Pre-College Education

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Pre-College Education

• IEEE Region 4 Meeting
• Jan 31 Feb 1, 2004
• Don C. Bramlett, PE, SMIEEE
• IEEE Region 4 East Area Chair
• Southeastern Michigan Section

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Pre-College Education

• Any IEEE Section can have a Pre-College Education
  Committee and Program
• It does not matter where the Section is, how
  large/small the Section is in area, how many
  members the Section has, how many officers the
  Section has, or how active the Section technical
  program/professional programs are

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Pre-College Education

• IEEE organizational support
• IEEE-USA
• Pre-College Education Committee
  www.ieeeusa.org/committees/PEC/
• IEEE Region 4
• Ken Reid, reid_at_ieee.org
• IEEE Education Activities Board
• Pre-College Education Coordinating Committee
  www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/pecc/

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Pre-College Education

• Southeastern Michigan Section
• www.ieee-sem.org/ (ongoing Section involvement)
• Michigan Regional Future City Competition
  www.esd.org/future_city.htm
• (Mentors, IEEE Special Award Judges,
  Competition Judges)
• National Engineer Week Discover E Program
  www.eweek.org/site/DiscoverE/
• (Career Day like presentations, Section
  provides materials)
• Science and Engineering Fair of Metropolitan
  Detroit www.sefmd.org
• (IEEE Special Awards Judges, General Category
  Judges)

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Pre-College Education

• Many nationwide Pre-College Education Programs
• MATHCOUNTS (NSPE) (middle school)
  www.mathcounts.org/
• National Engineers Week (NEW) Discover E Program
  (K-12) www.eweek.org/site/DiscoverE/
• Future City Competition (NEW committee) (middle
  school) www.futurecity.org
• The Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS)
  National Engineering Design Competition
  (NEDC) (high school) www.jets.org/programs/nedc.cf
  m
• Science Olympiad (middle school)
  www.scienceolympiad.org
• TEAMS (Test for Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics
  Science) (JETS) (high school)
  www.jets.org/programs/teams.cfm
• A World in Motion Society of Automotive
  Engineers (SAE) (K-12) www.sae.org/foundation/
  awim/

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Pre-College Education

• Many nationwide Pre-College Education Programs
• FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science
  and Technology) Robotics Competition (high
  school) www.usfirst.org/robotics
• FIRST Lego League (elementary middle school)
  www.usfirst.org/programs/jrobtcs/flego.htm
• Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (NEW
  committee) www.eweek.org/site/News/Eweek/girlsday.
  shtml
• ZOOM into Engineering (NEW committee)
  www.eweek.org/site/Engineers/zoom.shtml
• etc

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Pre-College Education

• Many local Pre-College Education Programs
• Robofest (Lawrence Technological University
  Southeastern Michigan Section) (5th 12 grades)
  www.robofest.net
• Young Scholars (Central Indiana Section) (middle
  high school)
• Robot Challenge (Baltimore Section) (9th 11th
  grades) www.robotchallenge.com
• Engineers Day Project (Cedar Rapids Section)
  (open attendance)
• Science Fairs
• etc