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A Note From the ASEM President | April 2026


Hi ASEM Community,

I am coming to you after a bit of a hiatus but have a few exciting things to share.

  • Nominations accepted for ASEM Awards – Due July 15, 2026
  • Webinar on May 18, 2026 - Don't Let Your Network Graduate Without You
  • Be on the Lookout for Dr. Gregory Sedrick Student Case Study Competition information

ASEM Awards:

You may nominate deserving candidates for any of the following awards. These award nominations are due July 15, 2026.


Gana Natarajan, PhD

2025-26 ASEM President

Submit nominations on or before the indicated deadline via the Award Nomination Form. All awards will be presented at the Awards Banquet to be held on Friday, 9 October 2026 at the International Annual Conference in Madison, Wisconsin.

  • Bernard R. Sarchet Award: This is regarded as the highest and most prominent award given by ASEM. This award recognizes contributions to the Society and to the field of engineering management.
  • Frank Woodbury Special Service Award: This award is given annually to an active ASEM member who has demonstrated proof of continued service excellence to the Society. 
  • Meritorious Service Awards: These awards were created to recognize the efforts of the local leaders and general members of the Society. The four (4) awards include: new member recruiting, outstanding non-board member, outstanding local section president, outstanding student chapter president.
  • Founder's Award – Undergraduate: This award recognizes excellence in engineering management undergraduate program delivery and leadership.
  • Founder's Award – Graduate: This award recognizes excellence in engineering management graduate program delivery and leadership.
  • Founder's Award – Student Chapter: This award recognizes ASEM student chapter excellence. All active ASEM student chapters are eligible for nomination. 
  • Presidential Award – Professional Section (Local or International): This award recognizes ASEM local or international section excellence. All active ASEM sections are eligible for nomination. 
  • William Daughton World Headquarters Service Award: This award recognizes significant contributions to the streamlining, enhancement, or improvement of the day-to-day operations of ASEM world headquarters.
  • Paul J. Kauffmann Professional Development Leadership Award: The award annually recognizes outstanding professional development activities to the Society.
  • Best Dissertation AwardDissertations defended during calendar years 2024 and 2025 are eligible. This award recognizes PhD dissertation that makes the most significant contribution to the engineering management field. Visit the above link for additional requirements. 
  • Undergraduate Student Scholarship
  • Graduate Student Scholarship                 


Webinar

Don't Let Your Network Graduate Without You: Staying Connected with ASEM

Date and Time: May 18, 2026, 12 – 1 PM U.S. EDT

Sign up Link: https://asem.org/event-6666457

Learn what ASEM can offer for you as you prepare to graduate with your Engineering Management (or related) degree! John Richards and Brian Merrill, who both have industry and academic experience, will lead a discussion of what ASEM offers our new graduates from both the perspective of continuing on in graduate studies or heading out into industry. Learn how ASEM can help you with the next step in your professional and academic journey!

Additional panelists may be added closer to the event date.

Dr. Gregory Sedrick Student Case Study Competition – Be on the Lookout!

The ASEM student competition, renamed Dr. Gregory Sedrick Student Case Study Competition at the 2025 IAC, has been the love child of my dear friend Greg Sedrick since 2007.

As we gear up to the milestone 20th annual competition, be on the lookout for more information about the competition and how your institution of higher education may be a part of it.

Purpose of the Competition:

Undergraduate and graduate engineering management student teams compete for the best case analysis presented at the ASEM International Annual Conference (IAC). The teams are provided an engineering management based case study related to the conference theme. They are given a minimum of four hours to analyze the case and twenty minutes to present their recommendations to a panel of judges.

A call for contestants will go out soon. Please consider sending your undergraduate and graduate student teams to the competition in its milestone year.

Dr. Gregory Sedrick Student Case Study Competition information: https://asem.org/Society-Awards#Student Case Study Competition

Thanks and warm regards,

Gana Natarajan, Ph.D., CPEM®, F. ASEM

President – ASEM (2025 – 2026)

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ASEM Proudly Recognizes Recent CAEM, CPEM and EMSSGB Certified / Recertified Individuals:

  • Ahmed Sadek
  • Phillip Power
  • Aman Gupta
  • James Marion
  • Chaitanya Sagar Tadi
  • Naeim Farahi Ghoddoosy
  • Zubin Mehta
  • Erik Tomlinson
  • Douglas Lane
  • Natalie Waters
  • Erica Ahlschwede
  • Alex Gorod
  • Kalen Berry
  • Nasrullah Khan
  • Michael Uytingco
  • John Bauer
  • Clement Potoki
  • Reginald Burroughs
  • Mike Koper
  • Steve Wang
  • Michael Burlamachi
  • Hyuk Soo Son
  • Andrea Foutch
  • Bryan Wahlfield
  • Ipek Bozkurt
  • Matthew Hennings
  • Joseph Wilck
  • Sandro Serpone
  • James Brino
  • Faizan Warraich
  • Anthony Doran
  • John Bennitts
          • Thomas Hoyt

