Todd Kelley, associate professor of engineering/technology teacher education (ETTE) at Purdue University, will be honored this spring with the Distinguished Technology and Engineering Professional designation from the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association (ITEEA).

Nathan Mentzer, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Technology Leadership & Innovation. In 2013, in only his fourth year in the college, he won two college-level teaching awards: Outstanding Faculty in Learning and the Dwyer Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award. The Dwyer Award is chosen by students.

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Todd Kelley, associate professor of technology leadership and innovation, and his co-author received the 2014 Gerald R. Day Top Peer-Reviewed Article Award from the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association this spring.

The article, which Kelley wrote with Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellow Moira McSpadden, is titled "Engineering Design: Diverse Design Teams to Solve Real-World Problems" and was published in Technology and Engineering Teacher in 2012.

As the College of Technology’s May 2014 graduates complete their time at Purdue, we are profiling a few and finding out their future plans and how they arrived at this point in their lives.

Hilde Thayer, Lafayette, Indiana
Information Technology Career Foundation Program (ITCFP) for The Boeing Company in Charleston, SC

Hilde Thayer is one of five Purdue students named Outstanding Future Educators in Indiana for the 2013-2014 academic year.

Thayer, from Lafayette, Ind., is majoring in engineering/technology teacher education.

Craig Locker is one of five Purdue students named Outstanding Future Educators in Indiana for the 2012-2013 academic year.

Locker, a senior from Lafayette, Ind., is majoring in engineering/technology teacher education. He will continue his education at Purdue this summer as a graduate student in the College of Technology.

Purdue University's engineering/technology teacher education program within the College of Technology was named the nation’s outstanding program in 2012 by the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE).

Hilde Thayer, Lafayette, Ind.

Major: Engineering/Technology Teacher Education (ETTE)

Activities

Technology Educators Collegiate Association (TECA), officer
Epsilon Pi Tau, Technology Honorary Fraternity
Undergraduate research assistant in ETTE
Student assistant for athletics communications office
Junior Achievement volunteer