Dr. Kate Abel, Director, Undergraduate Engineering Management program, in the School of Systems and Enterprises, was honored with the Best Paper Award, by the Engineering Management Division, at the 2007 American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference and Exposition, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, June 24 – 27, 2007. 

The award is issued once a year, and is among the most prestigious awards provided by the ASEE.  The Best Paper Award recognizes Dr. Abel’s outstanding contributions in the field of engineering education. Dr. Abel is a longstanding member of ASEE and recently completed her tenure as ASEE President, Engineering Management Division, and in the past has served as Program Chair and as Treasurer.

Dr. Abel’s paper titled, Finding Appropriate Data for ABET Self Study Sections B2 and B3 for Engineering Programs, outlines the type of data that can be used in the ABET accreditation process.  Since ABET began EC 2000, engineering colleges have been striving for ways to find a process of assessment, discover data, quantify assessments and then display the data in a meaningful and easy to read format for accreditation.  Dr. Abel’s paper showed ways assessment concepts and data could be used and implemented to gain ABET accreditation for Engineering Programs.

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