Jeffrey E. Froyd
Bruce M. Krameris a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (S.B.,S.M. 1972, Ph.D. 1979). He served on the faculty of Mechanical Engineering of MIT from 1979 to 1985 and of GeorgeWashingtonUniversity from 1985 to 1995. Since 1991, he has been at the National Science Foundation, where he is currently Director of the Division of Engineering Education and Centers.
Dr. Kramer co-founded and was Director of Engineering of Zoom Telephonics, Inc. of Boston, Massachusetts, a NASDAQ company and leading producer of modems and wireless networking products marketed under the Zoom, Hayes, Practical Peripherals, Global Village and Cardinal brands.
He has been awarded the F.W. Taylor Medal of the International Institution for Production Engineering Research, the Blackall Award of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the R.F. Bunshah Medal of the International Conference on Metallurgical Coatings, all in recognition of outstanding contributions to the manufacturing research literature. In 1996, he received the Distinguished Service Award, the highest honorary award granted by the National Science Foundation.
Karl A. Smith is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Teaching Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His principal research area is the role of collaboration and cooperation in learning and design. He has served as Co-Coordinator for the Bush Faculty Development Program for Excellence and Diversity in Teaching, and Associate Director for Education at the NSF-ERC Center for Interfacial Engineering at the University of Minnesota; as a member of the Board of Directors of the Collaboration for the Advancement of College Teaching and Learning; and as Chair of the Educational Research and Methods Division of the American Society for Engineering Education. Karl was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education in 1998, and was awarded the Chester F. Carlson Award for Innovation in Engineering Education in 2001. He has Bachelors and Masters degrees in Metallurgical Engineering from MichiganTechnologicalUniversity and a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota. Karl has developed and teaches courses on building models to solve problems, civil engineering systems, and project and knowledge management. He conducts workshops on active and cooperative learning, problem formulation and modeling, project management and teamwork, and building small expert systems. Karl has written eight books including How to model it: Problem solving for the computer age (with A.M. Starfield and A.L. Bleloch), published by Burgess International in 1994; Cooperative learning: Increasing college faculty instructional productivity (with David and Roger Johnson), published by ASHE-ERIC Reports on Higher Education in 1991; Strategies for energizing large classes: From small groups to learning communities (with James Cooper and Jean MacGregor) published in Jossey-Bass’s New Direction for Teaching and Learning series in 2000; and Teamwork and project management published in McGraw-Hill’s BEST Series in 2004.
Ruth A. Streveler is the current and founding Director of the Center for Engineering Education at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Streveler received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She also holds a Master of Science in Zoology from the OhioStateUniversity and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from IndianaUniversity at Bloomington. She is co-director of an NSF-sponsored project to develop assessment instruments for identifying misconceptions in engineering students (DUE - 0127806). She is also a co-principal investigator for the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education that was recently funded by NSF. (ESI-0227558).
Diane T. Rover is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at IowaStateUniversity and the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Programs. From 1991 to 2001, she was on the faculty at MichiganStateUniversity, and during 2000-2001, she served as the Interim Department Chairperson of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
As Director of the Computer Engineering Program at MSU from 1997-2000, she helped guide the program through first-time ABET accreditation under Engineering Criteria 2000. She is currently the Academic Bookshelf Editor for the ASEE Journal of Engineering Education and an IEEE ABET/EAC Program Evaluator in Computer Engineering. Dr. Rover received the ISU Professional Progress in Engineering Award in 1998, MSU Teacher-Scholar Award in 1998, MSU Lilly Teaching Fellowship during 1996-1997, and NSF Career award in 1996. In addition to work in engineering education, her teaching and research expertise is in digital logic design, hardware/software systems, reconfigurable hardware, integrated program development and performance environments for parallel and distributed systems, visualization, and performance monitoring and evaluation.
She received the B.S. degree in computer science in 1984, the M.S. degree in computer engineering in 1986, and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering in 1989, all from IowaStateUniversity. Under a DOE Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1989 to 1991, she was a research staff member in the Scalable Computing Laboratory at the Ames Laboratory. She has held summer positions with McDonnell Douglas Corp. and the IBMThomasJ.WatsonResearchCenter. Dr. Rover is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and member of the IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Education Society, and ASEE.