2007 NOMINATIONS FOR ASEE OFFICERS

Presented on the following pages are candidates for offices to be voted on in the 2007 ASEE elections. These candidates were selected by the 2006 ASEE Nominating Committee, chaired by Sherra E. Kerns. The nominations were received by the executive director as required by the ASEE constitution. The ASEE Nominating Committee believes that the candidates offered here are eminently qualified and deserve the close consideration of the membership.

Members are reminded that additional nominations of eligible candidates may be made by petitions of at least 200 individual members. Nominees so proposed must indicate a willingness to serve before their names are placed on the ballot. Such petitions and agreements must be presented to the executive director no later than Jan. 1, 2007.

Write-in votes will be accepted for all offices. In all cases, a simple plurality constitutes election. The official ballot, which will be furnished to each individual member by March 1, must be returned by March 31.

Editor's note: Due to space limitations and in the interest of fairness to all candidates, the biographies and statements may have been edited to fit the allotted space.

CANDIDATES FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT

BARBARA M. OLDS

Barbara M. Olds is associate vice president for educational innovation and professor of liberal arts and international studies at the Colorado School of Mines, where she has served on the faculty since 1984. For the 2006-2007 academic year, she is also a visiting professor of engineering education at Purdue University. During her Colorado School of Mines career, Olds has been associate vice president for academic affairs, principal tutor/director of the McBride Honors Program in Public Affairs for Engineers and director of the EPICS (Engineering Practices Introductory Course Sequence) Program.

Olds recently returned to Colorado after spending three years at the National Science Foundation, where she served as director for the Division of Research, Evaluation and Communication (REC) in the Education and Human Resources Directorate. In addition, she was acting division director for Elementary, secondary and Informal Education for one year.

Olds is a long-time member of ASEE and has been active in the organization in a number of capacities. She has held nearly every elected office in both the Liberal Education Division and the Educational Research and Methods Division. More recently, she served on the Board of Directors, representing PIC IV, from 2002-2004. Her interest in international engineering education is demonstrated by her membership on the ASEE International Advisory Committee and by her work as strand program chair for the 2005 ASEE Global Colloquium in Sydney, Australia, and as co-program chair for the 2006 Global Colloquium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Her international experience was enhanced by her selection as a Fulbright lecturer/researcher in Sweden in 1999. She also serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Engineering Education and is an ASEE Fellow.

Olds received her B.A. degree from Stanford University and her M.A.and Ph.D. from the University of Denver, all in English. Her research interests lie primarily in understanding and assessing undergraduate engineering student learning. In her current research, she is working with colleagues to develop concept inventories for engineering topics and assessing engineering students' abilities to resolve ethical dilemmas. She has participated in a number of curriculum innovation projects and has been active in the engineering education and assessment communities, consulting widely on those topics both nationally and internationally.

Candidate's Statement

I am honored to have been nominated for the position of president-elect of ASEE. If elected, I will work hard to continue to move the organization forward. I believe that my experiences as a long-time faculty member at an engineering school, as an administrator and as a division director at the National Science Foundation have provided me with a unique perspective, both local and global, from which to address the goals of ASEE.

In my view, the role for ASEE in our "flat" world can be summed up in two words: leadership and partnerships.Through providing leadership and developing partnerships, ASEE can help assure a strong future for engineering and engineering technology education while supporting the faculty who prepare our students to become effective global engineers and technicians. Among the areas in which I would work to enhance leadership and partnerships are these:

* One essential area of leadership and partnership is the field of engineering education research. As an associate editor, I applaud the recent change of emphasis in the Journal of Engineering Education. However, I am also fully aware that most members of ASEE do not devote their careers to education research. I believe that a partnership among education researchers, practitioners and industry is key to transforming engineering and engineering technology education. Without mutual respect and continued dialogue between scholars of discovery and scholars of practice, we will not advance the field.