2004
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.