EAB and your Section

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EAB and your Section

• 8 September 2007
• Baltimore, MD
• Moshe Kam
• Educational Activities

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Outline

• Educational Activities in IEEE
• What you can get from EAB
• Pre-university education
• University-level education
• Post-university (continuing) education

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The IEEE Educational Activities Board
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IEEEs Major Boards

• The Board of Directors
• Technical Activities Board
• Regional Activities Board
• Educational Activities Board
• IEEE-USA
• The Standards Association
• Publication Services and Products Board

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Educational Activities Board

• One of the six (6) major Boards of IEEE
• Responsible for IEEEs activities in
  pre-university, university-level and
  post-university (continuing) education
• Including accreditation
• 15 Board members
• Approximately 60 committee members
• Staff support of 15
• Educational Activities Department

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Educational Activities Board

• One of the six (6) major Boards of IEEE
• Responsible for IEEEs activities in
  pre-university, university-level and
  post-university (continuing) education
• Including accreditation
• 15 Board members
• Approximately 60 committee members
• Staff support of 15
• Educational Activities Department

EAB SMALL BUT POWERFUL
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Primary Functions

• Advise the Board of Directors on
  education-related matters
• E.g., the first professional degree in
  engineering
• Develop and implement programs in
• Pre-university education
• University-level education
• incl. accreditation
• Post-university (continuing) education
• Incl. certification

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Currently under discussion

• Should the First Professional Degree in
  Engineering be
• a Bachelor of Science/Engineering or a Master of
  Science/Engineering
• Please read the EAB article in the September 2007
  Institute
• Please tell the editor what you think

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Pre-University Education

• Teacher in Service Program
• TryEngineering.org
• Outreach to educators and school counselors
• Conferences and workshops

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Meeting the Growing Demand For Engineers and
Their Educators 2010 - 2020

• International Summit
• Munich, Germany
• 9 - 11 November 2007

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How you and your Section can participate

• Institutionalize TISP in your Section
• Become a contributor to the IEEE lesson plan
  collection
• Appoint a pre-university chair at the Section
  level

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University-level Education

• Services to the academic community
• Undergraduate students and Graduate students on
  TryEngineering.org
• New initiative on Real-life Engineering Projects
• Model curricula
• Biometrics, Systems Engineering
• Accreditation

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How you and your Section can participate

• Volunteer to answer student questions on
  TryEngineering
• Have your school branch volunteer role models for
  Life of a Student
• Recruit programs evaluators for accreditation
• Especially from Industry

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Post-University Education

• IEEE Expert Now
• Education about Standards
• First workshop in Fall 2007 in Chicago
• On the IEEE 802 family of Standards

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Expert Now IEEE

• The best of IEEEs educational content delivered
  in one-hour long online learning modules
• 62 modules are included in the current version
• By the end of 2007 we will have at least 75
• The latest information on emerging technologies
  and seminal works
• presented at the best of IEEEs conference
  tutorials, short courses and workshops

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Optical Fiber Communication
2003 IEEE Conference on Optical Fiber
Communication

• A master of ceremony approach to introducing the
  presenter
• Establishes the presenter as the expert of the
  content (SME)
• Begins the presentation in a professional manner
• The course objectives are introduced by the
  Expert
• Establish the presence of the expert
• Establishes the mastery of the content

Reconfigurable Multiple Wavelength Optical
Systems and Networks
Introduction gt About This Course
This course has been sponsored by the IEEE Laser
and Electro-Optics Society.
Alan Eli Willner University of Southern
California
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Selected Titles
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Expert Now IEEE News

• The whole library is available for subscription
  to the membership
• One course at a time
• At a considerable discount
• The library is available for use by Sections and
  Chapters

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How your Section can benefit

• Use modules in Section and Chapter meetings
• Module is projected with Q/A and comments by a
  local expert
• Successful pilot run in Singapore

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Recognition of Leaders in Education
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EAB has a successful awards programwww.ieee.org/e
ducation

• Meritorious Achievement Award in Accreditation
  Activities
• Meritorious Achievement Award in Continuing
  Education
• Meritorious Achievement in Informal Education
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• Pre-University Educator Award
• Major Educational Innovation Award
• Meritorious Service Citation
• Employer Professional Development Award
• Society/Council/Section  Professional Development
  Award
• Vice President's Recognition Award

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A few award recipients from the past

• Ronald Rohrer
• J. David Irwin
• Les Besser
• Mario Gonzalez
• Richard P. D'Onofrio
• H. Vincent Poor
• Companies Texas Instruments, Motorola, Turk
  Elektrik Endustrisi (TEE)

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How your Section can participate

• Nominate candidates for awards
• Pre-university educators
• Companies that helped your Section in
  education-related activities
• Volunteers who excelled in educational activities
• Including Accreditation and Informal Education

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Summary Ongoing Activities

• TISP
• TryEngineering
• The Munich Summit
• Meeting the Growing Demand For Engineers and
• Their Educators 2010 - 2020 International Summit
• Accreditation
• Model Curricula
• Real-life Engineering Project Initiative
• Expert Now
• Recognizing Leaders in Education

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Questions or comments?