Georgia Southern professor receives Outstanding Engineering Educator Award

Georgia Southern University Associate Professor Rami J. Haddad, Ph.D., was awarded the 2019 Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Region 3 Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award. This prestigious award is given in recognition of an IEEE member in Region 3 who, through technical and professional abilities, has made an outstanding contribution to the electro-technology profession. “Teaching is something I am very passionate about, so to be recognized in this area is a commendation of all the effort invested in the students’ success at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in Georgia Southern University,” said Haddad. Haddad joined the faculty in the Allen E. Paulson College of Engineering and Computing in 2011 in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has been the Computer Engineering Program coordinator since fall 2018. The IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology for the benefit of humanity with more than 423,000 members in over 160 countries around the world. Region 3 encompasses over 30,000 IEEE members across nine states in the southeastern US and Jamaica.