          • Nam Nguyen

          • M. Affan Badar

          • Camille Crichton-Sumners

          • Chelsey Guillou

          • Muyiwa Dare Ogunbiyi

          • Nathan Madsen

          • Valerie Denney

          • Grant Hooson

          • Artem Shushkov

          • Bilal Janoudi

          • Ben Domingo

          • Saim Salim

          • Laith Abu Haija

          • Derrick Buck

          • Ona Egbue

          • Alireza Jamalipour

          • Vishwas Mathur

          • Seong Dae Kim

          • Alexandra Africano

          • David O'Toole

          • Reza Bahari

          • Ali Zare

          • Akhmad Yudhono

          • Aaron Ofosuhene

          • Scott Young

          • Sivakumar Natarajan

          • Joel Ludwig

          • Monib Shahzad

          • Mohamed Awwad

          • Omar Abdelkarim

          • Cristi Haygood

          • Saksham Poudel​

                        • Felix Lu

                        • Diego Jiménez

                        • Shwetha Bayya

                        • John Bricklemyer

                        • Fayez Ghabboun

                        • Venkata Krovvidi

                        • Mohamed Almarashda

                        • Obaid Alkaabi

                        • Jason Wayment

                        • Jess Matias

                        • Joel Jackson

                        • Adnan Mahmood

                        • Walter Barnes II

                        • Tugrul Daim

                        • James Warren

                        • Chris Jardin

                        • Hares Rassuli

                        • Gariann Gelston

                        • Danielle Hilliard

                        • Feras Elimam

                        • Joseph Isodje

                        • Ibrahim Peerzada

                        • C'Anna Wiens

                        • Tara Asgarpoor

                        • Abhilash Markkassery

                        • Nicholas Hughes

                        • Robert Crowder

                        • Jonathan Sullivan

                        • Jamebel Mahan

                        • Rochelle Watson

                        • Muhammad Bilal

                        • Nicholas Underwood

                        • Raed Fatehi Hasan Ali

                                    2025 ASEM Award Winners - Congratulations!


                                    Engineering Manager of the Year

                                    David Whitehead

                                    Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories

                                    Best Dissertation Award


                                    “Feasibility Assessment and Container Traffic Forecasting of Inland Waterway Container on Barge Transportation”


                                    Dr. Fan Bu

                                    University of Arkansas


                                    Dr. Heather Nachtmann, Mentor

                                    University of Arkansas


                                    Eschenbach Award for Best Engineering Management Journal (EMJ) Paper

                                    "Exploring Lean Practices’ Importance in Sustainable Supply Chain Management Trends: An Empirical Study in Canadian Construction Industry"

                                    Phuoc Luong Le, PhD

                                    Duy Tan Nguyen, PhD


                                    Merl Baker Award

                                    Best International Conference Student Paper

                                    "Enhancing Embarkation Systems for VBSS"

                                    CDT Logan Dosan

                                    CDT Abigail Hatfield

                                    CDT Benjamin Lynch

                                    United States Military Academy at Westpoint


                                    Dr. Greg Sedrick Student Case Competition | People's Choice

                                    Peoples Choice:

                                      • 1st - Missouri S&T
                                      • 2nd West Point Team Black
                                      • 3rd West Point Gold

                                    Congratulations to

                                    ALL of the 2025 ASEM Award Winners!

                                    Bernard R. Sarchet Award

                                    Dr. Paul Componation

                                    Frank Woodbury Special

                                    Service Award

                                    Mike Holman

                                    Paul Kauffmann Professional Development Award

                                    Dr. Ben Baliga

                                    William Daughton World Headquarters Award

                                    Dr. Neal Lewis


                                    Cornelius Administrative

                                    Service Award

                                    Neesee Engebrecht

                                    University of Idaho


                                    ASEM Graduate

                                    Student Scholarship


                                    Vinithra Seshan

                                    Cal Poly


                                    Meritorious Service Award

                                    Brian Merrill

                                    Raghav Luthra

                                    Yesim Sireli


                                    Dr. Greg Sedrick Student Case Competition | Virtual

                                    Graduate

                                      • 1st: Rice University Team – Rice Krispies
                                      • 2nd: Rice University Team - One
                                      • 3rd: Northeastern University

                                    Undergraduate

                                      • 1st: USMA Team: Gold
                                      • 2nd: USMA Team: Black
                                      • 3rd: USMA Team: Green

