2021 recipients are Andreas Pester and Matthias C. Utesch for outstanding contributions to the administrative and management efforts for the IEEE EDUCON conference.

Area 1: Infrastructure and Technologies for Engineering Education

The International Impact of COVID-19 and "Emergency Remote Teaching" on Computer Science Education Practitioners

Tom Crick, Cathryn Knight, Richard Watermeyer, Janet Goodall
(Organizations: Swansea University, United Kingdom; University of Bristol, United Kingdom)

Area 2: Innovation, Methods, Teaching and Learning Experiences in Engineering Education

Evaluation of the COVID-19 Shock on STEM Laboratory Courses

Yunfei Hou, Fadi Muheidat, Timothy Usher, Wagner Prado, Xiaofei Guo, Montgomery Van Wart
(Organization: California State University San Bernardino, USA)

Area 3: Attracting, Engaging and Retaining Human Talent to Engineering

Widening Young People’ Aspirations for STEM and DIGITAL Careers: A Case Study of the DIGISTEM Project

Opeyemi Dele-Ajayi, Emma Anderson, Victor Ayodele, Femi Alufa, Rebecca Strachan, Akachukwu Okoli, Kemi Fasae
(Organizations: Northumbria University, United Kingdom; Stemres Learning, Nigeria)

Area 4: Serious Games, Game-Based Learning and Gamification for Engineering Education

A Serious Game for Mobile Phones used in a Software Engineering Course: Usability Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness

Semira Maria Evangelou, Georgia Stamoulakatou, Michalis Xenos
(Organization: University of Patras, Greece)

Commendation: Work-in-Progress: A Novel Data Glove for Psychomotor-Based Virtual Medical Training

Kyle Wilcocks, Argyrios Perivolaris, Bill Kapralos, Alvaro Quevedo, Michael Jenkin, Kamen Kanev, Hidenori Mimura, Makoto Hosoda, Fahad Alam, Adam Dubrowski
(Organizations: Ontario Tech University, Canada; University of Toronto, Canada; York University, Canada; Shizuoka University, Japan; Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Canada)

Most Innovative Paper regarding Engineering Education

Co-Award: Towards a Cloud-Based University Accelerated By the Pandemic

Carlos Delgado Kloos, Carlos Alario-Hoyos, Carmen Fernández-Panadero, Pedro J. Muñoz-Merino, Iria Estévez-Ayres, Mario Muñoz-Organero, María Blanca Ibáñez, Pedro Manuel Moreno-Marcos, Boni García
(Organization: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)

Co-Award: A Hybrid and Flexible Teaching Model for Engineering Courses Suitable for Pandemic Conditions towards the New Normality

Miguel X. Rodriguez-Paz, Jorge A. Gonzalez-Mendivil, Israel Zamora-Hernandez, Benjamin Sanchez
(Organization: Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico)

Best Student Paper Award

Providing Learning Success as a Service: A Structured Literature Review

Sophie Heim, Clemens Drieschner, Holger Wittges, Helmut Krcmar
(Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany)

Most Cited Paper Award 2021

Virtual reality in engineering education: The future of creative learning (EDUCON 2011)

Abdul-Hadi Ghazi Abulrub, Alex Attridge and Mark A. Williams
(Organization: International Manufacturing Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK)

Best Video Award

Hua Chai

(Organization: University of New South Wales, Australia)

Commendation: Annaliza Enocia Catacutan-Bangit

(Organization: National University, Philippines)