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Service
Program in
Uruguay
Why Are We Here?
Introduction by Moshe Kam
IEEE Educational Activities
May 2009
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Outline
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Our Organization: IEEE
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IEEE’s Educational Activities
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Why is IEEE interested in promoting
engineering in the pre-university
education system in Uruguay?
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What do we plan to do in this workshop
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What are the long term benefits and
expectations?
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Our Organization – IEEE
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An international professional association dedicated
to the theory and practice of electrical, electronics,
communications and computer engineering
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as well as computer science, the allied branches of
engineering, and related arts and sciences
 Established
125 years ago
 Operating in 150
 Has
countries
approximately 380,000 members
The largest technical professional association in the world
 $350M annual budget
 Headquarter in New York City, NY, USA
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 Employs
approximately 1000 staff members
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IEEE Membership By Region
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31 December 2007
R7 – 15,947
R1 to 6 – 212,838
R10
67,157
R1 – 37,973
R2 – 32,363
R3 – 30,782
R8 – 64,976
R4 – 23,555
R5 – 29,020
R6 – 59,145
R9 – 15,410
Reflecting the global nature of IEEE, R8 and R10
are now the two largest IEEE Regions
Total IEEE Membership
1963 - 2007
1993
1983
1963
1973
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2007
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IEEE volunteers
 Key
to IEEE success
 About
40,000 individuals who give at least 4 hours a
week to the organization
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Local Section Chair
Associate editor of a Journal
Member of the Financial Committee of the Technical Activities
Board
Chair of a committee that develops a Standard
 The
organization is run by volunteers
 From the
President and CEO to the local Section Chair
major decisions are made by volunteers
 An attempt to quantify the work done by volunteers
estimated $2bn-$3bn
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IEEE’s principal activities (1)
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Organizing the professional community
 Based
on geographic distribution and areas of
interest
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Publishing technical and scientific
literature on the State of the Art
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Organizing conferences on relevant
technical and scientific matters
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IEEE’s principal activities (2)
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Developing technical standards
 Approximately
900 standards at present
 Developing
educational activities for
professionals and for the public
 Including
students and teachers in the preuniversity system
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Improving understanding of engineering
technology and computing by the public
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Recognizing the leaders of the profession
 Awards and
membership grades
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What are we trying to do…
 …advance
global prosperity by
Fostering technological innovation
 Enabling members' careers
 Promoting community worldwide
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for the benefit of humanity and the profession
• Key to success: early recognition of new fields
• In 1884 – power engineering
• In 1912 – communications
• In 1942 – computing
• In 1962 – digital communications
• In 1972 – networking
• In 1982 – clean energy
• In 1992 – nanotechnology
• In 2002 – engineering and the life sciences
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Sample Activities: Regional Organizations
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IEEE organizes professionals in its fields of
interest into local Sections
 There
are 330 local Sections worldwide
 Uruguay has
a single Section
 200 members – including
42 undergraduate students
and 15 Graduate Student Members
 32 Senior Members
 48 members of the
IEEE Computer Society
 29 members of the IEEE Communication Society
 22 members of the IEEE Power and Energy Society
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More on the IEEE Uruguay Section
Student Branches
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Universidad ORT
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Society Chapters
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Communications
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Computers
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Control Systems
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Engineering in Medicine and Biology
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Universidad Mayor De La Republica
Oriental Del Uruguay
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Universidad Católica del Uruguay 10
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Instrumentation and Measurements
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[Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay]
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Power and Energy
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Solid State Circuits
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Technology Management
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More on the IEEE Uruguay Section
Student Branches
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Universidad ORT
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Society Chapters
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Communications
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Computers
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Control Systems
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Engineering in Medicine and Biology
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Universidad Mayor De La Republica
Oriental Del Uruguay
4
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Universidad Católica del Uruguay 10
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Instrumentation and Measurements
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[Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay]
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Power and Energy
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Solid State Circuits
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Technology Management
Call for Action:
Let us consider reviving the IEEE
Uruguay Student Branches!
