Education Committee

Ruth A. Dyer

Kansas State University

United States

Ruth A. Dyer

Biography

Ruth Dyer earned her doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Kentucky, and her bachelor's and master's degrees in biochemistry are from Kansas State University. She joined K-State in 1983 as an assistant professor in the department of electrical and computer engineering and was promoted to full professor in 1997. From 1998 up to her recent retirement, Dr. Dyer served in various administrative roles in the Office of the Provost. In her final, role she served as the senior vice provost for academic affairs.

She has served in a number of leadership roles in the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS), including Sr. Past President (2020-2021); Awards Chair (2020-2021), Jr. Past President (2018-2019), Nominations & Appointments Chair (2018-2019), President (2016-2017), Vice President for Membership, Vice President for Publications, Vice President for Finance, and Executive Vice President. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, and in 2011 she received the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society's Distinguished Service Award. She served as the General Program Co-Chair for the 2010 I2MTC and as the Technical Program Co-Chair for the 2011 I2MTC. She also served for a number of years as a member of the I2MTC Board of Directors. She served three four-year terms — 1999-2002, 2003-2006, and 2008-2011— as an elected member of the IMS Administrative Committee.

Dr. Dyer also was one of seven individuals from across the United States to be named a Fellow of the Association of Women in Sciences in 2006. She was an American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow in 2003-2004 and served during that time at Ohio State University. In 2013, she was selected for induction into the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Engineering Hall of Distinction, and she currently serves on the UK Engineering Dean’s Advisory Council.

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Kansas State University

United States

Michael Levin

Iowa State University

United States

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Melanie Ooi

The University of Waikato

New Zealand

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Melanie Ooi

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Biography

Melanie Ooi is an emerging researcher and engineering specialist in Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Computer Engineering and Computational Intelligence. She is currently an Associate Professor at The University of Waikato, New Zealand. While working in close collaboration with several leading multinational electronics companies, she has developed new testing techniques and test data processing methodologies that have been adopted by the industry partners. In the recent years she has also successfully researched on new measurement uncertainty evaluation approaches and frameworks with application to a multitude of science and technology areas (medical research, structural design, mechanical systems modelling, etc.). Her research competence and capability are evident from the extensive and fast growing list of publications, research grants and projects, as well as successfully supervised postgraduate students.

In addition, Associate Professor Ooi was particularly successful in the area of undergraduate and postgraduate education. She introduced several innovations and a well-structured education program enhancing key professional skills and thus increasing work-readiness and employability of engineering graduates that were successfully adopted and implemented by Monash University and RMIT University in their Southeast Asian campuses. They have been strongly supported by multinational electronics companies such as Intel, Freescale Semiconductor and National Instruments.

Her high professional achievements have been acknowledged by several prestigious awards including the Outstanding Young Engineer Award of the Year 2014 from the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, 2014 Excellence Award from the International Education Association of Australia, 2011 Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council to mention a few.

She is Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society (I&MS); I&M AdCom (2019-2022)|| Young Professional Program Representative (2018)|| Distinguished Lecturer (2016 - December 2017), Distinguished Lecturer and Secretary of the Technical Committee on Fault Tolerant Measurement Systems (TC-32) of the IEEE I&MS. She is also Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology, and UK Chartered Engineer.

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The University of Waikato

New Zealand

Marco Parvis

Politecnico di Torino

Italy

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Sergio Rapuano

University of Sannio.

Italy

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Sergio Rapuano

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Biography

Sergio Rapuano is Full Professor of Electrical and Electronic Measurements (SSD ING-INF / 07) at the Engineering Department of the University of Sannio. Since 2002, the year he entered service at the University of Sannio, in his activity as researcher and coordinator of research activities he worked in the fields of digital signal processing for measurement, characterization of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, design of distributed measurement systems, design of measurement methods and systems for telecommunications, distance learning in the field of electrical and electronic measurements, biomedical measurements, publishing about 270 contributions including journal papers, conference papers, editorials, book chapters and IEEE Standards in collaboration with numerous Italian and foreign authors (228 papers indexed by Scopus). He has participated and coordinated research projects funded by participating in competitive calls at national and international level. Since 2002 he has continuously taught subjects on Electrical and Electronic Measurements within the Bachelor and Master Degree Courses of the Engineering Department. He used to be Chair of the Joint Program Committee of the Bachelor and Master Degree Courses in Electronic Engineering for Automation and Telecommunications from 2017 to 2019. He is currently member of the board of the PhD Course in Information Technologies for Engineering held at the Department of Engineering and Rector’s Delegate to Scientific Research.

He is member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Sociey (IMS), the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS), the IEEE Standards Association, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), the Italian Association of Electrotechnics, Electronics, Automation, Informatics and Telecommunications (AEIT) and the Italian Society of Electrical and Electronics Measurement (GMEE) and participates in the activities of the International Measurement Confederation (IMEKO) TC4 'Measurement of Electrical Quantities '. In particular, within IMS he has been Vice President Membership and Vice President Education and is currently Vice President Technical and Standards Activities; he was elected member-at-large of the Administrative Committee for the four-year terms 2017- 2020 and 2021-2024; he is Chair of TC-25 'Medical and Biological Measurements' and Subcommittee Chair of TC-10 'Waveform Generation, Measurement and Analysis'. He participated in the development of four IEEE Standards and he led the development of the IEEE Standard 2414 on 'Jitter, Wander and Phase Noise'. He was several times Guest Editor of the journals 'Computer Standards and Interfaces', 'Measurement' and 'IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement'. He was several times Chair of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technical Conference and the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, of which he was twice General Co-Chair. He was General Co-Chair of the IEEE Forum on Research Technology for Society and Industry 2021 and the IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference 2022. He was awarded the 2007 Outstanding Young Engineer Award by the IEEE IMS and the Distinguished Service Award by the IEEE Italy Section in 2020.

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University of Sannio.

Italy

Amir L. Rifi

Department of Radiotherapy/TROP

UZ Brussel/Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Belgium

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Shuming Wu

Xi’an Jiaotong University

China

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