The mission of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) and AACC
Technical Committees on Control Education is to enhance technical
education at all levels:
The following is the partial list of activities that synergistically support the
mission:
NSF workshop for math and science high school teachers selected from the
national list of presidential award winners organized in conjunction with the 19th
Automatic Control Conference (ACC) in Chicago, June 2000.
NSF one-day workshop for 130 high school students in conjunction with the 41st
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in Las Vegas , December
2002.
Workshop for 30 high school teachers in Denver at the 22nd ACC, June 2003.
One-day workshop for 300 high school students and teachers at the 42nd CDC in
Maui, Hawaii, December, 2003.
One-day workshop for 700 students and teachers at the Oregon Polytechnic
High School in conjunction with the 24th ACC in Portland Oregon in June, 2005.
Workshop " The Power, Beauty and Excitement of the Cross-Boundaries Nature
of Automatic Control" at the 16th International Federation of Automatic Control
(IFAC) World Congress in Prague, July, 2005,
Workshop at the IEEE Mediterranean Control Conference, Cyprus, June, 2005,
Panel discussion on Math, Science, and Technology at the joint IEEE CSS CDCEuropean Control Conference (ECC), Seville, Spain, December, 2005
Panel Session on Control Engineering Initiatives, 25th ACC, Minneapolis, June
2005
Workshop for high school students, teachers and college students, 7th IFAC
Symposium on Advances in Control Education in Madrid, Spain, July, 2006
Panel session on New Directions of Control and Workshop for 600 middle and
high school students, 46th IEEE CSS CDC in San Diego, December 2006
Panel Session on Stochastic Control in Financial Engineering Education, ACC,
NYC, July, 2007,
Workshop for Polish high school students and teachers at the IFAC Symposium
on Large Scale Systems in Gdansk, Poland in July 2007,
Workshop "The Power, Beauty and Excitement of Field that Spans Engineering
and Mathematics" for high school teachers at ACC, Seattle, June, 2008.
Round Table Discussion on "America's Engineering Crisis", how can we to
attract more American students, in particular female students to engineering?
at the ACC, Seattle, June, 2008
IFAC and CSS Workshop for first year engineering students at the 17th World
Congress in Seoul, Korea, July, 2008.
Additional Activity: Several Articles/Workshop Reports published in Control
Systems Magazine, Proceedings from the Workshop, CDs with presentations
from the workshops.
In preparation:
Mini-conference for high school teachers/ presidential award winners at the 2009
ACC in St. Louis, in June 2009.
Finalizing the project: develop a library of high quality
The Plain Talk on Systems and Control for a Wide Range of the Public, the
series of popular talks promoting the field of control to be prepared, see
attachment of talks already prepared and "tested".
About Pasik-Duncan, Chair of Committees on Control Education:
Awards: Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, HOPE Award, the first time and only time
given to a mathematician, 14th Louise Hay Award, AWM,
Founded the professional group, IEEE CSS Women in Control (WiC) in 1994 at a time when
there were few women in the field. Strong advocate for women in Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics. Academic advisor to over 40 students among them the largest
number of women in control with a wide range of applications. Established record of well
prepared, successful students, working mostly in industry such as: telecommunications,
biomedicine, finance, insurance and actuarial sciences. Very strong advocate for interdisciplinary
and international research and education. Builds successfully bridges between different fields and
professions and different countries around the world. She is currently the Chair of Technical
Committees on Control Education of IEEE CSS, AACC and IFAC. She is currently President of
the Phi Beta Delta Honor Society, dedicated to recognizing scholarly achievement in international
education, at the University of Kansas. She is IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Member of CSS and
a recipient of IEEE Third Millennium .