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Melany Ciampi

COPEC - Science & Education Research Organization

Brazil

Melany Ciampi

Biography

Dr. Melany M. Ciampi is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Currently is the President of World Council on System Engineering and Information Technology (WCSEIT), President of Safety Health and Environment Research Organization (SHERO), President of World Council on Communication and Arts (WCCA), Vice-President of Sciences and Education Research Council (COPEC), Vice- President of Fishing Museum Friends Society (AAMP) and Secretary of Education Society of the IEEE (IEEE-EdSoc). She is also Chair of Intersociety Cooperation Committee of Education Society of the IEEE (IEEE-EdSoc) since 2011, Co-Chair of Working Group "Ingenieurpädagogik im Internationalen Kontext" in IGIP (Internationale Gesellschaft für Ingenieurpädagogik) since 2002, Member of Strategic Planning Committee of Education Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE-EdSoc) since 2009 and Board Member of "Global Council on Manufacturing and Management" (GCMM) since 2004. She is Member of Board of Governors of International Council for Engineering and Technology Education (INTERTECH) since 2000, Member of Board of Governors of Education Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE-EdSoc) since 2000 and Member of Board of Governors of World Council on System Engineering and Information Technology (WCSEIT) since 2012. She was Vice-President of "Internationale Gesellschaft für Ingenieurpädagogik" (IGIP), President of Brazilian Chapter of Education Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE-EdSoc), Member of Executive Committee of IGIP, State Councilor of Brazilian Association for the Advancement of Science (SBPC) and Manager of International Relations of SENAC School of Engineering and Technology. She is a Member of IGIP (International Society for Engineering Education), SEFI (European Society for Engineering Education), ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education), INTERTECH (International Council for Engineering and Technology Education), and RCI (Cartagena Network of Engineering). She was the first American woman Professor to receive the title of "International Engineering Educator" of IGIP. She received numerous honors due to his services to Scientific Commonwealth and Technological Cooperation among them: Award of the International Council on Engineering and Technology Education, Award from the International Council on Engineering and Computer Education, Award of Recognition of International Society for Engineering Education and Medal of Brazilian Association of Civil Engineers. She is a Senior Member of IEEE. She received the IEEE Edwin C. Jones Jr. Meritorious Service Award of 2011. She has over one hundred and fifty published articles in several conferences and journals.

Affiliation(s)

COPEC - Science & Education Research Organization

Brazil

Conferences & Workshops Committee Members

Manuel Castro

National University of Distance Education

Spain

Manuel Castro

Biography

Manuel Castro (M’87–SM’94–F’08) received the Industrial Engineering degree and the Ph.D. degree in engineering from ETSII/Madrid Polytechnic University, Spain.

He was the National University of Distance Education’s (UNED’s) New Technologies Vice-Rector, the UNED’s Information Services Center Director, the Research and Doctorate Vice-Director, the Vice-Director of Academic Affairs with the School of Engineering, UNED, and the Director of the Department. He worked for five years in Digital Equipment Corporation, as a Senior System Engineer. He is currently Full Professor of electronics technology.

Prof. Castro belongs to the organizing committee of the IEEE EDUCON (past-Chair), the IEEE TALE (chair), the IEEE LWMOOCs (past-Chair) and TAEE conferences. He is a past member of the Board of Directors (BoD) of the IEEE, as Division VI Past Director, a member of the Administration Committee and Board of Governors (AdCOM/BoG) from 2005 to 2024, and Past President and President Emeritus of the IEEE Education Society. He is the founder of the IEEE Education Society Spanish Chapter and Past chair, He was a recipient of the Extraordinary Doctoral Award from the UPM and the 1988 Viesgo Doctoral Thesis Award for improving Scientific Research on Industrial Process Electricity Application. He has been world-renowned with several awards, including the 2017 Nikola Tesla Award for Outstanding Achievements in the Field of Engineering Pedagogy, IGIP (International Society for Engineering Education), the.2019 IEEE William E. Sayle Award for Achievement in Education of the IEEE Education Society and the 2022 IEEE EDUNINE 2022 Outstanding Recognition Award in recognition and appreciation of your dedication supporting the IEEEEDUNINE conference and engineering education, IEEE EDUNINE (World EducationEngineering Conference). He is Honor Ambassador of the Madrid Convention Bureau and IEEE HKN Professional member.

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Affiliation(s)

National University of Distance Education

Spain

Claudio da Rocha Brito

COPEC - Science & Education Research Organization

Brazil

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

James Sluss

University of Oklahoma

United States

James Sluss

Biography

James J. Sluss Jr. (Senior Member, IEEE) received a B.S. degree in physics from Marshall University, Huntington, WV, USA, in 1984, and an M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA, in 1986 and 1989, respectively.

He is a Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with the University of Oklahoma (OU), Norman, OK, USA, and has held various administrative roles of increasing responsibility within the OU system, notably serving as the Systemwide Director of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2005 to 2014, leading the School through a period of historic growth. Since 2021, he has been serving as the Interim President of OU-Tulsa.

Dr. Sluss was the recipient of the IEEE Education Society Edwin C. Jones, Jr., Meritorious Service Award in 2008 and the International Engineering Educator Honoris Causa “ING. PAED.IGIP h.c.” by the International Society for Engineering Education “for outstanding contributions in the field of Engineering Education” in 2015. He served on the Frontiers in Education (FIE) Steering Committee from 2012 to 2021, served as the Technical Program Co-Chair for FIE 2007, the General Go-Chair for FIE 2013, and as the FIE Steering Committee Chair from 2018 to 2020. He has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Education Society from 2000 to 2022, serving in several officer positions, including a two-year term as the President from 2015 to 2016. He is in his 39th year of membership in the IEEE and is a member of the IEEE Education Society and the IEEE Communications Society. He is a member of Optica (formerly, Optical Society of America), the International Society for Optics and Photonics, the International Society for Engineering Education, and the American Society of Engineering Education.

Affiliation(s)

University of Oklahoma

United States

María Feldgen

Universidad de Buenos Aires

Argentina

Diana Andone

Director of the eLearning Center

Politehnica University of Timisoara

Romania