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Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Civil Engineering Professor James
Hanson has been chosen the recipient of the 2006 Ferdinand P. Beer and
E. Russell Johnston Jr. Outstanding New Mechanics Educator Award by the
American Society of Engineering Education’s Mechanics Division. He will
be honored at the Mechanics Division’s banquet at the ASEE Annual
Conference this summer in Chicago.
Teaching awards are nothing new for Hanson. Already this academic
year, he has also been awarded the American Concrete Institute’s Young
Member Award for Professional Achievement and received Daniel V. Terrell
Award in the American Society of Civil Engineers’ best paper
competition.
“The high standards upheld at Rose-Hulman produce outstanding
educators like Jim Hanson and our students are the beneficiaries of such
great teaching,” stated Robert Houghtalen, chair of the Department of
Civil Engineering.
As an engineering educator, Hanson is conducting ongoing research as
part of a National Science Foundation-funded project, titled “Using
Metacognition to Teach Evaluation of Results in Structural Analysis
Courses”; has implemented Steven Covey’s “Seven Habits of Highly
Effective People” in the Engineering Mechanics’ Introduction to Design
course; and is studying the effectiveness of using writing-to-learn
assignments in Engineering Mechanics’ Engineering Statics course.
Hanson, who formerly taught at Bucknell University and Cornell
University, earned a bachelor's degree in civil and environmental
engineering from Cornell in 1991. After serving as an engineering
officer in the U.S. Army Engineer Center, he returned to Cornell to
receive his masters (1996) and doctorate (2000) degrees in structural
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