1. IEEE Technical English Program IEEE Educational Activities
Moshe Kam
Pramod Abichandani
Christopher Lester
IEEE Educational Activities
St. Petersburg, Russia
3 October, 2009
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2. Why are we here?
The Russia NW Section has organized a successful Technical English Program
The IEEE Educational Board is supporting the program
Through workshops to students which provide an opportunity to engage in English-only conversation on technical matters
This is the fourth time EAB works on such a program

3. Short History of the Transportation Method
May 2008
Short History of the Transportation Method
Proposed by French Mathematician Gaspard Monge in 1781
Solved by Russian mathematician Leonid Kantarovich (St. Petersburg, Moscow, 1986)

4. Leonid Kantarovich May 2008 Russian mathematician and economist
Theory and techniques for the optimal allocation of resources
Nobel Prize in Economics in 1975
Kantorovich was given the task of optimizing production in a plywood industry in the USSR
Came up (1939) with the mathematical technique now known as linear programming (advanced by George Dantzig)
The Mathematical Method of Production Planning and Organization
The Best Uses of Economic Resources
The Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences, which he shared with Tjalling Koopmans, was given "for their contributions to the theory of optimal allocation of resources."

5. The Least Cost Method w1 w2 w3 w4 f1 6 5 7 9 f2 3 2 4 1 f3 May 2008 3010 20 20 25
Cost: 6x30 + 7x10 + 2x20 + 1x20 + 9x25 = 535
Feasible, not necessarily optimal
Worse than the Northwest Corner approach
Demonstrates that being least cost at every step does
NOT guarantee being least cost overall

6. Real vs. artificial neurons
May 2008
Real vs. artificial neurons
dendrites
axon
cell
synapse
dendrites x0 w0
Threshold unit o xn wn

7. May 2008
Artificial Neurons x0 w0
Threshold unit o xn wn

8. Who is EAB? One of the major Boards of IEEE Devoted to Education
Serving the public as well as 380,000 members
Devoted to Education
Operates worldwide on pre-university, university-level and continuing education
Active in accreditation of educational programs

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Regions and Sections

10. IEEE Educational Activities Board 2008

11. Who is here from EAB
Volunteers – Pramod Abichandani, Christopher Lester, Moshe Kam
Drexel University
Staff Members – Douglas Gorham and Charles Hickman
Educational Activities Department

12. Who else is with us?
Volunteers from Regions 8 and 9 who are interested in starting a TEP in their own Sections
Croatia
France
Hungary
Iraq
Jordan
Lebanon
R. Macedonia
Morocco
Nigeria
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Tunisia
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
United States
Uruguay

13. How will we work today? We are organized in groups based on tables
Each table has a moderator
Each table is invited to select a name
We suggest a name of a city
We will engage in a number of activities
Hopefully these will be interesting
Each table will get “points” for performance
At the end of the day we will have a winner and a runner-up
It will all be conducted in ENGLISH

14. English only, please

15. Agenda Activity Start End Moderator Welcome 9:00 9:15 Moshe Kam
Activity 1: Puzzles
10:15
Pramod Abichandani
Coffee Break
10:30
Activity 2: Hand Recognition
12:00
Christopher Lester

16. Activity Start End Moderator
The IEEE student branch
13:00
13:15
Pramod Abichandani
Activity 3: Identify the Mystery Person
14:00
Moshe Kam
Activity 4:
Ethics debate
15:15
Coffee Break
15:30
Activity 5: Identify the Stolen Painting
16:30
Final results and adjournment
16:50
Douglas Gorham

17. Related Area of Practice
Activity
Related Area of Practice
Puzzles
Logic
Hand Recognition
Biometrics, decision theory
Identify the Mystery Person
History of science and technology
Ethics debate
Ethics and professionalism
Identify the Stolen Painting
Artificial Intelligence

18. Activity 1: Puzzles

19. Activity 1: Puzzles Groups of two Use PUZZLE SOLUTION FORM
Fill in your Table name/number and your own names

20. Puzzles Activity Each group solves two puzzles
Work on the simple (short) puzzle first
Group analyzes the problem and provides a written solution on the PUZZLE SOLUTION FORM to table moderator
Group makes itself ready to present to everybody…
What the problem was
What the solution is

21. Activity 2: Biometrics

22. General Work in groups of 4 Use Forms:
BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS form (4 for each person)
CLASSIFYING UNKNOWN SAMPLES form
“Unknown sample …. Matches database samples … and …”
Envelope marked DATA BASE and an envelope marked TESTING SET

23. Part 1: get your right hand measured
Measure your own right hand and have three other people measure your own right hand
Record all measurements of your right hand on the four BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS forms that you have received
Do not swap forms with other people!
You may want to calculate the mean and standard deviation of each one of your four measurements

24. How do you measure your hand?
Measurement A: From index fingertip to bottom knuckle

25. How do you measure your hand?
Measurement B: Width of ring finger, measured across top knuckle

26. How do you measure your hand?
Measurement C: Width of palm across four bottom knuckles

27. How do you measure your hand?
Measurement D: Width of palm from middle knuckle of thumb across hand

28. 4 players create a total of 16 samples

29. Part 2: create a DATABASE and a TESTING SET
Put the two BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS forms marked DATABASE in the envelope marked DATABASE
Put the two BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS forms marked TESTING SET in the envelope marked TESTING SET

