IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Faculty Course Development Award (Grant) | IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Society

To support and encourage faculty members to develop a new course or significantly revise an existing course with a specific focus on Instrumentation and/or Measurement, taught in an accredited (in accordance with accepted rules of the country of applicant) engineering/physics/science curriculum.

Award Selection Committee

Prize:

Two annual grants of up to $10,000 USD each. Award certificate to each selected applicant.

Funding:

Funded by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society.

Presentation:

Grant recipients will be announced at the annual I²MTC Conference Awards Banquet. Formal notification of the grant will be sent to the recipients, department and university administrators by May 15 (grant year).

Basis for Judging:

Program/Course Proposal, no more than 5 single-spaced pages, that specifically provides the following information (Application Template available):
• Title page containing the title, University name, contact information of the faculty member submitting the proposal and other pertinent University officials. Include email addresses and phone numbers, and the faculty member’s IEEE membership number.
• Program/Course Proposal outlining a program for the development of a new course directly related to and addressing subjects in the instrumentation and measurement fields. If the proposal outlines modifications to an existing course, significant changes to the existing course must be clearly documented.
• Budget – Detailed breakdown of how the funds will be used. Funds cannot be used for travel to meetings/conferences, etc., and must only be used for course development activities. If travel is required as a necessary element of the proposed course development (such as visiting another institution, receiving training, etc.), it must be explicitly stated in the proposal. Funds must be used for purchasing and developing instructional materials, student assistance payment, faculty course release or salary, etc., Cost-sharing by the faculty member’s institution is strongly encouraged, but not required. No institutional Indirect Cost is allowed.
A letter of support from the faculty member’s department/institution administrator must be
submitted (not to be counted as part of the 5-page proposal). This letter must include an explicit
statement about the fact that no institutional indirect cost (of any type) will be assessed by the
recipient’s institution.

Eligibility:

• The faculty applicant must be a member of the IEEE and the Instrumentation and Measurement Society.
• The recipient must submit a short (no more than 2 single-spaced pages) progress report by February 1 of the following year.
• The faculty recipient must submit a final report (not to exceed 20 single-spaced pages, additional documents may be added as Appendices), by no later than December 1 (following year). The report must at minimum include: details of the developed course, summarizing all textbooks, audio-visual materials,
etc., used, any “Lessons Learned” or course modifications that will be implemented the next time the course is offered, and a brief summary of the expenditures from the grant. The report must be submitted to the I & M Society Course Development Grant Selection Committee Chair. The Chair may request further information, if necessary, and such information must be provided by the faculty recipient within 6 weeks of receiving request. Upon approval of the report by the selection committee, the recipient will be notified by the committee chair.
• Within 3 months of having received the final report approval notice, the faculty recipient must submit an article to the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society describing the course development, success metrics (if any), etc. The recipient must work closely with the EIC of the I & M Magazine regarding the format of the article.
• The faculty winner will submit a tutorial, commensurate with the requirements for the I & M Website tutorials, outlining the course.
• No more than 1 proposal, per institution, per year may be funded. Previous grantees are not eligible for another grant for a full 2 years after the completion of the previous course development and the satisfactory submission of its final report.
• Nominees must exhibit actions that reflect positively on and enhance the reputation of the I&M Society.

Nomination Details:

Nomination Deadline: 1 February 2025

Nomination Form:

Nominate for this Award

Recipients

2024

Stefano Rinaldi

Course Title: Advanced Sensors for Agriculture

2023

Ruqiang Yan

Course Title: Intelligent Sensing and Measurement Technology

2022

Mathias Bonmarin

Course Title: Thermal Devices and Instrumentation in Medicine and Biology.

2020

Marco A. Azpurua

Course Title: Instrumentation and Measurements for Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Testing.

2019

Paolo Attilio Pegoraro

Course Title: Data Acquisition Technologies.

Nosherwan Shoaib

Course Title: Advanced RF Measurements.

