Innovative early-career engineering faculty selected to participate in NAE's second frontiers of engineering education s

Fifty-three of the nation's most innovative young engineering educators have been selected to take part in the National Academy of Engineering's second Frontiers of Engineering Education (FOEE) symposium. Early-career faculty members who are developing and implementing innovative educational approaches in a variety of engineering disciplines will come together for the 2-1/2-day event, where they can share ideas, learn from research and best practice in education, and leave with a charter to bring about improvement in their home institution. The attendees were nominated by fellow engineers or deans and chosen from a highly competitive pool of applicants.

"The Frontiers of Engineering Education program creates a unique venue for engineering faculty members to share and explore interesting and effective innovations in teaching and learning," said NAE President Charles M. Vest. "We intend for FOEE to become a major force in identifying, recognizing, and promulgating advances and innovations in order to build a strong intellectual infrastructure and commitment to 21st-century engineering education."

This year's program will focus on ways to ensure that students learn the engineering fundamentals, the expanding knowledge base of new technology, and the skills necessary to be an effective engineer or engineering researcher. "In our increasingly global and competitive world, the United States needs to marshal its resources to address the strategic shortfall of engineering leaders in the next decades," said Edward F. Crawley, Ford Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the chair of the FOEE planning committee. "By holding this event, we have recognized some of the finest young engineering educators in the nation, and will better equip them to transform the educational process at their universities."

The symposium will be held Dec. 13-16 in Irvine, Calif.

The following engineering faculty members were selected as attendees:

Robin Adams Purdue University

Theodore Allen Ohio State University

Brian Anderson West Virginia University

Burcin Becerik-Gerber University of Southern California

Brian Bingham University of Hawaii

Paul Blowers University of Arizona

Victor Breedveld Georgia Institute of Technology

Sean Brophy Purdue University

Shane Brown Washington State University

Lisa Bullard North Carolina State University

David Cappelleri Stevens Institute of Technology

Solomon Diamond Dartmouth College

Mario Eden Auburn University

Mark Embree Rice University

Deniz Erdogmus Northeastern University

Michael Falk Johns Hopkins University

Vinay Gupta University of South Florida

William Hale University of Arkansas

Robert Hampshire Carnegie Mellon University

Jamie Hestekin University of Arkansas

Anette Hosoi Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Bryan Huey University of Connecticut

Ben-Tzion Karsh University of Wisconsin

Michael Kessler Iowa State University

Diana Lados Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Michel Maharbiz University of California, Berkeley

Ellis Meng University of Southern California

Melissa Micou University of California, San Diego

Thomas Murphy University of Maryland

Scott Olson University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Matthew Parkinson Pennsylvania State University

Rorik Peterson University of Alaska Fairbanks

Stella Quinones University of Texas at El Paso

Daniel Ratner University of Washington

Florence Sanchez Vanderbilt University

Veronica Santos Arizona State University

Michael Scarpulla University of Utah

Chris Schaffer Cornell University

Michael Scott University of Illinois at Chicago

Jeffrey Siegel University of Texas at Austin

Kathleen Sienko University of Michigan

Robert Siston Ohio State University

Paul Sivilotti Ohio State University

Christopher Swan Tufts University

Johnna Temenoff Georgia Institute of Technology

Raymond Tu City College of New York

Kathleen Wage George Mason University

Keisha Walters Mississippi State University

Karen Willcox Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tao Xing Tuskegee University

Mark Yeary University of Oklahoma

Muhammad Zaman Boston University

Katherine Ziemer Northeastern University

The planning committee members of the 2010 symposium are:

Edward Crawley (Chair) Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Diran Apelian Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Theresa Maldonado Texas A&M University

Sheri Sheppard Stanford University

Larry Shuman University of Pittsburgh

Karl Smith University of Minnesota/ Purdue University

Jacquelyn Sullivan University of Colorado at Boulder

Provided by National Academy of Sciences