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2005 IEEE Education Society Awards andFrontiers in Education Conference Awards

Joseph L. A. Hughes, Vice-President and Awards Committee ChairIEEE Education Society

EACH year at the Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference,awards are presented to recognize the contributions of

many engineering educators. In addition to awards for contri-butions to the conference, awards are presented by the threeFIE cosponsors: the Educational Research and Methods (ERM)Division of the American Society for Engineering Education(ASEE), the IEEE Computer Society, and the IEEE EducationSociety.

This paper lists the award recipients recognized at FIE 2005,Indianapolis, IN, October 20–23, along with their award cita-tions and brief biographical sketches. Similar information forthe 2003 and 2004 recipients was published recently, along withlistings of the names of earlier recipients [1].

The 2006 awards will be presented at the Frontiers in Educa-tion Conference, San Diego, CA, October 28–31. Additional in-formation about the IEEE Education Society awards is availableon the Society’s website (http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/).

I. IEEE EDUCATION SOCIETY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

THE 2005 IEEE Education Society Achievement Awardwas presented to H. Vincent Poor, “for outstanding con-

tributions to engineering education.”

H. Vincent Poor (S’72–M’77–SM’82–F’87) waseducated at Auburn University, Auburn, AL, and atPrinceton University, Princeton, NJ, where he receivedthe Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and com-puter science in 1977.

From 1977, prior to joining the Princeton faculty in1990, he was on the faculty of the University of Illinoisat Urbana–Champaign. He has also held visiting ap-pointments at a number of other universities, includingrecent ones at Imperial College, Stanford University,and Harvard University. He is the George Van NessLothrop Professor in Engineering at Princeton Univer-

sity, Princeton, NJ, where he is engaged in teaching and research in wirelesscommunications and related fields. He is also the founding Director of thePrinceton Center for Innovation in Engineering Education. He is known asa gifted teacher and mentor of students at both undergraduate and graduatelevels. In recent years, he has developed an undergraduate course titled TheWireless Revolution, which uses the paradigm of wireless technology to teachstudents from all academic backgrounds about the social, political, economicand technical aspects of high technology. This course has become one of thelargest and most diverse courses offered at Princeton, and the model has beenemulated at other leading universities. He is also known for his pioneeringresearch in the fields of communications and signal processing. He is the authorof more 600 research publications, including eight books. He is also the authorof the widely used graduate textbook An Introduction to Signal Detection andEstimation, for which he received the ASEE Terman Award in 1992.

Dr. Poor received other recent awards in recognition of his educational con-tributions, which include the 2001 IEEE Graduate Teaching Award, the 2002NSF Director’s Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars, the 2003 Princeton

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SEAS Distinguished Teacher Award, the 2004 IEEE EAB Major Educational In-novation Award, and the 2005 IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr., Education Medal.In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the ASEE. He is a member of the Na-tional Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts & Sciencesand is Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the Optical Society ofAmerica, and other learned societies.

II. IEEE EDUCATION SOCIETY DISTINGUISHED

MEMBER AWARD

The IEEE Education Society Distinguished Member Awardwas presented for the first time in 2005. The two initial recip-ients were Marion O. Hagler, “for outstanding service to theEducation Society as an officer and society president, for ser-vice to IEEE and the profession, and for significant contribu-tions in electrical and computer engineering education,” andBurks Oakley II, “for more than ten years of outstanding ser-vice to the Education Society and for significant contributionsin computer-assisted and online engineering education.”

Marion O. Hagler (S’61–M’72–SM’79–F’80–LF’05) received the B.A. and B.S.E.E. degrees fromRice University, Houston, TX, in 1962 and 1963,respectively, and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees fromthe University of Texas, Austin, in 1964 and 1967,respectively.

He previously was P. W. Horn Professor of Electricaland Computer Engineering and Senior Associate Deanof the College of Engineering at Texas Tech University,Lubbock. Currently, he is Professor of electrical andcomputer engineering at Mississippi State University

and holds the Robert D. Guyton Chair in Teaching Excellence. From 1995 to1996, he was the Kyushu Electric Power Company Visiting Professor in the De-partment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Kumamoto Uni-versity, Kumamoto, Japan.