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Sample Activities: Standards
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IEEE develop standards in several areas,
including:
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Power and Energy
 Transportation
 Biomedical
and Healthcare
 Nanotechnology
 Information
Technology
 Information
Assurance
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More Specific Standardization Areas
 Intelligent
highway systems and vehicular technology
 Distributed
 Voting
generation renewable energy
Equipment Electronic Data Interchange
 Rechargeable
 Motor
Batteries for PCs
Vehicle Event Data Recorder
 Public Key
Infrastructure Certificate Issuing and
Management
 Components
Architecture for Encrypted Shared Media
Organic Field Effect Technology
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Sample Activities: Education
TryEngineering.org
An activity of the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB)
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www.TryEngineering.org
 IEEE’s
pre-university education portal
 For students,
parents, teachers and school counselors
A
joint project of IEEE, IBM, and the New York
Hall of Science
 Non-IEEE investment
 US/Canada
of approximately $2.5M
version was launched on June 2006
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TryEngineering.org
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A portal for school counselors, teachers, parents
and students
University search
By location, program, environment
25 countries, 1739 universities
Explore Engineering –
Discipline Descriptions, Day in the
Life of an Engineer, Preparation Tips
Virtual Games
54 lesson plans for teaching
engineering design
Ask an Expert – Ask an
Engineer, Ask a Student
Undergraduate Student
Advice
E-Newsletter
Student opportunities –
summer camps, fellowships, etc.
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Most Requested Lesson Plans
Build your
Series
own robot arm
and Parallel Circuits
Pulleys and Force
Cracking the
Code (bar codes)
Electric Messages
Adaptive Devices
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University Searches: 25 Countries
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Argentina
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Mexico
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Australia
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New Zealand
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Austria
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Pakistan
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Belgium
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Portugal
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Brazil
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Russia
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Canada
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Singapore
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South Africa
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France
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Germany
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India
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Switzerland
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Ireland
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Taiwan
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Japan
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Turkey
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Korea
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United Kingdom
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Malaysia
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United States
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Languages
中文
Chinese
Deutsch
German
Español
Spanish
Français
French
邦人
Português
Japanese
русский
Russian
Portuguese
TryEngineering Progress
 Available
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in English, Chinese, French, Spanish, German, Russian,
Japanese, Portuguese
 Statistics
(as of 1 April 2009)
2.5 MILLION HITS IN 2007 … 4.5 MILLION HITS IN 2008
 44,193 = average # of visitors per month
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67,006 = highest number of total unique visitors (May 08)
 248,951
= average # of page hits per month
 9838 = average number of university searches per month
 4228 = questions submitted to Ask an Expert
 14197= the average number of lesson plans downloaded per
month
 Visitors come from the US, India, China, Canada, UK and
scores of other countries
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Sample Activities: Education
Teacher In Service Program
An activity of the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB)
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The Teacher In Service Program (TISP)
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A
program that trains IEEE
volunteers to work with preuniversity teachers
Based on approved Lesson Plans
 Prepared/reviewed by IEEE volunteers
 Tested in classrooms
 Designed to highlight engineering design
principles
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The Teacher In Service Program
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Train volunteers
 IEEE
Section Members
 IEEE Student Members
 Teachers and Instructors
IEEE Volunteers
Teachers
Students
 …using
approved lesson plans on engineering and
engineering design
 IEEE
members will develop and conduct TISP
training sessions with Teachers
 Teachers
Students
will conduct training sessions with
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Our Overall TISP Goals
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 Empower IEEE Section
“champions” to develop
collaborations with local pre-university education
community to promote applied learning
 Enhance
the level of technological literacy of preuniversity educators
 Encourage
pre-university students to pursue technical
careers, including engineering
 Increase
the general level of technological literacy of preuniversity students
 Increase
the level of understanding of the needs of
educators among the engineering community
 Identify
systems
ways that engineers can assist schools and school
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+ Why TISP in URUGUAY?
Why is Uruguay of Interest to IEEE
Educational Activities?
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OECD PISA Program
OECD
= Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development
 Established
1961
 30 Countries
 Budget: Euro 303M
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PISA =
Programme for International
Student Assessment
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Objectives of PISA
Review of OECD Statistics (PISA 2006)
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Are students well prepared for future challenges?
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Can they analyze, reason and communicate effectively?
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Do they have the capacity to continue learning throughout life?
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Surveys of 15-year-olds in the principal industrialized countries.
