Educational Activities Mark J. T. Smith, Purdue University ECEDHA President June 21, 2008 EAB Meeting, Denver, Colorado Gerald Kane, The University of Tulsa ECEDHA Vice President Reporting for

ECEDHA Leadership l President : Gerry Kane (Tulsa) l Vice President: Issa Batarseh (Central Florida) l Secretary - Treasurer: Ed Schlesinger (Carnegie Mellon) l Past Presidents: Jon Bredeson (Texas Tech/Oklahoma) and Mark Smith (Purdue) l Members at Large: Gary May (Georgia Tech) and Steve Horan (New Mexico State) l Canadian Representative: Jonathan Rose (Toronto) l IEC Representative: Wayne Bennett (Clemson) l Executive Director: John Janowiak (IEC)

ECEDHA 2008 Meeting San Diego, California ECE 2020: Fresh Image, Fresh Ideas l Outside speakers: l Alex Osadzinski (Venture Partner, Trinity Ventures) : Funding Innovation l Todd Walker (Innovation Advocate, Hewlett-Packard) and Cormac Conroy (Vice President of Engineering, Qualcomm): Industrial Support for Innovative Learning Methodology l Khaled Ben Letaief (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China) and Robert Ayan (Chief Strategist, El Hassan Science City, Jordan and Managing Partner, Cambridge Advisors): International Perspectives on ECE Education and Academic Research l Armando Valim (National Instruments): Industrial Partnerships in Recruitment and Retention

ECEDHA 2008 Meeting, San Diego, California ECE 2020: Fresh Image, Fresh Ideas (continued) l Recruitment and Retention Leah Jamieson (IEEE) and Sarah Rajala (ASEE): Professional Society Efforts on Recruitment and Retention of ECE Students l ABET l Best Practices for ABET: Participants submitted presentations about their departmental initiatives for ABET assessment for review and discussion by attendees with a summary session l Open Forum: See response to questions to respond to this group. l Annual Sessions l Presentations by ECEDHA Members l Large School / Small School Breakout Session l Industrial partnerships in Recruitment and Retention Plenary l Curricula to Encourage Innovation Plenary l Open Forum, ABET Workshop, New Chairs Workshop, networking opportunities

2008 Globalization Workshop Second Annual Workshop, February 2008 See report submitted by Mark Smith ECEDHA 2008 Annual Meeting, March 2008 :NSF/ECEDHA Globalization Workshop Revisited Facilitator: Ken Jenkins (Pennsylvania State) Panelists: Ken Connor (Rensselaer), Hussein Mousavinezhad (Idaho State), Keith Teague (Oklahoma State), Steve Phillips (Arizona State), Thad Welch (Boise State) Invited Participants: Khaled Ben Letaief (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Robert Ayab, ( Jordan, Cambridge Advisors) Presentations available on ECEDHA website

ECEDHA and IEEE CEAA Questions from April 2008 EAB Meeting 1.Does ABET criterion 2 provide useful information for you to modify and improve your program? NO (~60%) 2.Do ABET-specified outcomes enable you to determine whether your program is accomplishing its goals? NO (~60%) 3.In the absence of a ABET requirement, would your programs continue outcomes-based assessment? Overwhelmingly NO (70-75% NO) ECEDHA was requested to provide feedback to IEEE CEAA from its open forum.

ECEDHA 2008 Meeting Open Forum ABET Comments 1.The definition of evaluation is being construed to mean that unless changes are made that no evaluation has been performed. 2.Criterion 3 is being interpreted that outcomes a-k must be included verbatim as the program outcomes even when an institutions unique outcomes can be mapped to a-k. 3.Presentation of data about student performance without evaluation of that data is deemed sufficient to meet the requirement of Criterion 3. 4.Criterion 4 does not appear to require programs to evaluate the effect of changes, just to make changes. ECEDHA concerns to convey to ABET during revision process.

Current Initiatives of ECEDHA Board of Directors l Plan for twenty-fifth annual meeting New Orleans, March 2009 l Garner corporate support for ECEDHA and its programs l Continue globalization outreach