                                    2025 ASEM Fellow Class

                                    • Carl Ise
                                    • Michael O'Connor
                                    • Natalie Scala
                                    • Raymond Smith
                                    • Woodrow Winchester, III

                                    Merritt Williamson Award for

                                    Best International Annual

                                    Conference Paper


                                    "Rethinking Project Management with Multi-Agent Systems: A Framework for AI-Driven Coordination"


                                    Raymond L. Smith III, PhD

                                    East Carolina University

                                    ASEM Founder's Award for Undergraduate Program


                                    Missouri S&T University


                                    ASEM Founder's Award for

                                    Student Chapter


                                    United States Military Academy at

                                    West Point

                                    ASEM Founder’s Award for

                                    Graduate Program

                                    University of Nebraska - Lincoln


                                    Past President of the Society Award

                                    Jena Ashgarpoor


                                    Presidential Award -

                                    Local Section

                                    Peru Section

                                    To learn more about ASEM's Society Awards and to nominate for the 2026 Awards, please visit https://asem.org/Society-Awards/

                                    September 24th - 27th, 2025

                                    The 2025 ASEM International Annual Conference was a Terrific Event!

                                    Hosted at The Grove Hotel, Boise, Idaho, USA

                                    ABET and Engineering Management

                                    The criteria comment period for "Engineering Management" and similarly named programs is open until June 15, 2024. This may be of interest to you, and if you want your voice heard - now is the time to make a comment.

                                    Link below (Scroll down to EAC area):

                                    https://www.abet.org/accreditation/accreditation-criteria/accreditation-changes/

                                    Professional Development Opportunities through UAH

                                    The University of Alabama in Huntsville's Office of Professional and Continuing Education is offering an online on-demand Certification Prep Course. Course registration offers 26 hours of instruction and includes:

                                    • Complimentary ASEM® Membership
                                    • Digital Course Materials
                                    • Exam Voucher for either the CAEM® or CPEM® Exam

                                    Find out more at https://www.uah.edu/opce/program-topics/ASEM



                                    Engineering Management Handbook, 3rd Edition

                                    ASEM is proud to now offer the 3rd edition of the Engineering Management Handbook. This EM Handbook edition focuses on the practical application of the domains thus differentiating it from the second edition.

                                    You may download this text through your ASEM membership portal as an member benefit. For non-members, the PDF is available for purchase on the ASEM Store website. Hardcopies will soon be available for purchase on the ASEM Store website as well.

                                    The 11 Domains covered in this handbook, each of which include related topics, are:


                                    1. Introduction to Engineering Management
                                    2. Leadership and Organizational Management
                                    3. Strategic Planning and Management
                                    4. Financial Resources Management
                                    5. Project Management
                                    6. Quality Management System
                                    7. Operations and Supply Chain Management
                                    8. Management of Technology, Research, and Development
                                    9. Systems Engineering
                                    10. Legal Issues in Engineering Management
                                    11. Professional Codes of Conduct and Ethics

                                    Women in Engineering Management: An Interview with Tiffani Teachey


                                    Is Your Organization on ASEM's EM Program Listing? Are You Part of CEMAL?


                                    Please visit https://www.asem.org/EM-Program-List/ to validate your EM Program Listing is up-to-date. Complete the form below to submit any changes or to join the Council of Engineering Management Academic Leaders. Need help? Contact asem-hq@asem.org.

                                    Validate Your Skill Set with Professional Certification through ASEM


                                    ASEM offers the two most important industry-recognized certification for technical managers. You can find CAEMs and CPEMs involved in managing and leading at all levels and types of engineering and technology-driven organizations in nearly every country. Over the past twenty years, ASEM has been engaged in intensive research and development to identify the education, skills, and knowledge critical for success as a technical management professional. This work has supported the development and continuous improvement of this formal method for recognizing the CAEM or CPEM engineering management professional designation.

                                    Visit https://asem.org/EM-Professional-Certifications to find out more, and to begin the process to becoming professionally certified as a technical manager, today!

                                    Opportunity to Contribute to ASEM Professional Certifications

                                    ASEM seeks knowledge volunteers as part of a team chartered to investigate validation or accreditation of ASEM’s growing portfolio of certifications. The use of a third-party standard, has long been discussed. Organizations such as ABET use international standards such as ISO 9000. The Institute for Credentialing Excellence (ICE) and the IACET (International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training) are two examples of U.S. organizations that accredit personnel and continuing education related certifications or certificates. The major deliverable for the Accreditation Project is a actionable plan for obtaining recognized and effectual accreditation as our certification/badging products grow. If you have applicable accreditation knowledge or experience and would like to contribute to this please contact the ASEM Executive Director (ExecutiveDirector@asem.org).


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