Internationalization of IEEE Education Society Trond Clausen IEEE Norway Section CeTUSS workshop Uppsala, 8-9 June, 2009

Overview The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) presented by numbers IEEE Education Society (ES); mission & membership ES Chapters Committee including Student Activity Committee IEEE ES expansion Some other engineering education societies Where do we go from now on?

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) A non-profit organization, IEEE is the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology Over 380.000 members worldwide and growing 7 councils, f.inst. Superconductivity, Technical Management 7 communities for special interests, f.inst. Women in Engineering 38 technical societies 219 scientific journals and magazines, f.inst. IEEE Transactions on Quantum Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Education Head quarter in Piscataway, NJ, USA – but growth is strongest outside the United States http://www.ieee.org/

IEEE Education Society About 4.000 members worldwide. Objective: scientific, literary, and educational in character with a particular interest in Educational Methods and Technology, Instructional Materials, History of Science and Technology, and Professional Develop-ment Programs within Electrical Engineering, Com-puter Engineering, and Allied disciplines. Several Committees, f.inst. Finances, Awards, Chapters including the Student Activity Committee. http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/

IEEE ES Chapters Committee Chapters Committee’s responsibilities include: Assist in creating new chapters worldwide. Support existing chapters (Advice, general funds, complimentary dues, etc.) Develop leaders, which are necessary to maintain the vitality needed in a volunteer organization. Asssist and support the Student Activity Committee, which is presently publishing the fully peer reviewed Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine.

Globalization Until 2001 IEEE Education Society (ES) chapters (about 20) existed in the U.S. and Canada only. From 2001 ES chapters were created in Europe; first in the Nordic countries and Spain. From 2003 ES Administrative Committee set up the Chapters Committee. From 2004-2005 a long-lasting period of rapid growth commenced. About 2006 the Student Activity Committee became active. In 2008 the first steps were taken to ”include Africa” in the by now, almost world-spanning ES network. Today, the 76th chapter (Jordan) is ready to be accepted by IEEE. 119 IEEE Sections are now served by ES chapters

Some other Organizations for Engineering Education Full name of the organization URL address Head-quarter Member services ASEE American Society for Engineering Education www.asee.org/ U.S.A. Conferences, work-shops, exhibitions, journals, newsletters INEER International Network for Engineering Education and Research www.ineer.org/ Conferences, proceed-ings, books, newsletter IGIP Internationale Gesell-schaft für Ingenieurpä-dagogik www.igip.org/ Austria Symposia, newsletter, Cand. Paed. IGIP, conf. Proceedings, books SEFI Societé Européenne pour la Formation des Ingénieurs www.sefi.be/ Belgium Projects, journals, work-shops, working groups, newsletters WIETE World Institute for Engineering and Tech-nology Education www.wiete.com.au/ Au-stralia Conferences, confer. proceedings, journal, newsletters,

What now?? Is internationalization a good thing? or… May internationalization be considered ”a continuation of war by other means” – a transcription of von Clausewitz’ (1780-1831) famous saying that ”war is a continuation of diplomacy by other means”? Do we have an answer?

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