2018

Olev Martens

Course Title: Impedance Spectroscopy.

Olfa Kanoun

Biography

Olfa Kanoun is professor for measurement and sensor technology since 2007 at TU Chemnitz, Germany. She graduated in electrical engineering at the Technische Universität München from in 1996, where she specialized in the field of electronics. Her PhD at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich was awarded in 2001 by the Commission of Professors in Metrology (AHMT e. V.) in Germany.

In 2015 she was awarded by the Tunisian ministry of social affairs for her scientific excellence and outstanding achievements.In her research she focuses on sensors, measurement systems and measurement methods. Since 2001 she is developing new sensors and measurement solutions based on impedance spectroscopy in the fields of battery diagnosis, bio-impedance spectroscopy, inductive sensors, capacitive sensors, conductivity sensors and material testing. She has a deep expertize in the field of energy harvesting and energy transmission and develops since many years successfully flexible nanocomposite sensors for force, temperature and humidity measurements.

As senior IEEE member, she volunteers for the Instrumentation and Measurement Society and for IEEE. In 2004 she founded an IEEE IM Chapter and in 2014 she initiated a student branch at TU Chemnitz. She serves as co-chair of the Technical Committee on nanotechnology in instrumentation and measurement (TC 34). In 2001 she was co-founder of the international multi-conference on systems, signals and devices (SSD) and in 2008 she initiated the annual International Workshop on Impedance Spectroscopy (IWIS).

She is author or co-author of 7 books, 52 papers in international journals with peer review, 110 papers in proceedings of international conferences and 6 journal special issues. She is member of the editorial board of Technisches Messen (De Gruyter) and associate editor of the journal on Digital Signals and Smart Systems (IJDSSS, Inderscience) Nanotechnology Council Rep (2017-2018); TC-34 Member

Affiliation(s)

Chemnitz University of Technology

Germany

Course Title: Experimental Modular Platform for Enhanced Practical Skills in Instrumentation Courses World-Wide.

2017

Miodrag Bolic

Course Title: Principles of Uncertainty Evaluating Engineering Measures.

Luca De Vito

Biography

Luca De Vito (M’10–SM’12) received the master’s (cum laude) degree in software engineering and the Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Sannio, Benevento, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. His master’s thesis was on automatic classification and characterization of digitally modulated signals. He joined the Laboratory of Signal Processing and Measurement Information, University of Sannio, where he was involved in research activities. In 2008, he joined the Department of Engineering, University of Sannio, as an Assistant Professor in electric and electronic measurement. In 2013, he received the National Academic Qualification as an Associate Professor. Since 2015, he collaborates with the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland, first as visiting scientist, and then as cooperation associate, working on magnet characterization, with the Magnetic Measurement Section (TE-MSC-MM), on diagnostics of cryogenic processes, with the Controls and Electrical Support Section (TE-CRG-CE), and on the characterization of RF cavities with the Hadron Synchrotrons Coherent effects Section (BE-ABP-HSC). Since June 2016 he is associated to the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) and collaborates to the ELI-NP (Extreme Light Infrastructure - Nuclear Physics) project.

He is Associate Editor of the ELSEVIER Measurement journal.

He is member of the IEEE since 2010, he is member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS), of the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic System Society, and of the IEEE Standards Association. He is Senior Member of the IEEE since 2012. He is Chapter Chair Liaison of the IEEE IMS.

He is member of the AFCEA and is Young President of the AFCEA Naples Charter.

He published more than 100 papers on international journals and conference proceedings, mainly dealing with measurements for the telecommunications, data converter testing and biomedical instrumentation.

Affiliation(s)

Università degli Studi del Sannio

Course Title: Drone for Measurement and Measurement Drone.

2016

Simona Salicone

Biography

Simona Salicone is an Associate Professor of electrical and electronic measurements at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano.

