1. Trip Report WSC Academic Week 5-9 July 2010 IEEE SEC David Law Jennifer McClain Susan K. Tatiner 21 July 2010

2. WSC Academic Week Included … –International Cooperation on Education about Standardization (ICES) Workshop –World Standards Collaboration meetings WSC is joint effort of ISO, IEC, ITU SEC members have participated in ICES Workshop for several years.

3. Participants US and European academics Representatives from national standards bodies in Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and the US Director-and-above-level employees of standards-intensive companies (e.g., Siemens, QUALCOMM) ISO, IEC, and ITU representatives were in attendance as hosts

4. Scope of activity and target audience ICES and many others are focused on education about the standards process. –Not interested in technical education about standards. Target audience is students, not working engineers –European interest is at undergrad and postgrad level. –Asian interest is broader, spanning elementary to university. –Continuing education is not included.

5. Research Academics delivered message that it was important for standards education at university level to have research component. Research opportunities will increase academic interest in pursuing standards education. What can we do to create such opportunities?

6. Games and simulations Games and simulations have been developed to aid learning about standards development process. –ISO-sponsored simulation called “Welcome to Southistan” has received good feedback from participants. –NIST has a workshop game it uses as a teaching tool. ISO Business Game Competition announced. –Participants asked to develop a game to show the economic value of standards.

7. Participating/presenting universities with standards programs of varying levels Delft University of Technology (Netherlands) San Jose State University (US) (standardization taught within business courses) Erasmus University (Netherlands) Pennsylvania State University (US) Ecole Internationale des Sciences du Traitement de l’Information (France) Jiliang University (China) (one of 21 schools in China with programs in standardization) Ecole Polytechnique Federale deLausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland) University of Geneva (Switzerland) (launching a master’s program in standardization in conjunction with ISO)

8. Partnering with universities Should we look into opportunities to partner with these and other universities? –Internships  Many of the universities mentioned that they look for internships for their students –Funding standards chairs within departments  Expensive in US and EU, but perhaps less so in India or China

9. Possible action items from WSC week Provide all university contact information to Global Standards Search Ad Hoc for aid in finding content for new website. Ask University Outreach Ad Hoc (and possibly India Ad Hoc) to consider opportunities/challenges around research, internships, funding standards chairs. Meet the challenge to fill the continuing education gap? How?

10. Thank you!