Prof. Mansun CHAN received 2017 IEEE Electronic Devices Society Education Award with the citation “For Pioneering Innovative Approaches in Electronic Engineering Education”
Prof. Mansun CHAN, Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, received the 2017 IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Education Award with the citation “For Pioneering Innovative Approaches in Electronic Engineering Education”. The award was presented to Prof. Mansun Chan at the 2017 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) on Dec 4 in San Francisco, USA.
The EDS Education Award was established in 2006 by the IEEE Electron Devices Society and presented annually. It is the Society’s highest honor to recognize distinguished contributions to education within the field of interest of the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
“The recipients of this award were all highly recognized individuals in the field including professors Chenming Hu (UC Berkeley), Roger Howe (Stanford University), Robert Dutton (Stanford University), Jesus Del Alamo (MIT) etc. I am happy to be among them and being the youngest at the time the award is given.”, said Prof. Mansun CHAN.
One of Prof. Mansun CHAN's most notable contributions to educational activities is his effort to motivate, attract, and nurture young future engineers. Since 2008, Prof. Chan has initiated the IEEE Electronic Camp which has become an annual event that attracts over 100 participants. This has become a signature event of EDS and has been repeatedly reported in the EDS Newsletter. Recently, Prof. Chan has re-branded the Electronic Camp as an equivalent to IEEE Conference for Student Chapters with a standard and easy-to-follow event template. Since then, the newly branded Electronic Camp has already been launched in Shenzhen, Beijing and San Diego, benefiting more than 500 students aged from 10 to 18. The events also serve as a means of getting student chapters involved since income from the camps can help to sustain their activities. It has a significant impact on the student activities in EDS. Furthermore, Prof. Chan also started the IEEE Electronic Endeavor Match in April 2017 which has become an annual competition for primary school and secondary school students to compete in breadboard circuit construction. The competition has helped EDS to become more visible among the pre-college students. In the longer term, the objective set for the match is to become an international competition to showcase the achievements of pre-college and college future engineers.
