IEEE EAB Meeting IEEE Educational Activities: Past, Present and Future Douglas Gorham, Director 16 June 2007.

IEEE EAB Meeting

IEEE Educational Activities: Past, Present and Future

Douglas Gorham, Director

16 June 2007

Educational Activities

Goal To be the resource of choice on

education in engineering, computing and technology for IEEE members, the profession, and the pre-university and university education communities

What does EAB do? (1) Pre-university education

Tryengineering.org Teacher in Service Program (TISP) “So you want you to be an engineer” Outreach to educators and school counselors Section database for activities in pre-university education

University education Accreditation in the United States Global accreditation Development of Model Curricula Student Retention: Women in Engineering Education about Standards

Green= new in the last 5 yearsRed= expanded in the last 5 yearsBlue= areas of focus for more than 5 years

What does EAB do? (2) Post-university education

Continuing education IEEE Education partners, IEEE Expert Now,

CEUs Certification

Biometrics

Awareness of Engineering and Public Education

Green= new in the last 5 yearsRed= expanded in the last 5 yearsBlue= areas of focus for more than 5 years

Trends

Wide expansion in all areas

Increased requests/demands for services

Institutionalization of successful initiatives IEEE Expert Now, TryEngineering, Global Accreditation,

TISP

Operationalization of “routine” educational activities

Model curricula Support of Certification Education about Standards

Requests for Programs and Services

Who Area Examples

Sections and Regions

Pre-university, university, post-university, standards

Section use of IEEE Expert Now; education about Standards; TISP

ECE Educators University-level, standards, accreditation

Use of the Standards in Education Portal

Pre-university educators

Pre-university, including training

Training of school counselors

Users/

members

University-level (on-line) Questions from undergraduate students in Ask An Engineer

IEEE-USA Post-university IEEE Education Partners

New and expanding services (1)

University-level material on TryEngineering Resulting from the success of the portal

Training of program evaluators outside the US Resulting from the success of Global Accreditation

initiative

Accreditation work in China, the Caribbean, and Peru

Accreditation.org The ultimate resource on accreditation in

Engineering, technology and computing

New and expanding services (2)

Biometrics model curricula and certification

Standards modules and Standards education At both University and Post-university levels

“One-stop shop” for on-line IEEE educational offerings

Education at the Section level using IEEE Expert Now

Women in Engineering; student retention

EAD Budget & FTE History 2001-2008

Year Budget (K) FTE

2001 2728.9 15.0

2002 2486.5 16.0

2003 2639.5 14.0

2004 2,555.3 14.0

2005 2,652.9 13.0

2006 2,531.5 15.0

2007 3,352.0 16.4 (WIE staff added)

2008 4,471.9 (Proposed) 18.4 (Proposed)

Expenditure Changes from 2007Activities

Institutionalization of TryEngineering

Institutionalization of TISP

Director of University Activities

WIE

Institutionalization of Global Accreditation

Consolidation of on line offerings

Education Program Manager

University Activities

Certification

EAD in 2008-2009 Global Accreditation– to assist at least 2

countries to be positioned to conduct accreditation in their country.

A biometrics engineering certification program is established.

Education Partners Program– to have 100 partners

IEEE Expert Now–to have 200 modules available in partnership with 25 OUs

EAD in 2008-2009 Cont’d

TryEngineering.org– accreditation and undergraduate engineering sections are added. 200 lesson plans for teachers and volunteers are available

Organize and host on-line continuing education offerings across IEEE OUs

Conduct at least 3 TISP training workshops per year

Develop a comprehensive promotional program to feature the work in EA

EAD Beyond 2009

A comprehensive certification program is in place that addresses current opportunities and identifies additional certification needs

Institutionalizing a conference involving industry, government and academia to address shortages of engineers and their teachers

IEEE Standards are developed in conjunction with a training module for users

WIEC is implementing effective strategies to allow them to be “out of business” in 15 years

EAD Beyond 2009 Cont’d

Our current EAB/WIE new initiative (Real World Engineering) is institutionalized as an ongoing program

The lesson plans developed for TryEngineering are converted into a publication

Conduct workshops and summer programs on emerging technologies, that result in model curricula and IEEE Expert Now modules

Create a publication for students in conjunction with Pubs

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