IEEE Deans Summits

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IEEE Deans Summits
Barbara Stoler Educational Activities
18 February 2006
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Background

• TLC Technological Literacy Counts
• Workshop in 1998, Baltimore
• 100 Engineers and Educators
• Plenaries, Panels, Breakouts
• Shared cultures
• Resulted in Action Plan

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TLC Recommendations

• Establish network of engineers and educators
  interested in furthering technological literacy
• Develop training for both engineers and educators
  for successful collaborations
• Increase public relations and outreach to
  communicate need for technological literacy
• Develop on-line information clearinghouse for
  teachers, engineers and students
• Host meeting of deans of engineering and deans of
  education to plan collaborations

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Deans Summit 1 Taking the Lead A Deans Summit
on Education for a Technological World

• Baltimore 2001
• Funding from IEEE, UEF, EAB budget
• Strictly for pairs of Education and Engineering
  Deans
• 38 institutions attended
• 36 dean pairs
• 9 institutions attended from the planning
  committee
• 7 dean pairs
• 3 overseas universities attended (Indonesia,
  Turkey, South Africa)
• 1 community college attended
• Resulted in Campus Action Plans

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Campus Action PlansExamples

• Launch a jointly developed course focused on
  pedagogy/technology/technological literacy (12
  institutions)
• Conduct a needs assessment, identify top needs,
  and formulate next steps (4 institutions)
• Hold workshops focusing on instructional
  improvement in the engineering school (3
  institutions)
• Improve collaboration to increase awareness of
  the engineering process for pre-service teachers
  (7 institutions)

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Emerging Themes

• Establish an on-line community for deans
• Develop a recognition program for outstanding
  collaborations
• Promote schools of engineering and education
  jointly develop courses focused on pedagogy and
  technological literacy
• Encourage engineering schools to be affiliated
  with a center for teaching and learning
• Organize an overall movement to include
  engineering in the pre-college curricula
• Hold a major conference featuring best practices
  and successful collaborations

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Deans Summit II January 2003Fostering Campus
Collaborations

• Best practices demonstrated from among the
  attendees of previous summit and others
• Presentations required to demonstrate
• the benefits of collaboration
• the effectiveness of integrative curriculum
  design
• the concept of pre-college frameworks and
  standards for engineering
• curricula innovation and reform
• strategies and tools to implement new programs
• funding opportunities

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Deans Summit II Action Plans

• 31 collaborative action plans submitted
• 12 were new initiatives
• 19 were additions/continuations to current
  efforts
• Sample areas of focus
• Enhancing pedagogy among engineering faculty
• Fostering and encouraging communication
  partnerships between education engineering
• New undergraduate graduate programs, e.g., MS
  Ed.--with an engineering concentration, BSwith a
  dual major in education and engineering

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Deans Summit II Emerging Themes

• Pursue and promote national/international agenda
  for technological literacy to address needs of
  different constituents
• Expand collaborations by sharing effective
  practices and pedagogical approaches associated
  with successful partnerships
• Involve industry as collaborative partners with
  responsibility for marketing assistance,
  infrastructure resources, and funding
• Create a sustainable structure that supports
  continued campus collaborations through
  consistent funding, human resources, and
  effective assessment o

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Emerging Impact of Engineering and Education
Campus Collaborations

• Funding for Deans Summit II
• NSF fully complied with our request
• Intel and Hewlett Packard provided grants and
  support
• Publications
• Journal of Engineering Education (JEE) devotes
  entire issue (January 2005) to pedagogy in
  engineering education
• Organizational
• American Education Research Association (AERA)
  and National Association or Science Research
  Teaching (NARST) sponsor conference sessions on
  using design processes as a tool to teach science
  content
• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
  establishes K-12 Education and Outreach Division
• NSF Initiatives
• NSF Engineering Centers require 10 education
  effort
• NSF Engineering Education sponsors Bridging
  Engineering and Education grants in 2002 and 2003
• NSF Engineering Education solicits proposals for
  how students learn with emphasis on
  multidisciplinary teams
• NSF Education and Human Resources solicits
  proposals for K-12 Instructional Materials (IMD)
  with engineering design as a problem solving
  method

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Deans Summit IIIJan March 2007

• Goals
• Show benefits and create best-practice action
  plans for Engineering and Education
  collaborations
• Propose approaches to address future economic and
  social forces shaping engineer and teacher
  preparation
• Develop curriculum strategies for students
  graduating in a 21st century, diverse,
  technological, globally engaged world
• Develop an understanding of costs, value, impact,
  and constraints of collaborations and potential
  funding resources
• Motivate conference participant proposals for
  funding for collaborations on teacher preparation
  and engineering education.
• Discuss benefits and barriers of engineering
  concepts in K-12 and impact on performance in
  science and mathematics.
• Establish Industry- Engineering-Education
  collaborations on issues and actions in Standards
  in math, science and technology

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Deans Summit IIIAreas of Focus

• Preparation of future engineers
• Preparation of future pre-university educators
• Enhancing technological literacy
• Image/perception of technologists
• Analyze past efforts to determine successes
• Systemic change successes
• Global competitiveness
• Collaborations between schools of education and
  engineering

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Global Aspects

• Both Summits have included deans from outside the
  US
• Turkey, UK, Malaysia, India, South Africa
• Problems are universal
• Collaborations have worked
• Barriers do exist
• Outside US fewer universities that have both
  engineering and education
• Cultural issues differ