The American Society for Engineering Education's Annual Conference and Exposition (June 26-29) features some 75 presentations, workshops, and panel discussions having ENE faculty and graduate students as participants, including the Main Plenary, at which ENE's Karl Smith, Professor of Cooperative Learning in Engineering Education, will preside.
Founding head of the School of Engineering Education (2004-10) and a national force for engineering education reform based on research and scholarship, Dr. Kamyar Haghighi passed away May 9.
An instructor with both the EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) and IDEAS (Introducing Diversity through Engagement and Service) learning communities, Oakes is recognized for going above and beyond his required role in order to benefit students in their first year at Purdue.
Undergrad research assistants Susha Kharchenko and Jing Xue earned recognition at Purdue's 2011 Undergraduate Research and Poster Symposium for best abstract in the Social Science/Humanities category ("Student Perceptions of Engineering: Triangulation of a Coding Scheme"). Doctoral student Ron Carr received a "best research" award at Purdue's Graduate Student Educational Research Symposium for "National Survey of States' P-12 Engineering Standards." INSPIRE is ENE's Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning.
At the Purdue Libraries' One Book Higher poster session, Ruth Wertz and Meagan Ross won the Dean's Award for their research poster "Developing Curious and Persistent Continuous Learners: Articulating and Assessing the Role of Information Skills in the First-Year Engineering Curriculum."
The Quality Education for Minorities Network selected London for a science policy-oriented position in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation this summer. She will help explore technology's potential for providing more equitable educational opportunities for all learners.
An NSF program, the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation works to increase the number of underrepresented students successfully completing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics undergraduate programs. Cox, an associate professor of engineering education, will lead the coordination of LSAMP initiatives across Indiana campuses and will lead grant-writing for the project's next phase.
Three graduates of the former Division of Interdisciplinary Engineering, now part of ENE, received the school's Outstanding Alumni Award on February 23.
The April 16 event will recognize the faculty, staff, and students behind INSPIRE in one of eight awards presented. The research institute studies engineering thought and learning at the preschool-through-12th-grade level.
A senior vice president with San Francisco consulting firm Charles M. Salter Associates, this Interdisciplinary Engineering graduate (1974) specializes in acoustical design for a wide variety of facilities, including theaters, civic buildings, and music and film studios.