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Welcome to the Teacher In-Service Program in Cordoba
6 September 2008Cordoba Argentina
Moshe Kam IEEE Educational Activities
For Evangelia Micheli Tzanakou2008 Vice President, Educational Activities
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First, some candy bag numbers
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Quick Analysis of data from the candy bag exercise
Average weight 2140.6 g
Min 250 g
Max 5250 g
Median 1700 g
Standard Deviation 1517.3 g
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And now a few words about the Educational Activities Board
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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
Including accreditation
15 Board members
Approximately 60 committee members
Staff support of 18 Educational Activities Department
EAB: SMALL BUT POWERFUL
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IEEE Vice Presidents for Education
James Tien
2003-2004
Evangelia Micheli-Tzanakou
Current
Moshe Kam
2005-2007
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Areas covered in this presentation
Pre-university engineering education The Teacher In Service Program (TISP) www.TryEngineering.org
University-level education Accreditation outside the United States Retention: Real World Engineering Projects
Public awareness of engineering “Meeting the Growing Demand For Engineers and Their
Educators 2010-2020”
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Pre-University Engineering Education
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
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The Teacher in Service Program
“Engineering in the Classroom”
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Sample TISP Topics Everything You Wanted to
Know About Electric Motors But Were Afraid to Ask
Rocket Cars and Newton’s Laws
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
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Rotational Equilibrium: A Question of Balance
Teacher In Service Program (TISP)
Cape Town, South Africa
Moshe Kam and Douglas GorhamIEEE Educational Activities
4 August 2006
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Version 1 A three-level four-weight design
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
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Materials
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
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Tools and Accessories
Scissors
Hole Punchers
Pens
Wine/water glasses
Binder clips
30cm Ruler
Band Saw (optional)
Marking pen
Calculator (optional)
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5 mm
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Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
5 mm
Rods of level 3 and 2 are tied to rods of level 2 and 1 respectively, at a distance of 5mm from the edge of the lower level rod
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Designing the Mobile
Level 3 W x1 = W y1
x1 + y1 = 290
Level 2 2W x2 = W y2
x2 + y2 = 290
Write and solve the equations for xi And yi (i=1,2,3)
290 mm
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Version 2
Design a more complicated mobile More levels (say 5) Three weights on lowest rod, at least two on each one of the
other rods Different weights
First, provide a detailed design and diagram with all quantities
Show all calculations, specify all weights, lengths, etc.
Then, build, analyze and provide a short report
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Lobster Tail and Fish
Trap, 1939, mobile
Hanging Apricot,1951, standing mobile
Standing Mobile, 1937
Mobile, 1941
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New 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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Additional New Lesson Plans 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
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Recent information “From the Field”
Six new programs in South Africa To subject advisors and educators Total number of affected teachers will be
more than 700
Four new programs in Malaysia 160 teachers
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Piura, Peru - attendees
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TryEngineering.org
The IEEE portal for pre-university students, their parents, teachers and
school counselors
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Build a Bionic Arm
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University-level Sections in TryEngineering
Graduate Studies 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 Job interviews, Resume preparation, Job banks Improving “soft skills” and marketability of
qualifications
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University Level Activities
Accreditation outside the United States
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IEEE’s Role in Accreditation (1)
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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Key IEEE Activities
Providing help to accrediting bodies in formation
Including training of evaluators
Providing help to groups that want to start new accrediting bodies
Providing education about accreditation
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Where does IEEE-CGAA operate now?
China: “Working Group on Education in China”
First meeting: November 2006
Peru: ICACIT
The Caribbean: CACET new accrediting body for programs taught in
English T&T: West Indies University
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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 A translation of ABET accreditation materials into
Chinese was completed by EAB Meetings with decision makers in various ministries
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Ministry of Education Beijing 2007
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Beijing 2007
Bruce Eisenstein speaks
Note the Engineers Ireland Logo
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2008 Activities
An accreditation workshop with CAST and the PRC Ministry of Education
Beijing, 22 March 2008
Close to 250 attendees All fields of engineering
A 4-hour event narrated by M. Lightner and M. Kam
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International Accreditation: Peru
IEEE is providing on-going assistance to the Peruvian accrediting body ICACIT
ICACIT was formed in the early 2000s
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
We are also maintaining a website for ICACIT
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Training session for Peruvian program evaluators, December
2006
Lima, December 2006
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Arequipa, December 2007
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Arequipa, December 2007
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Activities Planned for 2008
Final versions of accreditation manuals Engineering, Technology, Computing
Appointment of 20 Program Evaluators
Staffing of the accreditation committees
The first series of independent accreditation visits by ICACIT
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Caribbean Accreditation Council for Engineering and Technology
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Scope
English speaking Caribbean
An effort requiring 3-6 years and the consent and participation of all major
constituencies
A collaboration of… Academic institutions and the faculty Industry, especially employers of engineers and
technologists Governmental bodies and regulators
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Activities for 2008-2009
Two administrative and training meetings Develop structure and accreditation documents
CACET will become a line item on the budget of CARICOM
First visit – possibly 2010 (!)
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Accreditation.org
A new IEEE portal on all aspects of academic accreditation
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Increasing Student Retention
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“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
http://ieee.org/web/education/university/RealWorldEngineering/index.html
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Projects selected in 2007 (1) Manipulating Everyday Objects With Prosthetic Hands
Chris Macnab, the University of Calgary, Canada
Error Correction Codes for Wireless Communication Systems Sami Khorbotly, Ohio Northern University, USA
Using Engineering to Save the Planet - One Ear at a Time Jeff Gibbons, Collins County Community College, TX, USA
Solid State Lighting for the Developing World Loren Wyard-Scott from the University of Alberta, Canada
Smarter Vehicles Leyla Nazhandali, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, USA
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Projects selected in 2007 (2) Audio Forensics: Solving a Crime using Digital (Audio) Signal
Processing Jennifer Murdoch and others from the University of Victoria,
Canada.
Power Electronics/System: A Look at Renewable Energy Taryn Bayles, the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA.
HCI Alternatives using the Nintendo Wii Gautam Srivastava and others from the University of Victoria,
Canada.
Feedback Controlled Brushless DC Motor Stephen Williams from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, US.
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Meeting the Growing Demand For Engineers and Their Educators
2010 - 2020
International Summit
Munich, Germany9 - 11 November 2007
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Continuing Education
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Expert Now IEEE
The best of IEEE’s educational content delivered in one-hour long online learning modules
50 modules are included in the current version By the end of 2007 we will have at least 75
The latest information on emerging technologies and seminal works
presented at the best of IEEE’s conference tutorials, short courses and workshops
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This course has been sponsored by the IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society.
2003 IEEE Conference on Optical Fiber Communication
Introduction > About This CourseReconfigurable Multiple Wavelength Optical Systems and Networks
•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
Alan Eli Willner University of Southern California
Optical Fiber Communication
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Selected TitlesSOCIETY 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
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How can your Section get involved
Use modules in Section and Chapter meetings 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
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What do we want to achieve in Argentina ?
Create a sustainable pre-university engineering education program
TISP program Participation in TryEngineering.org
Reach 150 pre-university teachers in one year 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
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If you want to be part of EAB’s activities…
Moshe Kam: m.kam@ieee.org
D.G. Gorham: d.g.gorham@ieee.org
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Questions or comments?
EAB is at your service