Educational Activities Board Meeting

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Educational Activities Board Meeting

• November 2003
• Seattle, Washington USA
• Pre-College Education Update
• Ted Batchman - Chair PECC

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Region 8 Meeting

• Connecting Engineers with the Pre-University
  Community
• Held on 26-28 September 2003 in Nice, France
• Simon Jones, Program Chair
• Ted Batchman, Program Co-Chair
• Maurice Papo, Local Arrangements Chair

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Region 8 Meeting Contd

• Goals
• Empower Region 8 Section champions to develop
  collaborations with their local pre-university
  community to promote applied inquiry-based
  learning
• Enhance the level of technological literacy of
  pre-university educators
• Encourage pre-university students to pursue
  technical careers, including engineering
• To increase the general level of technological
  literacy of students for many years

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Region 8 Meeting Contd

• Sections Represented
• Croatia
• Cyprus
• Egypt
• France
• Macedonia
• Republic of South Africa
• Saudi Arabia
• Serbia
• Spain
• Sweden
• Turkey
• United Kingdom

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Region 8 Meeting Contd

• Presentations
• Arthur Winston, IEEE President-Elect
• Jim Tien, IEEE EAB Vice President
• Sue Martin, UK, Keynote speaker
• Section presentations from
• France Turkey
• Spain Egypt
• Sweden United Kingdom
• Republic of South Africa

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Region 8 Meeting Contd

• Section champions generated action plans to
  connect engineers with their local pre-university
  community
• Action plan strategies included
• Implement Future Cities Competition
• Engineering faculty developing projects for local
  high school students
• Translate existing materials into local language,
  e.g., French, Arabic
• Coordinate efforts with the Ministry of Education
• Update Section website to include pre-university
  information for teachers and students
• A Section collaborating with the local university
  to promote engineering among teachers and
  students

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Region 8 Meeting Contd

• Support for this meeting was provided by
• IEEE Foundation
• IEEE Life Members Committee
• Region 8
• IEEE EAB

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Founder Societies Collaborating on Pre-college
Education

• Initiated due to a grant from the United
  Engineering Foundation
• Focus of our efforts is to explore collaborative
  strategies to impact pre-college education
• Representatives from IEEE, ASME, AIChE, and ASCE
  participate

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Founder Societies Workshop on Pre-college
Education Contd

• Agreed upon areas for collaborative action
  include
• Outreach
• Joint exhibits planned for NCTM/NSTA/ASCD
• Joint brochure for educators and engineers
• Promotional material-- A common brochure for
  teachers and guidance counselors
• Women in Engineering
• Outreach manual for engineers

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IEEE Presidents Scholarship

• 10,000 US
• Elizabeth Van Cortlandt Varela was the 2003
  winner
• Presented by Arthur Winston at the Intel
  International Science and Engineering Fair in May
  2003
• Support provided by the IEEE Foundation

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Teacher In-Service Program www.ieee.org/eab/preco
llege/tispt

• Features engineers developing and presenting
  technologically oriented subject matter to
  pre-college educators
• Purpose
• To enhance the level of technological literacy of
  pre-college educators
• To establish engineer/educator partnerships to
  promote applied inquiry-based learning

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Participating Sections

• North Jersey, NJ
• Republic of South Africa
• Oakland-East Bay, CA
• Worcester, MA
• St. Louis, MO
• San Diego, CA
• Baltimore, MD

• Chattanooga, TN
• Miami, FL
• Florida West Coast
• Toronto, Canada
• Santa Clara, CA
• Fort Worth, TX
• Twin Cities, MN

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Metrics To Date

• Twenty-one presentations to date
• 390 pre-college educators have participated
• Science, technology and mathematics disciplines
• 41,000 students represented
• Nearly 100 of the respondents agreed that they
  would use the concepts presented in their
  instruction, and that doing so would enhance the
  level of technological literacy of their students

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Teacher In-Service Presentations

• Teacher in-service presentations are scheduled in
  the Florida West Coast Section during November
  2003
• Support has been provided by the IEEE Life
  Members Committee, the IEEE Foundation, the
  Verizon Foundation, IEEE EAB and IEEE-USA