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This paper describes radio frequency identification (RFID) projects, designed and implemented by students in the College of Engineering at the University of North Texas, as part of their senior-design project requirement. The paper also describes an RFID-based project implemented at Rice Middle School in Piano, TX, which went on to win multiple prizes both at the school and regional level. The goal of the RFID endeavor is to develop an RFID elective course that is current, industry-oriented, and methodically built to enable faculty to design, develop, and deliver the course to a diverse group of engineering students. The sequence of events through which the course evolved was as follows: 1) conduct an industry-supported workshop for students in the College of Engineering with funding received from the National Science Foundation (NSF); 2) assign an RFID-based design project for the senior students who attended the workshop; 3) use the first senior design project as a model to encourage subsequent senior students to create their own RFID projects or enable the students to contact companies seeking to accomplish RFID solutions to a problem; 4) involve middle school students in RFID-based projects by using the senior design projects as an enticement; 5) use the successful projects as the basis for practical laboratory experiences to be created in a new elective course on RFID. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information about IEEE Education Society Awards and Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference Awards. THE IEEE Education Society and the FIE Conference annually recognize many outstanding engineering education. The conferences to provide these awards were held in Colorado and Georgia. Some of the recipients included in this list are: Warren B. Boast for 1978; Edwin C. Jones for 1980; Lyle D. Feisel for 1981; Roy H. Mattson for 1982 etc.

This article discusses the engineering education research with a special reference to the Frontiers in Education (FIE) conference held in 1981. The Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Education Society started the conference in 1971. The conference was co-sponsored by the Research and Methods Division of the American Society for Engineering Education, who joined it as a co-sponsor in 1973. It was later joined by IEEE Computer Society as a co-sponsor in 1995. The conference was a great help to engineering faculty to become more scholarly teachers. Furthermore, extraordinary leadership in engineering education has been provided by the IEEE Education Society.