The prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers was presented to Cox during a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on January 13.

Chavela, an ENE doctoral candidate, will spend 12 weeks in early 2010 in the National Academy of Engineering's Center for the Advancement of Scholarship and Engineering Education (CASEE).

Holloway received the New Employee award at the College's November 6 Staff Awards banquet, in recognition of his contributions to ENE's Ideas to Innovation Learning Laboratory for first-year students.

The team received a 2009 Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware at this year's Frontiers in Education Conference for a system—CATME/Team-Maker—that helps manage teams in engineering courses and enables evaluations of team members' contributions.

Cordelia Brown, Monica Cox, and Krishna Madhavan are among 49 of the nation's brightest young engineering researchers and educators selected to participate in this inaugural symposium offered by the National Academy of Engineering. More

A new, Purdue-led NSF center will serve as headquarters for the operations of the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES), connecting 14 research equipment sites and the earthquake engineering community through groundbreaking cyberinfrastructure, education, and outreach efforts.

Evangelou received the five-year, $400,000 award from the National Science Foundation for a study in developmental engineering, bringing to three the number of ENE's current CAREER Awards.

Strutz, who will study the influences on low-socioeconomic students that inspired them to study engineering, is the National Science Foundation's first Graduate Research Fellow in the area of engineering education.

Cox will receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor given by the U.S. government to young researchers, in a ceremony at the White House this fall. More

Doctoral candidate Dalrymple received the award at the College of Engineering Honors Reception on April 19. More

Wigley, an acoustical engineering major in the Multidisciplinary Engineering program, received the award at the College of Engineering Honors Reception on April 19.

The American Society for Engineering Education will honor Haghighi in June with the 2009 Chester F. Carlson Award for innovation in engineering education.

Five years after its founding, the School of Engineering Education has a host of accomplishments to its credit.

The Wickenden Award will be presented at the 2009 ASEE Conference to Ohland, an ENE professor, and colleagues from Stanford, Olin College of Engineering, and Rose-Hulman for the Journal of Engineering Education article "Persistence, Engagement, and Migration in Engineering Programs."