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The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has announced that two MIT professors have been jointly awarded the Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education, the most prestigious engineering education award in the United States.
Linda G. Griffith, the School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation in the Department of Biological Engineering, and Douglas A. Lauffenburger, the Ford Professor of Biological Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Biology, were recognized for their respective contributions to “the establishment of a new biology-based engineering education, producing a new generation of leaders capable of addressing world problems with innovative biological technologies,” according to an NAE statement.
GISuser.com / 2021 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education Awarded to MIT Educators
2021 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education Awarded to MIT Educators
January 8, 2021 By GISuser
WASHINGTON The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) announced today that the 2021 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education will be awarded to
Linda Griffith and
Douglas Lauffenburger of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) “for the establishment of a new biology-based engineering education, producing a new generation of leaders capable of addressing world problems with innovative biological technologies.” The $500,000 annual award recognizes new methods and concepts in education aimed at developing effective engineering leaders.