In announcing the decision, Nicholas Altiero, ASEE president cited Streveler's outstanding contributions to ASEE.

Streveler came to Purdue from the Colorado School of Mines, where she was the founding director of the Center for Engineering Education. She is PI or co-PI on several NSF-funded projects. In 2006, she served as acting director for the NSF-funded Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, a multi-campus project investigating the educational experience of engineering students. She received her bachelor's degree in biology from Indiana University-Bloomington, her master's in zoology from the Ohio State University, and a PhD in educational psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa.