1 EDS EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES REPORT Meyya Meyyappan EDS Educational Activities Vice-President June 2012

2 EDS DISTINGUISHED LECTURER AND MINI-COLLOQUIA PROGRAMS * As of 5/21/12

DL & MQ Regional View

4 COST OF THE EDS DISTINGUISHED LECTURER AND MINI-COLLOQUIA PROGRAMS * TOTAL DL & MQ COST TO EDS $70.1K$95.9K$84.1K$84.2K$100.8K$66.3K DL & MQ BUDGETED AMOUNT $70K$90K $107K$80K AMOUNT (OVER) / UNDER BUDGET ($0.1K)($5.9K)$5.9K$5.8K$6.2K$13.7K * As of 5/21/12

5 EDS KEY INITIATIVES On-line registration tool for DL-MQs - Update DL-MQ Registration tool created Piloted system for on-line registration for a few MQ Will start outreach efforts to attendees once the registration process is complete

6 EDS KEY INITIATIVES EDS Webinar – Update Our Webinars continue to be extremely successful Our last Webinar was held in conjunction with SSCS on Date: May 23, 2012 Lecture Title: From Deep Trenches to Skyscrapers – Orthogonal Scaling Speaker: S.S. Iyer EDS Shortcourse DVD ?

7 Meyya Meyyappan VP for Educational Activities and Juin Liou VP for Regions/Chapters

8 EDS by far has the most number of DLs, compared to similarly- sized IEEE Societies. We have 115 DLs currently. CAS = 20 DLs, IAS = 13 DLs, MTTS = 13 DLs, SSCS = 17 DLs With this many DLs, is the title even prestigious? Other Societies only have a handful of DLs as above and the DL title is hard to come by; as a result, prestige also is high. Due to the large number of DLs, the administration of the DL Program is very time consuming. Current EDL DL Selection Guidelines are too lenient/easy -Any Fellow can be a DL; automatic approval upon nomination -Any Senior member can be a DL too, if nominated. -Senior Member case goes for approval of the Education Committee, but it is rare that a nomination does not get approved.

9 EDS DLS EDS Members by Region

10 Grandfather the current list of DLs In the current list, drop the inactive DLs as we go along using the rule we have now: if a DL does not perform 2 lectures in 2 years, then he/she gets dropped Selection of Future DLs -Minimum qualification: Fellow -Exception ok for regions with not many Fellows (Regions 7 & 9) : then allow Senior Members -Ask for a sample 5 minute ppt. in the nomination package? -Ask the EduCom to be tough in the evaluation and approval -Selection will be done only ONCE a year during December ADCOM. NO YEAR-AROUND VOTING!

11 Very popular currently, we get a lot of requests Limited funding; we declined 66% of the requests this year We always strive for a Regional Balance when granting funding requests Unscientific data tells this: -Attendance for MQs is very high in Asia -Attendance in North America and Europe is rather small (One MQ in Canada had just the organizer’s group members plus a handful of people) Should we go for “maximum people per dollar”? If so, no MQs will be funded outside of Asia! Insist on organizers doing a good job of promoting the event.

12 We need your comments and feedback

13 DL Program is designed more of a service to members than as a prestige to the DLs. -So, it is ok to have a larger number of DLs than other societies of comparable size -Need the numbers to draw from a large pool to cover all regions. Fellow is not a criteria for a good DL. Demands are good speaking ability, subject matter expertise, interesting topics… -Needs vary among countries and audiences -Advanced topics and recent results in advanced countries whereas Introductory Lectures in chapters at Universities in developing countries

14 Use feedback from DL/MQs effectively Presentation of EDS slides needs to be streamlined and should be condensed to about 5 slides Strong sentiments against tinkering with the program too much -Feeling is that it is working fine the way it is

15 No major changes to the DL/MQ programs, but make them more effective and productive. Condense the EDS slides and get more feedback from the chapters organizing the DL/MQ Use the current process in place to drop inactive DLs. DL Nomination Review once a year with final decision by the Committee in the December ADCOM Remove the ‘Automatic approval’ provision for Fellows. A number of feedbacks indicated that a nominee being a Fellow does not mean that he/she is a good speaker and/or the topic is interesting. Keep the Senior Member option open for all regions