Her principal research interests are concerned with the analysis of advanced mathematical methods for uncertainty representation and estimation. Her research activity is reflected in the over 100 papers published in international and national scientific journals, in the proceedings of national and international conferences in the field of instrumentation and measurements, and in two monographs, edited by Springer.

In 2004 she has received, by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, in recognition of contributions made to measurement uncertainty theory, the 2004 Outstanding Young Engineer Award. In 2007, Simona Salicone is elected, by the Officers and Board of Directors of the IEEE, to the grade of IEEE Senior Member. In years 2013 to 2017, Simona Salicone has been part of the Academic Board of the PhD in Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Since 2014 until the end of 2016, she has been part of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine, as the responsible of the column “Future Trends in Instrumentation & Measurements”. Since January 2016 until the end of 2017, Simona Salicone has been the Associate Editor in Chief of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine. In 2016 Simona Salicone has received, in appreciation of outstanding service to IEEE Transaction on Instrumentation and Measurement, the recognition as one of the Transactions Outstanding Reviewers of 2015, by the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society. Simona Salicone is the winner of the 2016 IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Faculty Course Development Award. I&M Magazine Editorial Board (2014, 2015), Recipient of 2004 Outstanding Young Engineer Award (IMS)

Affiliation(s)

Politecnico di Milano

Course Title: Measurement Architectures for Electric Systems.

David Macii

Course Title: Industrial Electronics and Instrumentation.

2015

Stephen A. Dyer

Biography

Stephen A. Dyer holds the B.S. in physics, the M.S. in electrical engineering, and the Ph.D. in engineering, all from Kansas State University, Manhattan. He has spent most of his career in academics, receiving his first faculty appointment at the age of 23, and has held faculty positions in physics, mathematics, and electrical and computer engineering. In addition, he has taught courses in entrepreneurship, as well as segments of courses in physical chemistry, flight dynamics, anatomy and physiology, and creative problem-solving. Having had appointments at five different institutions, Steve currently serves at Kansas State, where he was promoted to full professor in 1989.

His research has spanned a number of areas, notably instrumentation and measurement, spectrometry, digital signal processing, and communication theory. His contributions to stationary-mask Hadamard-transform multiplex spectrometry—in particular, the design and development of spectrum-recovery methods and fast algorithms to improve performance at low signal-to-noise ratios—were cited in his elevation, in 1997, to IEEE Fellow. In all, Dyer has more than 125 technical publications, including his edited book, Survey of Instrumentation and Measurement (Wiley, 2001).

Dr. Dyer has had connection, as well, with industry and the public. Before he started in academics, he worked in engineering positions, writing software and designing semi-automatic test equipment. For the past 30 years, he has acted as a consultant for about 40 companies and institutions, doing analysis, product-design, or forensic work in various areas, including instrument design, signal processing, electromagnetics, and optics.

Steve has also helped make students aware of IEEE through his on-campus service, having served as IEEE Student Branch Counselor at the University of Kentucky and at K-State. He was also the co-founding faculty advisor for the IEEE EMBS Chapter at K-State.
Dyer has been active in the I&M Society since the 1980s, and has been on the AdCom continuously since the beginning of 1992, serving the Society in various capacities, including Past President in 2006-2007 and 2000-2001.

Affiliation(s)

Kansas State University

United States

Course Title: Sensors and Systems.

Mohamad Eid

Course Title: All Engineering Programs/ENGR-AD 116 - Instrumentation, Sensors, Actuators

Steven Goode

Course Title: All Engineering Programs/ENGR-AD 116 - Instrumentation, Sensors, Actuators

2013

Niclas Bjorsell

Course Title: Measuring and characterizing nonlinear RF systems

Imad Elhajj

Course Title: Applied Instrumentation for Civil Engineering.

Sara Sulis

Biography

Sara Sulis is Associate Professor of Electrical and Electronic Measurements at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the University of Cagliari, Italy.

