Educational Activities Board (EAB) Meeting

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Educational Activities Board (EAB) Meeting

• 15 November 2003
• Renaissance Madison
• Seattle, Washington
• James M. Tien, VP-EA

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Outline

• Concerning IEEE
• Updating June 2003 Report
• EAB Related Actions
• Concerning EAB
• Overarching Themes
• Current Structure
• 2003 Members
• Vision/Mission
• Alignment With IEEE Issues For 2004
• Continuing Concerns
• Afterthought

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Concerning IEEE Updating June 2003 Report

• BDO Seidman Report No New Action
• Infrastructure Oversight Committee No New
  Action
• 3 Additional AdHoc Committees
• Governance To Be Continued
• Financial Simplification and Understanding Some
  Action
• Reserve Target 50 Of Annual Expenditures
• Trust and Communications Several Upcoming
  Motions
• Would Like EAB Endorsement of Following Motion
  To Approve A Change To IEEE Bylaw I-300.4 That
  Will Allow Lower Level Organizational Units To
  Take Action Without A Formal Meeting Or A
  Unanimous Written Consent.
• 2003 Finances
• Net Budget Projected 1.1M On 242.7M Revenues
• Dividends/Interest Projected 1.3M (versus
  2.1M)
• Reserves Projected 86.3M (versus 77.9M)
• 2004 Finances
• Net Budget Projected 3.1 M On 242.0M Revenues
• New Initiatives 1.3M Recommended Plus 446K For
  Out-Of-Cycle
• Total Membership After Scrubbing at 345K (versus
  370K)
• Strategic Planning Committee Meeting (6/17/03)
  EAB activities align with 6 of the 15 strategic
  directions

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Concerning IEEE EAB Related Actions

• EAB Motions Before June 2003 BoD Meeting
• BMES Membership On ABET (Approved)
• REP List Bylaw I-104.10 (Approved)
• EAB Motions Before November 2003 BoD Meeting
• EAB Membership Bylaw I-304.3
• REP List IEEE Policy 3.3
• IEEE/Industry Summits (Connecticut, Singapore,
  Others?)
• IEEE Plan For Public Image Campaign
• 2003 Educational Activities Board Report Received
  By IEEE ExCom -- EAB Should Be Proud of Its
  Accomplishments!

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Concerning EAB Overarching Themes

• Technical Excellence
• IEEE is known for its technical excellence.
• It is why IEEE has over 350,000 global members
  and why other members of the public and
  profession are drawn to IEEE events, conferences,
  and publication products and services.
• EAB must likewise provide quality and timely
  educational products and services or refer
  professionals to other educational products and
  services that meet our standards of technical
  excellence through peer review and/or consumer
  evaluations.
• Financial Responsibility
• As a product and service provider, EAB must be
  responsible for its usage of IEEE resources to
  further the educational mission of the IEEE. EAB
  must help ensure that the educational products
  and services that we help Societies/Councils to
  assemble and distribute are financially viable.
• Profession Oriented
• As an IEEE unit, EAB must fulfill its mandate to
  serve the profession and the public otherwise,
  IEEE cannot be incorporated as a not-for-profit
  entity.
• Member Services
• As a product and service provider, EAB must help
  both TAB and RAB to better meet their members
  educational needs.

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Concerning EAB Current Structure
Vice President/Chair
Managing Director (without vote)
OpCom
Pre-College
N A
FinCom
SPC
ARC
Public Awareness
Society Outreach
Continuing Professional Education
Section Outreach (Including CGAA)
APC
CEAA
ABET Rep Nom
RepCom
CTAA
CGAA
RAB RAB
TAB TAB
MAL/SA
Total Members 16 voting members
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Concerning EAB 2003 Members

• James Tien Vice President/Chair
• Lyle Feisel Past Chair, NA Chair
• Friedolf Smits FinCom Chair
• Antonio Bastos SPC Chair
• Tariq Durrani ARC Chair
• Ted Batchman Pre-College Chair
• Charles Hickman - Section Outreach Chair
• Tom Jahns - Society Outreach Chair
• Ed Jones Continuing Professional Education
  Chair
• Total 16 Voting Members

