Engineering Education through Professional Development: a vision from IEEE

From 2014 to the future
Manuel Castro, Ph.D.
President
IEEE Education Society
Professor of Electrical Engineering
UNED, Madrid, Spain

IEEE Education Society Global Leader in Engineering Education
 Quality teaching empowers students
 Modern pedagogy considers global context
 Continuing education ensures growth
How those key points are facing engineering
education in 2014 and beyond ?
How we will manage it at IEEE Education
Society ?
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 Communities with common background
 Communities of practicing professionals
 Communities advancing together
 Communities serving others in various ways
Examples: medicine, law, engineering,
trade
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 Professional societies provide:
 technical field continuing education
 peer networking
 service opportunities to advance in skill sets
 professional recognition
 accreditation
 Examples: ASME, ACM, ISES, ASEE, IEEE
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 IEEE is a global professional organization
 advancing innovation
 ensure technical excellence
 benefit the worldwide human community
 Fields of interest
 engineered systems that use electricity to do work
IEEE's core purpose is to foster
technological innovation and
excellence for the benefit of
humanity 5

 The IEEE celebrates 130 years in 2014
 1884: American Institute of Electrical Engineers
 1912: Institute of Radio Engineers
 1963: AIEE and IRE merge to form IEEE – The
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE):
 150,000 members & 93% U.S.A.
 Now: Non-profit – volunteer based
 More than 400,000 members (with 120,000 student members)
 160 countries & 333 Sections in 10 Geographic Regions worldwide
2009
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 The world’s largest professional organization
 More than 400,000 – over 50% U.S.A. – 50% Industry
 A respected standards organization
 1,500 standards
 A major global conference business
 1,000 conferences - 76 countries (400,000 attendees) / year
 A significant publisher of technical literature
 170 Transactions, Journals & Magazines
 1/3 of world literature in fields of interest
 3.5 million documents IEEE Xplore (8 million dwnlds/month)
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 38 Societies & 7 Technical Councils with
specific fields of interest
 Examples: Communications Society, Computer Society,
Power and Energy Society, Education Society
 2,231 Chapters that unite local members
with similar technical interests
 Examples: Spanish, Portugal, Gulf and Nordic Chapters
of Education Society
 2,516 Student Branches in 80 countries
 790 Student Branches Chapters
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Reflecting the global nature of IEEE, R8 and R10
are now the two largest IEEE Regions
R9 – 4%
R8 – 19%
R10
23%
R1 to R6
U.S.A. 51%
R7 – Canada 3%
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IEEE Organization & Governance
MEMBERS
Board of Directors Assembly
PSPB IEEE-USA
Standards Assoc.Educational Act.
MGA Technical Act. Executive Comm.
Regions &
Sections
Societies &
Tech. Councils
Staff & Society
Executive Directors
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 A community focused on enhancing
engineering education
 A forum for
 Continuing education
 Peer networking
 Service opportunities
 Professional recognition
all along the world (global presence with glocal
perspective)
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Vision
The IEEE Education Society strives to be the
global leader in engineering education
Mission
The IEEE Education Society is an international
organization that promotes, advances, and
disseminates state-of-the-art information and
resources related to the Society’s field of
interest and provides development opportunities
for academic, industry, and government
professionals
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The Education Society's FIELD OF
INTEREST is the theory and practice of
education and educational technology
involved in the effective delivery of domain
knowledge of all fields within the scope of
interest of IEEE
Examples: laboratory instruction, curriculum
design, distance learning, Web 2.0 learning,
pedagogy applied to engineering education
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 Founded in 1957
 Majority in U.S.A.
 6% from Region 8 (Europe, Middle East & Africa)
 5% from Region 9 (Latin America)
 By 1997
 Majority of members outside the U.S.A.
 Today
 About 3,700 members
 60% outside the U.S.
 30% in Region 8 (Europe, Middle East, & Africa)
 10% of members in Region 9 (Latin America)
 FIRST President from OUTSIDE U.S.A.
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 Professional Development Activities
 Service activities in engineering education
 Publications about engineering education
 Awards for service in engineering education
 Conferences for continuing to learn about
education
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 Service activities in engineering education
 TISP (Teacher in Service Program)
 Tryengineering.org
 EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community
Service )
 New Initiative Programs
 Chapter initiative support and Awards
 Students branch and mentoring support
 HKN honor student society
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 Peer Reviewed Publications
Focused on all EdSoc fields-of-interest
Founded: 1958
Focus on Latin America, Portugal, Spain
Founded: 2006
Focus on Learning Technologies
Founded: 2008
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By Students and For Students Founded: 2006
 Student
Publication

