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TC-ILE Chair

TC-ILE Vice-Chairs

Secretary

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Junior Executive Board Member

Scientific Co-Chairs

Industrial Liaison Europe Co-Chair

Industrial Liaison America Co-Chair

Industrial Liaison Middle East Co-Chair

Publication Liason Co-Chair

Arnold Pears

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Arnold Pears

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Biography

Dr. Pears is Professor, and head of the Department of Learning in Engineering Sciences at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He leads research in Engineering Education and Computing in Schools and is a director of the CeTUSS Swedish National Center for Student and Societally Relevant Engineering Education. He has previously served as Chair of the Strategic Advisory Board of the Uppsala University Center for STEM Higher Education Research, and member of the Uppsala University Academic Senate and pedagogical advisory board to the Faculty of Science and Technology.

Arnold received his BSc(Hons) and PhD from La Trobe University, AUSTRALIA. Arnold is an IEEE Senior Member, Computer Society Golden Core Member(2012), receiving the Schmitz Award (2012) for services to the FIE conference. He has published more than 100 articles in major conferences and journals and has served as conference and program committee chair for many major conferences under the auspices of the IEEE and ACM. For more information https://www.kth.se/profile/pears/

2023-2024 President-Elect Position Statement:
If elected I will use my extensive experience as STEM researcher and departmental leader to make significant contributions to policies, initiatives and curricula and pedagogical standards through the IEEE Education Society. Thought leadership is central to our goal to improve our professional support for students and professionals both through education and after graduation. I offer my services to the community in the pursuit of these goals.

The IEEE Education Society is dedicated to enhancing education in all areas of engineering and increasing the accessibility and relevance of engineering for future generations of young people. Ours is a society of volunteers, with volunteers, for volunteers. Understanding how to increase the relevance of membership is a key current challenge. I will implement a process of innovation to understand and improve the types of support our community gives to education and or profession. Supporting our members in their professional lives is vital to our continued success. I will work toward enhancing the relevance and appeal of the Education Society around the globe.

Affiliation(s)

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Sweden

Standards Liason Co-Chairs

Leonel Morgado

Universidade Aberta & INESC TEC

Portugal

Hamadou Saliah-Hassane

IEEE Involvement: TAB CoS, TAB CoS Education, IEEE LTSC - IEEE Climate Change /:Engagement Team

TÉLUQ University and Florida Atlantic University (FAU)

Canada

7 (Canada)

Hamadou Saliah-Hassane

7 (Canada)

Biography

Professor Saliah-Hassane holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, a Bachelor's degree and a Master of Applied Science degree from École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada. He has just retired as a full professor from TELUQ University in Montreal where he taught Computer Science and Computer Networks and Security. He was also the Head of the Electrical Engineering Department at the École des mines, de l'industrie et de la géologie (EMIG), an engineering school of the former Economic Community of West Africa (WAEC/CEAO) (1989-1991). He is now an Associate Professor in some other universities including University Abdou Moumouni in Niger and an Affiliate Professor at Florida Atlantic University in the USA. His research interests include intelligent distributed systems and mobile robotics. Professor Saliah-Hassane has chaired the Montreal IEEE Education Society Chapter (2005- 2022). He was the Past Chair of the IEEE Education Society Standards Committee (2010 - 2021) and the Past Chair of the Working Group of the joint standardization activity on "Secure and Trusted Learning Systems" (2019 -2021) sponsored by the IEEE Education Society, the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IES), and the IEEE Computer Society Learning Technology Standards Committee (CS/LTSC).
Professor Saliah-Hassane has received many awards in recognition of his achievements, including the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of Engineering Institutions (LACCEI) 2024 Medal of Academic Merit and the IEEE Education Society EdWin C. Jones, Jr. Meritorious Service Award (2019). And, consistent with his work in distributed embedded systems, the IEEE Standards Association's award with recognition for chairing and contributing to the development of IEEE Standard 1876™ - 2019 on "Networked Smart Learning Objects for Online Laboratories" (2019), the IEEE SA 2019 Emerging Technology Award to the IEEE SA 1876™ - 2019 Working Group.

