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Nomination Open: 11/01/2024
Nomination Deadline: 02/14/2025
The Sharon Keillor Award recognizes and honors outstanding women engineering educators. The award consists of an honorarium of $2,000 and an appropriately inscribed plaque which is presented annually at the ASEE Annual Conference.
Eligibility: The award is to recognize and honor a woman engineering educator who has an outstanding record in teaching engineering students, impact in engineering education beyond their campus, and reasonable performance histories of research and service within an engineering school. Nominees will hold an earned doctoral degree in an engineering discipline, or in an engineering related field of natural science, including mathematics, and will have at least ten years of teaching experience in an engineering school. Nominees should have been members of ASEE for at least three years. Nominations and Selection: Nominations will be made following the general nomination instructions (see http://www.asee.org/member-resources/awards/guidelines/awards-nomination-guidelines). 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.
Nominations are automatically transferred over for the next award cycle. If not selected, nominations can be re-submitted after one award cycle.
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Nomination Open: 11/01/2024
Nomination Deadline: 02/14/2025
| Year | Winner Name |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Bevlee Watford |
| 2020 | Sarah A. Rajala |
| 2019 | Jenna P. Carpenter |
| 2018 | Donna C. Llewellyn |
| 2017 | Not Presented |
| 2016 | Karen C. Davis |
| 2015 | Mia K. Markey |
| 2014 | Susan McCahan |
| 2013 | Teri Reed-Rhoads |
| 2012 | Mary Besterfield-Sacre |
Dr. Laura Bottomley is the founding Director of the Engineering Education Program at North Carolina State University. She is also an Associate Teaching Professor in the Colleges of Engineering and Education. She has taught every grade K through graduate school reaching close to 200,000 students. She has received awards from the White House twice with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics, Science and Engineering Mentoring program, once individually and once as a part of the Women and Minority Engineering Programs at NC State.
Dr. Bottomley has served in various roles in her professional societies, IEEE and ASEE, for more than thirty years. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the IEEE Education Society. She served on the committee for the Year of Impact on Racial Equity and on the Diversity Committee for ASEE. Dr. Bottomley is a Fellow of both ASEE and IEEE.
Dr. Bottomley also founded the Engineering Place for K-20 Outreach and the Women in Engineering Programs at NC State University. During her years in the College, the percentage of engineering students who are women rose from 14% to 33% and the percentage of engineering students from underrepresented minority groups rose from 9% to 17%. In 2022 NC State was named as having the 6th best College of Engineering for women and minorities in the nation, including MSIs and women’s colleges.
Bottomley received her bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1984 and 1985, respectively, and her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from NC State in 1992. She has previously worked at Texas Instruments on the GPS system, at AT&T Bell Labs on ISDN standards. She has consulted with NASA, Lockheed Martin, Ericsson, IBM, and others. She has also starred in a superbowl commercial and the NC STEM Explorers television program.
| Year | Winner Name |
|---|---|
| 2021 | Bevlee Watford |
| 2020 | Sarah A. Rajala |
| 2019 | Jenna P. Carpenter |
| 2018 | Donna C. Llewellyn |
| 2017 | Not Presented |
| 2016 | Karen C. Davis |
| 2015 | Mia K. Markey |
| 2014 | Susan McCahan |
| 2013 | Teri Reed-Rhoads |
| 2012 | Mary Besterfield-Sacre |