30. 4 Samples per participant
2 samples go here
2 samples go here
Database
Testing set
8 samples will accumulate here
8 samples will accumulate here
4 players create a total of 16 samples

31. Part 3: create a classification rule
Decide how to deal with a BIOMETRIC MEASUREMENTS form of unknown source
Create a mathematical and/or logical rule
What calculations to perform in order to associate the unknown-source form correctly with DATABASE samples of the same hand
Test your rule on your group’s TESTING SET and DATABASE

32. Part 4: exchange sets with a group at another table (give them both envelopes and receive from them two envelopes)
Use the rule you have created to associate each sample from the TESTING SET with one (or no) sample in the DATABASE
Use the CLASSIFYING UNKNOWN SAMPLES form to record your answer
When done, submit to moderator

33. Measuring a hand B A C D

34. Activity 3: Name the Mystery Person

35. Activity 3: Name the Mystery Person
Born in 1601 (or perhaps 1607)
Known for his Little Theorem and Last Theorem
Died in Toulouse

36. Name the Mystery Person
Born in 1601 (or perhaps 1607)
Known for his Little Theorem and Last Theorem
Died in Toulouse
Made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics
Developed close collaboration with Blaise Pascal

37. Our Mystery Person is Pierre de Fermat
Born in 1601 (or perhaps 1607)
Known for his Little Theorem and Last Theorem
Died in Toulouse
Made notable contributions to analytic geometry, probability, and optics
Developed close collaboration with Blaise Pascal

38. Activity 3: Name the Mystery Person
Work in groups of 2
Use Identify the Mystery Person – guidelines

39. Create a Fact Sheet on the Mystery Person
You were given the biography of a person
Keep the identity of the person secret from people in other tables
Feel free to add biographical facts you are aware of but avoid matters about which you are not perfectly sure

40. Decide on a Fact Sheet for your Table
You will be working in groups of 2, to create 10 statements about the mystery person
When you are done preparing your 10 statements, decide with your colleagues which person of the four persons your table has been working on would be most difficult to identify
Use this person for the presentation

41. The table loses points if it makes a wrong guess
Each table presents the facts orally, one by one, to the rest of the players
stops when the identity of the person is revealed by a person from another table
The table gets more points if its person remains unidentified for a longer period
The table loses points if it makes a wrong guess
Every table is allowed two guesses

42. Activity 4: an Ethics Debate

43. Activity 4: an Ethics Debate
Each table received an article followed by a question on ethics
Background
Binary question: Yes or No
Was the municipality ethical in building the polluting factory in the poorest neighborhood in the city?
Discuss the background
Discuss the arguments for responding with a Yes and with a No
Appoint a speaker to present the background and a speaker for each one of the opposing viewpoints
Total of three

44. Presentation
Background narrator and two advocates will be selected at random from the two tables that dealt with the same ethical problem
“Points” will be given according to the completeness and elegance of presentation

45. Identify the Stolen Painting…
Activity 5
Identify the Stolen Painting…
"Poppies near Vétheuil" (1879), by Claude Monet, stolen from a from the Buehrle Foundation museum in Zurich

46. Background
You are helping a detective who is visiting galleries and auctions to identify stolen paintings
The detective is trying to be inconspicuous
S/he uses a 10-sentence description of the stolen paintings s/he is searching for
…glancing at it from time to time

47. We will use two following forms
STOLEN PAINTING QUESTIONNAIRE
One for each pair plus one for the whole table
STOLEN PAINTING DESCRIPTION FORM
One for the whole table

48. Part 1: create a questionnaire
Work in groups of 2 to create 10 questions that will help identify a painting
The answers to these 10 questions will be used to create a painting description for the detective
Should take 20 minutes
Consult with the rest of the group to decide on a single questionnaire submitted by the table
Use the form marked STOLEN PAINTING QUESTIONNAIRE

49. Examples “Is the painting signed by the painter?”
Possible answer: the painting is signed by the painter on the bottom right hand side
“Describe the people in the painting”
Possible answer: there are no people in this painting
Possible answer: there are two girls and an old woman in the painting

50. Part 2: use your questionnaire
You will be given a postcard of a stolen painting
Answer the 10 questions you created using the STOLEN PAINTING QUESTIONNAIRE
Use the STOLEN PAINTING DESCRIPTION FORM to record the answers
One per table

51. Example The painting is rectangular (layout “Landscape”)
The painter’s name is signed on bottom left
This is clearly an Impressionistic painting
This is an indoors scene
There is a lot of blue in the background …

52. Part 3: Moderators are given painting descriptions from other tables
Each moderator views potentially stolen paintings on display
Using the written description, each moderator identifies the stolen painting described or declares that it is not on display
The moderator’s table gets 50 points for a correct answer
The table that created a description gets 50 points if the description led to a correct answer

53. Questions and Comments ?