monica Cox PK Imbrie Agnieszka Miguel Margot Vigeant |
| 2019 | Lisa Benson Milo Koretsky Julie P. Martin Ann F. McKenna |
2018 | Michael C. Loui | 2017 | Beth M. Holloway |
| 2016 | John K. Estell Teresa L. Larkin Thomas A. Lenox Michael J. Prince Donna M. Riley |
2015 | Ruth A. Streveler | 2014 | Laura Bottomley Rebecca Brent Jeffrey L. Ray Noel N. Schulz John J. Uhran Jr. |
| 2013 | Susan Lord Stephanie Adams Jenna Carpenter Cynthia Finelli Jessica Matson David Radcliffe David Whitman |
2012 | Jeffrey E. Froyd Lawrence J. Genalo Thomas M. Hall, Jr. Robert J. Herrick Charles McIntyre Matthew W. Ohland Richard Zollars |
2011 | Mary E. Besterfield-Sacre Larry G. Richards Jacquelyn F. Sullivan Leah H. Jamieson |
| 2010 | William Oakes Teri Reed-Rhoads Lueny Morell |
2009 | Daniel D. Budny David DiBiasio Jed Lyons John Orr P. K. Raju |
2008 | Gloria M. Rogers Thomas A. Litzinger Norman L. Fortenberry Marilyn A. Dyrud Ted E. Batchman |
| 2007 | John Heywood Donald Myers Sarah Rajala Sheri Sheppard Charles F. Yokomoto Don Dekker |
2006 | Joseph L.A. Hughes James L. Melsa Cynthia J. Atman Larry J. Shuman David R. Voltmer |
2005 | Thomas F. Edgar |
| 2004 | Marvin E. Criswell | 2003 | Sherra E. Kerns William E. Sayle, II Raymond G. Jacquot Barbara M. Olds Gerhard F. Paskusz Karan Watson Eli Fromm |
2002 | Denny C. Davis C. Stewart Slater Donald N. Merino Burks Oakley, II Sudhir I. Mehta |
| 2001 | Mary R. Anderson-Rowland Walter W. Buchanan |
2000 | Bruce A. Harding | 1999 | Gerald S. Jakubowski Charles W. Haines John W. Prados |
| 1998 | Mahbub Uddin L. Glenn Kraige Richard S. Culver Karl A. Smith |
1997 | Frank E. Burris | 1996 | Richard M. Felder |
| 1995 | Carole E. Goodson | 1994 | John T. Sears A. Bruce Carlson |
1993 | Cary A. Fisher |
| 1991 | Gerald J. Thuesen Phillip C. Wankat |
1990 | Wallace T. Fowler Wallace Starr Venable |
1989 | John C. Lindenlaub |
| 1988 | Lyle D. Feisel | 1987 | Billy V. Koen James E. Stice |
1986 | John A. Weese |
| 1984 | William K. LeBold | 1983 | Anthony B. Giordano Lois B. Greenfield George Burnet |
Pre
1983 |
Mel Baber Joseph Bordogna Stephen Cheshier Gordon Flammer Lawrence Grayson Lee Harrisberger Edwin Jones Helen Plants Charles Wales |