Central NC Section plans launch of
IEEE Education Activities
Teacher In-Service Program (TISP)
Our CNC Section has an opportunity to
partner with our local schools through the IEEE Teacher In-Service
Program launched in July 2005 by IEEE Education Activities.
The following article describes the
TISP expansion into Region 3 and North Carolina Sections.
We need your help to make this a
success in our area. If you are interested in working with the IEEE CNC
Section Ad Hoc Pre-university Education Committee please contact Lonnie
H. Baxley Jr. –
lhbaxley@ieee.org and complete survey at
www.bcswonline.com/ieeefeedback/ieeetispsurvey050825.htm.
(Newsletter article by
A.J. Burke -
ajburke@ieee.org IEEE Western NC Section August 2005)
Teacher In Service Training expands into
Region 3
and North Carolina Sections
A
group of educators and engineers gathered at a conference center near
Atlanta’s Hartsfield Airport on 22-23 July 2005 to attempt to expand the
IEEE USA’s Teacher In Service Training Program (TISP) in IEEE Region 3. This
workshop was held to increase partnerships between IEEE Region 3 Sections
and their local school systems through the implementation of the Teacher
In-Service Program (TISP). Goals of the workshop included:
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- Empower Section
“champions” to develop collaborations with their local
pre-university community to promote applied inquiry-based learning.
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- Enhance the level of
technological literacy of pre-university educators.
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- Encourage
pre-university students to pursue technical careers, including
engineering.
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- Increase the general
level of technological literacy of pre-university students for many
years.
The Region 3 TISP workshop was attended by more than 60 participants
representing more than 23 IEEE Sections including 3 from North Carolina (see
photo below).
North Carolina IEEE Sections where represented at the Education Activities Board
event by (from left to right) John Whitlow - Eastern Section, A.J. Burke -
Western Section, and
Lonnie Baxley – Central Section.
The
institutionalization of TISP by the IEEE USA will allow engineers to forge
long-term working relationships with pre-university educators in elementary,
middle and high schools which can provide the opportunity to impact a
significant number of students. There are currently about 15 Lesson Plans
and supporting material found on the IEEE Precollege Education site (
http://www.ieee.org/education/precollege ).
IEEE Atlanta Section Chair, Dr. William Marshall of the Georgia Tech
Research Institute, working with one of the teachers from the Atlanta School
System on the design of an experiment for one of the already prepared lesson
plans on the IEEE Precollege Education web site.
TISP is an optimal way to
enhance the level of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
knowledge of the local pre-university community. This should have the long
term effect of reversing the trend we are seeing in college enrollments in
Engineering in the last few years (see chart below).
Expansion of TISP will play an important role in The Engineering Center for
Pre-University Education. Recently launched by IEEE Education Activities,
The Engineering Center for Pre-University Education is an umbrella
organization of engineering professional associations and educational
professional associations,
dedicated to increasing
the propensity of young people worldwide to choose engineering as a career
path. It also provides an opportunity for engineers and educators to work
together and build lasting relationships which in the future can be used to
influence these students to choose engineering as a career (see the photo
below).
Engineers and educators worked together on design of robot arms to lift a
foam cup
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