Dr. Hagler is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the Society forDesign and Process Science. He has a distinguished record of service to theEducation Society, having served as both a member of the Administrative Com-mittee and as President. He has been Chair of the IEEE Awards Board, Chair ofthe Life Long Learning Council of the IEEE Educational Activities Board, andChair of the Electronic Products and Services Committee, a joint committee ofthe IEEE Technical Activities Board and the IEEE Publications, Products, andServices Board. He also served as President of the National Electrical Engi-neering Department Heads Association and as Chair of the Steering Committeefor the Frontiers in Education Conference. He served as the Guest Editor for theAugust 1996 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON EDUCATION Special Issue on the Appli-cation of Information Technologies to Engineering and Science Education.

Burks Oakley II (M’81–SM’89–F’98) received theB.S. degree from Northwestern University, Evanston,IL, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Universityof Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is Associate Vice-Presi-dent for the University of Illinois and Director of theUniversity of Illinois Online. He also is a Professorin the Department of Electrical and Computer Engi-neering at the University of Illinois—Urbana–Cham-paign (UIUC). Through his innovative use of tech-nology in teaching, he has earned a national reputationas a practitioner and promoter of online education.

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In the past six years, he has given more than 200 invited talks at national confer-ences and on university campuses. His other major projects include the IllinoisOnline Network and the Illinois Virtual Campus.

Dr. Oakley is a Fellow of the ASEE and a former Vice-President of ASEE.He was a Program Co-Chair for the FIE conferences in 1997 and 2002, andhe initiated the FIE New Faculty Fellows program in 1997. He has receivednumerous awards for his teaching and innovative use of technology in edu-cation, including the Luckman Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Awardfrom UIUC in 1993, the Outstanding Teacher Award from the ASEE IL/IN Sec-tion in 1993, the Benjamin Dasher Award from the FIE in 1994, the Helen PlantsAward from the FIE in 1995, the Educom Medal in 1996, the IEEE EducationalActivities Board Major Educational Innovation Award in 1996, the MeritoriousService Award from the IEEE Education Society in 1998, and the IEEE ThirdMillennium Medal in 2000.

III. IEEE EDUCATION SOCIETY MAC VAN VALKENBURG

EARLY CAREER TEACHING AWARD

The 2005 IEEE Education Society Mac Van Valkenburg EarlyCareer Teaching Award was presented to John R. Buck, “for out-standing contributions to electrical and computer engineeringeducation, including inspirational classroom teaching and thedevelopment of exemplary educational materials.”

John R. Buck received the S.B. degrees in electricalengineering and humanities (English literature) fromthe Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),Cambridge, in 1989, and the S.M., E.E., and Ph.D.degrees from the MIT/Woods Hole OceanographicInstitution (WHOI) Joint Program in Ocean andElectrical Engineering in 1991, 1992, and 1996,respectively.

He currently holds a joint appointment at the Uni-versity of Massachusetts at Dartmouth as an Asso-ciate Professor in the Department of Electrical and

Computer Engineering and in the School for Marine Science and Technology.He spent 2003–2004 in Australia as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, hosted by theDefence Science and Technology Organisation and Sydney University. His re-search interests include signal processing, underwater acoustics, and marinemammal bioacoustics. His textbook publications include Discrete-Time SignalProcessing (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999, 2nd ed.), coauthoredby Oppenheim and Schafer, and Computer Explorations in Signals and SystemsUsing Matlab™ (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2001, 2nd ed.), coau-thored with Daniel and Singer. In addition to publications in scientific journals,his research has been the subject of reports on National Public Radio’s MorningEdition, New Scientist, Discovery Magazine, and the Australian BroadcastingCorporation’s Radio National Science Show.

Dr. Buck has received research awards, which include an ONR Young Inves-tigator award in 2000 and a NSF CAREER award in 1998. As a graduate in-structor, he received the MIT EECS Department’s Carlton E. Tucker TeachingAward in 1991 and the Goodwin Medal, MIT’s highest honor for teaching by agraduate student, in 1994.

IV. IEEE EDUCATION SOCIETY MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD

The 2005 IEEE Education Society Meritorious ServiceAward was presented to J. David Irwin, “for meritorious ser-vice to the Education Society, for leadership as president, andfor mentoring many members of the society,” and to Rodney J.Soukup, “for meritorious service to the Education Society, forservice as treasurer, and for mentoring many members of thesociety.”

