Eligibility:
Must be a member of the IEEE Education Society.
Basis for Judging:
Dedication, effort and contributions.
Presentation:
During the Opening Ceremony of the annual IEEE EDUCON Conference.
2010 recipient is Dr. Russell D. Meier for the outstanding contributions to the administrative and management efforts for the IEEE EDUCON conference.
Best Paper Awards
Best Paper Awards are appointed in the
following categories:
Infrastructure and Technologies for Engineering Education
Innovative Materials, Teaching and Learning Experiences in
Engineering Education
Knowledge and Competencies in Engineering
Educational Methods and Learning Mechanisms in Engineering
Education
Attracting, Engaging and Retaining Human Talent to Engineering
and furthermore:
Best Student Paper
Most Innovative Paper regarding Engineering Education
Prize:
Certificate.
Eligibility:
Authors of accepted submissions of the IEEE EDUCON Conference.
Basis for Judging:
Review results and voting of the session chairs especially considering
the
quality, originality, and attractiveness of the presentation.
Presentation:
During the Closing Ceremony of the annual IEEE EDUCON Conference.
Area 1: Infrastructure and Technologies for Engineering Education
Co-Award: Ranking Learner Collaboration according to their Interactions. Antonio R. Anaya and Jesús G. Boticario. Spanish University for Distance Education-UNED (Spain). Presenter: Antonio R. Anaya.
Co-Award: Three Online Neutron Beam Experiments Based on the iLab Shared Architecture. Kimberly DeLong, Judson Harward, Philip Bailey, James Hardison, Gordon Kohse and Yakov Ostrocsky. Massachusetts Institute of Technology-MIT (United States of America). Presenter: Kimberly DeLong.
Area 2: Innovative Materials, Teaching and Learning Experiences in Engineering Education
Award: Wireless4x4: an integrating learning experience for Telecommunications students. Carlos Figuera, Eduardo Morgado, David Gutiérrez-Pérez, Felipe Alonso-Atienza and Eduardo del Arco Fernández-Cano. University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain. Presenter: Carlos Figuera.
Commendation: Development of a Wiimote-based gesture recognizer in a microprocessor laboratory course. Alberto Lorente-Leal, Jose Angel Fernandez-Rodrigues and Juan M. Montero. Technical University of Madrid-UPM (Spain). Presenter: Juan M. Montero.
Area 3: Knowledge and Competencies in Engineering
Award: Student Internship Placements. Improving the quality of engineering internship programs. Rafael García-Campos and Jordi Puig-i-Bosch. University of Girona (Spain). Presenter: Rafael García-Campos.
Commendation: Development of a Small Radio Telescope at the Technical University of Cartagena. José Luis Gómez-Tornero, David Cañete-Rebenaque, Fernando Daniel Quesada-Pereira and Alejandro Álvarez-Melcon. Technical University of Cartagena-UPCT (Spain). Presenter: José Luis Gómez-Tornero.
Area 4: Educational Methods and Learning Mechanisms in Engineering Education
Award: Ensure Program Quality: Assessment A Necessity. Mudasser F. Wyne. National University (United States of America). Presenter: Mudasser F. Wyne.
Commendation: Bringing the everyday life into engineering education. Gert Pasman and Ingrid Mulder. Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands). Presenter: Gert Pasman.
Area 5: Attracting, Engaging and Retaining Human Talent to Engineering
Award: SPIRIT - A Life-Cycle Based Gender Mainstreaming Concept at the University of Stuttgart. Barbara Burr, Peter Göhner, Wolfram Ressel, Wolfgang Schlicht and Sabina Jeschke. RWTH Aachen Universit (Germany);University of Stuttgart (Germany). Presenter: Barbara Burr.
Most Innovative Paper regarding Engineering Education
Award: Game-based learning in technology management education. Markus Günther, Elmar Kiesling and Christian Stummer. University of Vienna (Austria). Presenter: Markus Günther.
Best Student Paper
Co-Award: A context for programming learning based on research communities. Scheila Wesley Martins, António Dias Figueiredo and António José Nunes Mendes. University of Coimbra (Portugal). Student Presenter: Scheila Wesley Martins.
Co-Award: Web 2.0 contents for connecting learners in online Learning Network. Rob Koper, Slavi Stoyanov and Danish Nadeem. CELSTEC - Open University of Netherlands (The Netherlands). Student Presenter: Danish Nadeem.
Co-Award: Filling the gap of Information Security Management inside ITIL®: proposals for posgraduate students. Manuel Alonso Castro-Gil, Gabriel Díaz, Jesús M. Minguet, Elena Ruiz and Alfonso Vara. Spanish University for Distance Education-UNED (Spain). Student Presenter: Elena Ruiz
2010 recipients of the Best Paper Award