Dr. Donald Merino wins Bernard Sarchet Award for 2000

The Engineering Management Division of the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE) has announced that Dr. Donald N. Merino of Stevens Institute of Technology has won the Bernard Sarchet Award for 2000. This award is given to an individual who has made significant contributions to the Engineering Management profession and to the Engineering Management Division of the ASEE. The prestigious Sarchet Award is the only annual award given by the EM Division and consists of a plaque and a monetary prize.

Dr. Merino had previously won the corresponding Sarchet Award in 1998 from the American Society of Engineering Management (ASEM), which is the highest award given by that organization. He is the only individual to have won both Sarchet Awards.

The EM Division of the ASEE consists of engineering faculty and administrators throughout the U.S., Canada, and internationally, who teach and administer undergraduate and graduate EM programs. It encompasses over 1,000 university departments.

Dr. Bernard Sarchet, for whom the award is named, founded the American Society of Engineering Management and was considered the top luminary in the field. He also founded the first Engineering Management program at the University of Missouri, Rolla. Dr. Sarchet died this past spring.

"It was a great honor to win the ASEM Bernard Sarchet Award while Dr. Sarchet was living," says Dr. Merino. "It is an even greater honor to win the EMD/ASEE Sarchet Award in the year of his passing. I felt that Bernie was an inspiration and a role model, and I will miss him, as will all who knew him."

Dr. 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 ASEM the first time that award was conferred. BEEM was the first EM 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.

Dr. Merino is also the founder of the Executive Master of Technology Management (EMTM) program at Stevens. That program also won the Academic Excellence Award for graduate programs from the ASEM the first time it was given. He is also past Conference Chair, President Elect, President, and Past President of the ASEM.

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 Division.

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

Dr. Merino is a tenured full professor of Engineering Management in the Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Professor of Technology Management in the Wesley J. Howe School of Technology Management at Stevens.

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