1. 2011 Highlights of the IEEE Educational Activities Board
Tariq Durrani IEEE VP, Educational Activities
EAB Meeting
19 November 2011
New Brunswick, NJ

2. EAB’s Duties Broad planning of educational activities of the IEEE
Development and delivery of continuing education products and activities
Development of guidelines for IEEE representatives to accreditation bodies
Monitoring of accreditation activities
Coordination of pre-university education programs
Development and delivery of university education programs
Representation of the IEEE in matters regarding engineering education 

3. Overview of Educational Activities
Pre-university Education
University Education
Continuing Education
Education About Standards
Women In Engineering

4. Pre-University Education
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Pre-University Education
Teacher In-Service Program (TISP):
TISP trains IEEE volunteers and student members to work with pre-university teachers to support the teaching and learning of science, mathematics and technology disciplines.
25 training workshops conducted with participants in all 10 regions.
158 presentations to 3794 teachers reaching over 413,000 students each academic year.
In 2011 Four training workshops with 436 participants. Held in Scotland (R8), Ontario, Canada (R7), India (R10) and Saudi Arabia (R8).

5. Discover the Creative Engineer In You!
Available in:
English
Chinese
French
Spanish
German
Russian
Japanese
Portuguese
In Arabic (Dec’11)
Discover the Creative Engineer In You!

6. TryEngineering Progress
Statistics (01 September 2011)
2.5 MILLION HITS IN 2007 … 4.5 MILLION HITS IN 2008… 5.1 MILLION HITS in 2009…6.2M HITS IN 2010…5.5M HITS so far in 2011
69,503 = average # of visitors per month
4.8 million = total number of lesson plan downloads (all languages)
22 minutes = average time users spend on site
Visitors come from the US, China, India, Canada, Japan and scores of other countries

7. TryNano Developed Jointly with Nanotechnology Council
14,084 hits, 3418 visitors per month
200 universities in new university search database
Two new lesson plans
14 new profiles from interviews during IEEE NANO 2011

8. Discover Computing
Two year initiative led jointly with IEEE Computer Society, to establish comprehensive online computing portal for pre-university students, teachers, school counselors and parents globally.
866 schools in 21 countries in database of accrediting bodies/programs.
Prototype to be completed by Dec
Site to be completed by Sept

9. IEEE Pre-University Exhibit Around the World:
In July 2011, a two-and-a-half day EAB Symposium in Montevideo, Uruguay to explored how informal learning environments, specifically science and technology centers, could be leveraged to reach the pre-university audience.
Objective: To plan the expansion of a hands-on museum E-Scientia exhibit to science and technology museums in IEEE Regions globally.

10. Museum exhibit E-Scientia
In operation at the Espacio Ciencia in Montevideo, designed for pre-university students ages to introduce engineering through an exciting simulated space flight.
Expansion locations include: the Sci-Enza Museum Pretoria, South Africa (R8), the Universum Museum, Mexico (R9), Tel Aviv University, Israel (R8), the Singapore Science Centre (R10), and Kerala State Science & Technology Museum India (R10).

11. IEEE Interactive Exhibits at Science and Technology Museum Hyderabad India
Project in 2010 between EAB and the IEEE Hyderabad Section to build hands-on area in the B.M. Birla Science Museum, where pre-university students are exposed to hands-on experiments in science and engineering.
12 IEEE volunteers, 10 engineering students and high school students. The B.M. Birla Science Centre made available 5000 square feet of exhibit floor space.

12. B. M. Birla Science Museum
In June 2011, Cooperative agreement between IEEE and the museum for a five-year period.
Floor space of 5000sft provided by Birla Science Museum
At the end of 2011, the IEEE Exhibits area will house 18 exhibits including an IEEE E-Scientia Module and four exhibits developed by High schools students mentored by IEEE members.

13. Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS)
EPICS in IEEE is a New Initiative that organizes sections, student branches and high-school students to work on engineering-related projects for local area humanitarian organizations
The Need:
Community service organizations need help from people with technical backgrounds to leverage technology to deliver the services they provide.
There is a need to emphasize the role of community service to students in IEEE’s fields of technical interest
The Benefits:
Development of professional skills (e.g. entrepreneurship, project management, etc.) for student members
Increase awareness of engineering-related career paths through mentoring of high school students
There are over 300 student branches in R8

14. EPICS
With the addition of 12 projects funded in 2011, 26 projects have been initiated in communities in Africa, South America, Southern Asia, Europe, and North America.

15. IEEE Junior Membership and Publication (JUMP)
Three-year new initiative to develop an IEEE Junior Membership for pre-university students, ages and to develop an online publication for the targeted age group.
Distribution of IET’s Flipside magazine on a trial basis as an IEEE and IET partnership.
EAB is responsible for developing online publication and for negotiation and coordination of the Flipside offering.
“Spark” E-Zine to launch in December 2011

16. University Programs Global Accreditation
Workshop in Lima, on Common nomenclature for computing programs in Latin America.
EAB leadership role through IEEE volunteers in the Gulf Region.
IEEE volunteer based Caribbean Accreditation Council for Engineering and Technology (CACET)
MOU with three Chinese universities for informal accreditation review of 1-2 engineering and computing programs.
Heads of Electrical Engineering Department Association of Southern Africa (HEEDASA), in August 2011.

