The PECASE Award is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.

Yuxiang Wang, PhD, ENE's International Student Experience Advisor and an academic advisor, is the co-editor of the new book "Minority Students in East Asia: Government Policies, School Practices, and Teacher Responses" (Routledge, 2011).

Cox is one of four experts participating in a September 26 panel and announcement at the White House on "Workplace Flexibility Policies for American Scientists and Their Families."

The symposium "Team-Based Learning and Peer Evaluation in Management Education: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions," based on software tools designed by Ohland's research team, was named the Best Symposium in Management Education and Development presented at the Academy's 2011 annual meeting.

One of six Purdue faculty winning this prestigious honor for 2010, Pawley will use her grant to study why some groups have remained chronically underrepresented in engineering degree programs.

ENE's Richard W. McDowell Best Counselor Award goes to Deckard for excellence in advising First-Year Engineering students. Deckard was named Assistant Director of First-Year Engineering Advising earlier this year.

A niche degree through ENE's Multidisciplinary Engineering Program unites two interests.

Founding head of the School of Engineering Education (2004-10) and a national force for engineering education reform based on research and scholarship, Dr. Kamyar Haghighi passed away May 9.

An instructor with both the EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service) and IDEAS (Introducing Diversity through Engagement and Service) learning communities, Oakes is recognized for going above and beyond his required role in order to benefit students in their first year at Purdue.

Undergrad research assistants Susha Kharchenko and Jing Xue earned recognition at Purdue's 2011 Undergraduate Research and Poster Symposium for best abstract in the Social Science/Humanities category ("Student Perceptions of Engineering: Triangulation of a Coding Scheme"). Doctoral student Ron Carr received a "best research" award at Purdue's Graduate Student Educational Research Symposium for "National Survey of States' P-12 Engineering Standards." INSPIRE is ENE's Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning.

INSPIRE, ENE's Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning, announces the first issue of the electronic journal, also called J-PEER.