Five doctoral students and post-doctoral researchers, plus one PhD graduate, receive honors recognizing excellence in scholarship, service, and commitment to teaching.

Five graduates of the former Division of Interdisciplinary Engineering, now part of ENE, receive the school's Outstanding Alumni Award on February 18.

Purdue's Epistemology Professor of Engineering Education, Radcliffe is a world-renowned scholar in engineering education and chair of the ENE graduate program.

Visiting professor Judith Zawojewski, on sabbatical with ENE and the School of Materials Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology for 2008-09, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) beginning in 2009.

The assistant professor of engineering education and educational technology will lead ENE's Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning (INSPIRE).

The College of Engineering presented Bowker—director of undergraduate recruitment for engineering—
the award at its 2008 Staff Awards Banquet.

The American Society for Engineering Education presented Reed-Rhoads, ENE professor, director of the First-Year Engineering Program, and the College of Engineering's Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education—the Educational Research and Methods Division Distinguished Service Award at the 2008 Frontiers in Education conference.

ENE's Alice Pawley is on the team that will develop targeted research, programs, and university-level coordination supporting institutional transformation at Purdue, in part through a new Purdue Center for Faculty Success.

In the Ideas to Innovation (i2i) Learning Laboratory, first-year engineering students become immersed in the engineering design cycle.

Established in Fall 2005, ENE's MDE Program has achieved ABET accreditation. Through MDE, students draw on several disciplines to solve complex engineering problems.

Joint sponsors: Purdue's School of Engineering Education (ENE) and the National Academy of Engineering's Center for the Advancement of Scholarship on Engineering Education. Details here.

The ENE associate professor and director of EPICS is one of 49 Purdue professors so honored this year for "sustained excellence in the classroom."

The first-ever Research in Engineering Education Symposium (REES), held this summer in Davos, Switzerland, drew 77 participants from around the world—17 of them from Purdue.

Teri Reed-Rhoads, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education in the College of Engineering and Associate Professor of Engineering Education, will lead the program, which serves more than 1,700 students each year.

A 1989 Purdue graduate in interdisciplinary engineering (a program now part of the School of Engineering Education), Horlacher is one of 28 active space shuttle and space station flight directors, including those in training. Only 77 people have served as NASA flight directors, or are in training to do so, in the nearly 50 years of human space flight.