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Service
Program in
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Introduction from IEEE
Tariq Durrani, Vice President, IEEE
Educational Activities
Yvonne Pelham, Manager, Educational
Outreach, IEEE EA Dept.
March 2011
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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 systems in Scotland?
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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
126 years ago
 Operating in 160
 Has
countries
approximately 400,000 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 Today
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Advancing Technology for Humanity
MEMBERS
400,000
COUNTRIES
160
CONFERENCES
1200+ per year
SOCIETIES/COUNCILS
38/7
Standards
1,300 Active Standards
World’s largest technical professional society
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IEEE’s Organizational Chart
IEEE Members
IEEE Board of Directors
IEEE Assembly
Chaired by the
President and
CEO
IEEE Major Boards
Publication Services
and Products
Standards Association
Technical
Activities
Technical
Societies
Member and
Geographical Activities
IEEE USA
Educational
Activities
Local Sections
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IEEE’s Organizational Chart
IEEE Members
IEEE Board of Directors
IEEE Assembly
Chaired by the
President and
CEO
IEEE Major Boards
Publication Services
and Products
Standards Association
Technical
Activities
Technical
Societies
Member and
Geographical Activities
IEEE USA
Educational
Activities
Local Sections
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IEEE Membership By Region
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31 December 2010
R7 – 16,955
R10
90,593
R1 to 6 – 209,765
R1 – 36,172
R2 – 32,312
R3 – 30,928
R8 – 73,297
R4 – 23,530
R5 – 29,550
R9 – 16,931
R6 – 57,273
Reflecting the global nature of IEEE, R8 and R10 are
now the two largest IEEE Regions
Total IEEE Membership
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Higher Grade
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+ Today's IEEE is not just about Electrical and
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Computer Engineering
The IEEE-designated fields are:
 Engineering
 Computer
sciences and information technology
 Biological and medical sciences
 Mathematics
 Physical sciences
 Technical communications, education,
management, law and
policy
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Computer Engineering
The IEEE-designated fields are:
 Engineering
 Computer
Not Just Electrical and
Computer Engineering
sciences and information technology
 Biological and medical sciences
 Mathematics
 Physical sciences
 Technical communications, education,
management, law and
policy
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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)
 Organising the professional community
 Based
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on geographic distribution and areas of interest
Publishing technical and scientific literature on the
State of the Art
- (Publishing over 140 journals and magazines annually 30% of the world’s technical literature)
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Organising conferences on relevant technical and
scientific matters
- (sponsoring/cosponsoring over 1100 conferences
world-wide each year)
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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
system
students and teachers in the pre-university
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Improving understanding of engineering
technology and computing by the public
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Recognising the leaders of the profession
 Awards and
membership grades
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What are we trying to do…
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Foster technological innovation
 Enable
members' careers
 Promote 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
IEEE organizes professionals in its fields of interest into
local Sections
 There are 333 local Sections worldwide in 10 Regions
 In Region 8 –
United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland
(UKRI) Section consists
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9925 Members – including 141 Students and Graduate Student
Members
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143 Fellows 7893 Senior Members & Members
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418 Associate Members
 Most popular
societies
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IEEE Computer Society
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IEEE Communication Society
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IEEE Power and Energy Society
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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:
Pre-University Education
An activity of the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB)
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Why is IEEE interested in pre-university
engineering education
Because it
mission
is in our stated and un-stated
Because in
many IEEE Sections there is marked
decline in the interest of young people in
Engineering
 This
is not good for the future of these communities and
would have a negative impact on their standard of living
Because we
do not believe the problem is
going to be tackled effectively without
international effort by the IEEE
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Demands of the 21st Century
The demands of
the 21st century will require
technological innovation to deliver
advanced technologies in developed countries
infrastructure solutions in developing countries
Flat or
declining engineering enrollments in
most developed nations
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OECD Program
 OECD
= Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development
 Established 1961
 30 Countries
 OECD
Directorate for Education devotes a major effort to the
development and analysis of quantitative indicators for the
review of education systems and performance
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OECD PISA Programme
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PISA = Programme for International Student Assessment PISA
 Scotland has participated in PISA on each occasion since its
inception in 2000.
 Publication reports on the United Kingdom as a whole, but
Scotland participates as a distinct adjudicated area
enabling results to be published separately.
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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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A few observations on the state of preengineering education in Scotland
 Scotland’s
mean science score in the OECD
table was 514
 16th on
the list; 1st: Shanghai-China: 575; 2nd:
Finland: 554
 Similar scores in Netherlands, Chinese Taipei,
Germany, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Slovenia,
Macao-China, Poland, Ireland
 Scotland was…
 Above OECD average
in the scales of reading(493),
mathematics(496) and science(501)
 However Scotland’s score in mathematics declined
during the years 2001-2006
Source: PISA 2009
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Enrollment Percentages by Field of Study (2007)
Source: Organization of Economic Cooperation &
Development
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Enrollment Data
1- OECD Education at a Glance 2009 – A2.6 Indicator
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Percentage of Science Degrees Awarded
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15
2005
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2006
2007
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2008
Turkey
Spain
Source:
Organization of
Economic
Cooperation &
Development
United Kingdom
Science degrees include life sciences,
computer sciences, engineering,
manufacturing and building
Portugal
Norway
Italy
Hungary
France
Finland
Austria
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Pre-University Education
Overall objective:
 To
increase the propensity of young people to
select engineering, computing and technology
as a program of study and career path
 Increase the level of technological literacy
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The Challenge and Approach
Challenge:
 Public
perception of engineers/ engineering/
technology is often misinformed resulting in
early decisions that block the path of children to
engineering
Approach:
 Reach
major groups of influencers who impact
students and their decision
 Teachers, counsellors, parents,
media,..
