Developing An Agenda for University Education and Research in Technical Standards Timothy Schoechle International Center for Standards Research University of Colorado, Boulder Breaking Down Borders: business standards and trade ANSI Annual Conference 2002

Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 2 Standardization as a “profession” –Strategic to economy –National and global What is being done now? –Courses, curriculum, research agenda, conferences –Research and education must go together How to raise importance –Expand standards education at the university level Outline

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 3 Conferences and meetings Academic “disciplines” Standards as a “professional” activity Standards still hidden –From public –From management—recognition of strategic value Standards touch every discipline –business, management, economics, engineering, social sciences, political science, sociology, law But— We have—

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 4 ANSI Education Committee SES Session previous several years on Education ITI Council Education Committee Graduate Courses at Universities: –Kelly/Purcell—Catholic University –Bloomfield/Schoechle —University of Colorado –Strauss—Northwestern University –Spring—Penn State Focus on Higher Ed

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 5 Continuing education —long history New inititatives –Director of Education and Training (Pamela Suett) –ad hoc Committee on Standards Awareness and Education university ad hoc group Drivers –Declining membership in ANSI –US strategic competitiveness issues in global trade –Multinational corporations ANSI Initiatives in Education

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 6 Trying to respond or lead –Provide what industry wants or needs –Government/university/industry complex Confusion between research and education roles –Trying to tie these back together In standards — research and education inseparable –Inherently interdisciplinary –Research feeds teaching, and vice versa University Educators’ point of view

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 7 Unversity of Aachen (Germany) Technical University of Delft (The Netherlands) Erasmus University (The Netherlands) University of Edinburgh (UK) University of the Bundeswher (Germany) Catholic University (USA) Northwestern University (USA) University of Colorado (USA) Academic activity in standards research

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 8 University of Aachen (RWTH) –SIIT 99 1st IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (September 1999) Technical University of Delft –6th EURAS workshop on Standards, Compatibility and Infrastructure Development (June 2001) –Host of SIIT 2003 University der Bundeswehr, Hamburg –1st & 2nd Interdisciplinary Workshop on Standardization Research (May 1999 and August 2001) Academic activity in standards research

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 9 University der Bundeswehr, Hamburg –2nd Interdisciplinary Workshop on Standardization Research (September 2001) University of Colorado, Boulder –SIIT 2001: 2nd IEEE Conference on Standardization and Innovation in Information Technology (October 2001) Academic activity in standards research

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 10 Events and publications –Conferences –Papers and journal articles –Books and proceedings Case studies Theoretical foundations Student/faculty research Courses and curricula Academic activity in standards research

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 11 NEW Academic Journal on Standards Research Academic activity in standards research International Journal of IT Standards & Standardization Research Subscribe and contribute!

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 12 Current research topics (examples) –Rise of consortia standardization –SDO and consortia roles, hybrid models –Legitimation of consortia –Standards development processes (SCOT) –Innovation –Intellectual property issues –Economic models and network effects –Public policy issues in standardization Standards Research

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 13 Public policy issues (examples) –privacy –security –quality –patents –trademarks –“digital divide” –social responsibility Standards Research –copyrights and fair use –freedom of speech –technical innovation –industrial policy and trade –monopoly and competitive markets –access to networks and information

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 14 Curriculum development –CU ITP: oldest interdisciplinary telecom standards course TLEN 5190 —offered since early 1980s employs books, journal articles, corporate and trade association literature, guest speakers, websites and list servers Rapid change & convergence: Telecom and IT How to manage standards education –not tied to a discipline (telecom, IT, medicine, etc.) Standards Education Key Issues —

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 15 Not a “discipline” Part of all disciplines How located in the university structure? How results are assessed Standards Research Key Issues —

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 16 Is standardization a separate academic discipline? –A big question! Standards education as: –Integrated into engineering curricula –Requirement for accreditation of engineering programs –Graduate and undergraduate Institutional Perspectives

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 17 Depends on development of research agenda –scientific paradigm (problems, solutions & methods) Depends on universities working with industry and government Future of Standards Research and Education – TU Delft – Univ of Aachen – Hamburg – CU Boulder – Catholic U – EURAS (EU) – ICSR (USA) – EASST (UK)

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 18 Prototyping and evaluation of new approaches Changing subject matter Cultural dependencies Inadequate theoretical foundations Crossing disciplinary boundaries How to quantify importance of standards Challenges: Future of standards research and education

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 19 Develop courses –Case studies –Multimedia materials –New learning technologies Demonstrate tangible benefits—quantify Professional and academic recognition Novel directions for research thesis topics Opportunities: Future of Standards Research and Education

ANSI Annual Conference 2002 Breaking Down Borders: business, standards and trade 20 Standards integrated into Higher Ed curricula –How to do it? Suggest Research agenda –To meet faculty needs –To meet industry needs –To meet government needs (standards as policymaking) Set Action items –For further university, industry and gov’t collaboration Objectives for Today