In 2020 she received the National Scientific Qualification to function as a Full Professor, 09/E4 Measurements. She was an Assistant Professor from 2006 to 2019. In March 2006, Dr Sulis was awarded a Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering at the University of Cagliari, where she also received an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering.

She is Secretary of TC-39 “Measurements in Power Systems”, selected as the recipient of the 2016 Outstanding TC Award for the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, and a member of the Italian CEI CT-38 “Instrument transformers” and of the WG47 of the IEC TC-38 “Instrument transformers”. She is a member of IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, of the “Associazione Italiana Gruppo Misure Elettriche ed Elettroniche”, GMEE, and of the Didactic Commission of the GMEE.

Her research activity focuses on Power Quality issues, i.e. any deviations of voltage and current characteristics from sinusoidal, symmetrical conditions and nominal frequency, in power systems with special attention to harmonic pollution. Over the years, she has worked on the metrological qualification of the measurement processes involved in the above topics and she proposed a numerical approach based on a Monte Carlo probabilistic method as an advantageous alternative to the traditional analytical methods for the evaluation of the uncertainty in measurements obtained by digitally processing sampled input data. In recent years, the research work has focused on distributed measurement systems applied to electric distribution grids and designed to study reliable methodologies to perform both the state estimation and harmonic sources estimation of the network.

Author and co-author of more than 100 scientific papers, she has published on international journals (IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, IEEE Transactions on Power Delivery, Energies, COMPEL, EPQU) and on Proceedings of International Conferences sponsored by IEEE Societies and IMEKO. She is a reviewer for international journals and for international conferences, in particular, IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC) and IEEE International Workshop on Applied Measurements for Power Systems (AMPS). She was an “Outstanding reviewer of 2014” of the Instrumentation and Measurement Society for the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement.

During 2013, she obtained the Faculty Course Development Award, funded by the Instrumentation and Measurement Society, for the course “Sistemi Automatici di Misura”.

Since 2018, Dr. Sulis is Referent for the Quality of the Council for the Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering, B.Sc. degree, at the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari.

Affiliation(s)

University of Cagliari

Italy

Course Title: Automatic Measurement Systems.

Subhas Mukhopadhyay

Biography

Dr. Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay (M’97, SM’02, F’11) graduated from the Department of Electrical Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India with a Gold medal and received the Master of Electrical Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He has PhD (Eng.) degree from Jadavpur University, India and Doctor of Engineering degree from Kanazawa University, Japan.

Currently, he is working as a Professor of Mechanical/Electronics Engineering with the Department of Engineering, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia. He is the Programme Leader of the Mechatronics Engineering Degree Programme. He has over 26 years of teaching and research experiences.

His fields of interest include Smart Sensors and Sensing Technology, Wireless Sensor Networks, Instrumentation and Measurements, Internet of Things, Environmental Measurements, Electromagnetics, Control Engineering, Mechatronics, Magnetic Bearing, Fault Current Limiter, Electrical Machines and numerical field calculation etc.

He has authored/co-authored over 400 papers in different international journals, conferences and book chapter. He has edited fifteen conference proceedings. He has also edited seventeen special issues of international journals as lead guest editor and thirty books with Springer-Verlag.

He was awarded numerous awards throughout his career and attracted over US$3.0 M on different research projects.

He has delivered 296 seminars including keynote, tutorial, invited and special seminars.

