President's Advisory Committee | IEEE Education Society

The purpose of the President's Advisory Committee (PAC) is to advise the President on Society policy and provide advice regarding the handling of controversial issues and the establishment of institutional MoUs with other organizations. The PAC is also responsible for helping to preserve the values of the Education Society and help to keep its history alive.

President's Advisory Committee Members

Claudio da Rocha Brito

COPEC - Science & Education Research Organization

Brazil

Bruce Eisenstein

Drexel University

United States

Lyle D. Feisel

State University of New York at Binghamton

United States

Joseph L.A. Hughes

Georgia Institute of Technology

United States

Edwin C. Jones

Iowa State University

United States

Susan M. Lord

University of San Diego

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

Susan M. Lord

6 (Western U.S.)

Biography

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

Affiliation(s)

University of San Diego

United States

Russ Meier

Milwaukee School of Engineering

United States

4 (Central U.S.)

James R. Rowland

Professor

University of Kansas

United States

James Sluss

University of Oklahoma

United States

James Sluss

Biography

James J. Sluss Jr. (Senior Member, IEEE) received a B.S. degree in physics from Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA, in 1984, and an M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, in 1986 and 1989,
respectively.

He is a Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with the University of Oklahoma (OU), Norman, OK, USA, and has held various administrative roles of increasing responsibility within the OU system, most recently as Interim President of OU-Tulsa until the end of 2023. Notably, he served as the Systemwide Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2005 to 2014, leading the School through a period of historic growth.

Dr. Sluss was the recipient of the FIE Ronald J. Schmitz Award in 2023, IEEE Education Society Distinguished Member Award in 2022, IEEE Education Society Edwin C. Jones, Jr., Meritorious Service Award in 2008 and the International Engineering Educator Honoris Causa “ING. PAED.IGIP h.c.” by the International Society for Engineering Education “for outstanding contributions in the field of Engineering Education” in 2015. He served on the Frontiers in Education (FIE) Steering Committee from 2012 to 2021, served as the Technical Program Co- Chair for FIE 2007, the General Go-Chair for FIE 2013, and as the FIE Steering Committee Chair from 2018 to 2020. He has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Education Society from 2000 to present, serving in several officer positions, including a two-year term as the President from 2015 to 2016. He is in his 41 st year of membership in the IEEE and is a member of the IEEE Education Society and the IEEE Communications Society. He is a member of Optica (formerly, Optical Society of America), the International Society for Optics and Photonics, the International Society for Engineering Education, and the American Society of Engineering Education.

Affiliation(s)

University of Oklahoma

United States