Educational Committee Report

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Educational Committee Report
Takashi Tsubouchi   Inst. of Engineering
Mechanics and Systems  University of Tsukuba

• Paolo Fiorini
• Computer Science Department
• University of Verona

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Activities

• Organization of Special Session on Robotics
  Education (ICRA04)
• Participation to Workshop on Robotics Education
  (ICRA04)
• Column on Education in the Magazine (starting
  Sept.)
• Long Range Planning Sub Committee

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Special Session on Robotics Education

• 4K funds approved for travel support
• 17 Papers submitted 6 papers selected by a panel
  of 8 reviewers (3 from Europe and 3 from USA)
• Two session with 3 more papers added
• Session was well attended

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EdCom LRP Sub-Committee

• Participants
• Paolo Fiorini
• Alicias Casals
• Bernardo Wagner
• Alex Leonessa
• Illah Nourbakhsh
• Takashi Tsubouchi
• Richard Volz
• Uwe ??
• Anna Friesel
• Stewart ?? (Microsoft)
• Gerard McKee
• Sanjay Joshi

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Issues from Work Shop on Robotics Education

• Tutorials and Workshops
• Registration for tutorials only
• Tutorials free for students
• Publication of tutorial material
• Web initiatives
• Website maintained by (and of) RAS EdCom
• Webcasts of conference Tutorials (or play on
  demand)
• Web access to material
• Competitions
• Coordination of educational competitions
• Hardware
• Produce h/w developed by some group
• Curricula and Pedagogy
• Educate in ethics and issues other than technical
• Publication on how to teach robotics
• Develop a pedagogical model on how to teach
  robotics
• Publications
• Sponsor specific publications on education on
  robotics
• Periodic special issues of Magazine

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Issues from LRP sub-committee

• Curricula and School
• People and subjects on automation
• School on automation similar to robotics
• Certificaiton in continuing education courses
• This committee work on a reference curriculum on
  robotics, to prepare accreditation
• General goal to improve learning and teaching
  in robotics education
• Scholarships
• PERMANENT SCHOOL where to invest 20K per year,
  robotics. Industry, automation
• Handbook of robotics for non engineers
• Web initiatives
• Centralized web/electronics resources
• webcast could be complementary to the DVD
• Use and enhance the webbook, RAS can take over
  for the long term
• Teaching material
• Collection of selected papers, the key point will
  be the introduction and the connection among them
• distance learning (CD for classes with lectures
  material) workshops and tutorial packaged as a
  DVD
• courses on DVD effort at ieee
• Work on taxonomy of robotics defining terms and
  contents
• Evaluation of tools books, courses, .. Rating of
  resources