J. David Irwin (S’60–M’63–SM’71–F’82–LF’05) isthe Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar and Depart-ment Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering atAuburn University, Auburn, AL. He has served in anumber of education-related positions, including Chairof both the Southeastern Association of Electrical En-gineering Department Heads and the Electrical Engi-neering Department Heads Association (the forerunnerto NEEDHA and ECEDHA). He is the author or coau-thor of a number of publications that serve the edu-cation community, including 16 textbooks that span a

wide spectrum of engineering subjects. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of a largehandbook.

Dr. Irwin is a Fellow of ASEE. He has served as President of the IEEEEducation Society, an IEEE visitor for ABET accreditation teams, a memberof the IEEE Educational Activities Board, Accreditation Coordinator for IEEE,a member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE Press, and a member of theIEEE Education Society’s McGraw-Hill/Jacob Millman Award Committee.He is currently Vice-President and member of the Board of Governors of EtaKappa Nu, the ECE Honor Society, and Chair of the IEEE Undergraduate andGraduate Teaching Award Committee. His awards include the IEEE RegionIII Outstanding Engineering Educator, a Meritorious Service Citation from theIEEE Educational Activities Board, the IEEE Education Society’s Achieve-ment Award, the IEEE Education Society’s McGraw-Hill/Jacob MillmanAward, the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award, and the American Societyfor Engineering Education ECE Distinguished Educator Award.

Rodney J. Soukup (M’73–SM’79–F’94) received theB.S., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. degrees from the Universityof Minnesota—Twin Cities, Minneapolis.

After receiving the Ph.D. degree in 1969, he joinedSperry Rand Univac, St. Paul, MN, where he workedfor three years on thin-film hybrid microelectronic cir-cuits and thin-film devices. He began his academic ca-reer in 1972 at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, asan Assistant Professor. In 1976, he joined the Univer-sity of Nebraska—Lincoln as an Associate Professor,where he was promoted to Professor in 1980.

He became Department Chairman in 1978, a position he held untilJune 30, 2000. He is currently the Henson Professor of Electrical Engi-neering, an honor he received on July 1, 1998. His current research interests arein thin-film semiconductor alloys (Si–Ge, Ge–C, Si–C–Ge) for solar cells andother electrooptic applications and BaSrTiO for tunable antenna applications,all deposited using a unique hollow cathode deposition technique.

Dr. Soukup is a past President of the National Electrical Engineering Depart-ment Heads Association (NEEDHA, now ECEDHA) and of the Central StatesElectrical Engineering Department Heads Association (CSEEDHA) and pastChairman of the IEEE Education Society Millman Awards Committee and ofthe ASEE Terman Awards Committee. He was also an Accrediting Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) reviewer. In 1998, he won the NEEDHAOutstanding Service Award and, in 2000, the CSEEDHA Outstanding ServiceAward. He was elected Treasurer of the IEEE Education Society in 1998 andre-elected the following five years. Prior to that, he was appointed as a memberof the IEEE Education Society Administrative Committee in 1991 and electedto a three-year term in 1992. Additional IEEE activities include being a repre-sentative of the IEEE Education Society to the IEEE Defense R&D Committeein 1988 and serving as a member of the IEEE Educational Activities Board in1991 to 1992.

V. IEEE EDUCATION SOCIETY IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON

EDUCATION BEST PAPER AWARD

The 2005 IEEE Education Society IEEE TRANSACTIONS

ON EDUCATION Best Paper Award was presented to Antonio J.Lopez-Martin, for the paper “Teaching Random Signals andNoise: An Experimental Approach,” IEEE Trans. Educ., vol.47, no. 2, May 2004, pp. 174–179.

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Antonio J. Lopez-Martin (M’04) received the M.S.and Ph.D. (hons.) degrees in electrical engineeringfrom the Public University of Navarra, Pamplona,Spain, in 1995 and 1999, respectively.

