1 the ieee educational activities board 17 february 2007 meeting los angeles, ca

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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

The IEEE Educational Activities Board (EAB) shall…

Recommend to the Board of Directors policies on educational matters

Implement programs specifically intended to serve and benefit IEEE members in educational pursuits

And the engineering and scientific community, and the general public.

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EAB’s programs

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

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

Moshe Kam

Vice Chair/N&A Jim Tien

Strategic Planning Eleanor Baum

Section Outreach Anu Gokhale

Society Outreach Ken Yang

Continuing Education Roger Sudbury

Pre-university Education

Arthur Winston

Accreditation Council David Baker

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2007 Membership

RA/ Global Accreditation

Jose Antonio de la O

Public Awareness Amy Bell

Finance David Hodges

Technical Activities Andrew Blanchard

Technical Activities Stuart Long

Regional Activities S.K. Ramesh

Continuing Education Roger Sudbury

Managing Director Barbara Stoler

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Representatives and Liaisons

ASEE Jim Melsa

GOLD Verona Wong

Editor-in-Chief, IEEE Expert Now

Tamer Basar

IEEE-USA John Steadman

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Absences

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

Arthur Winston

Jerome E Levy

“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

Review of EAB main activities Pre-university Activities University-level Activities (including Accreditation) Post-University Activities (Continuing Education) Public Awareness

Ongoing New Initiatives 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

Discussion of two position papers IEEE position paper on accreditation IEEE position paper on the first professional

degree in engineering

Discussion of future initiatives 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

Report: Committee on Global Accreditation Activities (CGAA)

1045 1115

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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/

FultzDiscussion: 1st Degree of Engineering

1300 1410

6 Gorham Report - Pre-University

(Break 1455-1510)

1410 1455

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Today’s agenda

7 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 Babeu-Kelly

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

9 Reports from OUs 1625 1645

9.1 De la O Serna / Ramesh

Report: Regional Activities Board (RAB) - Optional

9.2 Blanchard/Long

Report: Technical Activities Board (TAB) - Optional

9.3 Mills Report: Standards Association

9.4 Steadman Report: IEEE-USA - Optional

10 Reports from Outside Organizations

10.1 Bredeson ECEDHA

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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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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)

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)

Approval of appointments to CTAA and ABET’s TAC

Endorsement of revisions to TAB manual IEEE Conference Committee Charter

Endorsement of revisions to IEEE Bylaws Conferences Committee

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Beginning of Formal Meeting

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(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

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

Pre-university

University level

Post-university (continuing education)

Public education

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Pre-university Activities

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Pre-university Activities

Objective: Increase the propensity of young people to select engineering as a career path

Sample activities: The on-line portal www.TryEngineering.org Teacher in-service program

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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 $1.5M

US/Canada version was launched on June 2006

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Main Functions

Life of an Engineer Become an Engineer Find a University Lesson Plans Ask an Expert Play Games

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Ask an Expert

Ask a Student Pose questions tocurrent engineeringstudents about courses,universities, preparation, co-opprograms, student life

Ask an Engineer Pose questions to engineers about education, universities and degrees, salaries,the work engineers do, the direction of aparticular discipline,technical matters.

The biggest surprises:The large number of questions, especially from university students;The large number of questions from India

Pre-University Education

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Ask an Expert…

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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Four universities in Australia

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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Technical Questions

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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Very specific questions…

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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Very Specific Questions…

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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How do we cope?

Four regular respondents 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

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

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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Teacher In Service Program

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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 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?

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

With teachers and school administrators Volunteers spread the program in their

school districts

A corporate sponsor would be nice

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2006-2007

Boston

Indianapolis

Kuala Lumpur

Capetown

Lima, Peru

Rio de Janeiro

Baltimore

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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Other Projects under Discussion

Activities for pre-university students in IEEE established conferences New EAB/TAB Initiative

An IEEE publication for pre-university students


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University-level Activities

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University-level Activities

Objectives: 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: General Outlook

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

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

University Level Education

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EAB and University-level Education Today (1)

We continue to work with ABET Though we have become more engaged

in areas where we have been “absent” before

We have expanded greatly our activities outside the US Refer to the CGAA presentation


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We started a model curriculum effort in three areas:

Biomedical Engineering (just started) Systems Engineering (just started) Biometrics (moving forward)

We are looking into certification/assessment programs

With Holmes Corporation in the area of Biometrics

With SME in the area of Electrical Engineering Technology


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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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We work on curriculum development for women in their first year at the College of Engineering A new initiative led by Amy Bell We hope to cooperate closely with WIE

and the IEEE Education Society


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Accreditation


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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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IEEE’s Role in Accreditation (2)

IEEE seeks leadership in accreditation worldwide 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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EAB’s Accreditation Projects in 2007

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:

China, India, the Caribbean, South America: Peru, El Salvador, Ecuador


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The New Portal on Accreditation (1)

Explanation of accreditation, the accreditation process, basic terminology

A list with links to all recognized accrediting bodies in the world

Including the program they accredit When applicable, a search capability tied with

TryEngineering

www.Enginnering-accreditation.org


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The New Portal on Accreditation (2)

Mutual recognition agreements 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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Accreditation in the United States


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Scope

IEEE participates in ABET activities as “IEEE” and through CSAB

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

Direct fees to ABET Directly and through CSAB

Support of committee work

Training

Rough total: $1M

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Pending Issues Concerning ABET

ABET’s administration as a 501 (c) (3) corporation

The Participation Project 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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Accreditation Outside the United States


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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 do we operate now?

