1 Welcome to the Teacher In- Service Program in Cordoba 6 September 2008 Cordoba Argentina Moshe Kam IEEE Educational Activities For Evangelia Micheli Tzanakou 2008 Vice President, Educational Activities

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3 Quick Analysis of data from the candy bag exercise Average weight g Min250 g Max5250 g Median1700 g Standard Deviation g

4 Histogram of Candy Bag Carrying Weight

5 And now a few words about the Educational Activities Board

6 Educational Activities Board l One of the six (6) major Boards of IEEE l Responsible for IEEE’s activities in pre-university, university-level and post-university (continuing) education l Including accreditation l 15 Board members l Approximately 60 committee members l Staff support of 18 l Educational Activities Department EAB: SMALL BUT POWERFUL

7 IEEE Vice Presidents for Education James Tien Evangelia Micheli- Tzanakou Current Moshe Kam

8 Areas covered in this presentation l Pre-university engineering education l The Teacher In Service Program (TISP) l l University-level education l Accreditation outside the United States l Retention: Real World Engineering Projects l Public awareness of engineering l “Meeting the Growing Demand For Engineers and Their Educators ”

9 Pre-University Engineering Education l Objective: increase the propensity of young people to select engineering as a career path l Objective: provide students, parents, teachers and school counselors with high-quality and inviting information about what engineers do and engineering careers

10 The Teacher in Service Program “Engineering in the Classroom”

11 Sample TISP Topics l Everything You Wanted to Know About Electric Motors But Were Afraid to Ask l Rocket Cars and Newton’s Laws l Rotational Equilibrium: A Question of Balance l Effective Lighting l Get Connected with Ohm’s Law l Design and Build Your Own Robot Arm l Learn to Program and Test Robots for Classroom Use

12 Rotational Equilibrium: A Question of Balance Teacher In Service Program (TISP) Cape Town, South Africa Moshe Kam and Douglas Gorham IEEE Educational Activities 4 August 2006

13 Version 1 l A three-level four-weight design Level 1 Level 2 Level 3

14 Materials l Rods made of balsa wood sticks, 30cm long l Strings made of sewing thread or fishing string l 5-cent coins l 240 weight paper (“cardboard”) l Adhesive tape l Paper and pens/pencils

15 Tools and Accessories l Scissors l Hole Punchers l Pens l Wine/water glasses l Binder clips l 30cm Ruler l Band Saw (optional) l Marking pen l Calculator (optional)

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17 Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 5 mm Rods of level 3 and 2 are tied to rods of level 2 and 1 respectively, at a distance of 5mm from the edge of the lower level rod

18 Designing the Mobile Level 3 l W x 1 = W y 1 l x 1 + y 1 = 290 Level 2 l 2W x 2 = W y 2 l x 2 + y 2 = 290 Write and solve the equations for x i And y i (i=1,2,3) 290 mm

19 Version 2 l Design a more complicated mobile l More levels (say 5) l Three weights on lowest rod, at least two on each one of the other rods l Different weights l First, provide a detailed design and diagram with all quantities l Show all calculations, specify all weights, lengths, etc. l Then, build, analyze and provide a short report

20 Lobster Tail and Fish Trap, 1939, mobile Hanging Apricot, 1951, standing mobile Standing Mobile, 1937 Mobile, 1941

21 New Lesson Plans Give Binary A TryComputer arithmetic and ALU design Hand Biometrics TechnologyBiometrics Sail AwayWatercraft design Simple Kitchen MachinesSimple Machines Dispenser DesignsDesign: user satisfaction, costs, materials Engineering Ups and DownsElevators Build a Big WheelFerris Wheels

22 Additional New Lesson Plans l Sort it Out l Sticky Engineering Challenge l Ship the Chip l Move That Lighthouse! l A Question of Balance l Program Your Own Game l Engineering Air Traffic l Pipeline Challenge l Infrared Investigations l Hull Engineering l Engineered Sports l Engineered Memory l Wind Tunnel Testing

23 Recent information “From the Field” l Six new programs in South Africa l To subject advisors and educators l Total number of affected teachers will be more than 700 l Four new programs in Malaysia l 160 teachers

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30 TryEngineering.org The IEEE portal for pre-university students, their parents, teachers and school counselors

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35 University-level Sections in TryEngineering l Graduate Studies l Links to all graduate studies websites of listed universities l How to find an appropriate program? l How to find and work with an advisor? l Preparation for employment in engineering l Job interviews, Resume preparation, Job banks l Improving “soft skills” and marketability of qualifications

36 University Level Activities Accreditation outside the United States

37 IEEE’s Role in Accreditation (1) l IEEE considers accreditation a key vehicle to ensure active involvement of the Institute in maintaining the quality and relevance of engineering education l IEEE seeks a leadership role in accreditation within all the areas of its technical activities

38 Key IEEE Activities l Providing help to accrediting bodies in formation l Including training of evaluators l Providing help to groups that want to start new accrediting bodies l Providing education about accreditation

39 Where does IEEE-CGAA operate now? l China: “Working Group on Education in China” l First meeting: November 2006 l Peru: ICACIT l The Caribbean: CACET l new accrediting body for programs taught in English l T&T: West Indies University

