1. 1 Welcome to TISP Shenzhen Moshe Kam IEEE Educational Activities Board 8 July 2009

2. 2 Here is a question that I hear a lot (especially from young engineering students) l Why should I join IEEE? l “What is in it for me”? l [This may sound like a self serving question… but…it is not]

3. 3 IEEE Revenues From Operations 2007 Preliminary Operating Revenue ~$312 Million ConferenceEvents Periodicals Membership-other MembershipDues Stds Finance & Other ConferenceProceedings

4. 4 One Traditional Answer: “we give you a lot of good stuff” l Access to IEEE Intellectual Property l Information and alerts l Reduced fees in Conferences, various discounts, etc.

5. 5 Not very convincing… l Much of what IEEE offers is available through employers and schools l For example the China IEEE/IET Electronic Library University Consortium l Chinese students and scholars are the largest single group of users l And they do not need IEEE membership to get access l They get it through their universities

6. 6 Another Traditional Answer: “look at our glorious past” Alexander G. BellElihu ThomsonCharles SteinmetzFrank Sprague

7. 7 Not very convincing… l Young people are increasingly unimpressed by claims of past glory l “Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results”

8. 8 A much better argument… l We have important professional challenges that we are facing together l We will not be able to solve them if we do not address them as a community l Young engineers need to join IEEE because this is the best way to address the most important challenges of the profession

9. 9 Four Challenges in the Area of Engineering Education 1. The changing role of computing in the engineering workplace 2. The rise of service-oriented engineering businesses 3. The increasingly multi-disciplinary nature of engineering 4. The Gender Gap

10. 10 1. The changing role of computing in the engineering workplace l Computing has entered all facets of engineering l It is no longer the domain of computer scientists alone l Our educational traditions treat computing as an “addition” to the “core” l The core being anchored in analytical methods and Physics

11. 11 The Civil Engineer Set of Tools Part I

12. 12 The Civil Engineer Set of Tools Part II

13. 13 The Civil Engineer Set of Tools Part II

14. 14 Questions about the education of the Civil Engineer of the Future l How much does the civil engineering student need to know about l Computer architecture l Computer Hardware l Discrete Mathematics l Algorithms, software, and programming l Should we teach civil engineers more computing and less calculus?

15. 15 2. The rise of service-oriented engineering businesses l Many engineering corporations do not focus on products and production l Rather, they provide services l Service oriented approach is used in some of the best known engineering firms l E.g., IBM, Hewlett Packard

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18. 18 3. Service Oriented Engineering l Do we know how to prepare our students to work in Service Oriented Engineering? l Is there an appropriate body of knowledge (BoK) to teach? l If such BoK is not available – who will develop it? When?

19. 19 4. The increasingly multi- disciplinary nature of engineering l We are accustomed to a rigid departmental structure of academic engineering education: l Department of Electrical Engineering l Department of Civil Engineering l Department of Power Engineering l Department of Mechanical Engineering l Department of Chemical Engineering

20. 20 The market requires multi- disciplinary skills

21. 21 How do we address the trends toward multidisciplinary engineering? l Do we have the methodologies to educated engineers who can work across disciplines? l Do we need to challenge the traditional structure of the engineering college l Break down the walls between departments l Put students of different disciplines together in the classroom and in design projects

22. 22 4. The Gender Gap l In almost all engineering schools women students are a minority l The percentage of female graduate students in engineering in the US is less than 20% l Germany: 21% l Spain: 24% l Women members of IEEE: 7%! l A major loss of talent to the profession

23. 23 What is IEEE Doing? Dublin 2010 Transforming Engineering Education April 6-10, 2010

24. 24 What is IEEE Doing? (and a much better reason to belong) Dublin 2010 Transforming Engineering Education April 6-10, 2010

25. 25 Questions, comments, reflections