The Wickenden Award will be presented at the 2009 ASEE Conference to Ohland, an ENE professor, and colleagues from Stanford, Olin College of Engineering, and Rose-Hulman for the Journal of Engineering Education article "Persistence, Engagement, and Migration in Engineering Programs."

Magana, with ENE faculty member Sean Brophy and Purdue education faculty member Timothy Newby, received one of six such awards at the 2009 conference of the Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education for the paper "Preservice Teachers' Perceptions of Web-Based Interactive Media: Three Different Tools, One Learning Goal."

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.

The American Society for Engineering Education's scholarly journal featured in its past two issues six articles contributed by ENE faculty, while ASEE Prism's September issue highlights colleagues Karl Smith and Ruth Streveler's "Rigorous Research in Engineering Education" initiative.

Through seven recent NSF grants, ENE faculty are pursuing cyber-enabled teacher development, student-teamwork management systems, collaborative research methods, graphical user interface systems for student problem-solving, new pedagogical approaches to student modeling activities, and more.

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.