2003 iNEER Awards Committee

 

 

SUSAN M. BRAYS

Sue Bray is Assistant Dean for Strategy and Development, Professional and Distance Education, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY.  In addition, she is Executive Director of  "New Vistas....support for distance learning" a consulting practice founded to assist universities, corporations and government agencies in the implementation of distance learning programs.  Sue served as founding Director of the Rensselaer Satellite Video Program (RSVP), the distance-learning program of Rensselaer and led it from its inception in 1987 until her departure in January 1997 to found New Vistas. She served on the 2002 Awards Committee. 

 

HAMADOU SALIAH-HASSANE

Hamadou Saliah-Hassane is the Program Director of École de Technologie de l'Information (ÉTI) and Professor at Télé-université in Montreal, Canada. He is graduated in Electronics from University Cheik Anta Diop (Senegal) in 1976. He holds a Bachelor degree in Engineering and a Master of Applied Science degree from École Polytechnique de Montréal  respectively and a PhD degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University in Montreal. Saliah-Hassane has many years' experience of working in Niger, his home country, including six years at international level at École des Mines de l'Industrie et de la Geologie (EMIG) as the founding Chair of the Electrical Engineering Departement. EMIG was a regional educational and research institution created by the former West African Economic Community (CEAO: Benin, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal). A senior researcher at the Inter-university Research Center on Telelearning (CIRTA / LICEF) and a senior member of IEEE Education Society and IEEE Computer Society, he is a member of Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ), a member of International Conference on Engineering Education Steering Committee (ICEE-ISC), the ICEE International Steering Committee of the International Network on Engineering Education and Research (iNEER), and the Learning International Network Consortium (LINC). Prof. Saliah-Hassane is also a Principal Investigator of Learning Object Repository Network (LORNET), a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Research Network in Canada. He is a guest speaker in a number of francophone and international conference involving engineering education.

 

WOJCIECH ZIELINSKI (Chair)

Wojciech Zielinski became Rector of Silesian University of Technology (SUT) in 2002.  Prior to that, he was Vice Rector for Education. He obtained both the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees at SUT. He was Head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Technology of SUT during 1991–1997. He is a member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Organic Industry in Warsaw, the Council of International University in Zittau, Germany; Polish Committee of Standards, and Polish Academy of Sciences. His research interests concern synthesis of organic compounds. He received Achievement Awards from the Ministry of Education in 1976, 1978, 1984 and 1987. He served on the 2002 iNEER Awards Committee.