 Awards and Recognition
 eight recognition awards
 awards for outstanding educational skill
 awards for exemplary professional service
 annual nomination deadline: April 15th
 Distinguished Lecture Series
 Fellows and Senior member recognition programs
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 Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
 Vision: Be the premier forum for computing,
engineering, and technology education professionals
to learn best practices and innovations, enable better
teaching and learning, and to share ideas and foster
community.
 History: Forty-four years of educating educators
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 Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
sponsored with ASEE and IEEE Computer Society
 grown to 700 participants
 four days of workshops and paper presentations
 typically 425 peer-reviewed papers
 breakfasts and lunches included in registration
 registration fee is US $500 for ASEE/IEEE members
FIE204: Madrid, Spain (October 22-25, 2014)
 First year outside U.S.A. in the last 24 years
http://www.fie-conference.org/
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 IEEE International Conference on Teaching,
Learning, and Assessment in Engineering (TALE)
http://ww.tale-conference.org/
 TALE 2014: Wellington, New Zealand
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 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference
(EDUCON)
http://www.educon-conference.org/
 EDUCON 2015: Tallin, Estonia
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 Cooperative Conference Technical Co-sponsorship
 TAEE (Spain)
 FNDTI (Spain)
 CISPEE (Portugal)
 Exp.at (Portugal)
 MITE (India)
 IMCL (Worldwide)
 ICL (Worldwide)
 REV (Worldwide)
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 Engineering Education is day to day more
complex
 Accreditation
 Blended Learning
 Online Learning
 Collaborative
 Project based
 Problem based
 Technology enhance
 Social media
 Open Courseware
 MOOCs
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 In addition to technical knowledge, today's
engineering educators and industry practitioners
must provide students and professionals with
key knowledge of
 cultural, social, and political issues
 needed to succeed in the modern global engineering
marketplace
 This requires a level of continuing education for
teachers and practitioners
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 IEEE Education Society implement a number of
continuing education products that can help
educators stay current:
 Present research results in learning theory
 Document innovative curriculum design
 Share techniques used in the classroom
 Explore the complexity and infrastructure requirements
of on-line learning and distance education
 Report on collaborations between universities and
industry
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 IEEE Education Society implement a number of
continuing education products that can help
educators stay current:
 Publishes standards and best practices published
 To help educators ensure worldwide continuity
 In some countries, IEEE plays a role in curriculum
design and accreditation
 Recruiting and retention programs developed help
educators learn effective techniques to encourage
youth to become engineers
 So their country and the world continues to advance
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 Continuing education products and peer-
networking events offered by IEEE and the IEEE
Education Society foster interaction between
educators by providing forums for discussion
and collaboration
 Our volunteer work will break down transnational
educational borders by sharing knowledge and
skills
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Objective 1 To enhance the Society's publications
Objective 2 To develop the Society’s conferences
into premier, international conferences
Objective 3 To provide new professional
development opportunities for
members
Objective 4 To evaluate and improve the
effectiveness of the governance
structure of the Society
Objective 5 To increase the number of members
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http://www.ieee.org/edsoc/
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These information and slides are copyright © IEEE EdSoc.
Thanks to all the officers for the contribution.
Manuel Castro, Ph.D., IEEE Fellow
President - IEEE Education Society
http://www.slideshare.net/mmmcastro/

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