Award, Scholarship, and Fellowship Opportunities for Faculty and Students

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Faculty • Students

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Awards
Deadline: January 15, 2011

ECE Distinguished Educator Award
The award is given annually to an educator who has shown evidence of vision and contribution to ECE Education. Nominees must demonstrate evidence of excellence in the education of undergraduate and/or graduate students in the classroom or through supervision of independent study projects. The award recipient should have made significant contributions to ECE education that go beyond his/her own institution.
ECE Meritorious Service Award
The award recognizes significant and meritorious service to the ASEE-ECE Division over an extended period of time.
National Outstanding Teaching Medal
Eligibility – Teachers of any subject included in an ABET accredited engineering or engineering technology curriculum, including faculty teaching parallel courses at two-year or community colleges, are eligible.

The award recipient receives an engraved commemorative medallion, certificate, and complimentary registration for the ASEE Annual Conference at which the award is presented.
Benjamin Garve Lamme Award
Eligibility – Faculty who have demonstrated excellence in teaching and ability to inspire students to high levels of accomplishment, improvement of engineering education through contributions of research, books or technical articles that have a lasting influence on engineering education.
Fred Merryfield Design Award
This award recognizes an engineering educator for excellence in teaching of engineering design and acknowledges other significant contributions related to engineering design teaching.

The award recipient receives a $2,500 honorarium, a $500 stipend for travel to the ASEE Annual Conference and a commemorative plaque. In addition, the awardee's institutional department receives an award of $500.
Frederick Berger Award
Eligibility – Faculty who have shown both programmatic and individual excellence in engineering technology education.

The academic department recognized receives a $500 honorarium and an inscribed plaque.
James McGraw Award
Eligibility – Faculty member, author, or administrator who is, or has been, affiliated with an institution that provides engineering technology education.

The award consists of a $1,000 honorarium and a certificate.
DuPont Minorities in Engineering Award
Eligibility – Faculty who have demonstrated leadership in the conception, organization and operation of precollege and college activities designed to increase participation of underrepresented students in engineering or engineering technology.

The award is endowed by DuPont and consists of a $1,500 honorarium, a certificate and a grant of $500 for travel expenses to the ASEE Annual Conference.
Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education
Eligibility – Women in Engineering Education, at least five years of teaching experience in an engineering school.

This award recognizes and honors outstanding women engineering educators. The award consists of an honorarium of $2,000 and an appropriately inscribed plaque which is presented annually at the ASEE Annual Conference.
Oppenheimer Award
Eligibility – Faculty making a presentation at the Midyear meeting in a Technical Session.

Robert G. Quinn Award
Eligibility – Candidates must have demonstrated leadership in engineering or engineering technology education, developing a program that exhibits innovation, relevance to the real world, experiential learning and student motivation.

The award, which recognizes outstanding contributions in providing and promoting excellence in experimentation and laboratory instruction, consists of a $5,000 honorarium and an inscribed plaque.
William Elgen Wickenden Award
Eligibility – To be considered, a paper must have been a refereed article published in the Journal of Engineering Education during the previous volume year.
Frederick Emmons Terman Award

Additional details: http://www.asee.org/member-resources/awards/full-list-of-awards

NASA Aeronautics Scholarship Program
Deadline: January 17, 2011

Target Recipients: Undergraduate and graduate students pursuing aeronautical engineering & related fields

Additional details: http://nasa.asee.org

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Program
Deadline: January 27, 2011

Undergraduate-full-time matriculated sophomore or junior

Additional details: http://www.act.org/goldwater/

IEEE Teaching Awards
Deadline: January 31, 2011

Undergraduate Teaching Award
Targeted Recipient: Faculty (Honors teachers of electrical and electronics engineering and the related disciplines “for inspirational teaching of undergraduate students in the fields of interest of the IEEE. )
Additional details: http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/tfas/undergrad.html

Leon K. Kirchmayer Graduate Teaching Award
Targeted Recipient: Faculty (for inspirational teaching of graduate students in the fields of interest of IEEE)
Additional details: http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/tfas/graduate.html

IEEE Awards
Deadline: January 31, 2011

Photonics Award
Targeted Recipient: An individual or a team - It is awarded for, but not limited to: light-generation, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection and the optical/electro-optical componentry and instrumentation used to accomplish these functions.
Additional details: http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/55863_tfas_photonics.html

Fulbright Scholar Program
Deadline: February 1, 2011
Targeted Recipient: Faculty
Additional details: http://www.cies.org

Fulbright Research Grant to Germany - http://www.cies.org/IEA/Germany/
US Fulbright Scholar Grant Program 2012-2013 - http://www.cies.org/us_scholars/us_awards/
Fulbright Distinguished Chairs Program (opens February 1, Deadline August 2, 2011) - http://www.cies.org/Chairs/

EE Times Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards
Deadline: February 4, 2011

Design Team of the Year
This award goes to a group of innovators whose system or IC-level design made a significant contribution to the furtherance of technology and whose project management abilities were creative, efficient and inspiring.
Student of the Year
Eligibility – Students whose discipline, hard work and academic success are considered hallmarks for other engineering or science students.

Additional details: http://www.eetimes-ace.com/index.cfm

Silicon Valley Engineering Council Scholarship
Deadline: February 5, 2011

Eligibility – For undergrads with permanent residence in Silicon Valey

Additional details: http://www.svec.org/scholarship-awards.html