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.