Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award
The Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Award was established as a division award in 1998. The Award was elevated to a Society award in 2001 to recognize a person who exemplifies the best in furthering engineering design education through vision, interactions with students and industry, scholarship and impact on the next generation of engineers, and a person whose action serves as a role model for other educators to emulate.
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Form of Award: | $1000, vermeil medal and certificate |
Limitation(s): | None |
Administrative Responsibility: | Design Engineering Division |
Nomination Deadline: | February 22 |
E-mail: | persaudl@asme.org |
Awarded By: | Committee on Honors (COH) |
Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Design Educator Awardees
2001 | Ken Wallace | 2023 | Shorya Awtar |
2002 | Kenneth J. Waldron | 2024 | Shanna R. Daly |
2003 | Woodie C. Flowers | ||
2004 | Clive L. Dym | ||
2005 | Gary L. Kinzel | ||
2006 | John S. Lamancusa | ||
2007 | Panos Y. Papalambros | ||
2008 | Kosuke Ishii | ||
2010 | Sridhar Kota | ||
2011 | Farrokh Mistree | ||
2012 | David Wallace | ||
2013 | Douglass J. Wilde | ||
2014 | Kevin Craig | ||
2015 | Alice M. Agogino | ||
2016 | Kathryn W. Jablokow | ||
2017 | Gül E. Okudan Kremer | ||
2018 | Alexander H. Slocum | ||
2019 | Janet K. Allen | ||
2020 | Jonathan Cagan | ||
2021 | Timothy W. Simpson | ||
2022 | Kamran Behdinan |