40 International Accreditation: China l In 2006 we established an accreditation working group in China l Face-to-face meeting in November 2006 l 2007 Activities l A major workshop on engineering accreditation in cooperation with CAST l A translation of ABET accreditation materials into Chinese was completed by EAB l Meetings with decision makers in various ministries

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Activities l An accreditation workshop with CAST and the PRC Ministry of Education l Beijing, 22 March 2008 l Close to 250 attendees l All fields of engineering l A 4-hour event narrated by M. Lightner and M. Kam

45 International Accreditation: Peru l IEEE is providing on-going assistance to the Peruvian accrediting body ICACIT l ICACIT was formed in the early 2000s l In December 2006 we have provided the first non-US EAB training for program evaluators in Peru l Instructional material developed l Mario Gonzalez prepared and delivered l We provided a complete translation of ABET materials into Spanish l We are also maintaining a website for ICACIT

46 Training session for Peruvian program evaluators, December 2006 Lima, December 2006

47 Arequipa, December 2007

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49 Activities Planned for 2008 l Final versions of accreditation manuals l Engineering, Technology, Computing l Appointment of 20 Program Evaluators l Staffing of the accreditation committees l The first series of independent accreditation visits by ICACIT

50 Caribbean Accreditation Council for Engineering and Technology

51 Scope l English speaking Caribbean l An effort requiring 3-6 years l and the consent and participation of all major constituencies l A collaboration of… l Academic institutions and the faculty l Industry, especially employers of engineers and technologists l Governmental bodies and regulators

52 Activities for l Two administrative and training meetings l Develop structure and accreditation documents l CACET will become a line item on the budget of CARICOM l First visit – possibly 2010 (!)

53 Accreditation.org A new IEEE portal on all aspects of academic accreditation

54 Increasing Student Retention

55 “Real World Engineering Projects” l Projects that will lead to a new resource for faculty who teach first year electrical engineering (EE), computer engineering (CE) and computer science (CS) students These projects should: l Focus students on Real World problems with solutions that benefit society l Get students excited about their own, original creative solutions l Increase student retention through personal satisfaction and accomplishment

56 Projects selected in 2007 (1) l Manipulating Everyday Objects With Prosthetic Hands l Chris Macnab, the University of Calgary, Canada l Error Correction Codes for Wireless Communication Systems l Sami Khorbotly, Ohio Northern University, USA l Using Engineering to Save the Planet - One Ear at a Time l Jeff Gibbons, Collins County Community College, TX, USA l Solid State Lighting for the Developing World l Loren Wyard-Scott from the University of Alberta, Canada l Smarter Vehicles l Leyla Nazhandali, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA

57 Projects selected in 2007 (2) l Audio Forensics: Solving a Crime using Digital (Audio) Signal Processing l Jennifer Murdoch and others from the University of Victoria, Canada. l Power Electronics/System: A Look at Renewable Energy l Taryn Bayles, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA. l HCI Alternatives using the Nintendo Wii l Gautam Srivastava and others from the University of Victoria, Canada. l Feedback Controlled Brushless DC Motor l Stephen Williams from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, US.

58 Meeting the Growing Demand For Engineers and Their Educators International Summit Munich, Germany November 2007

59 Continuing Education

60 Expert Now IEEE l The best of IEEE’s educational content delivered in one-hour long online learning modules l 50 modules are included in the current version l By the end of 2007 we will have at least 75 l The latest information on emerging technologies and seminal works l presented at the best of IEEE’s conference tutorials, short courses and workshops

61 This course has been sponsored by the IEEE Laser and Electro- Optics Society IEEE Conference on Optical Fiber Communication Introduction > About This Course Reconfigurable Multiple Wavelength Optical Systems and Networks A master of ceremony approach to introducing the presenter Establishes the presenter as the expert of the content (SME) Begins the presentation in a professional manner The course objectives are introduced by the Expert Establish the presence of the expert Establishes the mastery of the content Alan Eli Willner University of Southern California Optical Fiber Communication

62 Selected Titles SOCIETYSMETOPIC Communications SocietyKai SiwiakUWB Radio Technology Computer SocietyDwight BorsesWireless Sensor Networks Electron Devices SocietyJohn CresslerRF Devices & Circuits Engineering Management Society Mike AucoinTransition to Management Industry Applications Society Eric PerrsonInverter Power Stage Design for Appliance Motor Drives Lasers & Electro-Optics Society Ira Jacobs Joe Campbell Introduction to Fiber Optics Optoelectronic Devices for Fiber Optics Power Electronics Society David MiddlebrookDesign-Oriented Feedback and Analysis Reliability SocietyWayne EllisEffects of Reliability Mechanisms on VLSI Circuit Functionality Solid-State CirucuitsArya BehzadWireless-LAN Radio Design

63 How can your Section get involved l Use modules in Section and Chapter meetings l Module is projected with Q/A and comments by a local expert l This model was tried in six different sections and appears to be successful

64 What do we want to achieve in Argentina ? l Create a sustainable pre-university engineering education program l TISP program l Participation in TryEngineering.org l Reach 150 pre-university teachers in one year l All over the country l 300 teachers in the next two years l Make TryEngineering a popular resource among teachers and students in the pre-university and university communities in Argentina

65 If you want to be part of EAB’s activities… l Moshe Kam: l D.G. Gorham:

66 Questions or comments? EAB is at your service