2023 Education Society Award Recipients

Edwin C. Jones, Jr. Meritorious Service Award 2023

2023 Recipient of Edwin C. Jones, Jr. Meritorious Service Award

Abhinav R.

Biography

Abhinav R completed his graduation in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from NSS College of Engineering, Palakkad. He is a passionate Young Professional upskilling his juniors and imparting technical knowledge and hands-on skills to engineering students of Kerala. Abhinav has led about 12 humanitarian projects for the past 3 years and impacted 2000+ needful people by providing them with clean water, electrification, and self-sustainability through various diversity and inclusion programs.

Abhinav has influenced many student Branches to initiate activities that impact their professional development and technical skills. Most of his project team consisted of 20- 40 members from discrete OUs and this networking provided each individual team member to get directly mentored by him. To promote gender equality he promotes a 1:1 ratio in all his projects and has won about 5 awards including the MGA Young Professional Achievement award for his initiatives. Being passionate about his domain, he has covered over 200+ technical sessions including domains of Renewable energy, Electrical Vehicles, Energy Auditing, Embedded system design, Managerial sessions, and different engineering software. With the motto of ‘Education, Water, Electricity as basic rights of Human beings’, Abhinav has created a community of research and development members and humanitarian volunteers with technical skill sets to develop and deploy humanitarian projects to the needful communities with affordable and reliable technical solutions. His act of kindness has led light to many lives and the Section is a proud possessor of Abhinav.

Affiliation(s)

Indian Institute of Technology

Palakkad

For creating pioneering programs in India that impart STEM and managerial education to upskill a diverse range of people.

IEEE Student Leadership Award 2023

Ayisha E. A.

For unwavering commitment to advancing and disseminating technology and educational practices within IEEE, while also demonstrating exceptional dedication to supporting and benefiting humanity.

Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award 2023

Andreas Pester

For outstanding work as a leading member and chair of the Austrian IEEE EdSoc Chapter.

Mac Van Valkenburg Early Career Teaching Award 2023

Rebecca Reck

For innovative contributions to undergraduate education, laboratory curriculum, and inclusive pedagogy methods.

Chapter Achievement Award 2023

Tunisia Chapter

For sustained commitment to organizing high quality activities that impact engineering education through research and practice.