Awards Committee | IEEE Education Society

The Awards Committee shall be responsible for recommending various forms of recognition for noteworthy contributions to the fields of interest to the Society. This committee shall be responsible for administering the Society’s awards programs and shall also see that deserving members are nominated for awards and prizes administered by the IEEE and other relevant organizations.

At least one-half of the members of the Awards Committee shall hold Fellow or Senior Member grade. The committee Chair may appoint sub-committees for individual Society awards, as well as representatives to committees involved in the selection of other awards in which the Society participates. Nominations for Society awards shall be considered annually, although awards need not be made annually.

The Awards Committee’s decisions are final and need not be ratified by the Board of Governors. The committee shall review the Society’s awards from time-to-time, and may propose modifications to existing society awards, as well as additional Society awards, subject to approval by the Board of Governors and the IEEE TAB.

The Awards Committee Chair shall prepare an annual report covering all of the awards activities. The Chair of this committee shall report to the Vice President for Educational Activities and Awards.

Awards Committee Chair

Russ Meier

Milwaukee School of Engineering

United States

Award Policy Committee Member

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

IEEE William E. Sayle II Award for Achievement in Education Award Subcommittee Chair

Elio San Cristobal Ruiz

National University of Distance Education

Spain

Chapter Achievement Award Subcommittee Chair

Distinguished Member Award Subcommittee Chair

Ted Batchman

University of Nevada

United States

David A. Conner

University of Alabama

United States

Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award Subcommittee Chair

Edwin C. Jones Jr. Meritorious Service Award Subcommittee Chair

Oscar Bonastre

Miguel Hernández University

Spain

Oscar Bonastre

Biography

Oscar M Bonastre has a Ph.D. in Telecommunications Engineering from the University Politécnica de Valencia, Spain, B.S., and M.S in Computer Engineering from the University of Alicante, Spain. He has more than 25 years of background in academia and industry. He is with the University Miguel Hernandez, Spain, since the year of its foundation in 1997. Dr. Bonastre was appointed 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 the advanced distributed systems. Dr. Bonastre has given a long time of service to IEEE since he joined in 1997. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, IEEE-HKN, IEEE Communications Society, IEEE Education Society and has been Chair of IEEE Spain Section. Since more than a decade, he is with the Board of Directors of Education Chapter Spain Section and, during his period of presidency 2020-2021 at Education Chapter, organized and promoted numerous events about the use of technologies to support Engineering Education. As well he has given voluntary services to the IEEE Education Society, he was Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Education from 2010 – 2012. He has served for the Steering Committees of IEEE Transactions on Education and IEEE RITA (Revista Iberoamericana Tecnologías del Aprendizaje) and Co-EiC of TICAI, a journal supported by the IEEE Education Chapter of Portugal and Spain. Dr. Bonastre was the recipient of IEEE Edwin C. Jones, Jr. Meritorious Service Award 2020 and was a member of IEEE Region 8 Educational Activities Subcommittee (EASC) from 2015-16. In 2017, he participated as a developer and instructor for the First MOOC of the IEEE Education Society delivered through IEEEx (using edX platform) to more than 2,000 worldwide students. During 2018-2019, Dr. Bonastre was the Vice President of the Chapter of the IEEE Education Society in the Spain Section of the IEEE Region 8. Dr. Bonastre was the Counselor (Founder) of Student Branch (SB) Miguel Hernandez University created in 2012. Under his leadership, the SB received the recognitions IEEE Region 8 Exemplary Student Branch Award 2018, Exemplary Student Branch Award IEEE Spain Years 2014-15-17. Dr. Bonastre has given keynotes for promoting engineering and research to the next generation of scientists. He was one of the first starters of Doctoral Consortiums in several conferences inside IEEE Education Society as well as inside IEEE Computer Society, like chair them in the International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation in 2016 in Madrid, Spain, as well as in the IEEE International Conferences on Advanced Learning Technologies – ICALT 2009 (Riga, Latvia) and ICALT 2010 (Sousse, Tunisia). For volunteers working on those doctoral activities, he received the award recognition of best organizer at Doctoral Consortium ICALT 2009. Dr. Bonastre is an expert evaluator for the European Commission and research agencies across Europe. His research has focused on the areas of development of the Internet, among others. More Activities-Awards, Offices Held, Committee Memberships are online available at https://ieeer8.org/people/oscar

Affiliation(s)

Miguel Hernández University

Spain

Mac Van Valkenburg Award Subcommittee Chair

S. Hossein Mousavinezhad

Idaho State University

United States

Student Leadership Award Chair

Transactions on Education Best Paper Award Subcommittee Chair

John E. Mitchell

University College London

United Kingdom

John E. Mitchell

Biography

Professor John Mitchell received a BEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the Department of Electronic Engineering, University College London in 1996, and PhD in 2000.

John E. Mitchell is a Professor of Communications Systems Engineering in the UCL Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering and Vice-Dean Education in the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences. His research is focused on optical and wireless access systems, considering optical fibre access, millimeter-wave radio access, as well as systems that combine these two areas, specifically to support mobile front/back haul systems. This work has been funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the European Union (FP7, Marie-Curie), the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) and industry (including BT and SELEX ES). Between 2012 and 2016 he was on secondment to the UCL Engineering Sciences Faculty office, where he lead the introduction of the Integrated Engineering Programme. The team that led this major revision of the curriculum across the engineering faculty has recently been awarded the HEA Collaborative Award for Teaching Excellence (CATE). In 2009, he was awarded the UCL Provost's award for teaching and has published on curriculum development with engineering education. Professor Mitchell is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member of the Board of Directors of the European Society for Engineering Education and Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Affiliation(s)

University College London

United Kingdom