Donald N. Merino elected a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Education

A Stevens Institute of Technology professor and alumnus, Dr. Donald N. Merino, has been honored by his colleagues in the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) with his election as a Fellow of the society. Dr. Merino follows in the footsteps of famed Stevens professors such as Dr. DeVolson Woods, a founder and first President of ASEE in 1893, and Dr. Alexander Crombie Humphreys, who was Dr. Wood's student and became the second president of Stevens.

Merino received two ASEE Centennial Awards in 1993 in Engineering Economics and in Engineering Management. These awards were given to those faculty who made outstanding contributions to their fields over the last 100 years. Dr. Merino's advisor at Stevens, Dr. Arthur Lesser, Jr., also received an ASEE Centennial Award in Engineering Economics.

Merino is a renowned scholar, former corporate executive and founder of groundbreaking programs in engineering and technology management. He has served as a tenured full professor at Stevens' Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and also at Stevens' Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management. He occupies the Alexander Crombie Humphreys Chair of Economics of Engineering in both schools.

"Professor Merino's election as a Fellow of the ASEE is a further proof of the high esteem in which he is held by his colleagues in engineering education," says Jerry MacArthur Hultin, dean of the Howe School. "I can't think of anyone more deserving of the honor than Don Merino."

Merino is the founder of the Bachelor of Engineering and Engineering Management (BEEM) program in the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering at Stevens. The BEEM program won the Academic Excellence Award from the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM) the first time that award was conferred. BEEM was the first engineering management program accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering Technology (ABET) under new guidelines. It is one of only three nationally accredited programs today. The others are at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the University of Missouri, Rolla. Merino is a faculty member in the Stevens' Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, founded in 2000.

Merino is also the founder of the Executive Master of Technology Management program at Stevens. The program won the Academic Excellence Award for graduate programs from the American Society of Engineering Management the first time it was given. He is also past Conference Chair, President Elect, President, Past President and now a Director-at-Large of that organization.

In addition, he has held numerous professional posts with the ASEE, including Past Newsletter Editor, Secretary/Treasurer, Program Chair, Chair, Past Chair, and Awards Chair of the Engineering Management and Engineering Economics Divisions. He is currently the chairperson of the editorial board of The Engineering Economist.

Merino earned his doctorate in Managerial Economics (1975) at Stevens, where he also obtained his Master of Science in Industrial Management in 1963 and his bachelor's degree in Engineering in 1960.

He is the only individual to have won the Bernard Sarchet Award twice: First from the ASEM, which is the highest award given by that organization, and then from the Engineering Management Division of the ASEE, also the highest honor bestowed by that organization.

Merino has personally endowed the Humphreys-Innes-Lesser Award in Engineering Management for outstanding undergraduate performance in engineering economics and the Taylor Award in the Stevens EM program. These awards are given annually at commencement.

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