The IEEE Educational
Activities Board
17 February 2007 Meeting
Los Angeles, CA
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Informal meeting/Caucus
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EAB’s Mandate
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The IEEE Educational Activities Board
(EAB) shall…
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Recommend to the Board of Directors policies
on educational matters
Implement programs specifically intended to
serve and benefit IEEE members in
educational pursuits
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And the engineering and scientific community, and
the general public.
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EAB’s programs
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Broad planning of educational activities of the
IEEE
Development and delivery of continuing
education products and activities
Development of guidelines for the IEEE
representatives to accreditation bodies
Monitoring of accreditation activities
Coordination of pre-university programs
Representation of the IEEE in matters regarding
engineering education
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EAB’s Mandate
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The EAB shall be the IEEE interface in
education-related matters with external
bodies
EAB shall be responsible for
administration of the annual assessment
paid to ABET, Inc.
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2007 Membership
Chair/Strategic
Planning
Vice Chair/N&A
Strategic Planning
Section Outreach
Society Outreach
Continuing Education
Pre-university
Education
Accreditation Council
Moshe Kam
Jim Tien
Eleanor Baum
Anu Gokhale
Ken Yang
Roger Sudbury
Arthur Winston
David Baker
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2007 Membership
RA/ Global
Accreditation
Public Awareness
Finance
Technical Activities
Technical Activities
Regional Activities
Continuing Education
Managing Director
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Jose Antonio de la O
Amy Bell
David Hodges
Andrew Blanchard
Stuart Long
S.K. Ramesh
Roger Sudbury
Barbara Stoler
Representatives and Liaisons
ASEE
Jim Melsa
GOLD
Verona Wong
Editor-in-Chief, IEEE
Expert Now
IEEE-USA
Tamer Basar
John Steadman
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Absences
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Arthur Winston
Dave Baker (replaced by Larry
Hoffman)
Barbara Stoler (replaced by Douglas
Gorham)
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2007 Bernard M. Gordon Prize
Harold S Goldberg
Jerome E Levy
Arthur Winston
“For the development of a multi-disciplinary graduate
program for engineering professionals who have the
potential and the desire to be engineering leaders."
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Themes for the
First EAB Meeting in 2007
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Review of EAB main activities
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Pre-university Activities
University-level Activities (including Accreditation)
Post-University Activities (Continuing Education)
Public Awareness
Ongoing New Initiatives
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IEEE Global Position in Accreditation
Increasing the Representation of Women in IEEE’s
Fields of Engineering
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Themes for the First Meeting
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Discussion of two position papers
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IEEE position paper on accreditation
IEEE position paper on the first professional
degree in engineering
Discussion of future initiatives
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Consolidation of IEEE’s on-line courses
Magazine for pre-university students
Standards Education through Expert Now
Technology Surveys
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Welcome and Introductions
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Today’s agenda
1
Kam
Introductions/Roll Call
0800
0810
2
All
Approval of agenda/consent
agenda*
0810
0815
3
Kam
EAB activity update
(Break 10:00-10:15)
0815
1000
4
Kam for
Baker
APC Report
4.1
Gonzalez IEEE EAB Accreditation
Activities in Peru
1015
1045
4.2
Kam/De
la O
Serna
1045
1115
Report: Committee on Global
Accreditation Activities
(CGAA)
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Today’s agenda
4.3
Hoffman
for Baker
Report: 16 February APC
Meeting Update
1115
1125
4.4
King
Report: IEEE Representative
Director to ABET
1125
1135
4.5
Varanasi
Report - CSAB
1135
1145
Executive Session
1145
1200
EAB Photo Session
1200
Lunch
1200
1300
5
Eisenstein/
Fultz
Discussion: 1st Degree of
Engineering
1300
1410
6
Gorham
Report - Pre-University
(Break 1455-1510)
1410
1455
15
Today’s agenda
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Bell
Report: New Initiative:
“Increasing the
Representation of Women
in IEEE’s Fields of Interest”
1510
1540
8
Basar
Report: IEEE Expert Now
Editorial Board
1540
1555
8.1
Sudbury/
Basar
Action: New IEEE Expert
Now Editorial Board
8.2
BabeuKelly
Report: IEEE Expert Now
1555
1615
8.3
Tien
Report: EAB Rep to PSPB
and Marketing and Sales
Committee
1615
1625
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Today’s agenda
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Reports from OUs
9.1
De la O
Serna /
Ramesh
Report: Regional Activities
