SSCS Education Committee

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SSCS Education Committee

• C.K. Ken Yang
• UCLA
• Committee Chairman

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Pittsburgh 0, Seattle 0

• as of 400 1st quarter

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Agenda

• Distinguished Lecturer Program
• Expert Now IEEE

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Distinguished Lecture Program

• Based on Chapter Reports
• 2 more in the invoices
• 3 more in the newsletters

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Revised List of Distinguished Lecturers

• Dr. Rinaldo Castello
• Dr. Kiyoo Itoh
• Dr. Sung-Mo (Steve) Kang
• Dr. Thomas Lee
• Dr. Massoud Pedram
• Dr. Vojin G. Oklobdzija
• Dr. Behzad Razavi
• Dr. Jan Van der Spiegel
• Dr. Eric Vittoz
• Dr. Albert Wang

• Dr. Richard Jaeger
• Dr. Anantha Chandrakasan
• Dr. Jan Rabaey
• Dr. Takayasu Sakurai
• Dr. Marcel J.M. Pelgrom
• Dr. David Alstot
• Dr. Betty Prince
• Dr. H.S. Philip Wong

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2006 DL Program Revisions

• Target 10 new DLs per year.
• 2 year tenures
• 2 DL lectures per year.
• DL candidates are based on
• Nominations from the AdCom
• Current AdCom members
• Short Course/Tutorial presenters
• Commonly invited speakers to local chapters
• Deadline for 2007 nominations on Sept. 30
• Invitations and confirmation by end of November.

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2006 DL Proposals

• Target Region 8 and 10
• Expand Far-East and European lecturers.
• DL Tours
• Group several DLs.
• Week () long travel to several less-visited SSCS
  Chapters of a region.
• Region 8 and 10
• 10-20K per tour for 3 DLs.

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Expert Now IEEE Modules

• Broad general interest tutorials
• Convert conference Short Courses and Tutorials
  into 1-hr modules (segments).
• 2 per year.
• Offered through the IEEE Xplorer platform.
• Service all IEEE members across various
  societies.
• Professionally designed user interfaces
• Consistent graphical interface.
• Links to external resources
• Example http//xell.ieee.org
• Username elearning
• Password ieee

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Expert Now (XELL) Modules

• 2004 Modules
• Wireless-LAN Radio Design (2 parts)
• Arya Behzad
• Introduction to PLL DLL Design for Digital
  Systems
• Dennis Fischette
• 2005 Module
• Nanotechnology
• Philip Wong
• 2006 Module
• Organic Electronics
• John Kymissis
• ??? Norman Rohrer Variability
• ??? David Robertson High-speed A/D

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Action Items

• DL Tours investigate interest from DLs.
• Suggestions and comments
• DL program
• Expert Now module presenter
• yang_at_ee.ucla.edu