The purpose of this award is to honor innovation in access to engineering information.
Criteria
- Awarded to a person or entity for the creation of a resource, service or tool in any format that provides innovation in accessing, utilizing, or presenting engineering information. Members of the Award Committee are ineligible during the members’ term of service.
- The resource, service or tool must have become available during the two years previous to the year in which the award will be made (should have been published between 2023 and 2024).
- The resource, service or tool should represent a significant contribution to the field of engineering information.
- Resources in all media are eligible.
How to Nominate
- Award nominations must include the full citation of the resource nominated (title, author(s), journal, etc.).
- Letters of Nomination should include justification for why the work is being nominated, and must be received by the ASEE/ELD Awards Committee Chair by the deadline.
Past Recipients
2024: Chelsea Leachman, Erin Rowley, Margaret Phillips, and Daniela Solomon for “Teaching and Collecting Technical Standards”. This resource was described as “unique and novel” in many ways, because it brings “clarity and order” to a topic that can be “confusing and challenging”. The resource was found to be very “readable”, in that it expertly breaks down complex information into easily digestible segments. Committee members recognized its significance as a much-needed resource, providing practical guidance for librarians engaged in teaching standards.
2023: ELD Scholarly Communications Committee Subgroup (led by David Pixton; also including Jay Bhatt, Bill Bowman, Erin Burns, Julia Gelfand, Paula Johnson, and Tom Volkening) for the “Open Textbooks for Engineering” Guide.
2022: Eric Schares, for creating Unsub Extender, a free Python-based web application to automatically visualize Unsub export data.
2012-2021: Not awarded.
2011: Eugene Barsky, for digitizing and creating open access to 30 years of symposium proceedings of the British Columbia Technical and Research Committee on Reclamation.