Fellow Committee | IEEE Education Society

The Fellow Committee serves as the Fellow Evaluating Committee during the IEEE Fellow nomination and evaluation process.

2023 Highlights:

1/20/23 - invited to chair the Fellows Committee of the IEEE Education Society.
2/6/23 - Appointed to chair, along with 5 committee members
3/22-30/23 - Training for committee
3/23/23 - Chair requested appointment of 2 additional evaluators (5 evaluators are required to move the nominee forward, if any of the current 5 members can not evaluate a candidate (conflict of interest or they are unable to complete their duties) the candidate can not be advanced - therefore to remove this risk, the chair requested appointment of 2 additional evaluators)
March - End - Invaluable assistance and guidance provided the chair by Michael Loui (vice-chair)
3/30/23 - Obtained 2 additional evaluators, invited all evaluators, via the IEEE tool, to evaluate
4/6/23 - Chair sent detailed schedule and instructions to committee members
4/27/23 - Webex committee meeting #1
May/23- Members submitted evaluations into IEEE tool. Narrative created & jointly edited and agreed to by members.
5/27/23 - Evaluations submitted

How did this committee contributed to the Society's Strategic Goals in 2023?
Increase EdSoc Membership - By creating, then fulfilling a membership tier that is valued & prestigious .. and then selecting people for it .. increases the value and enhances the EdSoc brand, which, in turn increases the members.

Fellow Committee Chair

Michael C. Loui

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

United States

4 (Central U.S.)

Fellow Committee Vice Chair

Bruce Wheeler

University of California, San Diego

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

Fellow Committee Members

Okyay Kaynak

Bogazici University

Turkey

8 (Africa, Europe, Middle East)

Laura Bottomley

North Carolina State University

United States

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Laura Bottomley

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Biography

Dr. Laura Bottomley is the Director of Engineering Education and Senior Advisor for Academic Affairs in the College of Engineering at North Carolina State University. She is also a Teaching Associate Professor in the Colleges of Engineering and Education. She has taught every grade K through graduate school and has reached close to 200,000 students. She has received awards from the White House twice with the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics, Science and Engineering Mentoring program. Bottomley is the founding Director of the Engineering Education program at NC State University. She has served in various roles in her professional societies, IEEE and ASEE, for more than thirty years. Bottomley is a Fellow of the American Society of Engineering Educators and a Fellow of IEEE. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1984 and 1985, respectively, and her Ph.D. in electrical engineering from NC State in 1992. She previously worked at Texas Instruments on the GPS system, at AT&T Bell Labs on ISDN standards and at Duke University teaching classes and directing a lab in the electrical engineering department. She has consulted with NASA, Lockheed Martin, Ericsson, IBM, and others.

Bottomley served as Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Education and Editor, Special issue on diversity from 2014-2019. She created a webinar for the IEEE Educational Activities Board (“A Train the Trainer Module for Pre-University Engineering Outreach Programs). She served as the lead author for the tutorial “The Role of Standards in Electrical Power Systems,” through the IEEE Educational Activities Board and IEEE Standards Association.

She represented IEEE on a National Academy of Engineering Committee: Engineering Equity Extension Service, recruitment of women into engineering, from 2007-2008. She also served as a keynote speaker for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, September 2019. She was named an IEEE Fellow, in 2015, for leadership in increasing student interest in STEM education, and she received the IEEE EAB Meritorious Achievement Award in Informal Education in 2009. Bottomley has worked in the field of engineering education for more than 30 years. She is among the pioneers in the field of K-12 engineering outreach, and among the first to apply engineering research approaches to engineering education in the K-20 continuum. She started the Engineering Outreach program at both Duke and NC State Universities, for which work she was recognized by a Presidential Award for Excellence (PAESMEM).

Bottomley also started the Women in Engineering program, and helped bring the percentage of women engineering students from 14% to 33% in 2022. She founded the Engineering Education academic program at NC State, which will offer MS and PhD degrees, as well as a certificate in engineering education with a focus on integrative education for all students, and a particular focus on issues associated with research to practice. Dr. Bottomley has received numerous awards for her work, including being selected as a Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching, Baylor University, 2022 Semi-finalist.