He has been visiting professor with the NewMexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, and in-vited researcher with the Swiss Federal Institute ofTechnology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland. Since 2003,he has been an Associate Professor with the PublicUniversity of Navarra and Adjunct Professor with theNew Mexico State University. He has also served as

Computer Systems Technologist for the Public University of Navarra since1998. His research interests include mixed-signal VLSI, analog and digitalsignal processing, communication systems, and innovation in engineeringeducation. He has authored a textbook (in Spanish) on communication systemsand has more than 150 peer-reviewed contributions in books, journals, andconferences, some of them ranked among the top 100 most accessed docu-ments for the month in IEEE Xplore. He holds two international patents onelectronic coin selectors, leads various research projects, and is consultant forlocal companies. He has been leading a project aimed to the development ofsoftware tools for distance learning at the Public University of Navarra from2002 to 2004 and has created educational software currently in use in variousuniversities worldwide.

Dr. Lopez-Martin is currently serving on various technical program commit-tees, is reviewer for seven IEEE publications, and is program evaluator for theSpanish National Research Agency (ANEP). His recent awards include an Out-standing Service Award of the New Mexico State University in 2002 in appreci-ation for excellence in teaching, research, and contribution in the VLSI program,and the 2004 Award of the European Center of Industry and Innovation (CEIN)for excellence in transfer of research results to industry.

VI. FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE BENJAMIN J.DASHER BEST PAPER AWARD

The Frontiers in Education Conference Benjamin J. DasherBest Paper Award was presented to Matthew W. Ohland, GuiliZhang, Brian Thorndyke, and Tim Anderson for their paper“Grade-Point Average, Changes of Major, and Majors Selectedby Students Leaving Engineering,” presented at FIE 2004,Savannah, GA, October 20–23, 2004, Session T1G.

Matthew W. Ohland (AF’03) received the B.A. de-gree in religion and the B.S. degree in engineeringfrom Swarthmore College, Swathmore, PA, in 1989,the M.S. degree in mechanical engineering and theM.S. degree in materials engineering from RensselaerPolytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1991 and 1992, re-spectively, and the Ph.D. degree in civil engineeringwith a graduate minor in education from the Univer-sity of Florida, Gainesville, in 1996.

Formerly, he was Assistant Director of the NSF-sponsored SUCCEED engineering education coalition

and an NSF Postdoctoral Fellow. Currently, he is an Associate Professor inthe general engineering program of Clemson University, Clemson, SC, and thenational President of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society. He studies ex-clusively engineering education and has extensive experience managing collab-orative projects and educational experiments as Principal or Co-Principal Inves-tigator of more than $5 million in research. His current projects include studyingengineering student development using a longitudinal database, designing a peerevaluation instrument, and using of active, and collaborative learning in staticsand dynamics.

Guili Zhang received the B.A. degree in British andAmerican language and literature from Shandong Uni-versity, China, and the Master’s of Education degreefrom Georgia Southern University, Statesboro. She iscurrently working toward the Ph.D. degree in researchand evaluation methodology at the Department ofEducational Psychology, the University of Florida,Gainesville.

She served as a Staff Development Specialist andResearcher at Jinan District Education Commission,China, and took part in the writing and revision of the

National Unified Text Books and Teacher’s Reference Books.

Ms. Zhang has published extensively and won numerous awards at the na-tional level in the area of educational research in China. She is currently thestatistician for the Southeastern Universities and Colleges Coalition for Engi-neering Education (SUCCEED). Her research team won the Best Paper Awardby the American Society for Engineering Education in 2003.

Brian Thorndyke received the B.S. and M.Sc. degreesin physics from the University of Montreal, Montreal,QC, Canada, the M.S. degree in computer and informa-tion science and the Ph.D. degree in chemical physicsfrom the University of Florida, Gainesville, in whichhe studied the interplay between classical and quantumdynamics in small molecule collisions.

Previously, he worked at the University of Floridaon the maintenance and statistical analysis of theSoutheastern University and College Coalition forEngineering Education (SUCCEED) longitudinal

database. Currently, he is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of RadiationOncology at Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA. His currentresearch interests include aspects of both imaging and treatment planning inradiation therapy, involving the development of novel algorithms for PET/CTimage acquisition and stereotactic radiosurgery.

Tim Anderson (S’99–A’99–M’02) received the B.S.degree from Iowa State University, Ames, and the M.S.and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California,Berkeley.

