Awards & Recognition Program

Education Society Awards

The Education Society offers several awards, which are typically presented at the Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference (other arrangements can be made when circumstances warrant).

The Awards Committee has developed a unified process for all award nominations, and a template for reference letter writers. Please read the nominations procedure section below.

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Awards Committee Chair

James Sluss

University of Oklahoma

United States

James Sluss

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

Awards Committee

Nomination Process

Procedure for all award nominations:

The nominator should complete a nomination, using the nomination form.
The nominator is then asked to send a link to the reference form to each person writing a reference letter on behalf of the nominee along with a copy of the completed nomination form.
The reference letter writer is asked to complete the reference form and return it to the nominator. Please use Microsoft Word files.
The nominator is asked to assemble the files into a single document, convert it to PDF (if possible), and submit the package to the IEEE Education Society Operations Manager, Brittian Parkinson with a copy to the Awards Committee Chair, James Sluss.
Receipt of nominations will be acknowledged, and nominators of successful nominations will be notified at, or soon thereafter, the same time that the recipient is notified by the President of the Society. Nominators of unsuccessful nominations will be notified directly, and unsuccessful nominations will automatically be carried over for one year, though updated or additional information may be submitted to the two persons mentioned in #4 above.

The deadline for all Education Society awards is 1 May.