This award is given annually to recognize excellence in teaching scholarship and/or professional society educational initiatives, as defined by the criteria below. The recipient of this award will receive a plaque, a cash prize of $500, and a $750 travel allotment to attend the awards ceremony. Previous winners are ineligible for this award.
Nomination packages may consider any or all of the following:
- Development or authorship of educational or instructional material or a text that enhances the student learning process;
- Demonstrate effectiveness in course and/or curriculum development;
- Development of educational facilities;
- Publication of original work, through peer-reviewed publications and/or presentations at professional meetings, that enhances the engineering education process or adds value to teaching methodology literature;
- Service as a mentor to other teaching faculty or participation in the development and delivery of seminars and workshops focused on improvements to teacher classroom effectiveness;
- Administration of engineering colleges or departments that has led to substantial and recognized improvements in the art of engineering education; and/or
- A strong record of activity in the educational activities of AEESP or another professional society.
Refer to the nomination package for the required submission requirements. Nomination packages that are incomplete or exceed page length maximums will not be reviewed.
Eligibility: This award is open to nomination at any rank. Previous recipients of the award are not eligible to be re-nominated.
Past Recipients
| Year | Recipient | Institution |
| 2025 | Qiong (Jane) Zhang | University of South Florida |
| 2024 | Catherine A. Peters | Princeton University |
| 2023 | Marisa Chrysochoou | University of Connecticut |
| 2022 | Kerry Howe | University of New Mexico |
| 2020 | Jeffrey A. Cunningham | University of South Florida |
| 2016 | 1) Yanna Lambrinidou | Virginia Tech |
| 2016 | 2) Marc A. Edwards | Virginia Tech |
| 2015 | 1) Mark M. Benjamin | University of Washington |
| 2015 | 2) Desmond F. Lawler | University of Texas at Austin |
| 2014 | Maya Trotz | University of South Florida |
| 2011 | Linda Phillips | University of South Florida |
| 2010 | David Vaccari | Stevens Institute of Technology |
| 2008 | David A. Sabatini | University of Oklahoma |
| 2006 | Cliff Davidson | Carnegie Mellon University |
| 2004 | Daniel B. Oerther | University of Cincinnati |
| 2003 | Michael J. Semmens | University of Minnesota |
| 2002 | James R. Mihelcic | Michigan Technological University |
| 2001 | Susan J. Masten | Michigan State University |
| 2000 | Steven C. Chapra | Tufts University |