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AWARDS: CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Ralph Coats Roe was an avid investigator of better methods. He held nearly fifty patents generally relating to improvements for power plants and air conditioning, and he was co-founder of Burns and Roe, Inc. As a recipient of the ASME George Westinghouse Gold Medal, Mr. Roe was recognized for "pioneering in the design and construction of highly efficient power plants and advanced desalting processes and for inspiring his colleagues by his great achievements through self education and highly sophisticated technologies." The $10,000 cash award, award plaque, and travel expense reimbursement for attendance at the ASEE Annual conference are funded by Burns and Roe, Inc., in honor of Kenneth A. Roe's distinguished father, and are sponsored by the Mechanical Engineering Division of ASEE. The award recognizes a mechanical engineering educator who is an outstanding teacher and who has made a notable contribution to the profession. Nominees will be considered for three consecutive years only. At the end of the three-year period, if the nominee has not received the Roe Award, the nominating materials will be returned to the nominator. The three-year consideration period does not exclude persons from being re-nominated for the award, but a complete, updated re-nomination package must be submitted.

Qualifications

1. The professional contribution may be in any appropriate category, including excellence in classroom and laboratory teaching; writing an outstanding paper or textbook; developing a significant technique or method of analysis, procedure or synthesis; causing learning to take place through contact with students; involving students and colleagues with innovative aspects of design through problems which are relevant to real life situations; conceiving an idea of great importance to the advancement of the engineering profession or engineering education; teaching, directing and conducting significant research or administrative activities; creating an important invention; carrying out distinguished service and leadership to the college, the community, the nation, or to mankind.

2. Only mechanical engineering educators who are known for their excellence in teaching are eligible, and those nominated should exhibit this outstanding performance for at least a decade.

3. The recipient must attend the Mechanical Engineering Division award ceremony at the time of the ASEE Annual Conference, except in the case of an emergency. The recipient will be expected to give a brief lecture at the Award Luncheon of the Mechanical Engineering Division.

4. The recipient must be a full time member of a college faculty and actively engaged in teaching at the time the award winner is selected.

Application materials are available from ASEE at: http://www.asee.org/