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Every three years, it assesses how far students near the end of
compulsory education have acquired some of the knowledge and
skills essential for full participation in society
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Uruguay is not an OECD member but it participated in PISA 2001
and PISA 2006
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Why is Uruguay of Interest to IEEE
Educational Activities
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Review of OECD Statistics (PISA 2006)
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Uruguay’s science score in the OECD table was 428
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Uruguay was…
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Ahead of Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia
Below the scores of all OECD countries except for Turkey and
Mexico
 UK: 515; France: 495; Germany: 516; Australia: 527
Below OECD average in the scales of reading, mathematics and
science
Uruguayan Students demonstrated…
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Relative strength in the area “Living Systems” and in “Using
Scientific Evidence”
Relative weakness in the area “Earth and Space Systems”
Source: PISA 2006
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Science Scores
Finland
Hong Kong-China
Canada
Chinese Taipei
Estonia
Japan
New Zealand
Australia
Netherlands
Liechtenstein
Korea
Slovenia
Germany
United Kingdom
Czech Republic
Switzerland
Macao-China
Austria
Belgium
Ireland
Hungary
Sweden
Poland
Denmark
France
Croatia
Top
Uruguay
Bottom
France
Croatia
Iceland
Latvia
United States
Slovak Republic
Spain
Lithuania
Norway
Luxembourg
Russian Federation
Italy
Portugal
Greece
Israel
Chile
Serbia
Bulgaria
Uruguay
Turkey
Jordan
Thailand
Romania
Montenegro
Mexico
Indonesia
Argentina
Brazil
Colombia
Tunisia
Azerbaijan
Qatar
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Knowledge about Science
Uruguay is slightly below OECD average
Performance
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Source: PISA 2006
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Distribution of student performance
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on the science scale
Uruguay is below the OECD average
Performance
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Source: PISA 2006
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Distribution of student performance
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on the science scale
%
Level 1
Below Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Level 5
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Source: PISA 2006
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Level 6
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Mean score on the knowledge about science and
on the knowledge of science scales
Uruguay’s scores are relatively low
Score
Source: PISA 2006
Knowledge about science
Knowledge of science
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Mathematics Score 2002-2006
Uruguay’s scores are relatively low
Score
Source: PISA 2006
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IEEE Volunteers
Teachers
Students
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here today and tomorrow?
The Teacher in Service Program
“Engineering in the Classroom”
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The Teacher In Service Program (TISP)
A
program that trains IEEE volunteers to work
with pre-university teachers
 Based
on approved Lesson Plans
 Prepared
by IEEE volunteers
 Tested in classrooms
 Associated with Education Standards
 Designed to highlight engineering design principles
 The cost is less than $100 for a class of 30
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The Basic Approach – Lesson Plans
 IEEE
volunteers and consultants develop lesson plans
that highlight an engineering design topic
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How to build a balanced mobile (rotational equilibrium)
How to design a sail for a ship (aerodynamic design)
 The
lesson plans are geared toward pre-university
students and are tested in the classroom
 Materials
for a 30-student class cost no more than $100
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How does it work?
 Volunteers
event
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of an IEEE Section organize a TISP training
Such as what we are doing here today
 EAB provides
 Volunteers
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logistical support and instructors
gather for a day and a half of training
With teachers and school administrators
 Volunteers
districts
spread the program in their school
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Volunteer Training
 Key
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questions to be discussed in training:
How to conduct a training sessions for teachers using the TISP
lesson plans?
How to approach the school system to engage teachers?
How to align a lesson plan with local education criteria?
 Teachers and officials
from the education establishment
participate in the training sessions
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After The Training…
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IEEE volunteers work with the school system
to conduct training sessions for teachers
 Teachers
use the training sessions and the
lesson plans to educate their students IEEE Volunteers
 IEEE
participates in paying for the program
the first year, EAB pays the materials and
supplies expenses for TISP sessions for teachers
 In subsequent years, funding is the responsibility
of the IEEE Section
Teachers
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Students
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Lesson plans
The lesson plans are
organized in two
versions
 For
the teacher
 For the student
The lesson plans are
aligned with
educational standards
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Sample Lesson Plans
Build a
better candy bag
Rotational Equilibrium (mobile)
Understand and apply bar codes
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Lesson Plans
 Everything
You Wanted to
Know About Electric Motors
But Were Afraid to Ask
 Rocket Cars
Laws
 Effective
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and Newton’s
Lighting
 Get Connected
with Ohm’s Law
 Design
and Build Your Own
Robot Arm
 Learn to
Program and Test
Robots for Classroom Use
Lesson Plans
Give Binary A Try
Computer arithmetic and
ALU design
Hand Biometrics Technology Biometrics
Sail Away
Watercraft design
Simple Kitchen Machines
Simple Machines
Dispenser Designs
Design: user satisfaction,
costs, materials
Engineering Ups and Downs Elevators
Build a Big Wheel
Ferris Wheels
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Lesson Plans
 Sort it
 Engineering
Out
 Sticky Engineering
Challenge
 Ship the
Chip
 Move That
A
 Pipeline
Challenge
 Infrared
Investigations
 Hull Engineering
Lighthouse!
