🏆

2026 IEEE ISEC — Best Paper Awards

Recognizing outstanding contributions to STEM Education and Engineering Research at the 16th IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (Hybrid) — Princeton University, NJ • March 14, 2026

📄 Best Full Papers

🥇

1st Place

Using Data-Driven Insights to Understand Factors Shaping STEM Interest in Secondary Education

Nasir Abdul Jalil; Nur Syakilah Laege; Nurul Syazwana ZainolArifin

🥈

2nd Place

Making Legacy Scientific Papers Accessible by Converting Equations into Spoken Language

Katherine Grace August; Dov Kruger; Demetrios Lambropoulos; Thomas M Willis III; Jelena Komitas; J. Jenny Li; Victor B Lawrence; Amanda Deol Dhillon; Yulia Kumar; Satrajit Ghosh; Mika Be

🥉

3rd Place

A Low-Cost Mobile Robot Platform for Learning-by-Doing in Undergraduate Control and Robotics Education

Ana Cavalcanti; Elias Ramos

⚙️ Best Work-in-Progress Papers

🥇

1st Place

Designing Intelligent Learning Pathways: Cognitive Knowledge Graph-Based Interfaces for Engineering Education

Jawwad Shadman Siddique

🥈

2nd Place

LOGIC: Learning Outcomes with Generative Intelligence in Computing

Jonathan Corley; Lewis B Baumstark; Md. Shirajum Munir; Duane Yoder; Nmesomachukwu I. Ekwenibe

🥉

3rd Place

Building Teacher Capacity for Integrated STEM and AI Through Real-World Problem Solving

Ashlee Russell; Sambit Bhattacharya