April 2005

IEEE-USA Pre-College Education Committee Meeting

April 1, 2005 – Las Vegas, NV

Murty Polavarapu murtyp@ieee.org

April 2, 2005

Susquehanna SectionRecent Activities

Larry Brown, Professional Engineer and Past Chair of the Susquehanna Section, presented two sessions of the Computer Engineering field to about 40 high school students from ten high school districts on 2/24/2005.  The presentations were part of the Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) Engineers' Week Program.  This was reported to the membership in our April newsletter, which you can view at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/susquehanna.

Our Section also supported an Engineers Week display at Colonial Park Mall and distributed about 40 IEEE membership applications and about 25 student applications.

We support an Education Outreach Committee (EOC) organized by the Central Pennsylvania Engineers Week Council.  The Council is comprised of members from all local Engineering societies, and is active year-round.  On 3/22/2005, Larry Brown met with 7 students at the Harrisburg SciTech High for a lunchtime, Brown Bag discussion about Electrical & Computer Engineering.  Numerous pertinent questions were answered about the technology, careers and engineering in general.

Suggestions I recall when were setting up one of these meetings, that we were looking around for

a short presentation on Electrical and Computer Engineering, to possibly use as a lead in.  I believe a short presentation, because there is probably more benefit in a give-and-take discussion directly with students.  If it is a large group, then a PowerPoint presentation material might be useful.  Since a PowerPoint projector may not always be available, slide and transparency versions should also be produced.  I don't believe it should be a big advertisement for IEEE, although a credit at the end would be acceptable.  I doubt we have enough resources to produce a presentation ourselves, but could review anything produced or perhaps offer suggestions.

April 2, 2005

Baltimore Section

Robot Challenge 2005 (tenth year)

April 2, 2005

Northern Virginia Activities

Pre-College Chapters Thomas Jefferson Woodson

National Engineers Week Family Day

GOLD Pre-College Outreach

FIRST Robotics Science and Engineering

Fairs eMerit Badges TechXplore Future City Teacher In Service Training

Plan for August 2005

April 2, 2005

Northern Virginia – FIRST Robotics

Chantilly AcademyOakton High School

VCU Regional “Entrepreneurship Award” VCU Regional “Best Website” award (www.ohsrobotics.org).VCU Regional “Woodie Flowers Award”

April 2, 2005

Cleveland Section

Lately at the Cleveland Section meetings we have been talking about getting involved in education by tentatively holding technical lectures open to the general public and possibly teacher support type things, but these arent specifically pre-college.

April 2, 2005

Lehigh Valley Section

Two years ago, members of the Lehigh Valley Section attended the robot competition sponsored by the Baltimore Section with the intent of developing a similar program for our area.

Everything came to a halt when we approached local school districts. The schools told us that IEEE would need to provide funding as well as materials.

Can you ask other Sections, such as Baltimore, to explain their programs and how they achieved success.

April 2, 2005

Columbus Section

Planning for FIRST Robotics Team

April 2, 2005

Awards

IEEE-USA Teacher – Engineer Partnership Award

IEEE EAB Teacher Award

April 2, 2005

Plans for 2005

Brainstorming Session Plans being finalized

April 2, 2005

Pre-College Education Resources

www.ieeecommunities.org/pc_ed_eng

Discussion threads Pre-College Resources

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