Why Are We Here? Introduction by Moshe Kam

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Why Are We Here?Introduction by Moshe Kam

IEEE Educational Activities

May 2009

Teacher In Service

Program in Uruguay

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Outline

Our Organization: IEEE IEEE’s Educational Activities Why is IEEE interested in promoting

engineering in the pre-university education system in Uruguay?

What do we plan to do in this workshop What are the long term benefits and

expectations?

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Our Organization – IEEE An international professional association dedicated to

the theory and practice of electrical, electronics, communications and computer engineering as well as computer science, the allied branches of engineering,

and related arts and sciences

Established 125 years ago Operating in 150 countries Has approximately 380,000 members

The largest technical professional association in the world $350M annual budget Headquarter in New York City, NY, USA

Employs approximately 1000 staff members

4IEEE Membership By Region31 December 2007

Reflecting the global nature of IEEE, R8 and R10 are now the two largest IEEE Regions

R9 – 15,410

R8 – 64,976

R1067,157

R1 to 6 – 212,838

R7 – 15,947

R1 – 37,973R2 – 32,363R3 – 30,782R4 – 23,555R5 – 29,020R6 – 59,145

5Total IEEE Membership1963 - 2007

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2007

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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 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)

Organizing the professional communityBased on geographic distribution and areas of

interest

Publishing technical and scientific literature on the State of the Art

Organizing conferences on relevant technical and scientific matters

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IEEE’s principal activities (2) Developing technical standards

Approximately 900 standards at present

Developing educational activities for professionals and for the public Including students and teachers in the pre-university

system

Improving understanding of engineering technology and computing by the public

Recognizing the leaders of the profession Awards and membership grades

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What are we trying to do… …advance global prosperity by

Fostering technological innovation Enabling members' careers Promoting community worldwide

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

+ 10Sample Activities: Regional Organizations

IEEE organizes professionals in its fields of interest into local Sections There are 330 local Sections worldwide

Uruguay has a single Section

200 members – including 42 undergraduate students and 15 Graduate Student Members

32 Senior Members

48 members of the IEEE Computer Society 29 members of the IEEE Communication Society 22 members of the IEEE Power and Energy Society

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More on the IEEE Uruguay Section

Universidad ORT 12

Universidad Mayor De La Republica Oriental Del Uruguay 4

Universidad Católica del Uruguay 10

[Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay]

Communications

Computers

Control Systems

Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Instrumentation and Measurements

Power and Energy

Solid State Circuits

Technology Management

Student Branches Society Chapters

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More on the IEEE Uruguay Section

Universidad ORT 12

Universidad Mayor De La Republica Oriental Del Uruguay 4

Universidad Católica del Uruguay 10

[Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay]

Communications

Computers

Control Systems

Engineering in Medicine and Biology

Instrumentation and Measurements

Power and Energy

Solid State Circuits

Technology Management

Student Branches Society Chapters

Call for Action:Let us consider reviving the IEEE Uruguay Student Branches!

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Sample Activities: Standards IEEE develop standards in several areas,

including: Power and Energy Transportation Biomedical and HealthcareNanotechnology Information Technology Information Assurance

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More Specific Standardization Areas Intelligent highway systems and vehicular technology Distributed generation renewable energy Voting Equipment Electronic Data Interchange Rechargeable Batteries for PCs Motor 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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TryEngineering.org

An activity of the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB)

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www.TryEngineering.org

IEEE’s pre-university education portal For students, parents, teachers and school counselors

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

20TryEngineering.orgA portal for school counselors, teachers, parents and students

University search By location, program, environment25 countries, 1739 universities

Explore Engineering – Discipline Descriptions, Day in the Life of an Engineer, Preparation Tips

Virtual Games 54 lesson plans for teaching engineering design

Ask an Expert – Ask an Engineer, Ask a Student

Undergraduate Student Advice

E-Newsletter Student opportunities – summer camps, fellowships, etc.

