GOLD EAB EAB Meeting 19 Nov 2011 NJ T L Prasanna Venkatesan , GOLD Liaison to EAB

GOLD – EAB Efforts (2010 / 2011) Pre University Education Helped expand TISP / EPICS in India GOLD AG's take complete charge of Pre University activities in India and have shown tremendous commitment and maturity EPICS Championed in R9 by GOLD Volunteers 11/21/10

Pre University TISP - India 3 Sections have formed dedicated teams for TISP at section level 4 workshops hosted – 130 teachers trained Several partnerships have been struck with school administrations to sustain the effort A Science club has been opened in a school in Bangalore with the help of IEEE Volunteers TISP India Committee approved by R10 All efforts lead by GOLD Volunteers Further interest to host TISP Workshop by GOLD Volunteers from Pakistan 11/21/10

Pre University - TISP Photos   11/21/10

Pre University EPICS in IEEE Increasing leadership by GOLD AG in EPICS Several new projects initiated in R10 and R9 GOLD AG's 3 Projects lead by Argentina GOLD 6 Projects lead by GOLD Members in India 1 Full page article in GOLD Rush Newsletter about R9 efforts Efforts to sustain EPICS Proposal to partner with a successful Humanitarian activity in India to further sustain EPICS in India New Project with Purdue University to create E Learning modules for EPICS in IEEE GOLD Liaison appointed to R10 EAC 11/21/10

Continuing Education Meeting on "Continuing Education in India : opportunities and challenges" well attended by Industry / Academia leaders EAB VP , EAB MD , IEEE President take part Industry / Academia leaders share inputs on how IEEE can help w.r.t Continuing Education of members Training of Academicians identified as one of the key areas EAD effort launched in India on Continuing Education for academicians in partnership with IIT - key for GOLD since almost 80% of academicians are young engineers 11/21/10

Continuing Education New Initiative Proposal Environmental scan of the current set of training opportunities in India done 3 Step proposal to set up an "IEEE Young Academician Training Cell in India" was presented at the June meeting to CPEC Further discussion with IEEE India Director and possible cooperation with the existing EA effort to further scale 11/21/10

Continuing Education - New Initiative Engaging Developer communities Focus on Practicing Engineers - Engineers more focused on trivial technologies , hence not interested in our primary set of products and services including Explore , Conferences , Local meeting content and network etc Opportunity is huge - this group of practicing engineers form the major part of engineering population in developing nations (eg - BRIC)  Need to identify gaps , create and engage developer communities . Start offering educational resources to developers in the form of local CE workshops , online webinars / tutorials , developer conferences etc An example – more interest in DB Programming techniques compared to Database Indexing concepts . 11/21/10

Continuing Education - New Initiative Engaging Developer communities - first step Hyd GOLD hosted the first ever Drupal Camp Conference in Hyderabad on 11.11.11 Drupal Co founder as Keynote Speaker Drupal is the worlds largest CMS used by NSE , whitehouse.gov and many more  Conference gave us an opportunity to understand the needs of Drupal developers (practicing engineers) and gave us an opportunity to open up dialog with Drupal Action item - follow up dialog and draft a basic strategy to engage developer communities 11/21/10

Summary Primary objectives of collaboration GOLD Volunteers as EA Champions (Pre University / University and CE Programs) GOLD as a focus customer base Identify new opportunities to serve Young \ Engineers Create Educational offerings and innovative delivery mechanism to serve Young Engineers 11/21/10