LAS VEGAS, April 12, 2005—Barbara Bogue, Affiliate Associate Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and former Director of the Women in Engineering Program at The Pennsylvania State University has been selected to receive the 2005 Founders Award.

The award, given by the Women in Engineering Programs and Advocates Network, (WEPAN) recognizes Bogue’s dedicated service to the advancement of WEPAN and her scholarship of women’s studies that has contributed to an engineering infrastructure conducive to the success of women in the engineering profession. The Founders Award honors a WEPAN member who exemplifies the spirit of the WEPAN founders through her/his extraordinary long-term service to the organization. The award is named for the three founders of WEPAN, Inc. - Suzanne G. Brainard, Jane Zimmer Daniels and Susan Staffin Metz., and includes a $1,000 cash prize, a plaque, and an opportunity to serve as a keynote speaker at the next WEPAN national conference. Bogue was nominated by Dr. Judith A. Todd, P. B. Breneman Department Head Chair of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State.