Board (RAB) - Optional
9.2
Blanchard/ Report: Technical Activities
Long
Board (TAB) - Optional
9.3
Mills
Report: Standards
Association
9.4
Steadman
Report: IEEE-USA - Optional
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Reports from Outside
Organizations
10.1 Bredeson
ECEDHA
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1625
1645
Today’s agenda
10.2 Land
Electrical and Computer
Engineering Technology
Department Heads
Organization (ECETDHA)
10.3 Melsa
American Society for
Engineering Education
(ASEE)
10.4 Hughes
IEEE Education Society
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Next Meeting:
16 June
Loews Hotel
Philadelphia, PA
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Today’s agenda
12
Kam
Old Business
13
Kam
New Business
14
Kam
Adjournment
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Review of Consent Agenda (1)
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Approval of the 18 November 2006 EAB
minutes
Affirmation of the 2007 EAB membership
Affirmation of the 2007 EAB committee
membership
Approval of appointments to CEAA and
ABET’s EAC
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Review of Consent Agenda (2)
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Approval of appointments to CTAA and
ABET’s TAC
Endorsement of revisions to TAB manual
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IEEE Conference Committee Charter
Endorsement of revisions to IEEE Bylaws
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Conferences Committee
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Beginning of Formal Meeting
22
(Roll Call)
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Approval of consent agenda ?
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Approval of Agenda?
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Vice President Report
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Planning Document for EAB in 2007
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The “final” version (#5, 15 January 2007) is
available
Provides detailed listing of planned and proposed
projects for 2007
Includes tables summarizing tasks by topic area
and by committee chair
Does not include routine (and important)
activities
One task for 2007: a VP manual
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Classification of Activities
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Pre-university
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University level
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Post-university (continuing education)
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Public education
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Pre-university Activities
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Pre-university Activities
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Objective: Increase the propensity of
young people to select engineering as a
career path
Sample activities:
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The on-line portal www.TryEngineering.org
Teacher in-service program
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www.TryEngineering.org
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IEEE’s pre-university education portal
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A joint project of IEEE, IBM, and the New
York Hall of Science
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For students, parents, teachers and school
counselors
Non-IEEE investment of approximately $1.5M
US/Canada version was launched on June
2006
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Main Functions
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Life of an Engineer
Become an Engineer
Find a University
Lesson Plans
Ask an Expert
Play Games
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Pre-University
Education
Ask an Expert
Ask a Student
Pose questions to
current engineering
students about
courses,
universities,
preparation, co-op
programs, student life
Ask an Engineer
Pose questions to
engineers about
education,
universities
and degrees, salaries,
the work engineers
do, the direction of a
particular discipline,
technical matters.
The biggest surprises:
The large number of questions, especially from
university students;
The large number of questions from India
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Pre-University
Education
Ask an Expert…
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Q: How many years of college did it
take you to become what you are
now?
I'm 13 years old, how can I start
preparing for college?
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Pre-University
Education
Four universities in Australia
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Q: I have a baccalaureate degree in Mechanical
Engineering from an Indian university. I have
applied to four (4) universities in Australia for a
Master of Engineering program in Mechanical
Engineering.
The universities are:
1. University of Wollongong;
2. University of Technology, Sydney;
3. Curtin University of Technology; and
4. The University of Sydney.
How do I go about selecting one of these
universities if they all accept me?
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Pre-University
Education
Technical Questions
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Q: Could you list current topics under Grid
Computing that can be presented as a
paper?
