Established in Fall 2005, ENE's MDE Program has achieved ABET accreditation. Through MDE, students draw on several disciplines to solve complex engineering problems.
Purdue's Epistemology Professor of Engineering Education joined club members on Aug. 25 for a discussion of ENE programs and research. The club's affiliated D.J. Angus-Scientech Educational Foundation supports ENE's STEP program for high-ability prospective engineering students.
The first-ever Research in Engineering Education Symposium (REES), held this summer in Davos, Switzerland, drew 77 participants from around the world—17 of them from Purdue.
Teri Reed-Rhoads, Assistant Dean of Undergraduate Education in the College of Engineering and Associate Professor of Engineering Education, will lead the program, which serves more than 1,700 students each year.
A 1989 Purdue graduate in interdisciplinary engineering (a program now part of the School of Engineering Education), Horlacher is one of 28 active space shuttle and space station flight directors, including those in training. Only 77 people have served as NASA flight directors, or are in training to do so, in the nearly 50 years of human space flight.
Strutz, a Purdue doctoral student in gifted education specializing in engineering education, was honored at the American Society for Engineering Education's Illinois/Indiana section conference for the paper "A Retrospective Study of Skills, Traits, Influences, and School Experiences of Talented Engineers."
The Indiana Society of Professional Engineers recognizes Barry, an ENE doctoral student, for activities promoting ethics, professionalism, and licensure.