He then joined the faculty at the University ofFlorida, Gainesville, where he served as departmentchair from 1991 to 2003 and is currently the AssociateDean of Research and Graduate Programs. He spenthis last sabbatical at the University of Grenoble asa Fullbright Senior Research Scholar. He has longbeen active in engineering education. He has over 160

publications in his technical discipline, has supervised 40 Ph.D. graduates, andis on the editorial advisory boards of the Journal of Phase Equilibria and theAIChE Journal. He is Editor of the Chemical Engineering Education journal andon the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of SMET Education. In addition,he served as director of the NSF SUCCEED Engineering Education Coalitionuntil its completion in 2003. His research interests are broadly in the field ofadvanced electronic and photonic materials processing.

Dr. Anderson has been honored with several education-related awards, in-cluding the ConocoPhillips Lectureship and ASEE Union Carbide LectureshipAwards. He has been recognized for his research accomplishments throughseveral awards, including the Vanderbilt University Tis Lihiri Lectureship,Michigan/Michigan State Joint Lectureship, DOE Research Partnership Award,the AIChE Charles M. A. Stine Award, and the California Institute of Tech-nology’s W. N. Lacey Lectureship.

VII. FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE

HELEN PLANTS AWARD

The Frontiers in Education Conference Helen Plants Awardwas presented to Susan M. Lord, Beth Eschenbach, AlishaWaller, Eileen M. Cashman, and Monica J. Bruning for the“Best Non-Traditional Session at FIE 2004: Feminist Frontiers.”

Susan M. Lord (S’88–M’88–SM’04) received theB.S. degree with distinction in electrical engineeringand materials science and engineering from CornellUniversity, Ithaca, NY, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degreesin electrical engineering from Stanford University,Stanford, CA.

She previously worked at SPAWAR Systems Center,NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, AT&T, and Gen-eral Motors. From 1993 to 1997, she taught at Buck-nell University, Lewisburg, PA. She is currently anAssociate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the

University of San Diego (USD), San Diego, CA. Her teaching and research inter-ests include electronics, optoelectronic materials and devices, service learning,feminist pedagogy, and first-year engineering courses.

Dr. Lord is a member of the ASEE, SWE, and Tau Beta Pi. She has beenawarded NSF CAREER and ILI grants and named the 2004 USD FacultyWoman of Impact. She has served on the national administrative boards of theIEEE Education Society and the ASEE Educational Research and Methods

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(ERM) Division. She was a 2005 FIE Program Co-Chair and is 2006 FIEgeneral Co-Chair.

Beth Eschenbach left civil engineering as an under-graduate at the University of California, Santa Cruz,and graduated with honors in mathematics and inpsychology. She received the M.S. and Ph.D. degreesin environmental and water resources systems engi-neering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

She completed a postdoctoral position at the Centerfor Advanced Decision Support in Water and Environ-mental Systems (CADSWES) at the University of Col-orado, Boulder. She is Department Chair and Professorof Environmental Resources Engineering at Humboldt

State University, Arcata, CA. Her career goals include increasing the diversity ofengineering students and improving education for all engineering students. Herwork has addressed diversity in the classroom, incorporation of service learning,preparation of K–12 science instructors, and developing Web tools for studentpeer assessment. Some of her current projects are an NSF CCLI project, anNSF planning project for the Collaborative Large-Scale Engineering AnalysisNetwork for Environmental Research, an American Association of UniversityWomen project assessing the effectiveness of Expanding Your Horizons Con-ferences, and a water resources curriculum project using CADSWES software.

Dr. Eschenbach is the FIE 2006 Program Co-Chair.

Alisha Waller received the B.I.E. degree from theGeorgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, and thePh.D. degree in operations research from CornellUniversity, Ithaca, NY.

She has taught engineering, math, computer science,and teaching enrichment courses at Auburn Univer-sity, the University of Minnesota, and Macalester Col-lege and has presented workshops at many other in-stitutions. Currently, she is the Managing Editor ofthe Annals of Research on Engineering Education, aweb portal/journal whose goal is to advance research

through communication. Her research passions include equity and diversity inSTEM disciplines and qualitative research methodology.

Dr. Waller has been an active participant in the FIE since 1991, both as apresenter and as a Program Chair.

Eileen M. Cashman received the B.S. degree in envi-ronmental resources engineering from Humboldt StateUniversity, Arcata, CA, and the M.S. degree in land re-sources and energy analysis and policy and the Ph.D.degree in civil and environmental engineering from theUniversity of Wisconsin at Madison.