Q: I want know about retinal recognition
technology or retinal scan identity
technology.
Q: I need information about wireless
transmission of power.
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Pre-University
Education
Very specific questions…
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Q: I write from Bangalore, India. I
study toward a diploma in
Mechanical Engineering and wish to
join later a part time Bachelor of
Engineering program. Can this be
done in either one of the following
locations; Bangalore, Chennai, and
Ajmer?
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Pre-University
Education
Very Specific Questions…
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Q: I write from New South Wales,
Australia. My marks in the High School
Certificate (HSC) are a bit low, and I am
concerned about admissions to university
studies in electrical engineering. Do you
have any pertinent advice? If a student
gets low percentage on the HSC, does that
mean that the student is not suitable for
engineering? Do HSC marks affect the
future course of the student?
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Pre-University
Education
How do we cope?
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Four regular respondents
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Including an expert on Indian higher education
We pick questions of wide appeal over
very narrow and specific questions
We use the answers to demonstrate a
principle and send a broad message
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Recent Portal Developments
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We have added 13 countries to the
University Search
We are translating the site into Chinese,
Japanese, Spanish, German, French, and
Russian
We are adding university-level sections to
the portal
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University-level Sections in
TryEngineering
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Graduate Studies
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Links to all graduate studies websites of listed
universities
How to find an appropriate program?
How to find and work with an advisor?
Preparation for employment in
engineering
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Job interviews, Resume preparation, Job
banks
Improving “soft skills” and marketability of
qualifications
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Teacher In Service Program
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Pre-University
Education
The Teacher In Service Program (TISP)
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A program that trains IEEE volunteers to
work with pre-university teachers
Based on approved Lesson Plans
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Prepared by IEEE volunteered
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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How does it work?
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A Section volunteers to run a TISP training
event
EAB provides logistical support and
instructors
Volunteers gather for a day and a half of
training
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With teachers and school administrators
Volunteers spread the program in their
school districts
A corporate sponsor would be nice
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Pre-University
Education
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Pre-University
Education
2006-2007
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Boston
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Lima, Peru
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Indianapolis
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Rio de Janeiro
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Kuala Lumpur
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Baltimore
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Capetown
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Dallas
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Our current deficiency: lesson plans
Solutions:
purchasing lesson plans from consultants
requesting IEEE Technical Societies to help
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Pre-University
Education
Other Projects under Discussion
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Activities for pre-university students
in IEEE established conferences
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New EAB/TAB Initiative
An IEEE publication for preuniversity students
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University-level Activities
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University-level Activities
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Objectives:
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Improve academic curricula and ensure
their purposeful adaptation to the
changing technical and business climate
Improve delivery and effectiveness of
engineering education
Improve retention of engineering and
technology students
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University Level
Education
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10 years ago EAB’s principal activity in the
university-level education was assistance to
ABET
In addition, we provided accreditation workshops
outside the US
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University-level Education:
General Outlook
Mostly “show and tell” and review of existing
accreditation systems
Model curriculum work in IEEE was performed
almost exclusively by the IEEE Computer Society
We have progressed significantly since then
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University Level
Education
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We continue to work with ABET
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EAB and University-level
Education Today (1)
Though we have become more engaged
in areas where we have been “absent”
before
We have expanded greatly our
activities outside the US
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Refer to the CGAA presentation
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University Level
Education
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We started a model curriculum effort in
three areas:
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EAB and University-level
Education Today (2)
Biomedical Engineering (just started)
Systems Engineering (just started)
Biometrics (moving forward)
We are looking into
certification/assessment programs
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With Holmes Corporation in the area of
Biometrics
With SME in the area of Electrical Engineering
Technology
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University Level
Education
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EAB and University-level
Education Today (3)
We are becoming a major resource of
information on university-level education
and accreditation
TryEngineering.org is the best university
search tool available for programs in
Engineering and Computer Science
