Faculty and Students Honored, Share Knowledge at Engineering Education Conference
Four of the five top awards presented at the American Society for Engineering and Education Pacific Southwest Section, or ASEE PSW, annual conference this April went to faculty and students from the University of California, Davis, College of Engineering.
The 2024 conference was hosted at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and attended by four-year university and community college affiliates from Arizona, California, Hawaii and Nevada.
Learn more about the ASEE PSW awards and the UC Davis recipients:
Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award
Tiffany Chan, an undergraduate biomedical engineering student, was recognized for demonstrating strong achievement in a design project, research, community service and/or education-related activities.
Outstanding Graduate Student Award
Ph.D. student Allison Pickle, also in biomedical engineering, was recognized for demonstrating strong evidence of commitment to education in engineering-related areas.
Outstanding Early Career Teaching Award
The third award recipient from the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Assistant Professor of Teaching Xianglong Wang, was recognized for outstanding classroom performance and significant teaching-related contributions to the profession. “Early career” includes faculty members no more than five years into their first faculty positions.
Outstanding Teaching Award
Colleen Bronner, associate professor of teaching and vice chair for undergraduate studies in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, was recognized for outstanding classroom performance and significant teaching-related contributions to the profession.
In addition to the awards received, UC Davis College of Engineering was well represented in the conference program.
Carlos Trejo Vera, an undergraduate civil and environmental engineering student, presented his research while attending his first conference. Chan also gave a presentation, and Bronner co-facilitated a workshop on mental health in academia.