2008 ASEE National Award Recipients

The William Elgin Wickenden Award for 2008 was presented to Cynthia Atman,  Robin Adams, Monica Cardella, Jennifer Turns, Susan Mosborg, and Jason Saleem in recognition of their paper, “Engineering Design Processes: A Comparison of Students and Expert Practitioners,” which was published in the October 2007 issue of the Journal of Engineering Education (JEE).

Cynthia Atman is the founding director of the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington and the director of the NSF funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education. She is a professor of Industrial Engineering. Her research focuses on design learning and engineering education.

Robin Adams is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She also leads the Institute for Scholarship on Engineering Education as part of the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education. Adams’ research is concentrated on understanding design knowing and learning (particularly iterative cycles in design), interdisciplinary thinking and working, engineering epistemologies, and building capacity in engineering education research.

Monica Cardella is an assistant professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. in industrial engineering at the University of Washington where she was a Graduate Research Associate at the Center for Engineering Learning and Teaching. Cardella’s research interests include engineering education, engineering design, mathematical thinking, sketching and K-12 engineering education issues.

Jennifer Turns is an associate professor in Technical Communication in the College of Engineering at the University of Washington. Turns’ research concentrates on user-centered design, the use of portfolios to support engineering students’ conceptions of professional practice, and understanding teaching challenges in engineering education.

Susan Mosborg is a research scientist at the LIFE (Learning in Informal and Formal Environments) Center on the Learning Sciences at the University of Washington. Her current work focuses on blending the strengths of learning from informal and formal environments to help people and organizations become more innovation-ready and develop adaptive expertise.

Jason Saleem is a research scientist with the Veterans Administration Health Services Research & Development on Implementing Evidence-based Practice, Roudebush VA Medical Center, and Assistant Research Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis. His current research involves application of human factors engineering to enhance clinical information systems, including electronic decision support, as well as redesign of healthcare processes for improved safety.