Liu tabbed as fellow for engineering education

Yucheng Liu, head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at South Dakota State University, will be inducted as a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education at the group’s awards luncheon June 24 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Each year, up to one-tenth of 1% of the society’s members are selected for induction into the American Society for Engineering Education’s Academy of Fellows — the group’s highest honors.

Liu, who arrived at SDSU in July 2021 as the inaugural Duane E. Sander Endowed Professor in Engineering, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, has also served as department head since that time. To date, he has authored or co-authored more than 270 peer-reviewed publications, including 15 ASEE conference or journal papers as well as six additional papers published in other engineering education journals. 

This is the third organization to Liu as a fellow. He became a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 2017 and the Society of Automotive Engineers in 2019.

Liu, who has been a member of the American Society for Engineering Education since 2011, was elevated to a Distinguished Member in 2024.

He is completing a two-year term as the chair of the ASEE North Midwest Section and will serve another two years as past chair. He was chair elect from 2022 to 2024. The section covers 21 universities in six states and two Canadian provinces. He was part of the organizing committee for a 2023 conference for the section, which was the first in-person meeting of the section since COVID-19.

Liu also progressively held the roles of secretary, vice chair and chair of the professional skills division in the ASEE Southeast Section between 2019 and 2022, and has actively contributed to other ASEE divisions in various roles.