EDUCON2019
Awards

Dear colleagues of EDUCON 2019:

As Awards Committee Member of the conference and as well as Chair of the IEEE EDUCON Steering Committee and as IEEE Division VI Director is a great pleasure to include the list of the Awards of IEEE EDUCON 2019 (IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference) inside the proceedings published at IEEE Xplore.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome.jsp?punumber=1800058

Congratulations to all the Awardees. Their efforts and dedication help us to have a better conference year to year.

The conference IEEE EDUCON start in 201o with the first conference in Madrid, Spain, and is rotating along all IEEE Region 8 from Europe to Middle East and to Africa, going until now to Amman, Marrakesh, Berlin, Istambul, Tallinn, Abu Dhabi, Athens and Tenerife, finishing this 2019 with our tenth conference in Dubai. We are going back to South Europe to Porto in Portugal in 2020.

Year to year we are consolidating and improving this conference of IEEE Education Society in our community, with more than 300 attendees and an strong community of Engineering Education inside IEEE Region 8. Our relations with the other conferences of the IEEE Education Society are stronger too, as we have with Frontier in Education, (FIE), (October 2019 in Cincinnati, OH, USA), IEEE Learning with MOOCs (LWMOOCS), (October 2019 in Milwaukee, WI, USA), IEEE Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), (December 2019 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia) and IEEE World Engineering Education Conference (EDUNIE), (March 2020 close to Bogota, Colombia).

Thanks again to all the reviewers, program committee members, organizing members, session chairs, authors and presenters and attendees for their magnificent work and see you next year in wonderful Porto.

Manuel Castro
IEEE EDUCON 2019 Steering Committee Chair

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.

Best Paper Awards

Best Paper Awards are appointed in the following categories:

• Infrastructure and Technologies for Engineering Education
• Innovation, Methods, Teaching and Learning Experiences in Engineering Education
• Attracting, Engaging and Retaining Human Talent to Engineering
• Serious Games, Game-Based Learning and Gamification for Engineering Education
• Virtual and Remote Labs (V&RL) in Engineering Education
• Assessment 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.