Member named a American Council of Education fellow

U.S. Coast Guard Captain Vincent Wilczynski, a resident of Old Lyme, Conn., and a professor and chief of the mechanical engineering section at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn., has been named a American Council of Education (ACE) fellow for the 2006–07 academic year.

US. Coast Guard Captain Vincent Wilczynski

The ACE Fellow Program is the premier academic leadership-development program in the United States. Its emphasis is on identifying and preparing senior leadership to serve in America's colleges and universities. As an ACE fellow who will spend the next academic year working with the president and senior faculty at the University of Rhode Island, Wilczynski will collaborate on the issues of strategic planning and decision-making processes in higher education.

A member of ASME since 1992, Wilczynski has received a number of Society awards and honors, including the 2005 ASME Edwin F. Church Medal for his outstanding contributions to the enhancement of engineering education through ASME's pre-college programs.

Wilczynski currently serves as vice president of the ASME Pre-College Education Board and was instrumental in ASME's involvement in FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology), an organization founded by inventor Dean Kamen to inspire young people to get involved with science and technology. Wilczynski currently serves on the FIRST Executive Advisory Board.

With more than 1,600 member institutes, the American Council on Education is the major coordinating body for higher education in the United States. It seeks to provide leadership and a unifying voice on key higher education issues and influences public policy through advocacy, research, and program initiatives.

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