2019 Recipient – Sushma Kulkarni
In recognition of her work changing the landscape of engineering education around the world, IFEES will honor Sushma Kulkarni (India) with the 2019 IFEES Duncan Fraser Global Award for Excellence in Engineering Education.
Dr. Sushma S. Kulkarni is the Director of Rajarambapu Institute of Technology in Maharashtra, India. She received her Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Shivaji University in Kolhapur, India. She has 32 years of teaching experience in civil engineering programs and her areas of interest include concrete technology, TQM, quality circles, construction management, watershed management, OBE and women’s empowerment. Dr. Kulkarni has contributed to more than 85 research papers and has two patents provisionally registered (on “Pond Ash” and “Academics with ICT”). She has guided six Ph.D. students and more than 57 under-graduate and post-graduate student projects.
Dr. Kulkarni has visited universities around the world to study engineering education systems. In 2015, she was invited to be a jury member for the Airbus GEDC Diversity Award in Australia. She was also a keynote speaker at the Asian Engineering Education Conference in 2016 in China and was a panelist at GEDC 2019 Niagara Falls. She is also on the GEDC Executive Committee, has contributed to various professional boards including IUCEE and ISTE and is a fellow of the Institution of Engineers. Dr. Kulkarni won ISTE’s Best Engineering Principal Award in 2011 and the ISTE’s HRD Thinker’s gold medal.
She shares her experiences of her journey to becoming a prominent engineering leader in the new IFEES-GEDC book, Rising to the Top: Global Women Engineering Leaders Share their Journeys to Professional Success.
Dr. Kulkarni will be honored in Chennai, India during the annual IFEES Duncan Fraser Awards dinner sponsored by LearnEngg. As a recipient, she will receive US $1,000 to support her work and a commemorative medal. Her airfare, accommodations and conference registration are also included. A special thank you to Dassault Systèmes, EngineeringCAS by Liaison, Granta Design and MathWorks for sponsoring the 2019 Award.
2019 Award Sponsors
Xavier Fouger
Marc Fry
PJ Boardman
Klaus Hengsbach
2019 Dinner Sponsor
Siva Ramamurthy