Engineering's Stephanie Adams is AAAS-NSF fellow

Stephanie G. Adams, associate professor of industrial and management systems engineering and assistant dean for research in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering & Technology, has been awarded a fellowship from the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Foundation.

The fellowship program is designed to provide a unique public policy learning experience and to provide insight into the decision-making processes of the foundation. Adams will spend the next year in Washington, D.C., working in NSF's Directorate for Engineering, Division of Engineering Education and Centers.

While Adams said she expects to learn a great deal from her experience, NSF will also benefit from her extensive experience in engineering education. In 2003, she received a prestigious $587,568 Career Grant from NSF to implement "Designing Effective Teams in the Engineering Classroom for the Enhancement of Learning."

Adams is a cum laude mechanical engineering graduate of North Carolina A&T State University and holds a master's degree in systems engineering from University of Virginia and a doctorate in interdisciplinary engineering from Texas A&M University.

Founded in 1848, the American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world's largest general science organization and publisher of the prestigious, peer-reviewed journal Science. With more than 138,000 members and 275 affiliated societies, AAAS serves as an authoritative source for information on the latest developments in science and bridges gaps among scientists, policy-makers and the public to advance science and science education.

The AAAS/NSF fellowship is one of eight public policy fellowship programs for scientists and engineers offered by the organization. The fellowships allow accomplished and societally aware postdoctoral to mid-career scientists and engineers to participate and contribute to the public policymaking process of the federal government.

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