Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education

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The Sharon Keillor Award for Women in Engineering Education "recognizes and honors outstanding women engineering educators." Recipients hold an earned doctoral degree in an engineering discipline or related field, have at least five years of teaching experience in an engineering school, and have "an outstanding record in teaching engineering students." [1]

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The award has been given annually since 2001. Past recipients include Professor Jeannie L Darby, Ph.D., P.E. of UC Davis Civil and Environmental Engineering, and American bioengineer and the Malcolm Gillis University Professor at Rice University Rebecca Richards-Kortum, Ph.D.

Recipients

YearAwardeeInstitutionRef
2001 Jeannie L. Darby University of California, Davis [2]
2002 Audeen W. Fentiman Ohio State University [3]
2003 Jennifer L. Curtis Purdue University [4]
2004 Rebecca Richards-Kortum Rice University
2005 Malgorzata S. Zywno Ryerson University [5]
2006 Sara Wadia-Fascetti Northeastern University [6]
2007 Julia Ross University of Maryland, Baltimore County [7]
2008 Sue Ann Allen Georgia Institute of Technology [8]
2009 Alice C. Parker University of Southern California [9]
2010 Kauser Jahan Rowan University
2011 Sheryl Sorby Michigan Technological University [10]
2012 Mary Besterfield-Sacre University of Pittsburgh [11]
2013 Teri Reed-Rhoads Texas A&M University [12]
2014 Susan McCahan University of Toronto [13] [14]
2015 Mia K. Markey University of Texas at Austin [15] [16]
2016 Karen C. Davis University of Cincinnati [17] [18]
2017Not presented
2018 Donna C. Llewellyn Boise State University [19]
2019 Jenna P. Carpenter Campbell University [20]

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