IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award | IEEE Education Society

The IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award was established by the Board of Directors in 1990 to honor teachers of electrical and electronics engineering and the related disciplines. Recipient selection is administered through the Technical Field Awards Council of the IEEE Awards Board.

Prize:

The award consists of a bronze medal, certificate, and honorarium.

Funding:

IEEE Education Society

Presentation:

IEEE policy requires that its awards be presented at major IEEE events that are in keeping with the nature of the award and the cited achievement.

Basis for Judging:

In the evaluation process, the following criteria are considered: excellence in teaching undergraduate students; creative development of the undergraduate curriculum; authorship of course materials for undergraduate students; involvement with undergraduate students through activities such as advising, project supervision, faculty counseling or advising for student organizations; attracting students to engineering and scientific profession; and the quality of the nomination.

Nomination Details:

The nomination deadline is 31 January.

Nomination Form

Recipients

2024

2024 Recipient of IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award

R. Iris Bahar

For innovative undergraduate teaching and transformative student mentoring that champion inclusivity in engineering and examine societal impacts of technology

2023

Carlotta A. Berry

For contributions to multidisciplinary robotics education and leadership in creating a national platform to diversify STEM

2022

Christopher Rose

For innovations in team-oriented signature design and inspiring women and underrepresented minority students to pursue engineering

2019

Lisa G. Huettel

For leadership in curriculum development as well as teaching and mentoring of undergraduate students in electrical and computer engineering

2018

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

2017

Bonnie Heck Ferri

2016

Terri S. Fiez

2015

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