Position Statement:
If elected to the position, what are the candidates plans and how will they help support the IEEE Education Society? I would value the opportunity to serve in this capacity to work together with others to keep the IEEE Education Society moving forward! We have been leaders in the world of professional societies with regards to the scholarship of education. I want to see us stay that way, AND continue to push the frontiers of scholarship around both theory and practice. I also would like to work toward obviating the need to put special attention on issues of inclusion, because we have developed a habit of inclusion in everything that we do. I would also like to continue efforts to link the IEEE Education society with education groups in other professional societies in new and creative ways, not to replace current efforts, but to continue them and expand them!

Affiliation(s)

North Carolina State University

United States

Cynthia J. Finelli

University of Michigan

United States

4 (Central U.S.)

Cynthia Furse

University of Utah and LiveWire Innovation

United States

6 (Western U.S.)

Tony Maciejewski

National Science Foundation and Colorado State University

United States

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Tony Maciejewski

5 (Southwestern U.S.)

Biography

Tony Maciejewski received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1982, 1984, and 1987, respectively, all from Ohio State University. In 1985-86 he was an American Electronics Association Japan Research Fellow at the Hitachi Central Research Laboratory in Tokyo, Japan. From 1988 to 2001 he was a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Purdue University. He is currently a Professor and Department Head of ECE at Colorado State University (CSU) and serves on the ECE Department Head’s Association (ECEDHA) board of directors and is a past president.

Maciejewski's research and teaching interests center on engineering education and on the design and control of kinematically redundant robots, especially for fault-tolerant systems. He has co-authored over 300 publications in journals, books and conferences. His commitment to education resulted in his receiving five teaching awards, including CSU’s “Instructional Innovation Award” and multiple NSF education grants, including the first Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) grant awarded to an ECE Department. The RED project at CSU received the National Society of Professional Engineers – Colorado chapter “Public Project of the Year” award in 2019 and the ECEDHA “Innovative Program” award in 2020.

2023-2024 Treasurer Position Statement:

The IEEE Education Society is the premier organization that focuses on the unique educational needs of the electrical and computer engineering community. I am committed to continually improving the quality of its activities and increasing its impact on the community, and society in general. Some areas that I believe the society should focus on include providing outreach for more student involvement, increasing our collaborations with other related societies, and providing leadership to position the Education Society as a solution to the educational challenges that are of global importance. I believe that IEEE as a whole is currently in a precarious position and must deal with decreasing membership that is due to a relative decline in students pursuing electrical and computer engineering, which is related to an inaccurate perception of our profession by the general public. The Education Society can play a pivotal role in addressing this issue. I have had broad experience with conferences, publications, and student activities, and most importantly, have served multiple terms on the TAB Finance Committee as well as VP for Financial Activities for the R&A Society. I believe that I have illustrated that I have the necessary skills to serve as Treasurer for the Education Society over the last two years, and would like to continue to do so.

Affiliation(s)

National Science Foundation and Colorado State University

United States

Barbara Oakley

Oakland University

United States

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Barbara Oakley

3 (Southeastern U.S.)

Biography

Barbara Oakley, PhD, PE is a Professor of Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan; the Ramón y Cajal Distinguished Scholar of Global Digital Learning at McMaster University; and Coursera’s inaugural “Innovation Instructor.” Her work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. Dr. Oakley’s research has been described as “revolutionary” in the Wall Street Journal—she has published in outlets as varied as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. She has won numerous teaching awards, including the American Society of Engineering Education’s Chester F. Carlson Award for technical innovation in engineering education. Together with Terrence Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute, she co-teaches Coursera – UC San Diego’s “Learning How to Learn,” the world’s most popular massive open online course. Her books include A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra), (Penguin, 2014); Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential (Penguin, 2017); and Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens (Penguin, 2018). Dr. Oakley has adventured widely through her lifetime. She rose from the ranks of Private to Captain in the U.S. Army, during which time she was recognized as a Distinguished Military Scholar. She also worked as a communications expert at the South Pole Station in Antarctica, and has served as a Russian translator on board Soviet trawlers on the Bering Sea. Dr. Oakley is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering.

https://barbaraoakley.com/

Affiliation(s)

Oakland University

United States