04-04-2025
Rose-Hulman professor honored with natonal award
Rose-Hulman professor Patsy Brackin has been recognized with the Kate Gleason Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Foundation for her contributions to the engineering profession.
Brackin, a mechanical engineering professor and engineering design program director at Rose, received the award at the ASME Foundation's recent Reinventing the Future 2025 event in Washington.
The Gleason Award was established in 2011 by the ASME Foundation to annually honor a female engineer who has had a lifetime of achievement in the engineering profession or is a highly successful entrepreneur in the field of engineering.
Brackin, a member of the Rose-Hulman mechanical engineering faculty since 1995, started the institute's engineering design program in 2018, and led it to achieving accreditation status in 2023 for meeting quality standards from ABET's Engineering Accreditation Commission. The program received ABET's Innovation Award in 2024 for bringing new dimensions to improve students' technical educational experience.
A licensed professional engineer, Brackin primarily teaches undergraduate courses in design and creativity at Rose-Hulman. Brackin earned distinction as an ASME Fellow in 2016 and an ABET Fellow in 2020, two of the engineering profession's highest honors.
Brackin earned bachelor's and master's degrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Tennessee and added a doctorate in mechanical engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology. She worked as a design engineer with the Chicago Bridge & Iron Company and has spent an academic sabbatical leave as a project engineer with Eli Lilly and Company.