The portal will be upgraded in 2007 to
provide more services to the university
community
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University Level
Education
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EAB and University-level
Education Today (4)
We work on curriculum development
for women in their first year at the
College of Engineering
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A new initiative led by Amy Bell
We hope to cooperate closely with WIE
and the IEEE Education Society
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University Level
Education
Accreditation
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University Level
Education
IEEE’s Role in Accreditation (1)
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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
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University Level
Education
IEEE’s Role in Accreditation (2)
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IEEE seeks leadership in accreditation
worldwide
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Including participation in development
and administration of accrediting bodies
IEEE seeks to develop and support
local accrediting bodies where such
bodies do not exist at the present time
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University Level
Education
EAB’s Accreditation Projects in 2007
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Development of IEEE’s white paper on
accreditation
Development of a comprehensive on-line
resource on accrediting bodies and mutual
recognition agreements
Assistance to emerging accrediting bodies and
accreditation projects worldwide:
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China, India, the Caribbean, South America: Peru, El
Salvador, Ecuador
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University Level
Education
The New Portal on Accreditation (1)
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Explanation of accreditation, the
accreditation process, basic terminology
A list with links to all recognized
accrediting bodies in the world
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Including the program they accredit
When applicable, a search capability tied with
TryEngineering
www.Enginnering-accreditation.org
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University Level
Education
The New Portal on Accreditation (2)
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Mutual recognition agreements
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Who has signed them
Full text
Common interpretation
What does this agreement mean to you?
Selected bibliography
www.Enginnering-accreditation.org
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University Level
Education
Accreditation in the United States
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University Level
Education
Scope
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IEEE participates in ABET activities as
“IEEE” and through CSAB
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The CS is 40% of CSAB
Very close cooperation between the two
groups
3+2 Board members (4 from IEEE)
Approximately 350 IEEE volunteers are
involved
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IEEE’s Expenditures on US
Accreditation
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Direct fees to ABET
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Directly and through CSAB
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Support of committee work
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Training
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Rough total: $1M
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University Level
Education
Pending Issues Concerning ABET
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ABET’s administration as a 501 (c) (3) corporation
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The Participation Project
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Understanding and agreement on milestones and end
goals
International Accreditation
[EAB and ABET will have a half-day meeting on
26 February 2007]
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University Level
Education
Accreditation Outside the
United States
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University Level
Education
Key IEEE Activities
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Providing help to accrediting bodies in
formation
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Including training of evaluators
Providing help to groups that want to start
new accrediting bodies
Providing education about accreditation
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University Level
Education
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China: “Working Group on Education in
China”
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Where do we operate now?
First meeting: November 2006
Peru: ICACIT
The Caribbean: new accrediting body for
program taught in English
T&T: West Indies University
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University Level
Education
New in 2007…
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Activities in El Salvador and Ecuador
Establishment of an accreditation
committee in India
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University Level
Education
Education about Standards
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University Level
Education
Education about Standards
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About 450 schools have full access
to IEEE standards through IEL
About 10 schools make use of this
feature…
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University Level
Education
IEEE Standards Education Portal
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A joint Standards Association / EAB
project
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Funded in part by the US NSF
Developed by the Standards Education
Committee
Aims to provide university educators and
students with opportunities to learn how
to read standards and understand them
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University Level
Education
IEEE Standards in Education
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A major cooperative effort of the SA and EAB
A portal with State-of-the Art material on
Standards Education
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University Level
Education
IEEE Standards in Education Portal
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Topical Content
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Supporting the incorporation of the teaching
of standards in the undergraduate
engineering and engineering technology
programs
Content useful to the general public
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Standards, their applications, and their
impact on designing new products,
processes, and services
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University Level
Education
Main Sections of Portal
