2018 Issue

19 EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR Dr. Julie Crockett Brigham Young Assistant Professor, SWE The Greater Salt Lake Section of the Society of Women Engineers nominated BYU Assistant Professor Dr. Julie Crockett as Utah’s Engineering Educator of the Year. Pro- fessor Julie Crockett obtained a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Denver, then went on to complete Masters and Doctorate degrees at UC San Diego. She joined the Mechanical Engineering Department at Brigham Young University in 2007 where she is an Associate Professor. She was awarded tenure in 2014. She teaches classes in fluid dy- namics and thermodynamics, and her research focuses on internal waves and flow and thermal physics at superhydro- phobic surfaces. She has been the principal investigator on research awards totaling over $1.5 million dollars in external funding. Along with students she has advised, she has been a coauthor on 19 journal papers and over 60 conference presentations. In 2016, she was selected as the Alice Louise Reynolds Women-in-Scholarship Lecturer, a program that highlights an outstanding female scholar at BYU yearly. Dr. Crockett is heavily involved in STEM outreach and contrib- utes frequently to the local and university communities. She has advised 20 graduate and 45 undergraduate students, and she has served as a mentor and role model for count- less other students. She is an excellent teacher and since joining the faculty at BYU her student ratings have been consistently in the top 20% of all faculty in the department. Jed Lyman presents the nominee plaque to Dr. Julie Crockett EDUCATOR OF THE YEAR Dr. Masood Amin UVU Associate Professor, AIAA The Utah Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics nominated Dr. Masood Amin, an Assistant Professor at USU’s Department of Mechanical and Aero- space Engineering, as Utah’s Engineering Educator of the Year. Dr. Amin began teaching in 1990 as an adjunct profes- sor of Mathematics at Utah Valley University. He also taught at Westminster College and University of Utah. He accept- ed a full-time position in the Pre-Engineering program at UVU in 1997 where he was assigned to teach engineering, physics, and mathematics courses. He was assigned to teach only engineering courses in 2001 and became the only faculty in the program. At that time, the pre-Engineering program consisted of only Introduc- tion to Engineering, Statics, Dynamics, and Mechanics of Materials. Since then, he has created 5 new courses and helped create two other courses. He has been responsi- ble for articulation of courses with other local institutions especially with University of Utah. While working full-time, he completed his PhD at BYU. He has focused on teaching, encouraging, and inspiring students to reach their poten- tial. He has worked closely with high schools to promote engineering among youths, females, and minorities. He has organized summer camps, competitions, and short courses for students. He is currently organizing a Student Chapter of ASME. Dr. Masood Amin