Source: orlando.bizjournals.com
The White House and National Science Foundation recognized University of Central Florida professor Lesia Crumpton-Young for her success mentoring women and minority engineering students. She is the only award recipient currently employed at a Florida university.
Crumpton-Young, a professor of industrial engineering and management systems, will receive the presidential award for excellence in science, mathematics and engineering mentoring at a fall ceremony at the White House.
She also will receive $10,000 from the National Science Foundation to aid her mentoring efforts.
Crumpton-Young, who is involved in the Society for Women Engineers and National Society of Black Engineers, has mentored more than 280 undergraduates and graduate students and 35 faculty members throughout the country during her career. She also participates in outreach efforts introducing engineering to minority students in K-12 schools.
Colleagues, administrators, and students nominate candidates for the award.
Crumpton-Young, who has taught at UCF since 2002, formerly chaired the university’s department of industrial engineering and management systems in the college of engineering and computer science. She is the first black woman to graduate with a doctorate from the college of engineering at Texas A&M University, where she also received her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in industrial engineering.
UCF professor wins White House award