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Tutorial Modules and Case Illustrations
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Applications
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Submitted by students and/or their faculty mentors
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Glossary
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Reference Guide
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Alphabetical listing of standards development
bodies and standards-related terminologies
– soon to be categorized by technical domain
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News and Features
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Gateway to other learning opportunities
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University Level
Education
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Challenges
The portal is a pilot for which a transition
plan and scaling are not yet ready
Currently it is operated as a pilot in three
schools
In 2007 we need to decide on
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“Final” look and feel
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Dissemination plan
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Second Phase development plan
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IT issues, including hosting
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University Level
Education
IEEE Position Paper on Standards in
the Curriculum
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Part of the work plan of the Standards
Education Committee
Will state the desired role of technical
standards in the academic curriculum
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Programs in engineering and computer
science
Will be used in model curriculum
development and in discussions with
accrediting bodies
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University Level
Education
Position Papers
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University Level
Education
Position Papers
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IEEE position paper on accreditation
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IEEE position paper on the first degree in
engineering
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We will discuss this morning
We will discuss in the afternoon
The role of technical standards in the
engineering curriculum
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Continuing Education
Post-university Activities
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Post-university Activities
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Objectives:
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Provide practitioners in IEEE’s fields of
interest with accessible and affordable
high quality continuing education
products
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Continuing Education
Main Activities
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On-line tutorial library: IEEE Expert Now
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On-line course library: Educational Partners
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Development of certification programs in
telecommunications and biometrics
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Workshops on IEEE standards
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The Deans Summit
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Continuing Education
IEEE Expert Now
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1-hour long on-line learning modules
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Developed by leading experts
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Usually on the basis of conference workshops
Professionally produced
Easy to use player-viewer, audio and video
files, diagrams, animations, and automatic
place marking
Optional CEUs
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Continuing Education
Why are we doing this?
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To facilitate the continuing education needs
of IEEE Members and other practitioners
To provide learning opportunities in
manageable, one hour installments
To make IEEE the marketplace leader in
providing high-quality e-learning services
for practicing engineers, scientists and
researchers
84
Continuing Education
Why are we doing this? (2)
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To create an additional revenue stream for
IEEE Societies and Councils
As a membership development tool
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Continuing Education
A Quick Status Report
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52 courses are available
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24 more are in development
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We have six (6) corporate customers
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First reimbursement to societies in 2007
Members subscription will be made available in
2007
An Editorial Board was just established

First editor in chief is Tamer Basar
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Continuing Education
IEEE Expert Now
Course Projections
100
100
90
83
80
70
59
60
40
25
21
15
20
15
7
7
1st Qtr 2007
2nd Qtr 2007
7
11
7
0
-3 *
-20
End of 2006
Available
In Production
*3 carried over from 2006 that need to be developed 87
3rd Qtr 2007
To Be Signed
4th Qtr 2007
Continuing Education
A Serious Setback
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In November 2006 we have promised
IEEE members that in 2007 they will
have access to the library through
XPLORE
As of today this has not happened
(very embarrassing)
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Continuing Education
A Serious Setback (2)
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The current target date is 10 March
2007
We offered IEEE Section free copies
on a CD ROM for use in Section and
Chapter events for 2007
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Continuing Education
Main themes in the current library
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Continuing Education
Instrumentation and Devices:
25 Courses
General Area
Number
Principal Owner
Electron Devices
4 (5)
EDS
Electro-optics
7 (8)
LEOS
TeraHertz
1
Sensors Council
On-chip
transmission lines
Nanotechnology,
devices
2
CPMT
6 (7)
Solid State Circuits
Society
Metrology,
Instrumentation
3
Instrumentation and
Measurement
91
Continuing Education
Power and RF:
14 Courses
General Area
Power
Engineering
Power
Electronics
RF Design
Number
Principal Owner
1.5+1.5 PES+IAS
6
PELS
5
MTT
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Continuing Education
Computers and Reliability:
8 Courses
General Area
Computers
Reliability
Number
3
5
93
Principal Owner
Computer Society
Reliability Society
Continuing Education
Communications and Systems:
27 Courses
General Area
Number
Principal Owner
Communications
4(5)+6
ComSoc +VTS
802 Standards
4
EAB
Radar, Aerospace
4
AESS
Robotics
1
RAS
Computational
Intelligence
3
CIS
Circuits
2
CAS
Biomedical appl.
