Young Engineer Studies (YES) is an annual seed grant competition for funds to research issues and opportunities related to establishing engineering thinking in PreK-6 learners. The competition is open to Purdue faculty and research scientists. The submission deadline is April 14, 2007.

The Purdue board of trustees approved the appointment of Karl Smith as Cooperative Learning Professor in Engineering Education. Designated professorships honor individuals whose academic achievements have been internationally recognized or who have made a unique contribution to the university through scholarship, research, teaching or leadership functions.

The ENE newsletter includes highlights, new faculty and staff, awards and honors, and graduate program news.

The National Engineering Education Research Colloquies (EERC) define five research areas for the new discipline of engineering education (pdf).

Purdue researchers will explore how to foster understanding and lifelong interest in engineering and science concepts by youngsters and teachers through four studies being conducted at the university.

Tamara Moore received her doctoral degree in engineering education and earned the outstanding graduate student award for engineering education this year.

Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) at Purdue is spotlighted in this ASEE PRISM article on service learning in engineering (pdf).

Engineering Education is helping to build a community of scholars that use research to uncover how we learn so that America's future engineers are better prepared to keep pace with the changing nature of engineering, as featured in ASEE Prism (pdf).

Campus Compact has selected Professor William Oakes, associate professor of engineering education and co-director of Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) at Purdue, as the recipient of the 2006 Thomas Ehrlich Faculty Award for Service-Learning.

Deborah Follman, an assistant professor of engineering education, has won the National Science Foundation's Early Career Development Award for outstanding young researchers.

A Purdue alumnus's $1 million grant, renewable for up to four years, will expand the university's educational research efforts to foster an interest in science and engineering in K-12 classrooms. The grant from Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. will support research and program development in ENE.

Cindey Isenberg, administrative assistant to the head of Engineering Education, is awarded the Eudoxia Girard Martin Memorial Staff Recognition Award.

The Department of Engineering Education's role in shaping the new discipline of engineering education at the national level is highlighted in this Journal of Engineering Education editorial (pdf).

Engineering Education announces new graduate courses available in the spring 2006 semester.