Question of Balance
 Program Your
Air Traffic
Own Game
 Engineered
Sports
 Engineered
Memory
 Wind Tunnel Testing
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Teacher In-Service Program
Presentations
 To
date, over 113 TISP presentations have been
conducted by IEEE volunteers
 TISP
presentations have reached over 2600 preuniversity educators
 This
reach represents more than 285,000 students
each academic year
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2006-2007
 Boston
 Piura,
Peru
 Rio de
Janeiro
 Indianapolis
 Putrajaya,
Malaysia
 Baltimore
 Cape
Town
 Dallas
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2008-2009
 Shenzhen
 Los Angeles
 Montreal
 San Francisco
 Montevideo
 Cordoba (Argentina)
 Guayaquil,
 Port
Ecuador
of Spain
 San Juan,
PR
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Montevideo , May 9-10 2009
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A
full-scale TISP training for volunteers
 We
expect a large number of teachers
and IEEE Student Members
 We
are looking for volunteers who will follow up and take the
activities to the schools
 Success of
the program will be measured by the
number of pre-university students that it reaches
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A
Guayaquil, Ecuador, Nov 3-4 2009
training session for student branches
 Based
on the success of the student branch
session in Piura, Peru
A
new TISP model
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What are we going to do here?
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Demonstrate four (4) lesson plans:
 Sort
it out (sorting of coins)
 Ship the Chip (packaging)
 Critical Load (elementary structures)
 Pulleys and force
Discuss
how to develop and use the TISP
in Uruguay
Have
Fun!
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Who is in the audience?
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Teachers from the Uruguayan Educational
system
IEEE
volunteers
 Mostly
from Uruguay
 Including IEEE Student Members
Other interested individuals
 The
from…
Uruguayan Education System
 Uruguayan universities
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Who is here to help?
With lesson Plans…
 Members
of IEEE Staff – Educational Activities
Department
 IEEE volunteers from South America and the
US
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With implementing the Program…
 Officials
from the Uruguayan Educational
System
 IEEE Uruguay Section Volunteers
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Expectations from IEEE Volunteers
 Organize
TISP sessions throughout the preuniversity education system in Uruguay
 Communicate
with EAB for guidance,
information exchange, and funding
 Organize
a task force within the IEEE
Uruguay Section to make TISP a permanent
program of the Section
 Arrange for
budgeting through the Region,
and IEEE Boards (MGAB, EAB)
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Expectations from IEEE Students
Revive
the IEEE student branches in
Uruguay
Make
TISP a regular activity of Uruguay’s
IEEE student branches
Help organize TISP
sessions in the preuniversity education system in Uruguay
 Especially
in your own former schools
Participate in the
Region 9 TISP task force
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Region 9 Volunteers!
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Expectations from Teachers
Use
the TISP approach in your classroom
Work with
the IEEE Uruguay Section to
organize TISP training sessions for
teachers
 Report
to the Section what lessons have been
learnt from the program
 Indicate what lesson plans were or were not
successful, and what additional lesson plans
would be required
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Our Overall TISP Goals
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 Empower IEEE Section
“champions” to develop
collaborations with local pre-university education
community to promote applied learning
 Enhance
the level of technological literacy of preuniversity educators
 Encourage
pre-university students to pursue technical
careers, including engineering
 Increase
the general level of technological literacy of preuniversity students
 Increase
the level of understanding of the needs of
educators among the engineering community
 Identify
systems
ways that engineers can assist schools and school
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Questions or Comments?
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