The Education Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers selected Bonnie Heck Ferri to receive its 2007 Hewlett-Packard/Harriet B. Rigas Award. Ferri is professor and associate chair for graduate affairs in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She came to Georgia Tech in 1988, four years after receiving her M.S.E. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton. The Education Society award recognizes her leadership as a teacher, administrator, researcher and role model.