• Constantine Anagnostopoulos - Public Awareness
  Chair
• Ted Bickart - APC Chair
• Francisco Martinez - RAB Rep
• John Meredith - RAB Rep
• Scott Hinton - TAB Rep
• Wade Shaw - TAB Rep
• Kurt Richter MAL
• (Gerry Peterson Standards Association)

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Concerning EAB Vision/Mission

• VISION To Make IEEE A Global Resource of Choice
  for Educational Products and Services.
• MISSION To Achieve Our Vision, We Intend To
  Serve the Public, the Profession and Our Members
  in A Technically Excellent and Financially
  Responsible Manner Through the Following
  Activities.
• Society Outreach To offer a quality and
  financially viable service to Societies/Councils
  in the identification and production of valuable
  and timely educational products and services.
• Section Outreach To identify and facilitate the
  educational needs of the public, the profession
  and the IEEE members.
• Pre-College To promote and enhance the level of
  technological literacy of pre-college educators
  and students globally.
• Continuing Professional Education To identify
  and serve the educational needs of working
  professionals by being the resource of choice for
  quality educational products and services.
• Accreditation To identify and meet the
  accreditation needs of the profession by
  assisting in the establishment and implementation
  of systems that assures and improves the
  understanding and quality of accreditation in
  applied science, computing, engineering and
  technology.
• Public Awareness To partner and collaborate with
  other engineering entities in enhancing public
  understanding and awareness of the contributions
  of engineering and engineers to the global
  economy and quality of life.
• Awards To recognize excellence and outstanding
  educational contributions of individuals and
  organizations through awards which are aligned
  with our educational vision and mission.

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Concerning EAB Alignment With IEEE Issues For
2004

• 1. Products and Services
• 1.1 Users have difficulty accessing and
  navigating through IEEE information and
  intellectual property
• 1.2 The conference business is one of the most
  volatile lines of business for IEEE EABs
  Initiative Addresses Issue
• 1.3 Universal digital archives and increased
  interest in self-publishing by authors pose a
  threat to IEEEs position amongst the world
  leaders in technical publishing
• 1.4 The current IEEE business model is outdated
  in the context of the current business climate
• 1.5 IEEEs role in engineering education is not
  well defined EABs Activities and Initiative
  Addresses Issue
• 1.6 The value proposition of IEEE membership is
  being questioned
• 1.7 IEEE lacks content for practicing engineers
  and in new, emerging fields EABs Initiative
  Addresses Issue
• 1.8 IEEE does not have an effective methodology
  or process to identify the future needs of its
  members and customers
• 2. Volunteerism
• 2.1 IEEE does not have enough volunteers for some
  positions
• 2.2 IEEE has difficulties finding qualified
  volunteers, especially for higher level positions
• 2.3 IEEE is not effectively leveraging the
  expertise of its experienced volunteers
• 3. Industry Relations
• 3.1 Too many industry managers do not recognize
  the value of IEEE EABs Initiative Addresses
  Issue

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Concerning EAB Continuing Concerns

• Remaining Concerns
• Awaiting Wally Reads Input Concerning Whether
  History Center/Virtual Museum Would Like To
  Become A Part of EAB.
• Response To RAB Assigned Sections Congress 02
  Recommendations
• Item 4 (With TAB) Provide a more diverse and
  robust selection of web-based tutorials,
  including emerging technologies, as a free
  membership benefit.
• Item 22 (With Corporate Communications and USA)
  Develop a comprehensive set of programs to
  promote public awareness of engineering, starting
  at the grade school level.
• Item 23 Develop teaching materials to teach
  problem solving skills and critical thinking to
  K-12 students, to prepare more students to pursue
  engineering.
• Item 34 (With RAB and USA) Engage industry,
  academia and governments to promote the life-long
  career through commensurate compensation,
  continuing education professionalism of the
  engineer.
• Item 39 (With Products and Services Committee,
  RAB, TAB, Transnational and SA) Implement member
  services in all six official United Nations
  languages.
• Progress On Public Awareness Mission
• Progress On Continuing Professional Education
  Mission
• Prospective Concerns
• 2004 EAB VP
• Outcome of EAB 2004 Initiative
• If Appropriate, Request For A 2004 Out-Of-Cycle
  Initiative Funding

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Concerning EAB Afterthought

• We should be extremely proud of all our 2003
  accomplishments!
• Thank you, fellow volunteers!
• Thank you, staff!
• Look forward to another productive year in 2004!