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Problem sent to Region 2 EAB Chairs requesting brief list of activities Received one relevant response (Baltimore Section) –The Robot Challenge - –Continuing EE Education Program - –TISP initiative – utilizing TryEngineering.org to present over 100 projects suitable for Elementary, Middle and High School students Received one irrelevant response from another section! 7 other EAB chairs did not respond 11 of 20 Region 2 sections do not have a listed EAB chairTRANSCRIPT
Examples of services and activities offered by EAB
1. TryEngineering.org2. Teacher-In-Service Program
(http://www.ieee.org/web/education/preuniversity/tispt/index.html)3. EAB awards program (http://www.ieee.org/eab-awards) - Nominations close on April
304. Expert Now program - educational courses and tutorials
(www.ieee.org/expertnowieee)5. Education Partners Program - access to more than 6,000 online courses, certificate
programs and graduate degree programs (www.ieee.org/partners)6. Continuing Education Units (www.ieee.org/ceus)7. IEEE Standards Education8. University Programs (e.g., Real World Engineering Projects at
www.realworldengineering.org)9. Accreditation.org10. Complete list is provided at
http://www.ieee.org/web/education/EABVolunteers/index.html11. Sections Outreach Committee has asked EAB to creat A single listing of all EAB
programs on the EAB web site
Problem• Email sent to Region 2 EAB Chairs requesting brief list of
activities• Received one relevant response (Baltimore Section)
– The Robot Challenge - http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r2/baltimore/robot/
– Continuing EE Education Program - http://ewh.ieee.org/r2/baltimore/continuing_education/CEEE.htm
– TISP initiative – utilizing TryEngineering.org to present over 100 projects suitable for Elementary, Middle and High School students
• Received one irrelevant response from another section!• 7 other EAB chairs did not respond• 11 of 20 Region 2 sections do not have a listed EAB chair
Problem not limited to Region 2 - Sections Outreach Committee is going to look into this
Region Total Sections % with Ed. Act. Chairs
1 22 59
2 20 45
3 41 46
4 23 43
5 25 32
6 35 29
7 20 65
8 56 43
9 32 47
10 56 55
Total 330 46
Doug Tipton
Continuing Ed
Region 2- Continuing Ed• Within Delaware Bay section; Joint sponsor of the
UD Electrical and Computer Engineering Lecture series.
• This year, Looking at education in the areas of community service:
• Engineers Without Borders• Helping Junior Achievement develop a
scientific and engineering career experience