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IEEE Education Society
October 29, 2005       Vol.3 No.8        Rob Reilly, Editor
Call For Papers

IMCL2006 Amman, Jordan April 19-21, 2006 mobile technology in education — deadline: November 20, 2005
FIE 2006 General Chair Susan Lord has issued a Call For Papers. FIE 2006 will be held in San Diego, Calif. USA from October 28-31, 2006. Abstract deadline: January 16, 2006
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Upcoming Conferences

ICECE2005 Madrid, Spain Nov. 13-16, 2005 engineering & computer education topics.

IMCL 2006 April 19-21 in Amman, Jordan mobile technology in education focus
eit2006 East Lansing, Michigan USA May 7-10 2006 electro & information technology
FIE 2006 will be held in San Diego, California USA from October 28-31, 2006 engineering education focus

  In this issue...

• FIE 2006 Call For Papers
• Revista Iberoamericana electrónica de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje
• EdSoc sponsors IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award
• Jacek Zurada appointed to the Administrative Committee
• Administrative Committee Elections Held at FIE 2005 in Indianapolis
• Chapters Committee Leaders at FIE
• Actions Taken by the AdCom
• EE Education Conference in Liverpool, England
• Call For Submissions: Premier Award
• CFP: ICEE—July2006—Puerto Rico
• Administrivia
  FIE 2006 Call For Papers

FIE 2006 continues a long tradition of promoting the widespread dissemination of innovations that improve computer science, engineering, and technology (CSET) education. FIE is a major annual international conference devoted to improvements in CSET education.

CSET education faces significant challenges in crossing international, cultural, and social borders in order to expand the pool of those entering CSET education and prepare our graduates to be successful in the global economy with diverse groups of people. Successfully addressing these issues will require innovative solutions including use of new pedagogies and approaches that improve student learning; partnerships among academia, industry, government, and K-12 educators; and curricular reform. In 2006 in the border city of San Diego, the Frontiers in Education conference planners are especially interested in abstracts that address issues related to how CSET education can identify and surmount international, cultural, and social borders.

The FIE technical program will include paper presentations, panels, special sessions, and workshops. Abstracts are being solicited for contributed peer-reviewed full papers and works-in-progress. Proposals also are invited for panels, special sessions, workshops,typical Papers, Works in Progress, Panels, etc.

For more information about FIE 2006 see: www.fie-conference.org/fie06/index.shtml

  Revista Iberoamericana electrónica de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje
AdCom Member and Chair of the IEEE-Spain Education Society Chapter, Manuel Castro, has proposed the creation of a Spanish/Portugese language online peer reviewed publication. Manuel's On-Going Report to the AdCom is available online. The title of this proposed publication is: IEEE RITA (Revista Iberoamericana electrónica de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje), which will be the Latin-American/Spain Learning Technologies Electronic Journal.
The objective of the proposed journal is to serve as means of scientific interchange of research that is being carried out in the Spain, Portugal, the Latin American world and countries where Spanish/Portugese is spoken. Specifically, the publication will use the Spanish and Portuguese languages as communication vehicles within the field of Learning Technologies.


  EdSoc Sponsors IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award Nominations


The Education Society has assumed the sponsorship for the highly prestigious IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award.

Nomination Deadline - January 31, 2006

For more information about this award go to the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award Web page.

The IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award is a Technical Field Award of the Institute established by the Board of Directors in 1990 to honor teachers of electrical and electronics engineering and the related disciplines, 'for inspirational teaching of undergraduate students in the fields of interest of the IEEE.' A primary goal of the IEEE is to ensure that the Institute Awards Program provides due recognition for superior achievement in the engineering profession. To that end, and in response to the desire of the membership, the Awards Board, and Board of Directors that the field of education be more broadly recognized, this award for undergraduate teaching was added to the Awards Program. Selection criteria include such contributions as curriculum development, authorship of course materials, involvement with students and faculty in advisory capacities, as well as 'attracting students to engineering and scientific professions, and preparing them for effective careers in engineering and the sciences.' Recipient selection is administered by the IEEE Awards Board through the Technical Field Awards Council. It is presented to an individual only. The award consists of a bronze medal, certificate and honorarium.

  Jacek Zurada appointed to the Administrative Committee
Jacek M. Zurada, Chair and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisville, was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Society's Administrative Committee at the October 21st meeting. He succeeds John Orr who resigned his position to assume the office of Society Secretary.

Currently, Jacek is the President of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, 2005 TAB Newsletter Committee Chairman, Newsletters Committee Periodicals Committee member, was the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (1998-2003), and is an IEEE Fellow.

