Welcome to the Teacher InService Program in Cordoba
6 September 2008
Cordoba Argentina
Moshe Kam
IEEE Educational Activities
For Evangelia Micheli Tzanakou
2008 Vice President, Educational Activities
1
First, some candy bag
numbers
2
Quick Analysis of data from
the candy bag exercise
Average weight
Min
250 g
Max
5250 g
Median
1700 g
Standard Deviation
3
2140.6 g
1517.3 g
Histogram of Candy Bag
Carrying Weight
Histogram
Frequency
10
8
6
Frequency
4
2
Weight (g)
4
00
50
00
40
00
30
00
20
00
10
0
0
And now a few words about the
Educational Activities Board
5
Educational Activities Board


One of the six (6) major Boards of IEEE
Responsible for IEEE’s activities in pre-university,
university-level and post-university (continuing)
education


15 Board members

Approximately 60 committee members

Staff support of 18

6
Including accreditation
Educational Activities Department
EAB: SMALL
BUT POWERFUL
IEEE Vice Presidents for
Education
James Tien
2003-2004
Evangelia MicheliTzanakou
Current
7
Moshe Kam
2005-2007
Areas covered in this
presentation

Pre-university engineering education



University-level education



Accreditation outside the United States
Retention: Real World Engineering Projects
Public awareness of engineering

8
The Teacher In Service Program (TISP)
www.TryEngineering.org
“Meeting the Growing Demand For Engineers and Their
Educators 2010-2020”
Pre-University Engineering
Education


9
Objective: increase the propensity of young
people to select engineering as a career path
Objective: provide students, parents, teachers
and school counselors with high-quality and
inviting information about what engineers do
and engineering careers
The Teacher in Service
Program
“Engineering in the Classroom”
10
Sample TISP Topics


Everything You Wanted to
Know About Electric Motors
But Were Afraid to Ask
Rocket Cars and Newton’s
Laws





11
Rotational Equilibrium: A
Question of Balance
Effective Lighting
Get Connected with Ohm’s
Law
Design and Build Your Own
Robot Arm
Learn to Program and Test
Robots for Classroom Use
Rotational Equilibrium:
A Question of Balance
Teacher In Service Program (TISP)
Cape Town, South Africa
12
Moshe Kam and Douglas Gorham
IEEE Educational Activities
4 August 2006
Version 1

A three-level four-weight design
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
13
Materials
14

Rods made of balsa wood sticks, 30cm long

Strings made of sewing thread or fishing string

5-cent coins

240 weight paper (“cardboard”)

Adhesive tape

Paper and pens/pencils
Tools and Accessories

Scissors

30cm Ruler

Hole Punchers

Band Saw (optional)

Pens

Marking pen

Wine/water glasses

Calculator (optional)

Binder clips
15
5 mm
16
Rods of level 3 and 2 are tied to rods of level 2 and 1 respective
at a distance of 5mm from the edge of the lower level rod
5 mm
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
17
Designing the Mobile
Write and solve the equations for xi And yi
(i=1,2,3)
Level 3


18
W x1 = W y1
x1 + y1 = 290
290 mm
Level 2


2W x2 = W y2
x2 + y2 = 290
Version 2

Design a more complicated mobile




First, provide a detailed design and diagram with all
quantities


19
More levels (say 5)
Three weights on lowest rod, at least two on each one of the
other rods
Different weights
Show all calculations, specify all weights, lengths, etc.
Then, build, analyze and provide a short report
Standing Mobile, 1937
Lobster Tail and Fish
Trap, 1939, mobile
Mobile, 1941
Hanging Apricot,
1951,
standing mobile
20
New Lesson Plans
Give Binary A Try
Hand Biometrics Technology
Sail Away
Simple Kitchen Machines
Dispenser Designs
Engineering Ups and Downs
Build a Big Wheel
21
Computer arithmetic and
ALU design
Biometrics
Watercraft design
Simple Machines
Design: user satisfaction,
costs, materials
Elevators
Ferris Wheels
Additional New Lesson Plans