 Pre-University Educator Award
 Online
Presence – TryEngineering.org
 Teacher Training – Teacher In-Service Program
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IEEE EAB Pre-University Educator Award
The IEEE EAB Pre-University Educator Award
recognizes current pre-university education classroom
teachers who have inspired an appreciation and
understanding of mathematics, science and
technology and the engineering process in students
and have encouraged students to pursue technical
careers.
How to get involved:
 Nominate
Due 30 April 2011
a classroom teacher
www.ieee.org/education_careers/education/awards/pre_university_educator
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Discover the Creative Engineer In You!
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Available in
•English
•Chinese
•French
•Spanish
•German
•Russian
•Japanese
•Portuguese
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www.TryEngineering.org
 IEEE’s pre-university education portal
 For teachers, school counsellors, parents
ages 8 -22
 Delivery Model
and students
– To the adult who influences students
 Visitors learn
 about careers in engineering,
 understand how engineers impact our daily lives,
 discover the variety of engineering, technology and
computing programs,
 find free classroom activities that demonstrate
engineering principles
 and more.
A
joint project of IEEE, IBM, and the New York Hall of
Science
 Non-IEEE investment of approximately $2.5M
 US/Canada
version was launched on June 2006
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Unique Features of TryEngineering.org
 Robust
 side
search engine for accredited programs
by side comparisons, interactive maps, links to
university web site
 Lesson Plans
focused on engineering and
engineering design
 Reviewed by
 Discipline
IEEE volunteers and teachers
descriptions
 40 engineering,
 Engineering
 2nd site
games”
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computing and technology disciplines
Games
listed in Google search results for “engineering
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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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TryEngineering Progress
 6.2
millions hits in 2010, an 18% increase over
last year
 Currently
just over 65,000 visitors per month
 About
3.7 million lesson plan downloads since
launch in all languages
 Visitors
 Visitors
average about 24 minutes on the site
come from the US, China, India, Canada,
Japan and scores of other countries
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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
 Empower
IEEE “champions” to develop
collaborations with local pre-university education
community to promote applied learning
 Enhance
the level of technological literacy of preuniversity educators
 Increase
the general level of technological literacy
of pre-university students
 Increase
the level of understanding of the needs
of educators among the engineering community
 Identify
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ways that engineers can assist schools
and school systems
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Why TISP in Scotland
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The program has the potential to become a new
resource for many teachers who have little
exposure or experience with engineering
 This
is a problem world wide
 TISP
introduces teachers to hands-on inquirybased activities that support the teaching of
science, technology and mathematics
 IEEE
members represent an important repository
of knowledge and experience, otherwise
unavailable to the pre-university system
A
bridge between the technical community and the
school system can be built
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How does it work?
Volunteers
gather for a day and a half of
training
 With
teachers and school administrators
Volunteers
spread the program in their
school districts
Volunteers
work with the school district to
organize TISP professional development/inservice presentations
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Training Workshops
22 Workshops - 1767 Participants
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A Decade of Success
 In 2001,
the first event was held by the Florida West
Coast Section in conjunction with the University of South
Florida College of Engineering
 In 2005,
the program was operationalized in EAB budget
 In 2007,
a Region-wide event was held in Brazil with 13
countries represented; Pilot Student Branch Workshop
held in Peru
 In 2009,
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largest event with 185 teachers held in Uruguay
2009, a training workshop was held in every region
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Teacher In-Service Program
Presentations
Over 146
TISP presentations have been
conducted by IEEE volunteers
TISP presentations have
reached over
3300 pre-university educators
 This
reach represents more than 360,000 students
each year
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Teacher Feedback
91.1% of the teacher
polled responded
positively to the
statement: “This
presentation has
increased my level of
technological literacy.”
1624 Respondents
(23% Primary Teacher)
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Teacher Feedback
94.1% of the teacher
polled responded
positively to the
statement: “Today's
topic will increase my
student's level of
technological literacy.”
1624 Respondents
(23% Primary Teacher)
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Example Outcomes
 Houston
Section, Texas cooperated with the Harris
County Department of Education to do the alignment
matrix for the Texas Education Agency curriculum
requirements for K - 12 for the TryEngineering.org
lesson plans. The alignment to the Texas Essential
Knowledge and Skills is found at:
http://www.ieee-houston.org/TISP/TEA_Matrix.htm
 Region 7,
Canada approved the formation of a TISP
committee to oversee the activities; 13 sections
participate
 South Africa Section
partnered with the South African
National Department of Education to develop lesson
plans relating to the South African Technology General
Education and Training (GET) curriculum.
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Meeting the Goals
 Empower IEEE
“champions”
 Technological literacy of
pre-university educators
 Technological literacy of
pre-university students
 Understanding
of the
needs of educators
 School systems assisted
by IEEE
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 1460 Trained Volunteers
 91%
agreed that program
enhanced technological
literacy
 94%
believe that student’s
technological literacy would
increase (anecdotal)
 Sustained
programs in
several sections
 146 presentations
reported
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Thank You