Purdue Polytechnic’s Alejandra Magana—the W.C. Furnas Professor in Enterprise Excellence—was recently granted “fellow member” status by the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).
Candidates for fellow membership in ASEE must have been a member for at least 10 years prior to their nomination. They are also selected in order to “recognize outstanding contributions to engineering education or engineering technology education and considerable individual contributions to ASEE.”
New members were inducted at the 2024 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, which went from June 23 to 26 in Portland, Oregon. The conference provided an overall good showing for Purdue Polytechnic; not only was Magana inducted, but a research team led by Polytechnic faculty—Farid Breidi, Jose Garcia Bravo, and graduate student Israa Azzam—also won two best paper awards, and Breidi won an award for best paper among new/early career educators. (Watch this space for a full article on Breidi and the entire research team.)
Doug Tougaw, ASEE’s president, noted that this is the society’s 130th year. ASEE is also the administrator of Tau Alpha Pi, the engineering technology honors society which has chapters at Purdue in West Lafayette as well as at many of Purdue Polytechnic’s statewide locations dotted across Indiana.
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