  Administrative Committee Holds Elections at FIE 2005 in Indianapolis
The Nominating Committee, chaired by Past President David Kerns with Ted Batchman, Manuel Castro, Patricia Daniels, and Marion Hagler, submitted a slate of candidates for election as president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer. The 2005 officers all ran for re-election and were re-elected. The officers for 2006 are:
  • Daniel Litynski, President
  • Joseph Hughes, Vice President
  • John Orr, Secretary
  • James Sluss, Treasurer

    There was also an election for 4 At-Large Members of the Administrative Committee. All 4 members whose first terms expire on December 31, 2005 were re-elected. The 4 At-large Members elected were:

  • Melany Ciampi
  • Victor Nelson
  • Wayne Johnson
  • Russell Meier
    • Note: A Call For Nominations for all officer positions and all AdCom positions was posted on the Web site and sent to all Education Society members via email. During the AdCom meeting, there was also an opportunity to offer nominations for the various offices. No nominations were received from the general membership.
      Chapter Happenings: Chapter Leaders at FIE

    Gary Spivey (left), Vice Chair of the recently formed IEEE-Oregon Education Society Chapter, takes some time to relax during sessions at the Indianapolis FIE conference. Gary and Chapter Chair James Morris have done a terrific job organizing an Education Society Chapter in Oregon USA.

    Mats Daniel, Chair of the Nordic Chapter, Manuel Castro, Chair of the Spain Chapter and AdCom member, Martin Reisslein (right), Chair of the Phoenix Chapter, participated in the Indianapolis FIE conference. Chapter leaders are very active in the Society's activities. IEEE-Philadelphia Chapter Chair and former Society President Victor Schutz (lower right) is a fixture at FIE conferences and AdCom meetings; he has taken the lead in forming the new Philadelphia chapter.

    Michael Hoffman (left), a chapter leader from the IEEE-Germany Section, attended FIE and provided useful information to EdSoc leaders in regard to the direction of the Education Society and its chapters. The German Chapter is lead by Fanny Klett and is in its first year of operation. There are a number a terrific programs planned. For more information contact Fanny Klett (Fanny.Klett@RZ.TU-Ilmenau.de)
      Actions by the AdCom

        
    (left to right)Tony Mitchell, AdCom Member
    Trond Clausen, AdCom Member, Chapters Committee Vice Chair;
    David Kerns, Jr. Past President and EdSoc Vice President Joseph Hughes;
    James Sluss, Treasurer

    The Society's Administrative Committee met in Indianapolis to discuss a number of routine issues and some non-routine issues. Here are some of the highlights:

    The Awards Committee recommended that the Society's Meritorious Service Award be named after longtime Society leader Edwin C. Jones Jr. The Administrative Committee (AdCom) was very supportive of this action and suportive of this action and approved this action unanimously. It is expected that the IEEE's Technical Activity Board Award Review Committee (TABARC) will approve the Edwin C. Jones Jr. Meritorious Service Award at their next meeting.

    The Chapters Committee asked for, and received, endorsement of two awards. One award is for chapter leadership activity by a member and the other award is to recognize an outstanding chapter for its activity. The committee also reported that we now have 50 chapters with more on the horizon; in May 2003 we had 9 chapters.

    The Publications Committee requested that a publication review committee be formed to explore such issues as: creating another peer-reviewed publication, expand the scope of the existing publication, etc. The AdCom approved this action and a committee will be formed. Dave Conner, the IEEE Transactions on Education Editor-in-Chief, requested that the President initiate a search for his successor. Bill Sayle, the Editor of The Interface, also requested that a search for his successor be initiated. An announcement for both positions will be forthcoming.

           
    Susan Lord, AdCom Member, General Co-Chair FIE 2006
    John Orr, EdSoc Secretary
    Daniel Litynski, President
    Wayne Johnson, AdCom Member

      EE Education July 2006 in Liverpool, England
    EE 2006 is dedicated to enhancing the quality of university education in all engineering disciplines. It will serve as a forum for the sharing of innovative practice and will showcase new ideas and research in learning, teaching and assessment. The conference will be of interest to those:
    • involved with teaching engineering in higher, further and secondary education
    • supporting staff and students in engineering departments
    • conducting research and development in engineering education
    • developing policy and practice relevant to engineering education in professional institutions and government organisations
    For further information go to the EE 2006 Web site.

      Call For Submissions: Premier Award
    The PREMIER AWARD for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware has been introduced to recognize high-quality, non-commercial courseware designed to enhance engineering education.
    Why create the PREMIER AWARD? Multimedia courseware designed for engineering education is being developed by many academicians who deserve recognition for their outstanding contributions to enhancing engineering education. Too often these developers find little reward, either financially or institutionally, for their superb and time-demanding efforts. In addition, the use of multimedia technology in the classroom is expanding rapidly, yet many faculty integrating courseware into their classes are unsure of indications of quality. The SYNTHESIS Coalition and NEEDS, along with our founding sponsor John Wiley & Sons, Inc., developed the PREMIER AWARD to promote successful courseware, as well as provide models of excellence for educators planning to incorporate or develop courseware in the future.

    For more information about the award see: Premier Award Web site

      CFP: ICEE—July 2006—Puerto Rico
    Organized as an information dissemination and exchange forum, the International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE) emphasizes the dissemination of information on state-of-the-art advances in education and research, especially innovative approaches that link the two activities in addressing the education goals of new engineers of the 21st century.

    For more information about ICEE 2006 go to: icee2006.uprm.edu/

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