News

August 7, 2007

Engineering Education Welcomes First-Year Engineering Students

First-Year Engineering students who did not attend Day on Campus and are newly arrived to West Lafayette should attend one orientation meeting on Wednesday, August 15, at 10:00 a.m. in the Physics Building Room 223 or Friday, August 17, at 10:00 a.m. in the Mechanical Engineering Building, Room 161.

The First-Year Engineering advising office in Engineering Administration Room 212 will be open on Saturday, August 18, from 9:00 a.m. to noon.

March 1, 2007

Trustees Approve Distinguished Professorship for ENE Professor

Gary Bertoline, Professor of Engineering Education (Courtesy Faculty), has been named Distinguished Professor of Computer Graphics by the board of trustees.

February 28, 2007

Announcing Seed Grant Competition for Young Engineer Studies

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.

January 5, 2007

Trustees Honor ENE Professor

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.

December 14, 2006

December 2006 Newsletter

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

November 30, 2006

Research Agenda Set for Engineering Education

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

October 20, 2006

Research Grants Aim to Enhance Proficiency, Diversity in Engineering and Science

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.

September 1, 2006

First Purdue Engineering Education Doctoral Student Graduates

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

June 15, 2006

At Your Service

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

June 15, 2006

Fertile New Ground: Growing the Next Crop of Engineers

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).

May 8, 2006

Bill Oakes Honored for Linking Community Work with Classroom Studies

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.

March 14, 2006

ENE Faculty Member Wins NSF Early Career Award

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

March 6, 2006

Grant Will Support K-12 Engineering Education Research

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.

January 12, 2006

Engineering Education Welcomes New Staff Members

Four new staff members have joined the Department of Engineering Education: Julia Allen, Director of K-12 Engineering Education Outreach; Kavitha Muthuraman, Community & Alumni Relations Coordinator; Jim Pukrop, Honors Program Coordinator; and Daniel Somerville, Coordinator--Our Town Program.

December 14, 2005

Martin Award Presented to Cindey Isenberg

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