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Faculty Awards and Honors
Seeds of Success Recognizes CoT Faculty
Provost Sally Mason recognized nine CoT faculty members during the annual Seeds of Success awards luncheon on September 8. Seeds of Success, sponsored by the vice president for research, annually awards university faculty who are principal investigators or co-principal investigators (PIs and co-PIs) of large multidisciplinary awards.The following CoT faculty members were honored:
CIT
Melissa Dark, PI
Michael Kane, co-PI
CGT
Nathan Hartman, co-PI
Craig Miller, co-PI
MET
R. Mark French, co-PI
Bradley Harriger, co-PI
Mileta Tomovic, PI
OLS
Lisa Ncube, co-PI
Cynthia Tomovic, co-PI
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2006 College of Technology Faculty and Staff Award Winners
Outstanding Non-Tenured Faculty Award
Nathan Hartman, Computer Graphics Technology
Outstanding Tenured Faculty Award
Jack Denton, Electrical and Computer Engineering Technology
Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award
Frederick Muehlhausen, Building Construction Management
Outstanding Faculty in Discovery
Michael Kane, Computer Information Technology
Outstanding Faculty in Engagement
Rodney Vandeveer, Organizational Leadership and Supervision
Faculty Convocation Poster Session Awards
Broadband Wireless Access Antenna Tracking
Computer and Information Technology
Anthony Smith, Michael Kane, Raymond Hansen, and Pratick Contractor
F.R.E.A.K. Forensics Rapid Evidence Extraction Kit
Computer and Information Technology
Kyle Lutes, Rick Mislan, Karl Dunnagan, and Amber Schroader
Counselor Distinguished Service Award
Sharon Kraebber, Organizational Leadership and Supervision
2006 Promotions
Professor
John P. Young, aviation technology
Associate Professor
Timothy R. Cooley, mechanical engineering technology
Stephen J. Elliott, industrial technology
Richard J. Fanjoy, aviation technology
Yi Jiang, building construction management
Gilbert W. Laware, computer and information technology
Mara H. Wasburn, organizational leadership and supervision
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Individual Honors
Gary Bertoline, professor of CGT, was named distinguished professor of computer graphics technology during the Purdue Board of Trustees February 16, 2007 meeting. The designation of distinguished professorship allows the University to attract the top scholars in the world as well as honor the people already at Purdue who have been remarkable ambassadors through scholarship, research, teaching and leadership. Purdue now has 133 designated professors. Bertoline has been professor of computer graphics technology in Purdue's College of Technology since 1990. He also serves as director of the Envision Center for Data Perceptualization in the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology at Purdue and is assistant dean for graduate studies in the College of Technology. Bertoline has published extensively on computer graphics and has written three widely used textbooks in the field. Bertoline is active in the development and implementation of grid computing and cyberinfrastructure.
Don Buskirk, associate professor of IT, has received the Outstanding Service Award from National Association of Industrial and Technical Teacher Educators. Buskirk received this award in recognition of outstanding service contributions to the association and to industrial and technical teacher education.
Stephen Elliott, associate professor for IT, received the Next Generation Award by the American National Standards Institute, known as ANSI. The award honors an individual who has been engaged in standardization or conformity assessment activities for less than eight years and who has, during this time, demonstrated vision, leadership, dedication and significant contributions to his or her chosen field of activity. The selection of a recipient for this award is based on the nominee's demonstrated leadership and dedication within standardization and conformity assessment activities, and significant accomplishments in his or her chosen field of activity. Dr. Elliott also has been the director of ANSI's International Secretariat programs. He will be honored at an awards ceremony in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 10.
Stephen Elliott has been named a University Faculty Scholar for the College of Technology. Elliott's research interests are in biometrics, signature verification, mobile computing, electronic and mobile commerce logistics and supply-chain management. Select associate and full professors who have been tenured within the last five years are awarded this distinction in recognition of their scholarship. Faculty scholars, nominated by committees from their academic areas and approved by the provost, receive additional funding to support their research. The program was created in 1998.
Stephen Elliott and Matt Young, a research assistant in industrial technology, represented the United States at the ISO Biometric Standards meeting in New Zealand in January. Young was appointed to a special group on ACBio; a co-editor of ISO/IEC 19784-1, Biometric Application Programming Interface (BioAPI) — Security Amendment; a co-editor of ISO/IEC 24708-1, BioAPI Interworking Protocol (BIP) — Security Amendment; and co-editor of ISO/IEC 19785-4, Common Biometric Exchange Formats Framework (CBEFF) — Part 4: Security Block Format Specifications. He joins IT graduate students Shimon Modi and Eric Kukula as U.S. national body representatives to the committee.
Calvin Kunkle, who served as associate professor of MET for the Kokomo location over a 22-year period, has been named professor emeritus. Kunkle has been with Purdue for 16 years full time and six years part time. His expertise is in mechanical engineering technology and Manufacturing Engineering Technology. He has 28 years of industrial experience in the design and fabrication of metal products, primarily associated with the fire apparatus industry. He also holds patents and has authored articles related to fire department apparatus, and until recently served by national appointment on the National Fire Protection Association's primary committee on fire apparatus. Kunkle retired from Purdue in July 2006 and resides in Tipton, In. with his wife, Marge.
Nathan Harter, associate professor for OLS, at the Greensburg statewide location, has authored a book, "Clearings in the Forest," which was published this spring by Purdue University Press.
Michael Menefee, professor of OLS, won the best paper award at the Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resources Conference. Menefee was a co-author of "The Role of Critical Success Factors in Human Resources in the Success of New Business Ventures." Menefee also is co-author of the book "Human Behavior in Organizations." In addition, he was a co-author of "Re-evaluating the Impact of the Internet: A Critical Assessment and Thoughts on the Future," presented at the British Academy of Management in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in September. Also in Belfast, he presented a paper he co-authored, "Performance Satisfaction in Organizational Lifecycle Stages: Generic Strategies for High and Low Performers."
Michael T. O’Hair, associate dean for engagement and statewide technology, recently received the 2006 James H. McGraw Award from the American Society of Engineering Education. The award was presented to O’Hair in June as part of the annual conference of the American Society of Engineering Education in Chicago, a group dedicated to improving and supporting engineering and engineering technology education. In addition, O’Hair recently was named to the Indiana Department of Workforce Development's State Action Team on Manufacturing. The team's mission will be to develop a statewide solution to alleviate the disconnect between today's workforce and 21st-century manufacturing.
Karl Perusich, associate professor of electrical engineering technology, at the South Bend location is serving as president of IEEE Society of Social Implications of Technology.
Mara H. Wasburn, associate professor for OLS, has been appointed to the advisory board of the CalWomenTech Project. The purpose of the project is to increase the number of women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines. The project is sponsored by the Institute for Women in Technology, Trades and Science based in Los Angeles and is underwritten by a $2 million National Science Foundation grant. Wasburn also was also recently elected to a five-year board position as program chair for the Women in Engineering division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).
Taggart Smith, a professor of organizational leadership and supervision, and Linda Naimi, an assistant professor in the department, are faculty fellows in an interdisciplinary program called the Land Grant University Curriculum in Research Ethics. The focus of the program is on how to help doctoral students at land-grant universities understand policies regulating research and the moral principles on which those policies are based.
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