Awards

EDUCON Meritorious Service Award

• Prize: Plaque and Certificate.
• Funding: Funded by the EDUCON Steering Committee.
• 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.             

2011 recipients are Dr. Edmundo Tovar and Dr. Manuel Castro for 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:

• Educational Methods and Learning Mechanisms in Engineering Education
• Learning in Transition and Engineering Education Ecosystems
• Infrastructure and Technologies for Engineering Education
• Innovative Materials, Teaching and Learning Experiences in Engineering Education
• Excellence in Engineering Education
• Knowledge and Competencies in Engineering Education

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.

• 2011 recipients of the Best Paper Award
• Area 1: Educational Methods and Learning Mechanisms in Engineering Education
• Award: eLearning Demands from the Perspective of Students and their Attitudes Towards It. Petra Poulova. University of Hradec Králové, (Czech Republic). Presenter: Petra Poulova
• Area 2: Learning in Transition and Engineering Education Ecosystems
• Award: Social Media in Higher Education. Kirsi Silius, Meri Kailanto and Anne-Maritta Tervakari. Tampere University of Technology, (Finland). Presenter: Kailanto, Meri.
• Area 3: Infrastructure and Technologies for Engineering Education
• Award: Improving e-Learning with Sentiment Analysis of Users’ Opinions. Zied Kechaou. ENIS, (Tunisia). Presenter: Zied Kechaou.
• Area 4: Innovative Materials, Teaching and Learning Experiences in Engineering Education
• Award: An Experience of Educational Innovation for the Collaborative Learning in Software Engineering. Juan C. Yelmo and Juan Fernández. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, (Spain). Presenter: Juan C. Yelmo.
• Area 5: Excellence in Engineering Education
• Award: Cooperative Problem based Learning (CPBL): A Practical PBL Model for Engineering Courses. Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof, Syed Ahmad Helmi Syed Hassan, Mohammad-Zamry Jamaludin and Nor-Farida Harun. Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, (Malaysia). Presenter: Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof.
• Area 6: Knowledge and Competencies in Engineering Education
• Award: Robotics: Its Effectiveness as a Tool to Teach Engineering Design and Computer Programming. Beena Ahmed and Karawan Alsaleh. Texas A&M University at Qatar, (Qatar). Presenter: Karawan Alsaleh.
• Most Innovative Paper regarding Engineering Education
• Award: Platform for E-Learning and Telemetric Experimentation (PeTEX). Tele-Operated Laboratories for Production Engineering Education. Claudius Terkowsky, Christian Pleul, Isa Jahnke and A. Erman Tekkaya. TU Dortmund University, (Germany). Presenter: Claudius Terkowsky.
• Best Student Paper
• Award: The Rise of Student-to-Student Learning: Youth-Led Programs Impacting Engineering Education Globally. Julian O'Shea and David A. Delaine. Engineers Without Borders, (Australia). Student Presenter: Julian O'Shea.
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