EOT Issue Forum

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EOT Issue Forum

• Report on Discussions

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• In what ways can the NEES CI, including
  (multi-site) experiments, high-fidelity data,
  visualization, etc. be more effectively utilized
  for education, outreach, and/or training
  activities? How can the tools and outcomes
  facilitate other opportunities for EOT projects?
  What partnerships need to be established to
  accomplish these goals?

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? USING NEW TOOLS

• Essentials collaborative (no re-inventing),
  engaging, CI tools, educational modules tied to
  national teaching standards/curriculum (_at_K-12),
  faculty development (_at_ univ and K-12)
• Two main ideas to initiate these activities
• Collaborative (live/virtual) equipment
  site/experiment tours
• Collection integration of existing activities
  (CCLI?) at undergrad and/or high school levels
• How do equipment sites, etc find the right
  contacts to invite/arrange demos?
• Student organizations (SWE, NSBE), activities in
  other departments, orientation events, engineers
  week, etc

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? USING NEW TOOLS

• Dissemination NEES website redesign, repository
  for best activities for adoption by broader
  community, also NSDL is important

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• 2. Should a NEES Student Association be formed?
  What type of model would this organization
  follow, and what are the roles and
  responsibilities of the members? of a possible
  leadership council? What would be the benefits to
  the students and to the NEES community? What
  expenses would occur and how could these be
  funded?

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? STUDENT ASSOCIATION

• At this time not a lot of support for this idea.
• Benefits to students leadership skills
• Motivation ??
• Could participate in outreach activities and
  design competition
• How fund?
• Maybe better to work with existing organizations,
  EERI chapters, etc

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• 3. How will the NEES EOT community effectively
  support researchers in the development and
  offering of short courses and seminars designed
  to bring the latest research outcomes to
  practicing engineers? How can NEESinc assist with
  coordination? How does the community avoid
  duplication of efforts by different NEESR teams?
• How can NEESinc support?
• How to engage practitioners?
• Where announce?

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? PRACTITIONER OUTREACH

• Work with other groups to disseminate and
  increase awarenessASCE, EERI, etc.
• Short courses
• how to avoid duplication
• accreditation/CEUs
• How can NEESinc staff help?
• posting on website
• coordination of multiple offerings in several
  places
• organization and consistency in materials

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• 4. What should be NEES lasting EOT legacy? What
  programs/activities would need to be successfully
  undertaken in order to establish these legacy
  goals?
• Post year 10
• What is success?
• Do we need a Vision/Mission statement?
• Measureable outcomes?
• Website NSDL interactions?

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? LEGACY

• Suite of Outcomes
• proven exercises evaluation
• research in learning and teaching distributed
  framework
• based on real-world data and CI tools
• broadening participation
• impact on future engineering workforce
• Full concept will need time to verbalize,
  educational collaboratory
• Developing a EOT Forum to maintain communication
  among EOT personnel at sitesmonthly conference
  calls