2004 ASEE NATIONAL AND SOCIETY AWARDS

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.