2021 ASEE-GSW Section Awards
The 2021 ASEE-GSW Section Virtual Annual Meeting
Hosted by the Baylor University, Waco, Texas
Person Mile Award:
Not awarded – No travel—Virtual conference
Outstanding Teaching Award
Dr. Anne Spence, Baylor University ($500)
Outstanding Young Faculty Award:
Dr. Adeeba Raheem, University of Texas-El Paso ($500)
Outstanding GSW Section Service Award:
Lynn Peterson, University of Texas-Arlington ($500)
Outstanding Campus Representative Award
Dr. Amir Karimi, University of Texas -San Antonio (Certificate)
Best Paper Awards
Faculty/Staff Paper Awards:
1st Place: ($300)
David Joseph Ewing, University of Texas-Arlington, “Evaluation of a Peer-Led Team Learning Course Designed to Increase Underprepared Students Success in Engineering”
2nd Place ($200)
Joseph Donndelinger, Adam Weaver, and James Carlton Bates, “Timothy Russell, Baylor University, “Automating Project Team Formation with Heterogeneous Project Preferences and Skill Mix Constraints”
3rd Place ($100)
Tracy Hammond, Karan Watson, Samantha Ray, Robert Lightfoot, Shawna Thomas, and Drew Casey, Texas A&M University, “The Development of a Texas A&M University Faculty of Engineering Education”
Undergraduate Student Paper Awards:
1st Place ($300)
Matilda Ho, Casey Hatfield, and Jieun Kim, University of Texas-Dallas, “Taking Control of Control Systems: A Student Developed, Multimedia and Simulation Tool for Control Systems Education”
2nd Place ($200):
Lorena I. Velásquez, Jett Emms, and Curtis O’Malley, New Mexico Inst. Of Mining and Tech., “Delivering Hands-On Introductory Design Experiences in a Hybrid Curriculum”
3rd Place ($100):
Carolyn Fulton, Brian P. Bernard, Schreiner University, and Brian P. Mann, Duke University, “An Improved Magnetically Bi-stable Piezoelectric Energy Harvester”
Graduate Student Paper Awards:
1st Place ($300)
Monikka M. Mann and George Tan, Texas Tech University, “Recent Strategies for Improving Undergraduate Engineering Education: A Review”
2nd Place ($200)
Andres Enriquez Fernandez, Louis J. Everett, and Miguel Cedeno, University of Texas-El Paso, “UAV Parameter Estimation Through Machine Learning”
3rd Place ($100)
Prasanna V. Kothalkar, John H. L. Hansen (University of Texas-Dallas), Dwight Irvin, Jay Buzhardt (University of Kansas), Beth S. Rous (University of Kentucky), “Child vs Adult Speaker Diarization of Naturalistic Audio Recordings in Preschool Environment Using Deep Neural Networks”