Oakes, director of Purdue's EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) program and an associate professor in the School of Engineering Education, has held senior positions in the First-Year Engineering Program and in ASEE's College Industry Partnership and Educational Research Methods divisions. He is a past chair of ASEE's Illinois/Indiana section. 

Reed-Rhoads, assistant dean of undergraduate education in the College of Engineering and an associate professor in the School of Engineering Education, has held senior positions in the K-12 and Educational Research Methods divisions of ASEE for over a decade, and has contributed in many ways to the development of the engineering education community.  

Of ASEE's 12,000-plus members, 309 have been named fellow through 2009.