The Liberal Education Division of the American Society for Engineering Education
is pleased to present the 1995 STERLING OLM-STED AWARD to Lance Schachterle
in recognition of his career of "making significant contributions in the
teaching and administering of Liberal Education in Engineering Education."
The Selection Committee commends Lance Schachterle, professor and administrator.
Dr. Schachterle, who received his B.A. from Haverford College and his Ph.D.
from the University of Pennsylvania, has been a distinguished professor and
program director at Worcester Polytechnic University for twenty-five years.
He has taught a variety of courses on English and American literature and on
interdisciplinary topics. He has published studies on Charles Dickens, James
Fenimore Cooper and Thomas Pynchon in addition to a number of studies relating
literature, science, and technology. Dr. Schachterle was appointed Assistant
Provost for Academic Initiatives at WPI in 1993 and currently is in charge of
first-year and pre-college academic program development. He has also been involved
heavily in the establishment and management of the Massachusetts Academy for
Mathematics and Science, the first publicly funded high school in Massachusetts
at a private college.
As Associate Dean, Dr. Schachterle oversees the development of WPIs project
program. He has also helped to develop WPIs "Global Perspective Program,"
which provides opportunities for WPI students to study in more than eighteen
locations abroad. In the early 1980s, Dr. Schachterle helped to organize the
Society for Literature and Science and held the offices of first president and
first program chair. At the invitation of Peter Lang Publishers, he established
a series of monographs entitled "WPI Studies in Science, Technology, and
Culture," which has published over ten titles. A member of ASEE since the
early 1980s, Dr. Schachterle served as Program Chair of the Liberal Education
Division from 1988-1991 and as Chair from 1991-1993. For his many contributions
to ASEE and to the engineering profession, the Liberal Education Division is
pleased to present its 1995 Sterling Olmsted Award to Lance Schachterle.
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