17. University Programs Global Accreditation Cont’d EAB Workshops-
Focus on Program accreditation on Engineering & computing
Manzini, Swaziland
Co-hosted with the National Accreditation and Assessment Council (NAAC) in Bangalore, India.

18. University Programs US Accreditation
Largest of 31 member societies in ABET, Inc, IEEE supports professional accreditation process for academic degree programs in the United States.
During the accreditation cycle, supports over 100 engineering program visits, and more than 50 engineering technology program visits.
More than 175 IEEE volunteers serve as program evaluators

19. University Programs Accreditation.org
Website provides basic information about the purpose of accreditation, typical accreditation processes, descriptions of various global accords, and links to free-standing engineering accreditation organizations in 40 nations.
In 2011 an average of more than 2250 visitors to the site each month, up from 600 visitors per month in 2008

20. Continuing Education 2011 Highlights
IEEE Continuing Education Providers Program: A member benefit allowing IEEE members to receive a minimum of 10% reduction in the cost of taking on-line courses by approved Providers.
61 current partners -14 outside the US. These academic and industry partners offer 6,000 courses for IEEE at a reduced price. In 2011, more than 700 IEEE members have taken over 550 courses through this program.

21. IEEE Certified Biometrics Professional ® (CBP)
Successful exam administrations held in the spring 2011 and now until 31 December 2011
CBP articles appeared in Thirdfactor, a popular online biometrics news site, and the Homeland Security Newswire
CBP referral program rollout in September
2011 statistical analysis of the CBP exam by professional psychometricians confirmed the exams’ reliability.
Accepted invitations to make CBP presentations at two important biometrics industry conferences (BCC in Tampa and Biometrics 2011 in London)

22. IEEE eLearning Library
95 new tutorials published (45% increase)
15 institutional subscribers (25% increase)
1,700 tutorials accessed by individuals, including free promotional tutorials
125 unemployed IEEE members who received a free tutorial
1,200 first-year renewing members received free tutorials in the Member Loyalty eLearning Package
MOU developed with University of Illinois to create content for Ethics CORE (NSF Grant)

23. IEEE Online Education Portal
Participation from 8 new OUs, including MGA’s new Center for Leadership Excellence
Presented 7 IEEE Humanitarian Technology Webinars
Hosted live Webcasts of all Sections Congress breakout sessions
IEEE iTunes U
350 video and audio files
4,000 weekly visitors

24. On-Line English Communication Skills Training
Signed content partnership with Cambridge University Press
Produced 45 hours of online instruction for Q release
Training will include reading, writing, listening and speaking
IEEE Continuing Education Units
6,000 CEU recipients (18 % increase)

25. IEEE Continuing Education Expansion
Important and impressive developments in India and Singapore –More information in presentation by EAB MD -Doug Gorham

26. Standards Education
Inaugural issue of EEE Standards Education eZine (e-Magazine) launched on 6 September 2011.
eZine to be published 3-4 times a year. From the period 6 September-1 November; 7000 page hits were recorded for the inaugural issue.
MOU with Microsoft completed to pilot, for one year, joint IEEE-Microsoft Student Application Paper grants for Sub-Saharan Africa. Effort aligns with Microsoft's interest in standards capacity building and IEEE's initiative to support capacity building in Africa.  

27. Standards Education
Received 23 applications in 2011 from students for the Student Application Papers grant program
19 Grants were approved
Applications came from students in U.S., Canada, India, Spain, Scotland, Egypt, and Palestine.
Mladen Kezunovic - first recipient of the new joint IEEE EAB and SA Standards Education Award. “for educating students and engineers about the importance and benefits of interoperability standards“. 

28. Standards Education
New Global Standards Search portal scheduled for launch at end of 2011/January 2012.
New site to be called TryStandards: Global Standards Education and Standards Search
Identified 800 courses worldwide, including formal courses and programs on standards and standardization, and programs that include standards as part of the Senior Design/Final Year Projects.
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29. IEEE Eta Kappa Nu (IEEE-HKN)
IEEE-HKN is dedicated to encouraging and recognizing excellence in the fields of interest of IEEE. Membership consists of students, alumni, and other professionals who have demonstrated exceptional academic and professional accomplishments.
2011 Highlight:
Two IEEE-HKN chapters from outside the US are expected to be formed by year end.

30. WIE Highlights
Recommendation: WIE Committee to move under the governance of the IEEE MGA Board has been placed on the IEEE BoD Agenda for approval (November 2011).
The WIE Magazine won three 2011 Awards for Publication Excellence (APEX)
As of 9 November 2011, WIE members conducted 137 outreach events worldwide including: 28 pre-university, 30 professional, and 79 university events.
IEEE Public Visibility-WIE Facebook Campaign gained an audience 7,296 “likes”, which is an increase of approximately 6,000 since the initiation of the campaign. The campaign included discussions around the topics relevant to IEEE WIE.

31. WIE Highlights
WIE year–to-year membership increased from 11,897 (October 2010) to 13,360 (October 2011).
41 new Affinity Groups formed
2010 IEEE Student WIE Affinity Group of the Year Award went to the IEEE WIE Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology Student Branch Affinity Group, Gujarat, India.
IEEE WIE United Arab Emirates is 2010 Affinity Group of the Year
The IEEE WIE Edith Hannigan McHale Scholarship was awarded to Ophelia Budhi

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