China: “Working Group on Education in China”

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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New in 2007…

Activities in El Salvador and Ecuador

Establishment of an accreditation committee in India


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Education about Standards


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Education about Standards

About 450 schools have full access to IEEE standards through IEL

About 10 schools make use of this feature…


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IEEE Standards Education Portal

A joint Standards Association / EAB project

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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IEEE Standards in Education

A major cooperative effort of the SA and EAB

A portal with State-of-the Art material on Standards Education


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IEEE Standards in Education Portal

Topical Content Supporting the incorporation of the teaching

of standards in the undergraduate engineering and engineering technology programs

Content useful to the general public Standards, their applications, and their

impact on designing new products, processes, and services


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Main Sections of Portal

Tutorial Modules and Case Illustrations Applications

Submitted by students and/or their faculty mentors

Glossary Reference Guide

Alphabetical listing of standards development bodies and standards-related terminologies – soon to be categorized by technical domain

News and Features Gateway to other learning opportunities


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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

“Final” look and feel

Dissemination plan

Second Phase development plan

IT issues, including hosting


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IEEE Position Paper on Standards in the Curriculum

Part of the work plan of the Standards Education Committee

Will state the desired role of technical standards in the academic curriculum

Programs in engineering and computer science

Will be used in model curriculum development and in discussions with accrediting bodies


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Position Papers


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Position Papers

IEEE position paper on accreditation We will discuss this morning

IEEE position paper on the first degree in engineering

We will discuss in the afternoon

The role of technical standards in the engineering curriculum


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Post-university Activities

Continuing Education

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Post-university Activities

Objectives: Provide practitioners in IEEE’s fields of

interest with accessible and affordable high quality continuing education products

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Main Activities

On-line tutorial library: IEEE Expert Now

On-line course library: Educational Partners

Development of certification programs in telecommunications and biometrics

Workshops on IEEE standards

The Deans Summit


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IEEE Expert Now

1-hour long on-line learning modules

Developed by leading experts

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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Why are we doing this?

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


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Why are we doing this? (2)

To create an additional revenue stream for IEEE Societies and Councils

As a membership development tool


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A Quick Status Report

52 courses are available

24 more are in development

We have six (6) corporate customers 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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IEEE Expert Now Course Projections

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25

-3

70

21

7

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157

90

157

100

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-20

0

20

40

60

80

100

End of 2006 1st Qtr 2007 2nd Qtr 2007 3rd Qtr 2007 4th Qtr 2007

Available In Production To Be Signed

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*3 carried over from 2006 that need to be developed


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A Serious Setback

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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A Serious Setback (2)

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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Main themes in the current library


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Instrumentation and Devices: 25 Courses

General Area Number Principal OwnerElectron Devices 4 (5) EDS

Electro-optics 7 (8) LEOS

TeraHertz 1 Sensors Council

On-chip transmission lines

2 CPMT

Nanotechnology, devices

6 (7) Solid State Circuits Society

Metrology, Instrumentation

3 Instrumentation and Measurement


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Power and RF: 14 Courses

General Area Number Principal Owner

Power Engineering

1.5+1.5 PES+IAS

Power Electronics

6 PELS

RF Design 5 MTT


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Computers and Reliability: 8 Courses


Computers 3 Computer Society

Reliability 5 Reliability Society


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Communications and Systems: 27 Courses

General Area Number Principal OwnerCommunications 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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Other: 4 Courses


Management 2 (3) EMS

GOLD 1 GOLD


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One Cluster: IEEE Expert Now courses on 802

standards for wireless technology

Introduction to IEEE 802http://www.ieee.org/educourses/802/index.html

Introduction to IEEE 802.11http://www.ieee.org/educourses/802-11/index.html




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Completely Missing

Signal Processing, Image Processing

Control and Robotics

Computer Security

Antennas and Propagation


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Under/over-represented

Computers/Reliability


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Advanced vs. Introductory

Introductory Advanced N/A

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Observations

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


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Continuing education on Standards


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Standards, again…

Expert Now modules on standards

Workshop on the 802 family of standards Chicago, IL, October 2007


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The First Expert Now Cluster: IEEE 802 standards for wireless technology

Introduction to IEEE 802http://www.ieee.org/educourses/802/index.html





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Issues under discussion

Should we market the cluster independently of the Expert Now library

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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Workshops on Standards

Workshops on standards are demanded by the membership

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

Four speakers over a day and a half

Organizer is Todor Cooklev


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Long term plans

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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Finances: SEC and Standards Workshops


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Technology Surveys

Giovanni De Micheli

project leader


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Technology Surveys

Model:

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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Target Audience

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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Technology Survey Title Page

Branding


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Digging into the Technology Survey

Navigation

Section Title and Contributors

Section References


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Consolidation of IEEE on-line courses


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Consolidation of IEEE on-line courses

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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On-line course offerings in IEEE

Joe Lillie and Moshe Kam

IEEE BoD Meeting, 19 November 2006

Updated 15 November 2006

Do we need a coordinated model?

Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Tower of Babel, 1563

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Questions or Comments

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