2
EMBS
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Continuing Education
Other:
4 Courses
General Area
Management
GOLD
Number
2 (3)
1
95
Principal Owner
EMS
GOLD
Continuing Education
One Cluster:
IEEE Expert Now courses on 802
standards for wireless technology
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Introduction to IEEE 802
http://www.ieee.org/educourses/802/index.html
Introduction to IEEE 802.11
http://www.ieee.org/educourses/802-11/index.html
Introduction to IEEE 802.15
http://www.ieee.org/educourses/802-15/index.html
Introduction to IEEE 802.16
http://www.ieee.org/educourses/802-16/index.html
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Continuing Education
Completely Missing
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Signal Processing, Image Processing
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Control and Robotics
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Computer Security
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Antennas and Propagation
97
Continuing Education
Under/over-represented

Computers/Reliability
98
Continuing Education
Advanced vs. Introductory
Introductory
Advanced
N/A
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22
3
99
Continuing Education
Observations
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Absence of Computer and Signal Processing
appears to be a major deficiency
Nothing in Control
We probably have an opportunity in the area of
network security
Standards clusters may be useful for
users/purchasers of IEEE standards
10
0
Continuing Education
Continuing education on
Standards
10
1
Continuing Education
Standards, again…

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Expert Now modules on standards
Workshop on the 802 family of
standards

Chicago, IL, October 2007
10
2
Continuing Education
The First Expert Now Cluster:
IEEE 802 standards for wireless technology
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Introduction to IEEE 802
http://www.ieee.org/educourses/802/index.html
Introduction to IEEE 802.11
http://www.ieee.org/educourses/802-11/index.html
Introduction to IEEE 802.15
http://www.ieee.org/educourses/802-15/index.html
Introduction to IEEE 802.16
http://www.ieee.org/educourses/802-16/index.html
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Continuing Education
Issues under discussion
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Should we market the cluster
independently of the Expert Now library
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With the appropriate “fences”
Should we develop additional standards
modules?
Should we make it a SOP to release an
Expert Now module with every new major
standard (or revision)
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Continuing Education
Workshops on Standards
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Workshops on standards are demanded by
the membership
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The no. 1 area requested for continuing education
First workshop in Chicago in October 2007
Workshop will cover elements of the IEEE
802 family of standards
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Four speakers over a day and a half
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Organizer is Todor Cooklev
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Continuing Education
Long term plans
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EAB would like to make the
workshop on standards a regular
institutionalized activity starting 2008
or 2009
We believe this would be a much
needed service to the membership
and will create significant surpluses
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Continuing Education
Finances: SEC and Standards
Workshops
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Continuing Education
Technology Surveys
Giovanni De Micheli
project leader
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Continuing Education
Technology Surveys
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Model:
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A TS is similar to a reprint book
The TS site has a tutorial on an area and
pointers to papers with coverage to the area
The tutorial adds value to the papers by
introducing them and by providing means
(e.g., tables) to understand various symbols
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Continuing Education
Target Audience
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Engineers getting into a new field
Engineers needing an in-depth knowledge
of a field
Instructors and students of a course on a
new topic
Small companies needing to understand
an area with an investment smaller than
IEL
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Continuing Education
Technology Survey Title Page
Branding
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Continuing Education
Digging into the Technology Survey
Section Title and
Contributors
Navigation
Section
References
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Continuing Education
Consolidation of IEEE on-line
courses
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Continuing Education
Consolidation of IEEE on-line courses
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The BoD will discuss on Sunday a motion
directing EAB to consolidate IEEE on line
course offerings
In 2007: a common point of access and
long-term planning with course-offering
OUs
In 2008: development of a one stop shop
for all IEEE on-line course offerings
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Tower of Babel, 1563
On-line course
offerings in IEEE
Do we need a coordinated model?
Joe Lillie and Moshe Kam
IEEE BoD Meeting, 19 November 2006
Updated 15 November 2006
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Questions or Comments
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