Publications Committee | IEEE Education Society

VP for Publications

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

Publications Committee Members

Meriel Huggard

Trinity College Dublin

Ireland

Sorel Reisman

Professor Emeritus

California State University, Fullerton

United States

Martín Llamas Nistal

atlanTTic Research Center, University of Vigo

Spain

Martín Llamas Nistal

Biography

Martín Llamas-Nistal (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in telecommunication from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain, in 1986 and 1994, respectively. He has been a Faculty Member with the Higher Technical School of Telecommunication Engineers, University of Vigo, Spain, since March 1987.

He is the author or a co-author of more than 300 articles in peer-reviewed international refereed journals and conference proceedings. He has directed several national and international research projects in telematics and technology-enhanced learning fields. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, since its founding from 2008 to 2013, where he has been an Associate Editor, since 2014 to 2019.

He has received several awards from the W3C, Highlight Paper in the WWW 2001, and Education Track Best Paper and Conference Best Paper Finalist in the WWW 2002, the 2007 Chapter Achievement Award for the Spanish Chapter as an outstanding model of technical activities, membership services, and professional development in Spain and Latin America, the 2010 Distinguished Chapter Leadership Award, the 2011 IEEE Education Society Chapter Achievement Award, and the IEEE EDUCON 2015 and 2018 Meritorious Service Awards from the IEEE. He was the General Co-Chair of IEEE EDUCON 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2018. He was the Co-Founder of the IEEE Latin-American Learning Technologies Journal (IEEE-RITA), in 2006, and has been the Editor-in- Chief since its founding to July 2021. He has been serving in different positions in the Education Society of the IEEE: member of the Board of Governors, since 2008, member of the Strategic Planning Committee, since 2009, Chair of the Publications Committee, from 2010 to 2018, Vice-President for Publications, from 2011 to 2018, Vice-President for Member and Geographic Activity, from 2019 to 2020, and President-Elect from 2021 to 2022.

Affiliation(s)

atlanTTic Research Center, University of Vigo

Spain

Rebecca Strachan

Northumbria University

United Kingdom

Susan M. Lord

University of San Diego

United States

Susan M. Lord

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

James Harland

RMIT University

Australia

Editor-in-Chief (ToE)

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.

Affiliation(s)

University College London

United Kingdom

Editor-in-Chief (IEEE TLT)

Minjuan Wang

Professor of Learning Design and Tech

San Diego State University

United States

Editor-in-Chief (IEEE RITA)

Carina Soledad González

Professor

Universidad de La Laguna

Spain