Category: Students

Two ESED Ph.D. students, Dennis Lee and Kathy Ehlert, were recognized with the Best Paper award in the Student Division at the 2017 American Society of Engineering Education, which was held in Columbus, OH, June 25-28, 2017. They co-authored the winning paper “Qualitative Coding: An Approach to Assess Inter-Rater Reliability” that was presented in the […]

Congratulations to Dr. Marian (Molly) Kennedy on her selection for the Murray Stokely Award for Excellence in Teaching.  This award is presented annually to a faculty member in the College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences who has demonstrated excellence in teaching engineering at the undergraduate and/or graduate level.  Teaching not only includes classroom and […]

Congratulations to Lisa Benson for being a co-PI on a $2 million National Science Foundation grant entitled CULTIVATE which stands for Clemson University:  Learning Teams and Innovation Ventures for Adaptable Training in Engineering.  The project will apply complex leadership theory to an academic department.  Please visit Clemson Newsstand to read more about this innovative approach to […]

Beginning this fall, Dr. Jeff Plumblee will be inspiring a new crop of students as an assistant professor in the Engineering Leadership and Project Management Department at the Citadel in Charleston, SC.  Jeff has served as a member of the Engineering & Science Education faculty as a research assistant professor in 2016-17.  He held a […]

Catherine McGough has been selected as a 2017 recipient of a Graduate Student Government Achievement Award for Outstanding Research Assistant.  This award recognizes a graduate student who: Demonstrates outstanding contributions to research Shows continued professional growth as a researcher Demonstrates originality and imagination Offers research mentoring to peers and/or undergraduates Provides examples of scholarly achievements, […]

Jacki Rohde, an undergraduate researcher in the Benson group in ESED, has been awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF). This prestigious program was especially competitive this year; receiving the GRF is an impressive accomplishment. Jacki is a senior majoring in Bioengineering and minoring in Psychology. Her research in engineering education is focused […]

Allison Godwin, Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue University, was awarded the American Society for Engineering Education, Educational Research, and Methods Division Best Paper for the 2016 conference. Her paper titled, “The Development of a Measure of Engineering Identity,” described a stepwise process for developing an instrument to measure students engineering identity. In her […]

Dr. Eliza Gallagher, Dr. Lisa Benson, and Dr. Geoffrey Potvin were awarded Best Paper in the Mathematics Division for their paper “The Use of Case Studies in Preparing First-Year Mathematics Graduate Students,” presented at the 2016 American Society of Engineering Education annual conference and exposition in New Orleans, LA.  They will formally receive the award […]