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August 8, 2011
Prof. Matthew Ohland Honored by Academy of Management
The symposium "Team-Based Learning and Peer Evaluation in Management Education: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions," based on software tools designed by Ohland's research team, was named the Best Symposium in Management Education and Development presented at the Academy's 2011 annual meeting.
July 20, 2011
Prof. Alice Pawley Receives NSF Faculty Early Career Development Award
One of six Purdue faculty winning this prestigious honor for 2010, Pawley will use her grant to study why some groups have remained chronically underrepresented in engineering degree programs.
July 11, 2011
Kristin Deckard Receives 2011 McDowell Award
ENE's Richard W. McDowell Best Counselor Award goes to Deckard for excellence in advising First-Year Engineering students. Deckard was named Assistant Director of First-Year Engineering Advising earlier this year.
June 24, 2011
Ian Boze: A Theater-Loving Student Pursues Lighting Engineering
A niche degree through ENE's Multidisciplinary Engineering Program unites two interests.
June 17, 2011
ENE a Strong Presence at 2011 ASEE Conference
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.
May 10, 2011
In Memoriam: Dr. Kamyar Haghighi
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.
May 9, 2011
ENE Prof. Bill Oakes Receives Purdue Learning Community Advocate Award
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.
May 5, 2011
INSPIRE Students Receive Research Awards
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.
May 5, 2011
INSPIRE Launches Journal of Pre-College Engineering Education Research
INSPIRE, ENE's Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning, announces the first issue of the electronic journal, also called J-PEER.
May 5, 2011
ENE Grad Students Receive Dean's Award at Libraries' Poster Session
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."
April 27, 2011
ENE Grad Student Jeremi London Chosen as NSF Intern
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.
April 27, 2011
Dr. Monica Cox Named Interim Statewide Director for LSAMP Indiana
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.
April 26, 2011
ENE Alumnus Gary Horlacher Flight Director for Endeavour Shuttle Flight
A 1989 graduate in Interdisciplinary Engineering (Systems Engineering), Horlacher speaks here with reporters about the upcoming flight.