EDUCON 2021 Vienna, Austria.
EDUCON2021 21-23 April 2021, Vienna, Austria

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.

2021 recipients are Andreas Pester and Matthias C. Utesch 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:

  • 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

  • Best Student Paper

  • Most Innovative Paper regarding Engineering Education

  • Most Cited Paper Award 2021

  • Best Video Awards

  • 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.

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Providing Learning Success as a Service: A Structured Literature Review
Sophie Heim, Clemens Drieschner, Holger Wittges, Helmut Krcmar
(Organization: Technical University of Munich, Germany)

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)

Hua Chai
(Organization: University of New South Wales, Australia)

Commendation: Annaliza Enocia Catacutan-Bangit
(Organization: National University, Philippines)