He is a Fellow of IEEE (USA), a Fellow of IET (UK) and a Fellow of IETE (India). He is a Topical Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal, and an Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements. He is in the editorial board of e-Journal on Non-Destructive Testing, Sensors and Transducers, Transactions on Systems, Signals and Devices (TSSD). He is the co-Editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems. He was the Technical Programme Chair of ICARA 2004, ICARA 2006 and ICARA 2009. He was the General chair/co-chair of ICST 2005, ICST 2007, IEEE ROSE 2007, IEEE EPSA 2008, ICST 2008, IEEE Sensors 2008, ICST 2010, IEEE Sensors 2010, ICST 2011, ICST 2012, ICST 2013, ICST 2014, ICST 2015 and ICST 2016. He organized the IEEE Sensors conference 2009 at Christchurch, New Zealand during October 25 to 28, 2009 as General Chair, and the 11th ICST in Sydney, Australia during December 4-6, 2017. He is former Chair of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society New Zealand Chapter. TC-18 Chair; TIM Associate Editor

Affiliation(s)

Macquarie University

Course Title: Advanced Sensors and Instrumentation: A Project Based Paper.

Wendy Van Moer

Course Title: Measuring and characterizing nonlinear RF systems.

2012

Yang Wang

Course Title: Introduction to Non-Destructive Testing and Forensic Evaluation in Engineering Materials and Structures

Kimberly Kurtis

Course Title: Introduction to Non-Destructive Testing and Forensic Evaluation in Engineering Materials and Structures

Serge Demidenko

Biography

Dr. Serge Demidenko Ph.D. (M’91- SM’94- F’04) is currently a Professor in Electronics, Information, and Communication Systems at the School of Food and Advanced Technology, Massey University, New Zealand.

Professor Demidenko received an ME (Computer Engineering) from the Belarusian State University of Informatics & Radio Electronics in 1977 and Ph.D. (Engineering Cybernetics & Information Theory) from the Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus in 1984. He holds also two post-doctoral academic degrees – Senior Scientist (Control Engineering) and Docent (Informatics, Control, and Computer Engineering) awarded by the State Higher Attestation Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Republic of Belarus respectively, as well as a Certificate in Teaching (Higher Education) from Singapore Polytechnic in conjunction with Sheffield University, UK.

His professional career encompasses industry and academia in the Asia Pacific region and Europe (Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, UK, Italy, Belarus). While with the industry, he progressed from Junior Electronics Design Engineer to a Head of the Joint (Industry-Academy) Test Lab of a large computer systems manufacturing company. Since the mid-90s, he has held several senior academic positions including Dean of the School of Engineering and Technology, Sunway University; Head of the School of Engineering and Advanced Technology, Massey University; Head of the School of Engineering, Monash University; Head of the Centre (School) of Technology, and Head of the Centre (School) of Communication & Design (concurrent appointments) as well as Vice-President Academic, RMIT International University; Associate Head of the Institute of Information Sciences and Technology, Massey University, and others.

The areas of his research specialization include Signal Processing, Instrumentation and Measurement, Electronics Design and Testing, and Computer Systems. He is the author of 4 books, over 200 papers, and 25 engineering patents. He has been the recipient of several national, regional and university awards for excellence in research and teaching.

In addition to being a Fellow of IEEE, Professor Demidenko is the IEEE Computer Society (CS) Golden Core Member, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), a Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, and a Member of the European Academy of Science and Arts (Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea). He is also UK Chartered Engineer.

Professor Demidenko has been active in the field of technical publications. He is an associate editor of six international peer-reviewed journals and has been a reviewer for numerous journals and conferences. He also devotes his time and energy to professional societies, committees, registration and accreditation bodies while holding various roles in IEEE and IET. He has also contributed to the organization of numerous international conferences and symposia.

Affiliation(s)

Massey University

New Zealand

Course Title: Electronic Testing, Instrumentation, and Measurement

Moi-Tin Chew

Course Title: Electronic Testing, Instrumentation, and Measurement

David W. Scott

Course Title: Introduction to Non-Destructive Testing and Forensic Evaluation in Engineering Materials and Structures

2011

Graham Wild

Course Title: Development of an Integrated Instrumentation and Measurement Laboratory Project for Aviation Students

Claudio M. Montiel

Course Title: Mixed Signal IC Test and Measurement

Steven Hinckley

Course Title: Development of an Integrated Instrumentation and Measurement Laboratory Project for Aviation Students