Professor Caruthers receives 2017 College of Engineering Faculty Award of Excellence
Dr. James M. Caruthers, the Gerald and Sarah Skidmore Professor of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University, will receive the 2017 College of Engineering Faculty Award of Excellence for Engagement/Service. The award will be presented at the 15th Annual Engineering Faculty Awards of Excellence Banquet at the Ross-Ade Pavilion Shively Club on April 7.
Caruthers (left) was nominated by Professor Doraiswami Ramkrishna, the Harry Creighton Peffer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, for his leadership of two engagement activities at Purdue: the evGrandPrix and the M-STEM3 educational program.
The evGrandPrix is an educational program where students from Purdue and colleges from the U.S. and around the world design, build, test, and race electric go-karts at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as part of the Indy 500 festivities. “This event provides an excellent hands-on project that compliments the traditional blackboard learning students receive in their lecture courses,” noted Ramkrishna.
Over the last several years, the collegiate evGrandPrix has expanded to include a larger K12 STEM program called M-STEM3: Motorsports STEM for Manufacturing and Medicine. “The M-STEM3 education program currently has three activities with more in development,” stated Ramkrishna. “The various M-STEM3 activities have a significant engagement component that can impact local K12 education throughout Indiana.”
Ramkrishna explained that these current and emerging engagement activities make Caruthers “a deserving recipient of the College of Engineering 2017 Engagement Award.”
Learn more about evGrandPrix here.
Learn more about M-STEM3 here.