IEEE EAB Meeting IEEE Educational Activities: Past, Present and Future Douglas Gorham, Director 16 June 2007

Educational Activities l Goal l To be the resource of choice on education in engineering, computing and technology for IEEE members, the profession, and the pre-university and university education communities

What does EAB do? (1) l Pre-university education l Tryengineering.org l Teacher in Service Program (TISP) l So you want you to be an engineer l Outreach to educators and school counselors l Section database for activities in pre-university education l University education l Accreditation in the United States l Global accreditation l Development of Model Curricula l Student Retention: Women in Engineering l Education about Standards Green= new in the last 5 years Red= expanded in the last 5 years Blue= areas of focus for more than 5 years

What does EAB do? (2) l Post-university education l Continuing education l IEEE Education partners, IEEE Expert Now, CEUs l Certification l Biometrics l Awareness of Engineering and Public Education Green= new in the last 5 years Red= expanded in the last 5 years Blue= areas of focus for more than 5 years

Trends l Wide expansion in all areas l Increased requests/demands for services l Institutionalization of successful initiatives l IEEE Expert Now, TryEngineering, Global Accreditation, TISP l Operationalization of routine educational activities l Model curricula l Support of Certification l Education about Standards

Requests for Programs and Services WhoArea Examples Sections and Regions Pre-university, university, post-university, standards Section use of IEEE Expert Now; education about Standards; TISP ECE EducatorsUniversity-level, standards, accreditation Use of the Standards in Education Portal Pre-university educators Pre-university, including training Training of school counselors Users/ members University-level (on-line)Questions from undergraduate students in Ask An Engineer IEEE-USAPost-universityIEEE Education Partners

New and expanding services (1) l University-level material on TryEngineering l Resulting from the success of the portal l Training of program evaluators outside the US l Resulting from the success of Global Accreditation initiative l Accreditation work in China, the Caribbean, and Peru l Accreditation.org l The ultimate resource on accreditation in Engineering, technology and computing

New and expanding services (2) l Biometrics model curricula and certification l Standards modules and Standards education l At both University and Post-university levels l One-stop shop for on-line IEEE educational offerings l Education at the Section level using IEEE Expert Now l Women in Engineering; student retention

EAD Budget & FTE History YearBudget (K)FTE , , , , (WIE staff added) 20084,471.9 (Proposed)18.4 (Proposed)

Expenditure Changes from 2007 Activities Institutionalization of TryEngineering Institutionalization of TISP Director of University Activities WIE Institutionalization of Global Accreditation Consolidation of on line offerings Education Program Manager University Activities Certification

EAD in l Global Accreditation– to assist at least 2 countries to be positioned to conduct accreditation in their country. l A biometrics engineering certification program is established. l Education Partners Program– to have 100 partners l IEEE Expert Now–to have 200 modules available in partnership with 25 OUs

EAD in Contd l TryEngineering.org– accreditation and undergraduate engineering sections are added. 200 lesson plans for teachers and volunteers are available l Organize and host on-line continuing education offerings across IEEE OUs l Conduct at least 3 TISP training workshops per year l Develop a comprehensive promotional program to feature the work in EA

EAD Beyond 2009 l A comprehensive certification program is in place that addresses current opportunities and identifies additional certification needs l Institutionalizing a conference involving industry, government and academia to address shortages of engineers and their teachers l IEEE Standards are developed in conjunction with a training module for users l WIEC is implementing effective strategies to allow them to be out of business in 15 years

EAD Beyond 2009 Contd l Our current EAB/WIE new initiative (Real World Engineering) is institutionalized as an ongoing program l The lesson plans developed for TryEngineering are converted into a publication l Conduct workshops and summer programs on emerging technologies, that result in model curricula and IEEE Expert Now modules l Create a publication for students in conjunction with Pubs

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