Holloway receives Wickenden Award

Beth Holloway
Beth Holloway
Beth Holloway, director of the Women in Engineering Program and assistant dean of undergraduate education for the College of Engineering, has been selected to receive the William Elgin Wickenden Award of the American Society for Engineering Education.

The award will be presented to Holloway and her co-authors of the article, "Research-Informed Policy Change: A Retrospective on Engineering Admissions," at the ASEE annual conference and exposition in June. It is given annually to recognize an article that represents the highest standards of scholarly research in engineering education among the articles published in the Journal of Engineering Education in each volume year. Holloway's article appeared in the journal's April 2014 issue. Her co-authors are Kenneth Reid, associate professor of engineering at Virginia Technical Institute; P.K. Imbrie and Teri Reed at Texas A&M University. Imbrie is director of undergraduate academic programs in the Engineering Academic and Student Affairs office, and Reed is assistant vice chancellor for academic affairs.