Associate professor Alexandra Coso Strong has been awarded the 2025 Leader in Engineering Education Award by the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN). Coso Strong received the award "for creating new methods or approaches to enhance engineering education."
As noted in her award letter, "throughout her career, Dr. Coso Strong has served as a visionary and transformational leader at the intersection of engineering education, faculty development, and complex systems design, creating critical connections between research and innovation and student learning. In addition to co-founding the first engineering and computing education department at a Minority-Serving Institution, Dr. Coso Strong has created novel degree programs, significantly contributed to faculty leadership development, and served on critical task forces related to engineering education, research, and methods. Her work continues to deeply inform new scholarship, research methods, policies, pedagogical approaches, and curriculum design aimed at broadening participation in engineering."
WEPAN Awards honor key individuals, programs, and organizations for accomplishments that underscore WEPAN's mission to advance cultures of inclusion and diversity in engineering education and professions. WEPAN Award honorees demonstrate extraordinary service, significant achievement, model programs, and exemplary work environments.
Dr. Coso Strong was recognized on Sunday, February 9, 2025, at the Collaborative Network for Engineering and Computing Diversity (CoNECD) Conference Awards Ceremony in San Antonio, TX.
