Awards & Nominations: 2011

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced the winners of three prestigious prizes this week. The 2011 Charles Stark Draper Prize went to Frances H. Arnold and Willem P.C. Stemmer.

Dr. Frances H. Arnold, NJ D ’79, is a professor at Caltech. According to the press release, “she is the only woman to have been elected to all three membership organizations of the National Academies.”

She and Stemmer were awarded the Draper Prize “for directed evolution, a method used worldwide for engineering novel enzymes and biocatalytic processes for pharmaceutical and chemical products.”

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The Bernard M. Gordon Prize went to Edward Crawley “for leadership, creativity, and energy in defining and guiding the CDIO (Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate) Initiative, which has been widely adopted internationally for engineering education.”

Dr. Edward F. Crawley, MA B ’76, is a professor at MIT and was previously a member of the Presidential Advisory Committee on the Space Station Redesign.

The Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ Prize was awarded to Leroy Hood “for directed evolution, a method used worldwide for engineering novel enzymes and biocatalytic processes for pharmaceutical and chemical products.”

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The American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) is accepting nominations for its 2011 awards. The deadline for submitting award nominations is January 15, 2011.
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Some of the awards offered for 2011 are:

Benjamin Garver Lamme Award;
Frederick J. Berger Award;
Clement J. Freund Award;
and several others

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