Engineering

Irwin honored with mentoring award

University Park, Pa. -- Mary Jane Irwin, who holds the A. Robert Noll Chair in Engineering at Penn State University Park, will receive the 2006 Howard B. Palmer Faculty Mentoring Award.

The Palmer Award honors and recognizes outstanding achievement by a faculty member with at least five years of active service who effectively guides junior faculty. Howard Palmer was the senior associate dean of The Graduate School from 1984 to 1991.

Over the past seven years, Irwin has been instrumental in building a team of five faculty members in computer science and engineering, and establishing a new center on embedded computing that is well recognized throughout the world.

She has actively recruited and mentored junior faculty members of this center and provided various opportunities for their career development by recommending them to editorial boards and conference committees.

A member of the National Academy of Engineering, Irwin has served as a role model for several junior women faculty, not only at Penn State but also throughout the country. She is an active member of the Computing Research Association (CRA) on the Status of Women in Computer Science and Engineering in creating a support group for women faculty in the United States.

She also has been a frequent presenter at the CRA Career Mentoring Workshops for new faculty since 1991. At Penn State, she has been a mentor to many women faculty from various disciplines.

Her research centers on computer architecture and power and energy in design.

Mary Jane Irwin Credit: Penn StateCreative Commons

Last Updated November 18, 2010

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