Best Paper Award
2024 Rebecca Anne Scott, Alex Nelson Frickenstein, and Stefan Wilhelm, “Longitudinal Analysis of Strategies for Improving Biomedical Engineering Student Knowledge of Career Paths and Desired Skillsets”
2023 Deborah Moyaki, Dominik May, Nathaniel Hunsu, Pravalika Irukulla, and Cheryl Gomillion, “Introduction of a Virtual Reality Laboratory in a Tissue Engineering Course.”
2022 Devina Jaiswal and Sara Cunha, “Resolving Troublesome Knowledge in Engineering Physiology using ICAP framework based Problem-Solving Studio”
2021 Tristan McCarty and Sarah Corinne Rowlinson Furtney, “Development Of Quantitative Methodologies For Analyzing Biomedical Engineering Resumes and Their Use In Career Pathway Alignment”
2020 William H. Guilford, “Clinician-Engineer Career Bias and its Relationship to Engineering Design Self-Efficacy among Biomedical Engineering Undergraduates”
2019 Nicole L. Ramo, Aileen Huang-Saad, Barry Belmont, “What is Biomedical Engineering? Insights from Qualitative Analysis of Definitions Written by Undergraduate Students”
2018 Nicole L. Ramo, Jasmine E. Nejad, Ketul C. Popat, Kimberly Catton, “Student Assessment of Active Learning Elements in 100-Level Introductory Biomedical Engineering Course”
2017 Christa Wille, Dalton Hess, Jake Levin, Amit Nimunkar, and John Puccinelli
2016 LeAnn Dourte Segan and Emily R. Elliott
2015
2014 William H. Guilford and Michael B. Lawrence
2013 No Award Presented
2012 Steve R. Marek, William Leichty, and James W. Tunnell
2011 Jonathan Sanghoon Lee, Shing Wai Yam, and William H. Guilford
2010 Alyssa Taylor, Katelyn Mason, A. Leyf Pierce Starling, Timothy Allen, and Shayn Peirce-Cottler
Best Poster / Work in Progress Award
2024 (Tie) Michael Gordon Browne, Anthony E. Felder, and Adrian P. Defante, “Work in Progress: Development of a Domain-Agnostic Standards Curriculum in Partnership with a Medical Device Manufacturer” and Sarah Ilkhanipour Rooney and Shameeka M Jelenewicz, “Work in Progress: Development of a Medical Devices Course for Sophomore Biomedical Engineering Undergraduate Students”
2023 Christine E. King, Kit Roy Feeney, Quangminh Tang, Milan Das, and Dalton Salvo, “Work in Progress: Physiological Assessment of Learning in a Virtual Reality Clinical Immersion Environment”
2022 Cameron Kim, “Work-in-Progress: Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Emergent Biotechnologies: Distributive justice and dual-use technology in the engineering design cycle curriculum”
2021 Jen Choi
2020 Ryan Devine, Dominik May, Cheryl Gomillion, “Work in Progress: Pilot Study for the Effect of Simulated Laboratories on the Motivation of Biological Engineering Students”
2019 Guilford, W. H., & Keeley, M., & Helmke, B. P., & Allen, T. E., “Work in Progress: A Clinical Immersion Program for Broad Curricular Impact Paper”
2018
2017 Yanfen Li, Philip Jensen, Paul Jensen, and Karin Jensen
2016
2015 Jean-Michel I. Maarek and Brittany Kay
2014 Bradley Sutton
2013 Jeffrey LaMack
Biomedical Engineering Teaching Award
2024 Huilian (Evan) Wang, University of Texas at Austin
2023 David O’Neill, Northwestern University
2022 Christine King, University of California Irvine
2021 Yanfen Li, University of Massachusetts Lowell
2020 Karin Jensen, University of Illinois
2019 Tanya Nocera, The Ohio State University
2018 Sarah Rooney, University of Delaware
2017 Casey Ankeny, Northwestern University
2016 LeAnn Dourte Segan, University of Pennsylvania
2015 Mary Staehle, Rowan University
2014 Renata Fortuna Ramos, Rice University
2013 Michael Rust, Western New England University
2012 Eric Kennedy, Bucknell University
2011
2010 Joseph Tranquillo, Bucknell University
2009 Chris B. Schaffer, Cornell University
2008 Krisyen S. Masters, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Theo C. Pilkington Outstanding Educator Award
Note: Award named Outstanding Biomedical Engineering Educator Award prior to 1994
2024 Miiri Kotche, University of Illinois at Chicago
2023 Renata Ramos, Rice University
2022 Rachael Schmedlen, University of Michigan
2021 William Guilford, University of Virginia
2020 Judy Cezeaux, Arkansas Tech University
2019 Michele Grimm, Michigan State University
2018 James Sweeney, Oregon State University
2017 Joe Tranquillo, Bucknell University
2016 Conrad Zapanta, Carnegie Mellon University
2015 Barbara Oakley, Oakland University
2014 Rena Bizios, University of Texas at San Antonio
2013 Ann Saterbak, Duke University
2012 Arthur Johnson, University of Maryland
2011 Paul H. King, Vanderbilt University
2010 Dan Cavanagh, Bucknell University
2009 John Gassert, Milwaukee School of Engineering
2008 Mary C. Verstraete, University of Akron
2007 Robert Linsenmeier, Northwestern Engineering
2006 John Enderle, University of Connecticut
2005 Ajit Yoganathan, Georgia Institute of Technology
2004 Susan Blanchard, Florida Gulf Coast University
2003 Thomas R. Harris, Vanderbilt University
2002 Robert Plonsey, Duke University
2001 Richard T. Hart, Ohio State University
2000 Gerald E. Miller, Virginia Commonwealth University
1999 Krishnan B. Chandran, University of Iowa
1998 Robert M. Nerem, Georgia Institute of Technology
1997
1996 John R. Collier, Florida A&M University
1995 Willis J. Tompkins, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1994 John G. Webster, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1993 Paul N. Hale, Jr., Louisiana Tech University
1992 Kwan Rim, University of Iowa
1991 Daniel J. Schneck, University of Iowa
1990 Andreas F. von Recum, Ohio State University
1989 Leslie A. Geddes, Purdue University
1988 J. Larry Katz, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1987 Herman R. Weed, Ohio State University
1986 William C. Van Buskirk, New Jersey Institute of Technology
1985 Albert M. Cook, Stanford University
1984 Theo C. Pilkington, Duke University
1983 Herman P. Schwan, University of Pennsylvania
1982 Glenn V. Edmonson, University of Michigan
1981 Francis M. Long, University of Wyoming
Biomedical Engineering Lifetime Faculty Mentor Award (g
iven every two years)
2024 Ann Saterback, Duke University
2022 Rob Linsenmeier, Northwestern University
Student Travel Awards
2024 Not awarded
2023 Not awarded
2022 Eileen Johnson, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley, Georgia Institute of Technology
2021 Amy Adkins, Northwestern University, Isabel Miller, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
2020 Stanley Ng University of North Dakota and Kali Morgan, Georgia Institute of Technology
2019 Kathryn Kundrod, Rice University and Amena Shermadou, The Ohio State University
2018 Angela Lai, Carnegie Mellon University, and S. Cyrus Rezvanifar, University of Akron
2017 Yanfann Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign