The Mid-Atlantic Section provides participants with the opportunity to receive the following awards:
Best Paper Award
Distinguished Teaching Award
Best Campus Representative
In addition, the Middle Atlantic Section Distinguished Teaching Award Recipient will receive a monetary reward in the amount of $500.
All of the above Awards provide the opportunity for elevation to National ASEE Awards. The Mid-Atlantic Section continues the tradition of nominating worthy candidates for these Awards. Please consider nominating a worthy colleague for an Award. For more information about guidelines of nominating for Awards, please click here.
2022-2023 Awards
2023 Distinguished Teaching Award
Congratulations to Dr. Jenni Buckley, Associate Professor at the University of Delaware, recipient of the 2023 Mid-Atlantic Distinguished Teaching Award!
Fall 2022 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Dr. Tyler Love of University of Maryland Eastern Shore, recipient of the Fall 2022 MAS Conference Best Paper Award, for his paper entitled “Accident Occurrences and Safety Issues Reported by Mid-Atlantic P-12 Engineering Educators.”2021-2022 Awards
2022 Distinguished Teaching Award
Congratulations to Dr. Kaitlin Mallouk, Assistant Professor at Rowan University, recipient of the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Distinguished Teaching Award!
Spring 2022 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Dr. Amy Voss Farris and Ms. Anna Eunji Kim of Penn State University Park, recipients of the 2022 Spring MAS Conference Best Paper Award, for their paper entitled “Preservice Teachers’ Mechanistic Reasoning about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.”
Fall 2021 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Dr. WenYen Huang, Dr. Ping-Chuan Wang (SUNY New Paltz), Mr. Seth Pearl (Pennsylvania State University), recipients of the 2021 Fall MAS Conference Best Paper Award, for their paper titled “A Pilot Interdisciplinary Robotic Mentorship Project to Study Engineering Soft Skill Development.”
Fall 2021 Best Diversity Paper Award
Congratulations to Dr. Dustyn Roberts and Dr. Robert W Carpick, at University of Pennsylvania, recipient of the 2021 Mid-Atlantic Best Diversity Paper Award, for their paper titled “A DEI Task Force within a Mechanical Engineering Department.”
2020-2021 Awards
2021 Distinguished Teaching Award
Congratulations to Dr. Anurag Purwar, Research Associate Professor at SUNY Stony Brook, recipient of the 2021 Mid-Atlantic Distinguished Teaching Award.
2021 Best Campus Representative Award
Congratulations to Dr. J. Kemi Ladeji-Osias, Professor at Morgan State University, recipient of the 2021 Mid-Atlantic Best Campus Representative Award.
2021 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Eileen Haase, Johns Hopkins University, for her paper titled “Teaching Freshmen Empathy through a Health Inequity Design Challenge.” This paper discusses the importance of teaching ethics in engineering through design projects focused on solving heath inequity issues.
2021 Best Student Paper Award
Congratulations to Yixin Xiong, Stephen Porter, and Swaroop Ghosh, Penn State University, for their paper titled “A Reconfigurable and Modular Hardware for Remote Learning of Analog Circuit Design.” This paper discusses the development of a modular, remote reconfigurable, and reproducible hardware board to help students conduct their experiments remotely.
2020 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Yongchao Zhao, Ashwin Satyanarayana, and Cailean Cooney, New York City College of Technology, for their paper titled “Impact of Open Education Resources (OER) on Student Academic Performance and Retention Rates in Undergraduate Engineering Departments.” This paper discusses the benefits of using open education resources to promote equity in undergraduate education.
2019-2020 Awards
2020 Distinguished Teaching Award
Congratulations to Dr. Steve Marra, Associate Teaching Professor at Johns Hopkins University, recipient of the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Distinguished Teaching Award.
Dr. Marra has demonstrated excellence and innovation in undergraduate mechanical engineering education through classroom instruction, creation of new courses and laboratory experiences, curriculum development, student advising and mentoring, teaching collaborations across departments and institutions, and dedication to life-long learning.
2020 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Harold Underwood, Messiah College, for his paper titled “Circuits for Multidisciplinary Engineering Student Mix.” This paper discusses various active learning techniques to enhance engagement in core courses with a multidisciplinary student audience, such as circuits.
2019 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Janet Liou-Mark, Reina Li, and Reggie Blake, New York City College of Technology, for their paper titled “Engineering Undergraduates Involved in Geoscience Research: Exploring Gender and Minority Status Differences.” This paper discusses the benefits of exposing undergraduate students to research, especially females and underrepresented minorities.
