Presidential Leadership

Current

2019 - 2021

Russ Meier

Milwaukee School of Engineering

United States

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Russ Meier

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Biography

Russ Meier received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from Iowa State University. He is currently a Professor of electrical engineering and computer science with the Milwaukee School of Engineering (MSOE). He has a 28-year history of teaching at the bachelor and graduate levels. His teaching skills have been recognized with an Iowa State University Teaching Excellence Award, the Iowa State University Warren B. Boast Award for Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, and the MSOE Oscar Werwath Distinguished Teacher Award. His research interests include engineering education, embedded systems, evolvable hardware, and computer architecture. In addition to his teaching career, he works to improve engineering education as part of his professional service. Over a 20-year period, he has helped to create multiple workshops, conferences, online seminars, and certification programs for engineering and computer science professors. He is a member of the IEEE-HKN, the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Education Society, the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), and the ASEE Electrical and Computer Engineering and Educational Research and Methods Divisions. He served as the IEEE Education Society President, in 2019 and 2020.

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Milwaukee School of Engineering

United States

Past

2017 - 2018

Claudio da Rocha Brito

COPEC - Science & Education Research Organization

Brazil

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Past

2015 - 2016

James Sluss

University of Oklahoma

United States

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James Sluss

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Biography

Dr. Jim Sluss is the Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Tulsa Graduate College at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa. He is responsible for working with the Norman Associate Deans on the OU-Tulsa campus in budgeting, forecasting, program planning and growth, and faculty affairs. In addition, he has oversight responsibilities for the Schusterman Library and OU-Tulsa Student Affairs. A Regents’ Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, he has worked in research areas leading to new technology development across a variety of industry sectors. He has been awarded 15 U.S. patents, has authored/co-authored over 100 journal and conference publications, and has been principal/co-principal investigator on over $20 million in sponsored research grants and contracts.

Prior to assuming his current administrative duties on the OU-Tulsa campus, he was the Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2005-2014), leading the School through a period of historic growth. More recently, he served as Senior Associate Dean for the Gallogly College of Engineering (2014-2016) where he led research administration, faculty development, and graduate education.

He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Education Society, and the IEEE Communications Society. He is a Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA), International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE), International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP) and American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has been a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Education Society since 2000, serving in a number of officer positions including a two-year term as President from 2015-2016. In 2015, he was awarded the International Engineering Educator Honoris Causa by the International Society for Engineering Education “for outstanding contributions in the field of Engineering Education.”

Jim is a native of Huntington, West Virginia. He received the B.S in Physics in 1984 from Marshall University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and 1989, respectively, from the University of Virginia.

Affiliation(s)

University of Oklahoma

United States

Past

2013 - 2014

Manuel Castro

Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)

Spain

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Past

2011 - 2012

Robert A. Reilly

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

United States

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Past

2009 - 2010

Susan M. Lord

University of San Diego

United States

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Susan M. Lord

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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

Past

2007 - 2008

United States

Past

1980 - 1981

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Past

1973 - 1974

President

Russ Meier

Claudio da Rocha Brito

James Sluss

Manuel Castro

Robert A. Reilly

Susan M. Lord

Joseph L.A. Hughes

Daniel Litynski

David V. Kerns Jr.

Marion O. Hagler

Karan L. Watson

Victor K. Schutz

Robert Sullivan

Jerry R. Yeargan

Chalmer Sechrist

J. David Irwin

Darrell Vines

Demetrius T. Paris

Bruce Eisenstein

James R. Rowland

Joseph Bordogna

Lyle D. Feisel

John C. Lindenlaub

Edwin C. Jones

J.E. Biedenbach

R. Cotellessa

Warren B. Boast

Luke H. Noggle

Benjamin Dasher

E.G. Walters

J.G. Brainerd

G.E. Moore

J.G. Truxal

R.L. McFarlan

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