She is currently an Associate Professor of Environ-mental Resources Engineering at Humboldt State Uni-versity. Her current research interests include sedimenttransport, river hydraulics, and engineering education.She has an ongoing project in collaboration with

Dr. E. Eschenbach to revitalize introductory engineering courses using a varietyof new pedagogical approaches.

Dr. Cashman is a member of the Faculty for the 21st Century, a faculty net-work sponsored by Project Kaleidoscope and the American Society for Engi-neering Education (Educational Research and Methods Division).

Monica J. Bruning received the B.S. degree in ed-ucation from North Dakota State University, Fargo,the M.P.A. degree from the University of Colorado,Denver, and the Ph.D. degree in educational leadershipand policy from Iowa State University, Ames.

She is currently Director for Outreach and Recruit-ment in the College of Engineering and temporaryProfessor in the College of Education at Iowa StateUniversity. She has directed student services functionswith expertise in institutional planning, admissions,

marketing, orientation/registration, information technology, financial aid/schol-arships, and public relations. She has extensive K–12 STEM outreach experi-ence including program development and evaluation. Her research areas includeyouth culture, feminist thought and critique of science, career awareness andSTEM career exploration, qualitative research methodology, action research,and program evaluation/assessment. She as served on state, regional, and na-tional advisory boards for college admission organizations and is a frequentpresenter and active member of education, research, and STEM professionalassociations, and a consultant on engineering pipeline and workforce-relatedtopics.

VIII. FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE

RONALD J. SCHMITZ AWARD

The 2005 Frontiers in Education Conference Ronald J.Schmitz Award was presented to Robert J. Hofinger, “foroutstanding service to the Frontiers in Education Conference.”

Robert J. Hofinger received the B.S.E.E. andM.S.E.E. degrees from the Brooklyn PolytechnicInstitute (now The Polytechnic University), NewYork.

Before starting his academic career at Purdue Uni-versity, he worked as an electrical engineer for over30 years. His experience included work in the mili-tary/aerospace industry with LITCOM electronics, adivision of LITTON Industries and RCA Astrospace,where he designed digital circuitry for the decodingand control of hydrogen gas thruster engines on

commercial telecommunication satellites; in the gasoline industry withGILBARCO, at the time an EXXON subsidiary, in the design of ultrasoundunderground metering systems and specialized switching power supplies forgasoline dispensers; in the electric metering industry with LANDIS & GYR,in the design of analog current dividing circuits for accurately measuringthe in-phase and quadrature-phase currents for electronic watt-hour meteringsystems; and the automotive industry with DELCO Electronics (now DELPHIElectronics) in designing electronic control modules (ECMs) for OPEL Motors,a General Motors European subsidiary. He is currently an Associate Professorin the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in the College ofTechnology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.

Mr. Hofinger has been active in the American Society for Engineering Edu-cation (ASEE) for many years, serving as the Program Chair for the Instrumen-tation Division. He was elected to, and has held, all executive positions in theIL/IN section of the ASEE, where he is presently the Chair-Elect and CampusRepresentative. He has also held the office of Treasurer of the Greensboro, NorthCarolina Chapter of the IEEE.

IX. ASEE ERM DIVISION DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

The 2005 ASEE ERM Division Distinguished Service Awardwas presented to Dan Budny, “for contributions to the educationof future engineers and their educators, through outstanding ser-vice to the ASEE Educational Research and Methods Division.”

Dan Budny (AF’04) holds a joint appointment asAssociate Professor in the School of Civil Engineeringand as the Director of the Freshman Engineering Pro-gram at the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.His research focuses on the development of programsthat assist the entering freshman student either ona standard track or an academically disadvantagedstudent by providing counseling and cooperativelearning environments for the standards in their first-and second-semester freshman engineering courses.Because of his accomplishments, he has also been

asked to give a number of teaching workshops on and off his campus. He hasnumerous publications in this and other engineering education areas.

Dr. Budny is very active in ASEE within the Freshman Programs and theEducational Research and Methods Divisions and is on the ASEE/IEEE Fron-tiers in Education Conference Board and a past member of the ASEE board ofdirectors.