22
Sort it Out
Sticky Engineering
Challenge
Ship the Chip
Move That Lighthouse!
A Question of Balance
Program Your Own
Game







Engineering Air Traffic
Pipeline Challenge
Infrared Investigations
Hull Engineering
Engineered Sports
Engineered Memory
Wind Tunnel Testing
Recent information
“From the Field”

Six new programs in South Africa



Four new programs in Malaysia

23
To subject advisors and educators
Total number of affected teachers will be
more than 700
160 teachers
24
25
26
27
28
Piura, Peru - attendees
29
TryEngineering.org
The IEEE portal for pre-university
students, their parents, teachers and
school counselors
30
Build a Bionic Arm
31
32
33
34
University-level Sections in
TryEngineering

Graduate Studies




Preparation for employment in engineering


35
Links to all graduate studies websites of listed
universities
How to find an appropriate program?
How to find and work with an advisor?
Job interviews, Resume preparation, Job banks
Improving “soft skills” and marketability of
qualifications
University Level Activities
Accreditation outside the United
States
36
IEEE’s Role in Accreditation (1)


37
IEEE considers accreditation a key vehicle to
ensure active involvement of the Institute in
maintaining the quality and relevance of
engineering education
IEEE seeks a leadership role in accreditation
within all the areas of its technical activities
Key IEEE Activities

Providing help to accrediting bodies in
formation



38
Including training of evaluators
Providing help to groups that want to start
new accrediting bodies
Providing education about accreditation
Where does IEEE-CGAA operate now?

China: “Working Group on Education in
China”


Peru: ICACIT

The Caribbean: CACET


39
First meeting: November 2006
new accrediting body for programs taught in
English
T&T: West Indies University
International Accreditation:
China

In 2006 we established an accreditation
working group in China


Face-to-face meeting in November 2006
2007 Activities

A major workshop on engineering accreditation in
cooperation with CAST


40
A translation of ABET accreditation materials into
Chinese was completed by EAB
Meetings with decision makers in various ministries
Ministry of Education
Beijing 2007
41
42
Beijing 2007
Bruce Eisenstein speaks
Note the Engineers Ireland
Logo
43
2008 Activities

An accreditation workshop with CAST and the
PRC Ministry of Education


Close to 250 attendees


44
Beijing, 22 March 2008
All fields of engineering
A 4-hour event narrated by M. Lightner and
M. Kam
International Accreditation:
Peru

IEEE is providing on-going assistance to the
Peruvian accrediting body ICACIT


In December 2006 we have provided the first non-US
EAB training for program evaluators in Peru



Instructional material developed
Mario Gonzalez prepared and delivered
We provided a complete translation of ABET
materials into Spanish

45
ICACIT was formed in the early 2000s
We are also maintaining a website for ICACIT
Training session for Peruvian
program evaluators, December
2006
Lima, December 2006
46
Arequipa, December 2007
47
Arequipa, December 2007
48
Activities Planned for 2008

Final versions of accreditation manuals


Appointment of 20 Program Evaluators

Staffing of the accreditation committees

49
Engineering, Technology, Computing
The first series of independent accreditation
visits by ICACIT
Caribbean Accreditation Council for
Engineering and Technology
50
Scope

English speaking Caribbean

An effort requiring 3-6 years


A collaboration of…



51
and the consent and participation of all major
constituencies
Academic institutions and the faculty
Industry, especially employers of engineers and
technologists
Governmental bodies and regulators
Activities for 2008-2009

Two administrative and training meetings



52
Develop structure and accreditation documents
CACET will become a line item on the budget
of CARICOM
First visit – possibly 2010 (!)
A new IEEE portal on all aspects
of academic accreditation
Accreditation.org
53
Increasing Student Retention
54
http://ieee.org/web/education/university/RealWorldEngineering/index.html
“Real World Engineering Projects”

