Meet the 2024 Teaching Excellence Hub Steering Committee. It includes volunteer Board members from the IEEE Education Society and the IEEE Educational Activities Board.
Morgan Kiani
Professor in the Engineering department at Texas Christian University
Morgan Kiani has been a faculty member in the Department of Engineering at Texas Christian University since 2011. She received her Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington in 2009. Dr. Kiani has authored several scientific articles in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. She has a patent on active control of Doubly Fed Induction Generators (DFIG) used in wind energy harvesters. She has been instrumental in promoting the use of renewable sources of energy in underprivileged communities across the world through IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and IEEE Smart Village (ISV). Her research, scholarship, teaching and service in engineering department at TCU, across IEEE societies, and non-profit groups have allowed her to empower individuals to engage in activities that promote access to clean green energy, healthy living, and well-being for urban communities in other countries as well. She is an influential member of the Women in Engineering committee in IEEE Industrial Electronics Society and introduces resources that can help women gain the confidence to set higher education and career goals. She is interested in attracting the next generation of minority and female students into Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) fields. She is serving as an associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification and IEEE Journal of Emerging and Selected Topics in Industrial Electronics.
Hamadou Saliah-Hassane
Associate Professor, Department of Science and Technology at TELUQ University, Montreal
Professor Saliah-Hassane earned a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from McGill University in Montreal, a Bachelor and Master of Applied Science degree from École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada. He is currently teaching Informatics and Computer Networks and Security at TELUQ University in Montreal where he is carrying research on Intelligent Distributed Systems and Mobile Robotics.
Professor Saliah-Hassane has received many awards in recognition of his accomplishments, including many IEEE Education Society Certificates of Appreciation, IEEE Education Society’s EdWin C. Jones, Jr. Meritorious Service Award (2019). And aligned with his work on Distributed Embedded Systems, the IEEE Standards Association award with appreciation for chairing and contributing to the development of IEEE Standard 1876TM – 2019 on “Networked Smart Learning Objects for Online Laboratories” (2019), the IEEE SA 2019 Emerging Technology Awarded to IEEE SA 1876TM – 2019 Working Group. Under the Candidate leadership as the Chair of Montreal IEEE Education Society Chapter (2005 -2022), the Chapter received the “2019 Chapter Achievement Award for sustained contributions of inn
Steve E. Watkins
Professor and Interim Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering
Missouri University of Science and Technology
Steve E. Watkins is the Interim Chair and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Director of the Applied Optics Laboratory at the Missouri University of Science and Technology (formerly the University of Missouri-Rolla). He is active in IEEE (senior member), IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, SPIE (Fellow), and ASEE. His research and teaching interests include smart sensor systems, UAV instrumentation, fiber optics, imaging, engineering education, and pre-college education. He is coordinator of the campus Smart Composite Bridge project and is advisor to the following student groups: IEEE-Eta Kappa Nu, Tau Beta Pi, and Toastmasters.
Jianchu (Jason) Yao
Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Engineering and Technology at East Carolina University
Dr. Yao received his PhD from Kansas State University and his BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Shaanxi University of Science and Technology. He values hands-on skills in engineering learning. He facilitates student learning through a project-driven pedagogic approach. Over the years, he has developed and taught more than ten courses and their previous versions. He enjoys teaching circuits, electronics, instrumentation, and controls.
Dr. Yao’s research interests fall in the areas of wireless/wearable medical sensors, sensor networks for home environments, telemedicine, and industrial process monitoring and control. His educational research interests are laboratory/project-driven learning, integration of research into undergraduate education, and development of electronic learning-tools for future engineering education.