Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award

To recognize a Society member who has, over a sustained period of time, made an exceptional contribution to the Society, which has manifested itself at a local Chapter.

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Prize:

Commemorative Plaque, a Certificate, and paid registration to the next fall's Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference if the award is to be presented there.

Funding:

IEEE Education Society

Presentation:

Annually, at Frontiers in Education Conference unless other arrangements are made with the Awards Committee Chair

Basis for Judging:

Based upon the following factors: leadership roles and leadership quality, which have provided an innovative, inventive, and/or important service/contribution to a local Chapter of the IEEE Education Society over a sustained period of time.

Eligibility:

Individuals nominated for this award must be a member of the Society and the IEEE.

Nomination Details:

Nomination Deadline: 9 June

Recipients

2024

Pedro Fonseca

For outstanding sustained effort in enhancing engineering education by developing and involving the Portuguese Chapter of the IEEE Education Society members in invaluable chapter activities.

2023

Andreas Pester

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

2022

2022 Recipient of Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award

Oscar Bonastre

Biography

Oscar M. Bonastre (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer engineering from the University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, in 1994 and 1995, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications engineering from the University Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, in 2007.

He has an academic and industrial career spanning more than 25 years. He has been with Miguel Hernandez University, Elche, Spain, since the year of its foundation in 1997. His research has focused on the areas of development of the Internet, among others.

Dr. Bonastre was the recipient of the IEEE Edwin C. Jones, Jr. Meritorious Service Award 2020. He is an Expert Evaluator for the European Commission and research agencies across Europe. He was appointed as the Vice Dean for International Relations in the College of Engineering from 2012 to 2015. He is active in the International Engineering Education Community, and his teaching interests include advanced distributed systems. He has a long service record with IEEE since 1997. He is a member of IEEE-HKN and holds membership in the IEEE Communications Society and the IEEE Education Society. He has been the Chair of the IEEE Spain Section. For more than a decade, he served on the Board of Directors of the IEEE Education Society Chapter of the Spanish Section and, during his period of chapter presidency from 2020 to 2021, he led the organization and promotion of numerous events about the use of technologies to support engineering education. He has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION, an Editorial Steering Committee Member of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION and IEEE Revista Iberoamericana Tecnologías del Aprendizaje (RITA), and the Co-Editor-in-Chief of TICAI, a journal supported by the IEEE Education Chapter of Portugal and Spain.

Affiliation(s)

Miguel Hernández University

Spain

For leadership in promoting high level of research and activities in the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society.

2021

Diana Andone

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

Dr. Diana Andone (@diando70) is the Director of the Digital Education and Distance Education Department of Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania, responsible for planning and implementing digital education and associate professor in multimedia, interactive and web technologies.

Since 1998, she teaches course modules in universities from UK, France, USA, Finland, Italy, Greece. She has extensive research experience with intense publication (over 17 books, 100 research papers, 11 Best paper Awards, reviewer at 6 major journals and several other publications, associate editor at IEEE Transactions on Education, co-chair IEEE ICALT iOpenLearn) and more than 30 research and educational international projects. Dr. Andone is EDEN Senior Fellow, IEEE Education Society 2021 Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award winner, EDEN Vice-President for Communication and Communities (2018-2021), and member in IEEE Education Society Board of Governors (2021-present), in IEEE Romania Section the Educational activities Chair (2019-present) and in EUA Digital Transformation Steering Committee. She also acts in the Board of Romanian NGOs (Pentru Voi Foundation), in Timisoara 2023 European Capital of Culture Task Force and in other voluntary organisations (Rotary International).

She is passionate about the ubiquitous access to technologies and how they can be used to improve people’s life, she actively supports the use of OERs, MOOCs and the open education principles, developing UniCampus.eu for training for digital skills, but also the local start-up movement, women in tech, and the digital culture. She initiated several projects for transforming communities, is invited as speaker at conferences and in the last 25 years involved in the digital education community movement in Romania, recently through the Together Online webinars and the digital culture and heritage with Spotlight Heritage Timișoara.

Affiliation(s)

Digital Education and Distance Education Department, Politehnica University of Timisoara

Romania

For successful promotion and implementation of digital learning activities beyond the STEM disciplines and innovative contributions in IEEE Education Romania.

2020

Manuel Caeiro-Rodríguez

For improving and developing new methods of collaboration and activities inside the Spanish Chapter of the IEEE Education Society

2019

Manuel Gericota

For the revitalization of the Portugal IEEE Education Society Chapter, the creation of communication channels, and the promotion of chapter activities, generating value to its members

2018

Predrag Pale

For leadership in promoting important activities in the Croatia Chapter of the IEEE Education Society

Martin Reisslein

For leadership in promoting important activities in the Phoenix Chapter of the IEEE Education Society

2017

Gabriel Diaz

2016

Francisco Arcega