Projects that will lead to a new resource for faculty
who teach first year electrical engineering (EE),
computer engineering (CE) and computer science
(CS) students
These projects should:

Focus students on Real World problems with
solutions that benefit society

Get students excited about their own, original
creative solutions

Increase student retention through personal
satisfaction and accomplishment
55
Projects selected in 2007 (1)

Manipulating Everyday Objects With Prosthetic Hands


Error Correction Codes for Wireless Communication Systems


Loren Wyard-Scott from the University of Alberta, Canada
Smarter Vehicles

56
Jeff Gibbons, Collins County Community College, TX, USA
Solid State Lighting for the Developing World


Sami Khorbotly, Ohio Northern University, USA
Using Engineering to Save the Planet - One Ear at a Time


Chris Macnab, the University of Calgary, Canada
Leyla Nazhandali, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, USA
Projects selected in 2007 (2)

Audio Forensics: Solving a Crime using Digital (Audio) Signal
Processing


Power Electronics/System: A Look at Renewable Energy


Gautam Srivastava and others from the University of Victoria,
Canada.
Feedback Controlled Brushless DC Motor

57
Taryn Bayles, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA.
HCI Alternatives using the Nintendo Wii


Jennifer Murdoch and others from the University of Victoria,
Canada.
Stephen Williams from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, US.
Meeting the Growing Demand For
Engineers and Their Educators
2010 - 2020
International Summit
Munich, Germany
9 - 11 November 2007
58
Continuing Education
59
Expert Now IEEE

The best of IEEE’s educational content
delivered in one-hour long online learning
modules



The latest information on emerging
technologies and seminal works

60
50 modules are included in the current version
By the end of 2007 we will have at least 75
presented at the best of IEEE’s conference
tutorials, short courses and workshops
Optical Fiber Communication
2003 IEEE Conference on Optical Fiber Communication
Reconfigurable Multiple Wavelength Optical Systems and Networks
Introduction > About This Course
•A master of ceremony approach
to introducing the presenter
•Establishes the
presenter as the expert
of the content (SME)
•Begins the presentation
in a professional manner
•The course objectives are
introduced by the Expert
•Establish the presence
of the expert
•Establishes the mastery
of the content
This course has been sponsored
by the IEEE Laser and ElectroOptics Society.
61
Alan Eli Willner
University of Southern California
Selected Titles
SOCIETY
62
SME
TOPIC
Communications Society
Kai Siwiak
UWB Radio Technology
Computer Society
Dwight Borses
Wireless Sensor Networks
Electron Devices Society John Cressler
RF Devices & Circuits
Engineering
Management Society
Mike Aucoin
Transition to Management
Industry Applications
Society
Eric Perrson
Inverter Power Stage Design for
Appliance Motor Drives
Lasers & Electro-Optics
Society
Ira Jacobs
Joe Campbell
Introduction to Fiber Optics
Optoelectronic Devices for Fiber
Optics
Power Electronics
Society
David Middlebrook
Design-Oriented Feedback and
Analysis
Reliability Society
Wayne Ellis
Effects of Reliability Mechanisms on
VLSI Circuit Functionality
Solid-State Cirucuits
Arya Behzad
Wireless-LAN Radio Design
How can your Section get involved

Use modules in Section and Chapter
meetings


63
Module is projected with Q/A and
comments by a local expert
This model was tried in six different
sections and appears to be successful
What do we want to achieve in
Argentina ?

Create a sustainable pre-university engineering
education program



Reach 150 pre-university teachers in one year



64
TISP program
Participation in TryEngineering.org
All over the country
300 teachers in the next two years
Make TryEngineering a popular resource among
teachers and students in the pre-university and
university communities in Argentina
If you want to be part of EAB’s
activities…
65

Moshe Kam: m.kam@ieee.org

D.G. Gorham: d.g.gorham@ieee.org
Questions or comments?
EAB is at
your service
66