2018-2019 Awards
2019 Distinguished Teaching Award
The Mid-Atlantic section will present Lt. Colonel Jakob C. Bruhl, P.E., Assistant Professor, United States Military Academy, West Point with the 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award.
Dr. Bruhl has a passion for assisting undergraduates as they pursue their passion in engineering mechanics. His research in engineering education facilitated his selection as a distinguished educator. Congratulations!
2019 Best Zone 1 Paper Award & 2019 ASEE National Best Zone Paper
Congratulations to Alexander De Rosa and Maxine Fontaine, Stevens Institute of Technology, for their paper entitled “Implementation and First-Year Results of an Engineering Spatial Skills Enhancement Program.” Their paper addressed the creation of a freshmen program designed to increase spatial visualization skills for freshmen engineering students.
2017-2018 Awards
2017 Distinguished Teaching Award
Pali Singh, Chair of the Mid-Atlantic Awards Committee congratulates Brock Barry as the recipient of the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Barry is the Director, Mechanics Group and Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Division at United States Military Academy, West Point. He brings a wealth of industrial and varied teaching experiences to the classroom. His name will be placed in nomination for the Zone 1 award.
2018 Best Zone 1 Paper Award & 2018 ASEE National Best Zone Paper
Congratulations to Ivan E. Esparragoza, Penn State University, Sadan Kulturel-Konak, Penn State University, Abdullah Konak, Penn State University, Gül E. Kremer, Iowa State University and Kristen A Lee, Menlo College for their selection as Best Zone 1 Paper and ASEE National Best Zone Paper, entitled “Assessment of Progressive Learning of Ethics in Engineering Students Based on the Model of Domain Learning.”
2017 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Mohsen Mosleh and Mark Clement Joseph Thom, Howard University, Department of Mechanical Engineering for their paper entitled “Design-Build, Project-Based Learning in an Engineering Materials Laboratory.” The paper analyzes the effects of incorporating design-build (DB) attributes into the Problem-Based Learning (PBL) method in an engineering materials laboratory. The paper will be placed in nomination for the Zone 1 Best Paper award.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Dr. Victor Schutz, Professor Emeritus, Temple University was presented with the Life Time Achievement Award, Middle Atlantic Section of ASEE for his dedication and promotion of the principles of Engineering Education. Dr. Schutz is the Historian for the Section and his participation dates back to its founding. Victor is the consummate professional and has spent years mentoring students and colleagues with the goal of providing improved engineering education. Thank you Victor for your dedication to our Section and ASEE!
2017 Best Campus Representative
Mohsen Mosleh is presented with the award for 2017 Mid-Atlantic Section Outstanding Campus Representative. The campus rep provides a valuable service to ASEE by advancing the goals of Engineering Education. Dr. Mosley renders this service by promoting the principles of ASEE among the faculty at Howard University. He is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Founder of Surface Engineering and Nanofluids Laboratory (SENL).
2016-2017 Awards
2016 Distinguished Teaching Award
Congratulations to Dr. Ahmet Zeytinci, recipient of the 2016 Mid-Atlantic Distinguished Teaching Award. “Dr. Z” is Professor of Civil Engineering, University of the District of Columbia. He is a consummate role model of professional excellence and a provider of outstanding service to his students, ASEE and engineering education.
2016 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Eileen Haase and Harry Goldberg, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Biomedical Engineering for their paper entitled “Molecules and Cells: a model for addressing the needs of students with varied backgrounds and diverse learning styles.” The hypothesis was a diverse learning environment with a variety of learning modalities would make a significant contribution to the students’ understanding and retention of the material. The paper will be placed in nomination for the zone award.
2015-2016 Awards
2015 Distinguished Teaching Award
Congratulations to Ron Rockland, recipient of the 2015 Mid-Atlantic Distinguished Teaching Award. Dr. Rockland is Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is a role model of professional excellence and a provider of outstanding service to ASEE and engineering education
2015 Best Paper Award
Congratulations to Major Kyle V. Moses and Major W. Michael Petullo, recipients of the 2015 Section Best Paper Award, entitled “Teaching Computer Security.” Majors Moses and Petullo are faculty in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, United States Military Academy. The paper suggests a new way to view computer security education to better protect computer systems in the age of malicious attacks.
2015 Best Campus Representative
The Awards Committee selected Ahmet Zeytinci, “Dr. Z” University of the District of Columbia as the 2015 Best Campus Rep. Dr. Zeytinci is Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Architecture and Aerospace Technology. In addition to promoting the principles of ASEE on campus he also performs Numerical Methods in Structural Analysis, Vibrations, Plates and Shells.