Edwin C. Jones, Jr. Meritorious Service Award
To recognize pioneering contributions to the administrative efforts of the IEEE Education Society over a period of years.
Plaque and Certificate; paid registration to the Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference
IEEE Education Society
Annually, at Frontiers in Education Conference
Basis for Judging:
Dedication, effort, and contributions
Must be a member of the IEEE Education Society
Nomination Details:
Nomination Deadline: 7 June
María M. Larrondo Petrie
Maria M. Larrondo-Petrie (M'92) is currently a Professor of Computer Engineering and the Associate Dean of International Affairs with the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University. She is the Executive Director of the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institution and is the Vice-President of Engineering for the Americas, an initiative of the Ministers of Science and Technology of the countries member of the Organization of American States. She is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers, Tau Beta Pi, and the Engineering Honor Society. She has served as the Vice President of the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies and the President of the Upsilon Pi Epsilon International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines. She is on the International Advisory Board of the ASEE Journal of Engineering Education and has served on Boards of the ASEE International, Minorities in Engineering, and Women in Engineering Divisions.
For sustained pioneering contributions to the IEEE Education Society in standards development, international accreditation, and globalization.
Oscar Bonastre
Miguel Hernández University
For promoting pioneering contributions and high-level activities for the members of the IEEE Education Society
Hamadou Saliah-Hassane
Professor Saliah-Hassane is a senior researcher at the LICEF Research Center. He teaches informatics and computer networks at TELUQ, a Distance Education University of the Network of Universities of Quebec.
Saliah-Hassane has a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University in Montreal and a Master of Applied Science degree from École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada.
He has taught at the University of Niamey, Republic of Niger (1985-1987) and was Head of Electrical Engineering Department of The Engineering School of Mines, Industry and Geology (EMIG) of the former Economic Community of West Africa in Niamey, Niger (1989-1991).
Hamadou Saliah-Hassane is a member of Professional Engineers of Québec (OIQ); of IEEE (Member of the Administrative Committee of IEEE Education Society and Chair of its Education Standards Committee); of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and of African Engineering Education Association (AEEA).
In 2005 he received the "2005 Achievement Award" from the International Network for Engineering Education (iNEER) for "Research and Innovation on Online laboratories and for the Advancement of International Collaboration". He received other awards and memorials of satisfaction: "Champion of Montreal's IEEE Teachers in Service Program" (2010); Volunteer Award of the President of IEEE Canada (2009); Certificate of Appreciation from the Vice Presidents of IEEE Technical and of IEEE Geographic Activities. And recently, in 2012, Professor Saliah-Hassane was recognized with the highest academic distinction of "Commander of the Order of Academic Palm" by the Republic of Niger, his home country.
IEEE Involvement: TAB CoS, TAB CoS SPE, and IEEE LTSC
University of TÉLUQ
For sustained wide-ranging pioneering contributions to the IEEE Education Society
Diane Rover
Diane Rover has been a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University since 2001, and was named University Professor in 2015. She currently serves as the director for two large-scale, NSF-funded programs: IINspire LSAMP is an alliance of sixteen institutions in Iowa, Illinois and Nebraska to broaden participation in STEM; and [email protected] is a campus-wide program to support the broader impacts work of faculty. She is principal investigator of an NSF grant at ISU to investigate STEM faculty engagement with broader impacts. She is also co-PI for a nation-wide grant to establish the National Alliance for Broader Impacts. She has also been the principal investigator on NSF STEP and S-STEM grants at Iowa State that have focused on the recruitment, retention and success of engineering students. Dr. Rover has served on the IEEE Committee on Engineering Accreditation Activities and on the IEEE Education Society Board of Governors. She represented IEEE on the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET from 2009-2014 and began a term on the EAC Executive Committee in 2015. She began serving as an IEEE ABET program evaluator for computer engineering in 2002. From 1996-1998, she was director of technical activities for the IEEE Southeastern Michigan Section. Starting in 2009, she held officer positions in the ASEE ECE Division. She served as program chair for the ECE Division for the 2010 ASEE Annual Conference. From 2000-2008, she led the Academic Bookshelf column as a senior associate editor for the ASEE Journal of Engineering Education.