Affiliation(s)

IEEE Involvement: TAB CoS, TAB CoS Education, IEEE LTSC - IEEE Climate Change /:Engagement Team

TÉLUQ University and Florida Atlantic University (FAU)

Canada

Mark J. W. Lee

Charles Sturt University

Australia

Mark J. W. Lee

Biography

Mark J. W. Lee is Executive Vice President and Chief Research Officer with the Immersive Learning Research Network. He is an educational technology and learning sciences academic who divides his time between Australia, where he is an adjunct senior lecturer with the School of Education at Charles Sturt University and the USA. Until recently, he was visiting faculty at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center. Previously, he worked in a variety of teaching, instructional design, and managerial roles at various private higher education and vocational education institutions. He has published widely in the areas of educational technology, e-learning, and pedagogical innovation, with 75 peer-reviewed papers, articles, and chapters to his name.

Mark is well known for his scholarship in the immersive learning arena. Together with his colleague Barney Dalgarno, he authored the article “What are the learning affordances of 3-D virtual environments?” (British Journal of Educational Technology, 2010), which has been cited over 800 times as of April 2018, according to Google Scholar. With Sue Gregory, Barney Dalgarno, and Belinda Tynan, he co-edited two book volumes relevant to immersive learning, Learning in virtual worlds: Research and applications (Athabasca University Press, 2016) and Virtual worlds for online learning: Cases and Applications (Nova Science Publishers, 2015). Of late, Mark has been investigating immersive ways of bringing together co-located and geographically dispersed learners to jointly undertake “blended synchronous” collaborative activities in real-time, and exploring how wearable augmented reality and other emerging mixed-reality technologies can be harnessed to create engaging learning experiences that combine aspects of the real and virtual worlds.

In addition to his role on the iLRN Board of Directors, Mark holds a number of other positions of leadership within the scholarly and professional communities with an interest in immersive learning. These include Global Co-Chair of the AR/VR Association’s University Committee, Chair of the IEEE IC Industry Consortium on Learning Engineering (ICICLE) Special Interest Group on XR for Learning and Performance Augmentation, and Chair of the FLEXspace Working Group on Research and Evaluation of Technology-Enabled Learning Spaces. Mark also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Education and Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, and on the boards of seven other leading international journals. Mark was previously Editor-in-Chief of MERLOT’s Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) for several years leading up to its merger with the Online Learning Consortium’s journal, Online Learning.

In 2016, Mark was named a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) for his distinguished contributions to ICT education and the use of ICT for education. He is also a Fellow of the Commercial Education Society of Australia (CESA), of the Australian Institute of Training and Development (AITD), and of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA); an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Managers and Leaders (IML); and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Affiliation(s)

Charles Sturt University

Australia

Immersive Learning Research Network

United States

TC-ILE Chair

Andreas Dengel

TC-ILE Vice-Chairs

Melanie Platz

Minjuan Wang

Secretary

Elected Board Members

Daphne Economou

Anasol Peña-Rios

Heather Dodds

Christian Eckhardt

Junior Executive Board Member

Katya Alvarez-Molina

Scientific Co-Chairs

Dennis Beck

Tassos Anastasios Mikropoulos

Daphne Economou

Industrial Liaison Europe Co-Chair

Anasol Peña-Rios

Industrial Liaison America Co-Chair

Heather Dodds

Industrial Liaison Middle East Co-Chair

Elhanan Gazit

Publication Liason Co-Chair

Arnold Pears

Standards Liason Co-Chairs

Leonel Morgado

Hamadou Saliah-Hassane

Mark J. W. Lee

Publicity Co-Chairs

Lea M Mueller

Alexander Steinmaurer

Filipe Penicheiro