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Most Requested Lesson Plans

Build your own robot armSeries and Parallel CircuitsPulleys and ForceCracking the Code (bar codes) Electric MessagesAdaptive Devices

+ 23University Searches: 25 Countries Argentina Australia Austria Belgium Brazil Canada France Germany India Ireland Japan Korea Malaysia

MexicoNew ZealandPakistanPortugalRussiaSingaporeSouth AfricaSwitzerlandTaiwanTurkeyUnited KingdomUnited States

Languages 中文 Chinese

Deutsch German

Español Spanish

Français French

邦人 Japanese

Português Portuguese

русский Russian

25 TryEngineering Progress Available in English, Chinese, French, Spanish, German, Russian,

Japanese, Portuguese

Statistics (as of 1 April 2009)2.5 MILLION HITS IN 2007 … 4.5 MILLION HITS IN 2008 44,193 = average # of visitors per month

67,006 = highest number of total unique visitors (May 08) 248,951 = average # of page hits per month 9838 = average number of university searches per month 4228 = questions submitted to Ask an Expert 14197= the average number of lesson plans downloaded per month Visitors come from the US, India, China, Canada, UK and scores of

other countries

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Sample Activities: Education

Teacher In Service Program An activity of the IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB)

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The Teacher In Service Program (TISP)

A program that trains IEEE volunteers to work with pre-university teachers

Based on approved Lesson Plans Prepared/reviewed by IEEE volunteers Tested in classrooms Designed to highlight engineering design

principles

+ 29The Teacher In Service Program

Train volunteers IEEE Section Members IEEE Student Members Teachers and Instructors

…using approved lesson plans on engineering and engineering design

IEEE members will develop and conduct TISP training sessions with Teachers

Teachers will conduct training sessions with Students

IEEE Volunteers

Teachers

Students

+ 30Our Overall TISP Goals Empower IEEE Section “champions” to develop collaborations

with local pre-university education community to promote applied learning

Enhance the level of technological literacy of pre-university educators

Encourage pre-university students to pursue technical careers, including engineering

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 ways that engineers can assist schools and school systems

+ Why TISP in URUGUAY?

Why is Uruguay of Interest to IEEE Educational Activities?

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OECD PISA Program

OECD = Organization for Economic Cooperation and DevelopmentEstablished 196130 Countries Budget: Euro 303M

PISA = Programme for International Student Assessment

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Objectives of PISA

Are students well prepared for future challenges? Can they analyze, reason and communicate effectively? Do they have the capacity to continue learning throughout life? Surveys of 15-year-olds in the principal industrialized countries. 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

Uruguay is not an OECD member but it participated in PISA 2001 and PISA 2006

Review of OECD Statistics (PISA 2006)

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Uruguay’s science score in the OECD table was 428 Ahead of Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia Below the scores of all OECD countries except for Turkey and Mexico

UK: 515; France: 495; Germany: 516; Australia: 527

Uruguay was… Below OECD average in the scales of reading, mathematics and

science

Uruguayan Students demonstrated… Relative strength in the area “Living Systems” and in “Using Scientific

Evidence” Relative weakness in the area “Earth and Space Systems”

Review of OECD Statistics (PISA 2006)

Source: PISA 2006

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IEEE Volunteers

Teachers

Students

The Teacher in Service Program

“Engineering in the Classroom”

+ 43The Teacher In Service Program (TISP)

A program that trains IEEE volunteers to work with pre-university teachers

Based on approved Lesson Plans Prepared by IEEE volunteers Tested in classrooms Associated with Education Standards Designed to highlight engineering design principles The cost is less than $100 for a class of 30

+ 44The Basic Approach – Lesson Plans

IEEE volunteers and consultants develop lesson plans that highlight an engineering design topic How to build a balanced mobile (rotational equilibrium) How to design a sail for a ship (aerodynamic design)

The lesson plans are geared toward pre-university students and are tested in the classroom

Materials for a 30-student class cost no more than $100

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How does it work?

Volunteers of an IEEE Section organize a TISP training event Such as what we are doing here today

EAB provides logistical support and instructors

Volunteers gather for a day and a half of training With teachers and school administrators

Volunteers spread the program in their school districts

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Volunteer Training

Key questions to be discussed in training: How to conduct a training sessions for teachers using the TISP

lesson plans? How to approach the school system to engage teachers? How to align a lesson plan with local education criteria?

