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.
| Year | ASEE ERM Distinguished Service Award | ASEE ERM Best Paper Award | ASEE ERM Diversity Paper Award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | ||||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 2016 | 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 | |||
| 2015 | Maura Borrego, Univerity of Texas, Austin | 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 | |
| 2014 | Daria Kotys-Schwartz, University of Colorado, Boulder | So Yoon Yoon, P. K. Imbrie, Joe Jien-Jou Lin, and Kenneth Reid – Validation of the Student Attitudinal Success Inventory II for Engineering Students | – | |
| 2013 | Richard Layton, Rose Hulman Institute of Technology | Alice Pawley – Learning from small numbers’ of underrepresented students’ stories: Discussing a method to learn about institutional structure through narrative | ||
| 2012 | Matt Ohland, Purdue University | David Knight – In Search of the Engineers of 2020: An Outcome-Based Typology of Engineering Undergraduates | ||
| 2011 | Jennifer Karlin, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology | Michael Prince, Margot Vigeant, and Katharyn Nottis – The Use of Inquiry-Based Activities to Repair Student Misconceptions Related to Heat, Engery, and Temperature | ||
| 2010 | Cynthia Finelli, University of Michigan | Lisa Lattuca and David Knight – In the Eye of the Beholder: Defining and Studying Interdisciplinarity in Engineering Education | ||
| 2009 | Richard Felder, North Carolina State University | Marissa Orr, Zahra Hazari, Philip Sadler, and Gerhard Sonnert – Career Motivations of Freshman Engineering and Non Engineering Students: A Gender Study | ||
| 2008 | Teri Reed-Rhoads, Purdue University | Ashely Ater Kranov, Carl Hauser, Robert Olsen, and Laura Girardeau – A Direct Method for Teaching and Assessing Professional Skills in Engineering Programs | ||
| 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 Binghampton | – | ||
| 1999 | John Lindenlaub, Purdue University | – | ||
| 1998 | Billy Koen, University of Texas – Austin and Alisha Waller – Georgia State University | – | ||
| 1997 | – | – | ||
| 1996 | James Stice, University of Texas – Austin | – | ||
| 1995 | Wallace Venable, West Virginia University | – |
PAST FIE AWARD WINNERS
| Year | Benjamin Dasher Award | Helen L. Plants Award | Ronald Schmitz Award |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | * | * | * |
| 2018 | * | * | * |
| 2017 | * | * | * |
| 2016 | * | * | * |
| 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 | Lynn Andrea Stein, Caitrin Lynch | 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 Student’s Philosophical Inquiry Skills | Dan Moore |
| 2009 | Stephen Krause, Robert Culbertson, Mike Oehrtman and Marilyn Carlson – High School Teacher Change, Strategies, and Actions in a Professional Development Project Connecting Mathematics, Science, and Engineering; and William Leonard, C.V. Hollot, and William Gerace – Mastering Circuit Analysis: An Innovative Appraoch to Foundational Sequence | Lisa Benson, William Moss, Scott Schiff, Sherrill Biggers, Marisa Orr and Matthew Ohland – Enhancing Student Learning Using Scale-Up Format | Russ Meier |
| 2008 | Eric Hamilton and Andrew Hurford – Combining Collaborative Workspaces with Tablet Computing: Research in Learner Engagement and Conditions of Flow | 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 – You’re All a Bunch of Fucking Feminists: Addressing the Perceived Conflict Between Gender and Professional Identities using the Montreal Massacre | – | Joseph Hughes |
| 2006 | – | Ruth Streveler, Ronald Miller and Karl Smith – What is Rigorous Research in Engineering Education? | 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 – Feminist Frontiers | James Roberts |
| 2003 | Glenn Ellis, Gail Scordilis, and Carla Cooke – New Pedagogical Approaches in Engineering Mechanics Yield Increased Student Understanding, Confidence, and Commitment | 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 – Educational Innovations in Multimedia Systems | 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 – Conversations on Creating a Different Classroom Climate | 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
| 2019 | * | 2018 | * | 2017 | * |
| 2016 | 2015 | John K. Estell Teresa L. Larkin Thomas A. Lenox Michael J. Prince Donna M. Riley |
2014 | Laura Bottomley Rebecca Brent Jeffrey L. Ray Noel N. Schulz John J. Uhran Jr. |
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| 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 |