Dr. Rover was appointed Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs in the College of Engineering from 2004-2010. Prior to that, she served as associate chair for undergraduate education in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2003-2004. She began her academic career at Michigan State University, where, from 1991-2001, she held the positions of assistant professor and associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. From 1997 to 2000, she served as director of the undergraduate program in computer engineering at MSU. She also served as interim department chair in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2000 to 2001. She was a research staff member in the Scalable Computing Laboratory at the Ames Laboratory under a U.S-D.O.E. Postdoctoral Fellowship from 1989 to 1991. She received the B.S. degree in computer science in 1984, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering in 1986 and 1989, respectively, from Iowa State University. She was the first woman to receive a Ph.D. in computer engineering at ISU. Her teaching and research has focused on the areas of embedded computer systems, reconfigurable hardware, integrated program development and performance environments for parallel and distributed systems, visualization, performance monitoring and evaluation, and engineering education.
Dr. Rover is a 2016 IEEE Fellow, 2012 ASEE Fellow and member of the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Education Society, and the ASEE. She currently serves as a representative for Iowa State in the National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT). She received an NSF CAREER Award in 1996.
For excellent contributions to the Education Society, particularly service on the Finance Committee and the Board of Governors
Jeffrey E. Froyd
Prof. Jeffrey E. Froyd has been recognized worldwide as an engineering education pioneer and for his achievements in various areas, including integrated curriculum development and evaluation; adoption, institutionalization, and propagation of educational innovations; curriculum redesign; and faculty development.
He has served as Project Director for a National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalition in which six institutions systematically renewed, assessed, and institutionalized innovative, integrated undergraduate engineering curricula. He has offered over 30 workshops on faculty development, curricular change processes, curriculum redesign and assessment in the U.S. and abroad.
Before joining the Department of Engineering Education of Ohio State University as a professor in November 2017, Prof. Froyd spent 18 years at Texas A&M University, most recently as a Research Professor in the Office of Engineering Academic and Student Affairs. Previously, he was a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rose-Hulman. There, he co-created the Integrated First-Year Curriculum in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, which was recognized in 1997 with a Hesburgh Award Certificate of Excellence.
Dr. Froyd, a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), is a past Editor-in-Chief for the IEEE Transactions on Education, a Senior Associate Editor for the Journal on Engineering Education, and an Associate Editor for the International Journal on STEM Education.
Lance C. Pérez
Lance C. Pérez received his BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia, and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) since August 1996, where he is currently dean of the College of Engineering and the Omar H. Heins Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests are in the areas of error control coding, information, image processing, and engineering education. He is a senior member of the IEEE and a member of ASEE, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu.
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Danilo G. Zutin
Carinthia University of Applied Sciences
Charles Fleddermann
Susan M. Lord
Susan M. Lord is a Fellow of the IEEE and the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). Dr. Lord's teaching interests include electronics, optoelectronic materials and devices, service-learning, feminist pedagogy, and lifelong learning. From 1993-1997, Dr. Lord taught at Bucknell University. Her industrial experience includes AT&T Bell Laboratories, General Motors Laboratories, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, and SPAWAR Systems Center. In 2012, she taught at Southeast University in Nanjing, China. From 2006-2016, she was Chair of Electrical Engineering at USD.
Dr. Lord's research has been supported by several National Science Foundation (NSF) grants from programs including CAREER, gender in science and engineering (GSE), and research in engineering education (REE). Her research focuses on the study and promotion of diversity in engineering including student pathways, diverse populations including Latinos and military veterans, and cross-cultural studies with non-U.S. students. She is part of the USD team working on "Developing Changemaking Engineers", funded by the NSF Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) program.
Since entering college, Dr. Lord has been committed to increasing diversity in engineering particularly supporting women and underrepresented minorities. She co-authored The Borderlands of Education: Latinas in Engineering with Dr. Michelle Madsen Camacho of the USD Sociology Department. She and her research team have received best paper awards from the Journal of Engineering Education and the IEEE Transactions on Education and the 2013 WEPAN Betty Vetter Award for Research.
Dr. Lord is active in the international engineering education community. She served as General Co-Chair of the 2006 Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference and as the Vice President (2007-2008) and President (2009-2010) of the IEEE Education Society. Dr. Lord is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education and the Journal of Engineering Education. She joined the National Effective Teaching Institute (NETI) facilitation team in 2015 conducting annual workshops for engineering educators
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