Teachers and officials from the education establishment participate in the training sessions

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After The Training… IEEE volunteers work with the school system

to conduct training sessions for teachers Teachers use the training sessions and the

lesson plans to educate their studentsIEEE participates in paying for the program

In the first year, EAB pays the materials and supplies expenses for TISP sessions for teachers

In subsequent years, funding is the responsibility of the IEEE Section

IEEE Volunteers

Teachers

Students

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Lesson plans

The lesson plans are organized in two versionsFor the teacherFor the student

The lesson plans are aligned with educational standards

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Sample Lesson Plans

Build a better candy bag

Rotational Equilibrium (mobile)

Understand and apply bar codes

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Lesson Plans

Everything You Wanted to Know About Electric Motors But Were Afraid to Ask

Rocket Cars and Newton’s Laws

Effective Lighting

Get Connected with Ohm’s Law

Design and Build Your Own Robot Arm

Learn to Program and Test Robots for Classroom Use

Give Binary A Try Computer arithmetic and ALU design

Hand Biometrics Technology BiometricsSail Away Watercraft designSimple Kitchen Machines Simple MachinesDispenser Designs Design: user satisfaction,

costs, materials Engineering Ups and Downs ElevatorsBuild a Big Wheel Ferris Wheels

Lesson Plans

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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

Lesson Plans

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Presentations

To date, over 113 TISP presentations have been conducted by IEEE volunteers

TISP presentations have reached over 2600 pre-university educators This reach represents more than 285,000 students

each academic year

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2006-2007

Boston

Indianapolis

Putrajaya, Malaysia

Cape Town

Piura, Peru

Rio de Janeiro

Baltimore

Dallas

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2008-2009

Los Angeles

San Francisco

Cordoba (Argentina)

Port of Spain

Shenzhen

Montreal

Montevideo

Guayaquil, Ecuador

San Juan, PR

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+ 58Montevideo , May 9-10 2009

A full-scale TISP training for volunteers

We expect a large number of teachers

and IEEE Student Members

We are looking for volunteers who will follow up and take the activities to the schools

Success of the program will be measured by the

number of pre-university students that it reaches

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Guayaquil, Ecuador, Nov 3-4 2009

A training session for student branches

Based on the success of the student branch session in Piura, Peru

A new TISP model

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What are we going to do here?

Demonstrate four (4) lesson plans:Sort it out (sorting of coins)Ship the Chip (packaging)Critical Load (elementary structures)Pulleys and force

Discuss how to develop and use the TISP in Uruguay

Have Fun!

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Who is in the audience?

Teachers from the Uruguayan Educational system

IEEE volunteers Mostly from UruguayIncluding IEEE Student Members

Other interested individuals from… The Uruguayan Education SystemUruguayan universities

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Who is here to help?

With lesson Plans…Members of IEEE Staff – Educational Activities

Department IEEE volunteers from South America and the

US

With implementing the Program…Officials from the Uruguayan Educational

SystemIEEE Uruguay Section Volunteers

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Expectations from IEEE VolunteersOrganize TISP sessions throughout the pre-

university education system in UruguayCommunicate with EAB for guidance,

information exchange, and fundingOrganize a task force within the IEEE Uruguay

Section to make TISP a permanent program of the Section

Arrange for budgeting through the Region, and IEEE Boards (MGAB, EAB)

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Expectations from IEEE Students

Revive the IEEE student branches in Uruguay

Make TISP a regular activity of Uruguay’s IEEE student branches

Help organize TISP sessions in the pre-university education system in UruguayEspecially in your own former schools

Participate in the Region 9 TISP task force

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Region 9 Volunteers!

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Expectations from Teachers

Use the TISP approach in your classroomWork with the IEEE Uruguay Section to

organize TISP training sessions for teachers Report to the Section what lessons have been

learnt from the program Indicate what lesson plans were or were not

successful, and what additional lesson plans would be required

+ 67Our Overall TISP Goals Empower IEEE Section “champions” to develop collaborations

with local pre-university education community to promote applied learning

Enhance the level of technological literacy of pre-university educators

Encourage pre-university students to pursue technical careers, including engineering

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 ways that engineers can assist schools and school systems

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Questions or Comments?