National Outstanding Teaching Medal
As an organization, ASEE is committed to the
support of faculty scholarship and systems that
develop pedagogical expertise. The National
Outstanding Teaching Medal was established in
2003 by contributions from ASEE Sections, members,
and industrial partners. The award is designed
to provide national recognition to an engineering
or engineering technology educator for excellence
in outstanding classroom performance, contributions
to the scholarship of teaching, and participation
in ASEE Section meetings and local activities.
The Award: The award recipient
receives an engraved commemorative medallion,
certificate, and complimentary registration
for the ASEE Annual Conference at which the
award is presented. An honorarium will be included
as a part of the award when funding of the endowment
is completed. Each Section award winner will
receive a certificate in recognition of his
or her teaching excellence at the regional level.
Qualifications: Teachers of
any subject included in an ABET accredited engineering
or engineering technology curriculum, including
faculty teaching parallel courses at two-year
or community colleges, are eligible. Those teaching
humanities and social studies, mathematics,
science, applied science and computing science
are also eligible.
Classroom Performance:
- Possess and be able to communicate broad
and accurate subject area knowledge.
- Possess self-confidence, create a feeling
of harmony between self and students, and
able to meet difficulties with poise.
- Possess a sense of proportion, stressing
fundamentals and basic underlying truths.
- Prepare assignments that challenge students,
demanding thinking and learning.
- Demonstrate an intense subject area interest
& enthusiasm and enhance the learning process
to fully motivate students.
- Be available for advising and counseling
students.
- Show evidence of outstanding classroom performance
using regular course evaluations and individual
letters of recommendation from current and
former students.
Teaching Scholarship Contributions:
- Demonstrate effectiveness in course and/or
curriculum development.
- Evidence of laboratory or other facility
development.
- Development or authorship of instructional
material or a text that enhances the student
learning process.
- Publication of original work, through any
medium including presentations at professional
meetings, that enhances the engineering education
process or adds value to teaching methodology
literature.
- Service as a mentor to other teaching faculty
or participation in the development and delivery
of seminars and workshops focused on improvements
to teacher classroom effectiveness.
- Teach a minimum of two semester or three
quarter classroom or laboratory courses per
year.
ASEE and Local Participation:
- Possess a strong record of activity in ASEE
or the educational activities of another professional
society.
- Be an ASEE member with a record of participation
in Section meetings. (A minimum participation
is attending the Section meeting at which
the Section award is presented; and making
a presentation at that meeting (or the following
Section meeting) to share some element of
his/her success as a teacher).
- Provide a commitment statement to attend
the ASEE Annual Meeting if selected to receive
the National Outstanding Teaching Medal.
Nomination Process: The National
Outstanding Teaching Medal recipient is selected
from the winners (past and present) of one of
the twelve Section Outstanding Teaching Awards.
Section leaders are responsible for submitting
nominations to ASEE HQ. All ASEE members are
urged to recognize outstanding teaching by submitting
nominations to their regional section leadership.
The nominee and nominee's institution may need
to participate in the submittal process. The
nomination is to be submitted by January 15
to ASEE HQ. The nomination package consists
of the following:
- ASEE Awards Cover page.
- Fifty word citation suitable for reading
at the annual award ceremony.
- Documentation related to the award criteria
consisting of no more than 4 pages. (Other
personal vita/information will be disregarded).
- Candidate's statement (no more than 500
words) regarding their teaching philosophy.
- Three letters of recommendation from students
or past students.
- Three letters of recommendation from faculty,
administration, or industry peers.
- Candidate's commitment statement to attend
the ASEE Annual Meeting if selected to receive
the National Outstanding Teaching Medal.
The award selection committee will use a similar
schedule and follow the same general guidelines
prescribed by the ASEE awards process. The Selection
Committee may recommend that highly qualified
candidates be automatically re-nominated for
the following year. Re-nominated candidates
will be allowed to update their nomination package.
Benjamin Garver Lamme Award
Benjamin Garver Lamme (1864-1924) spent most
of his life working for the Westinghouse Electric
Company as an inventor and a developer of electrical
machinery. He pioneered the design of rotary
converters, developed direct current railway
motors and produced the first commercially successful
induction motor. His keen interest in the training
of young engineers resulted in the development
of a design school at Westinghouse. A further
result of his interest was the endowment of
the Benjamin Garver Lamme Award, which is given
to encourage good technical teaching in order
to advance the engineering profession.
The Benjamin Garver Lamme Award is bestowed
upon a distinguished engineering educator for
contributions to the art of teaching, contributions
to research and technical literature and achievements
that contribute to the advancement of the profession
of engineering college administration.
The Award: The Lamme Trust
Fund, established in 1928 in memory of Benjamin
Garver Lamme, provides the funds for the award,
which consists of a gold medal and certificate.
Qualifications: Representing
the best in engineering education administration,
the Benjamin Garver Lamme Award is bestowed
upon a recipient who demonstrates the following
qualities:
- Excellence in teaching and ability to inspire
students to high levels of accomplishment.
- Improvement of engineering education through
contributions of research, books or technical
articles that have a lasting influence on
engineering education.
- Administration of engineering schools that
has led to definite and recognized improvements
in the art of engineering education.
- Participation in the work of engineering
and educational societies that has led to
the improvement of engineering education.
- Achievements outside the field of teaching,
such as personal professional development
in industry, consulting work, inventions,
government service, and so on. (Such achievements
will be considered secondary in importance
in selecting the recipient.)
Renomination: All nominations
will be carried over for at least one year following
the initial submission. Pertinent updated nomination
information should be submitted by the nominator.
Specific requests for updating will be made
for cases in the top quarter of the previous
year's ballot. Other resubmissions are the responsibility
of the nominator
Fred Merryfield Design Award
As a practicing environmentalist and spokesperson
for environmental protection before most people
had even heard the term, as an engineering educator
who always insisted on high standards, as an
expert engineer and consultant known internationally
in the area of water and waste engineering,
and as a citizen dedicated to service, Fred
Merryfield (1900-1977) was a progressive and
an imaginative pioneer.
Fred Merryfield invested 35 years as a teacher
and researcher at Oregon State University in
the areas of water, sewerage, hydropower systems
and engineering contracts and specifications.
During this same period he, along with three
of his students, founded the international consulting
firm of CH2M Hill. Later, Merryfield motivated
his students at OSU to measure river pollution
and report on it to the Oregon State Board of
Health. In support of his students' efforts,
Merryfield encouraged and prodded the health
authorities, eventually being credited as the
primary force in cleaning up the Willamette
River and other estuaries in Oregon.
Established in 1981 by CH2M Hill in memory
of Fred Merryfield, this award recognizes an
engineering educator for excellence in teaching
of engineering design and acknowledges other
significant contributions related to engineering
design teaching.
The Award: The award recipient
receives a $2,500 honorarium, a $500 stipend
for travel to the ASEE Annual Conference and
a commemorative plaque. In addition, the awardee's
institutional department receives an award of
$500.
Qualifications: Creativity
and demonstrated excellence in the teaching
of engineering design characterize the recipients
of the Merryfield Award. Therefore, the award
maintains the following qualifications:
- Demonstrated excellence in teaching engineering
design and ability to inspire students to
high levels of accomplishment.
- Improvement in the resources and methodology
for teaching engineering design. Evidence
of such achievement would include published
articles, textbooks, courses or curricula,
laboratory development, case studies and other
innovations.
- Improvement of engineering design teaching
through encouragement of colleagues; cooperation
with industry and appropriate emphasis on
societal concerns, professionalism and ethics.
- Participation in the work of at least one
professional/technical society to improve
the teaching of engineering design.
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