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X. IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY 2004 TAYLOR L. BOOTH

EDUCATION AWARD

The IEEE Computer Society 2004 Taylor L. Booth EducationAward was presented to Tadao Nakamura, “for leadership inthe reform of advanced information science education and forimportant and substantive contributions to information scienceand computer engineering education in Japan.”

Tadao Nakamura (M’80–SM’84–F’03) received thePh.D. degree in electronics using computer-aided de-sign in 1972 from Tohoku University, Tohoku, Japan.

He is currently a Professor of the Department ofComputer and Mathematical Sciences at Tohoku Uni-versity. He was founding Chair of the department in1993. Prior to that, he was a Professor of the Depart-ment of Mechanical (Machine Intelligence and Sys-tems) Engineering at Tohoku University and a VisitingLecturer in the Department of Information Science atthe University of Tokyo, Japan. From 1994 to 1998, he

was a Visiting Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University,Stanford, CA. His recent research interests are in computer architecture,especially pipelining-based microarchitecture, and low-power concepts inchips, in general.

Dr. Nakamura has been Organizing Committee Chair of the COOL Chipsconference series fully sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. He waselected Fellow of the IEEE in 2002 for contributions to pipelined computerarchitecture and computer engineering education.

XI. ASEE ECE DIVISION FREDERICK

EMMONS TERMAN AWARD

The Electrical and Computer Engineering Division of theAmerican Society for Engineering Education, with the spon-sorship of the Hewlett-Packard Company, annually presents

the Frederick Emmons Terman Award to an outstanding youngelectrical engineering educator who is the principal authorof a textbook. The 2005 Terman Award was presented toAli H. Sayed, “for an outstanding young electrical engineeringeducator in recognition of his contribution to the profession.”

Ali H. Sayed (S’90–M’92–SM’99–F’01) is Professorand Chairman of Electrical Engineering at the Uni-versity of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where hedirects the Adaptive Systems Laboratory. He has pub-lished widely in the areas of adaptive filtering, estima-tion theory, and signal processing for communicationswith over 200 articles and four books. He is the authorof the textbook Fundamentals of Adaptive Filtering(New York: Wiley, 2003).

Dr. Sayed served as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEETRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL PROCESSING. His research

has received several awards, including the 1996 IEEE D.G. Fink Prize, the 2002Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society, the 2003 KuwaitPrize, and two Best Student Paper Awards at international meetings in 1999 and2001. He currently serves as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Pro-cessing Society. He is also a member of the Publications and Awards Board ofthe IEEE Signal Processing Society and serves as General Chairman of Interna-tional Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2008,the premier conference in the field of signal processing.

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Joseph L. A. Hughes (S’78–M’84–SM’94) received the B.S.E.E. degree from the Illinois Insti-tute of Technology, Chicago, in 1979 and the M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford Univer-sity, Stanford, CA, in 1980 and 1986, respectively.

He joined the faculty in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Instituteof Technology (Georgia Tech), Atlanta, where he is currently Professor and Associate Chair forAcademic Operations. He is actively involved in engineering program development, assessment,and accreditation activities and has served as a consultant on such issues for both U.S. and in-ternational institutions. He led development of Georgia Tech’s computer engineering programs,both for the Atlanta campus and for the Georgia Tech Regional Engineering Program in southeastGeorgia and helped lead Georgia Tech’s preparations as the first large research university to beevaluated under ABET Engineering Criteria 2000. His technical research interests include inte-grated circuit design and testing, optical communications networks, and concurrent engineering.

Dr. Hughes was Chair of the ECE Division of ASEE from 2001 to 2002, following terms asSecretary/Treasurer and Vice-Chair/Program Chair. He has been active in leadership of the IEEE Education Society, serving as anat-large member of the AdCom in 2001 and 2002, as Secretary in 2003 and 2004, and as Vice-President in 2005 and 2006. Hewas the General Chair for the 2004 Frontiers in Education Conference. He received the 2005 ECE Distinguished Educator Awardfrom the ECE Division of ASEE, “for advancing ECE education through development and guidance of computer engineeringundergraduate programs, leadership in electrical and computer engineering education and extraordinary service to accreditationprocess.” He has been an IEEE program evaluator for both electrical engineering and computer engineering programs since 1995and served as an evaluator for one institutional accreditation review by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.