College of

Engineering, Architecture and Technology

 

 

For more than 130 years, the American Society for Engineering Education has been dedicated to ensuring students receive the highest level of technical knowledge and skill in the engineering field as possible.

  

ASEE also honors engineering educators who dedicate their knowledge and expertise to the next generation of engineers. In recognition of her outstanding efforts to educate students in the College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology, Dr. Jennifer Glenn has been honored with the 2025 ASEE Midwest Region’s Outstanding Teaching Award. 

 

The award honors those with a keen focus on classroom performance for teachers of engineering students and engineering technology students.

 

Glenn, Associate Professor of Teaching in the School of Industrial Engineering and Management, teaches ENGR 1412: Introduction to Engineering Computer Programming, one of the first courses most engineering students take in CEAT.

  

Glenn has been awarded previously for her commitment to engineering education, receiving the IEM Faculty Impact Award in 2025, the OSU Regents Distinguished Teaching Award in 2024, and the CEAT Outstanding Senior Faculty Award in 2023, among others. To be recognized by a national organization was another tremendous accomplishment for Glenn.

  

“It is an honor and one of the highlights of my career up to this point,” Glenn said. “I have such a strong passion for teaching engineering and mentoring students, so to be recognized by ASEE for my efforts is very encouraging. “

 

Glenn has a focus of showing students how engineers solve problems, especially in the introduction to computer programming course, which she has taught for 15 years. The class has around 350 students a semester, with Glenn seeking to impact each one.

  

“This may be one of the first classes students have in CEAT,” Glenn said. “So, it’s very important to me that I am accessible to them, that it’s a well-run class, and that students find it meaningful and useful. It can really help students form their identity and their belief that they can be engineers.”

 

Also, at the ASEE conference earlier this fall, Glenn and her student Prafulla Sature earned third place in the Best Paper Awards for the conference. Their paper, titled “From Engagement to Excellence: Time Investment and Academic Performance in an Interactive Programming Course,” used data from the course’s eText, which measures how long a student spent on a particular task.  The eText assignments are in categories such as participation activities, challenge activities, and labs. Their paper researched the relationship between time spent by a student in a certain aspect of the class and their success in the course.

  

“Our research showed that we can identify students early in the semester who are struggling in a specific area and then I can proactively work with them on strategies to improve their performance. The point of the paper was so we can identify those students in ENGR 1412 who are struggling early in the semester, and to make sure that everybody in the class is having a great experience and doing as well as they can.”

“I’m always looking for ways to personalize the class for each student and thinking about the strategies where we can support students at the outset of their education in order to set them up for success.”