Overview of SAEA Activities

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Overview of SA/EA Activities

• George Arnold IEEE SA President Elect 2006
  replaces Jerry Peterson as SA representative to
  the 2006 EAB
• Standards in Education Task Force (SETF)
• As reported in November this program is in Pilot
  Test Colorado School of Mines and Devry North
  Brunswick
• Assessment tools under ongoing development and
  evaluation
• IEC Centenary Challenge Call to academia for
  Papers on value of standards
• See http//standards.ieee.org for detail on SETF
  and IEC

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SETF Details

• IEEE Standards in Education Web Portal,
  www.ieee.org/standardseducation
• Materials developed to date include
• Baseline Tutorial on Standards and Domain
  Tutorial focused on Cellular (mobile) Telephony
  standards
• Case Illustrations Multi-mode Mobile Telephone
  and Wireless Router
• Glossary, Reference Guide, News and Features
  library, and Gateway to Other Learning
  Opportunities
• Materials in development / to be developed
  include
• Industrial and Commercial Power Domain Tutorial
• Communications Domain Tutorial
• Electromagnetic Compatibility Domain Tutorial
• Additional Case Illustrations

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SETF in Transition

• Proposal to sunset the SETF and transfer its work
  and responsibility to a new joint committee of
  the Educational Activities Board and the
  Standards Association Board of Governors The
  committee to be called EA/SA Joint Standards
  Education Committee (SEC)
• The SA BoG will consider the formation of the
  joint SEC at its February 23, 2006 meeting
• Agreement on SEC leadership and membership terms
  and responsibilities
• Inclusion of additional educational products
  addressing the needs of practising engineers
• Proposal will not require any increase in 2006 of
  SA Staff, Volunteer, or financial resources.

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IEC Paper CompetitionIEC Centenary Challenge

• IEEE-SA has joined the IEC as the founding
  partner but needs support of EAB for call for
  papers
• Call for papers from academia on the economic,
  business and social impact of international
  standards opened 21 October 2005 and closes 1
  September 2006
• The paper review and evaluation processes are
  broken into three regions each with a volunteer
  Advisory Board Americas (IEEE), Europe (IEC),
  and Asia (IEC)
• The three Advisory Boards will recommend up to 10
  papers to the Executive Review Council (ERC)
  which will select the top 3 papers
• An awards ceremony will be held in London on 14
  December 2006