IEEE EAB Meeting IEEE Educational Activities: Past, Present and Future

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IEEE EAB MeetingIEEE Educational Activities
Past, Present and Future
IEEE Expert Now
Education Partners Program

• Douglas Gorham, Director
• 16 June 2007

TISP
Accreditation
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Educational Activities

• Goal
• To be the resource of choice on education in
  engineering, computing and technology for IEEE
  members, the profession, and the pre-university
  and university education communities

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What does EAB do? (1)

• Pre-university education
• Tryengineering.org
• Teacher in Service Program (TISP)
• So you want you to be an engineer
• Outreach to educators and school counselors
• Section database for activities in pre-university
  education
• University education
• Accreditation in the United States
• Global accreditation
• Development of Model Curricula
• Student Retention Women in Engineering
• Education about Standards

Green new in the last 5 years Red expanded in
the last 5 years Blue areas of focus for more
than 5 years
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What does EAB do? (2)

• Post-university education
• Continuing education
• IEEE Education partners, IEEE Expert Now, CEUs
• Certification
• Biometrics
• Awareness of Engineering and Public Education

Green new in the last 5 years Red expanded in
the last 5 years Blue areas of focus for more
than 5 years
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Trends

• Wide expansion in all areas
• Increased requests/demands for services
• Institutionalization of successful initiatives
• IEEE Expert Now, TryEngineering, Global
  Accreditation, TISP
• Operationalization of routine educational
  activities
• Model curricula
• Support of Certification
• Education about Standards

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Requests for Programs and Services
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New and expanding services (1)

• University-level material on TryEngineering
• Resulting from the success of the portal
• Training of program evaluators outside the US
• Resulting from the success of Global
  Accreditation initiative
• Accreditation work in China, the Caribbean, and
  Peru
• Accreditation.org
• The ultimate resource on accreditation in
  Engineering, technology and computing

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New and expanding services (2)

• Biometrics model curricula and certification
• Standards modules and Standards education
• At both University and Post-university levels
• One-stop shop for on-line IEEE educational
  offerings
• Education at the Section level using IEEE Expert
  Now
• Women in Engineering student retention

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EAD Budget FTE History 2001-2008
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Expenditure Changes from 2007
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EAD in 2008-2009

• Global Accreditation to assist at least 2
  countries to be positioned to conduct
  accreditation in their country.
• A biometrics engineering certification program is
  established.
• Education Partners Program to have 100 partners
• IEEE Expert Nowto have 200 modules available in
  partnership with 25 OUs

IEEE Expert Now
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EAD in 2008-2009 Contd

• TryEngineering.org accreditation and
  undergraduate engineering sections are added. 200
  lesson plans for teachers and volunteers are
  available
• Organize and host on-line continuing education
  offerings across IEEE OUs
• Conduct at least 3 TISP training workshops per
  year
• Develop a comprehensive promotional program to
  feature the work in EA

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EAD Beyond 2009

• A comprehensive certification program is in place
  that addresses current opportunities and
  identifies additional certification needs
• Institutionalizing a conference involving
  industry, government and academia to address
  shortages of engineers and their teachers
• IEEE Standards are developed in conjunction with
  a training module for users
• WIEC is implementing effective strategies to
  allow them to be out of business in 15 years

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EAD Beyond 2009 Contd

• Our current EAB/WIE new initiative (Real World
  Engineering) is institutionalized as an ongoing
  program
• The lesson plans developed for TryEngineering are
  converted into a publication
• Conduct workshops and summer programs on emerging
  technologies, that result in model curricula and
  IEEE Expert Now modules
• Create a publication for students in conjunction
  with Pubs

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