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@ieec.uned.es 1Co-authors – Susan Lord and Russ Meier (IEEE) Presentation organization – Sergio Martin (UNED)

International Professional (Engineering) Societies and their Role in Transnational

Education – the example of IEEEManuel Castro, UNED, IEEE Fellow

IEEE Spain Section Chair

IEEE Spanish Chapter of the Education Society Founder

[email protected]

Introduction

Education of engineers is a priority for both emerging and industrialized nations

>>> Global Engineering Educationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Engineering_Education

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Introduction (2)

From Education to Conferences and Forums

>>> Global Engineering Educationhttp://www.educon-conference.org/

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Introduction (3)IEEE EDUCON

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Engineers…

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Enable countries to maintain and advance infrastructure

Bring products to market

Research new uses of science and technology to enhance social welfare

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Historically…

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Engineering education focused on training graduates for domestic employment because language, cultural, and political barriers isolated markets from one another

Engineering graduates often work for large multi-national corporations as members of diverse and geographically dispersed project teams

Advances in logistics, communication and

computer technology

Positive changes in the socio-political

landscape

Speed the globalization of the

worldwide economic engine

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Engineering Education response to Globalization

• Researching pedagogical methods for using the same enabling technologies that led to globalization as tools in both – on-campus – virtual classrooms

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This research is widely documented

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IEEE Revista Iberoamericana de

Tecnologias del Aprendizaje

(IEEE-RITA)

Heywood’s book surveys the major

publications in distance education and learning technologies from the

annual FIE conference

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

International Conference on

Interactive Computer Aided Learning (ICL)

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Countries’ response to Globalization

• Encouraging or requiring training in global and cultural awareness

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European Higher Education Area, the Bologna Process

Degree recognized across European borders

Transnational cooperation to enhance the opportunities for

graduates

US Engineering Accreditation

Commission of ABET

Accreditation to show that engineering students incorporates an understanding of global socio-

economic contexts

Students prepared for global engineering

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Teaching engineering

fundamentals

Adapting to new learning

technologies

Integrating transnational

initiatives into the classroom

Challenge for Engineering educators

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The role of Professional Associations

• International professional associations can be leaders in cooperation between countries

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Facilitating definitions

Creating standards

Implementing engineering education across • Political• Social• Geographic

boundaries

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• Definition. A society is – "a structured community of people bound

together by similar traditions, institutions, or nationality"

– "an organized group of people who share an interest, aim, or profession”

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Engineering Societies

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Engineering Societies

• The associative view of professionally involved people can be reproduced in any field of human behaviour including:– technical work– sports– recreational topics– and volunteer aspects of life

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History

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Start as local organizations

ES merged with other business-oriented

societies to strengthen their

presence and have a better future

Growing brought Internationalization

Rearrangement of objectives and

cooperation in some fields while

competing in others

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Professional Societies

• IEEE, an organization focused on electrical, computer, and electronic engineering

• ASME, an organization focused on mechanical engineering

• ACM, an organization focused on computer science and informatics

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• IFAC, an organization focused on control engineering

• ISES, an organization focused on solar energy engineering applications

• ASEE, an organization focused on engineering education applications

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• A few of these organizations retain the word "American" in their names

• But in general have a global view and work toward commonality around the world

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Some are not globalized

• A vision more closely tied to a cultural or geographic area, sharing similar objectives

• Each focuses on the unique attributes of their regional members– SEFI, an organization focused on engineering

education applications in Europe – FACU, an organization focused on university

professor issues in Spain

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Continuing education of

practicing professionals and

engineering education community

Responsible for standards

Input into curriculum design and accreditation

of engineering degree programs

Influence public policy

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• 400,000 members

• 80,000 student members

• 160 countries

• 331 Sections in 10 Geographic Regions worldwide

• 125 years of history

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• a respected standards organization– 1,300 standards

• a major global conference business– 1000 conferences in 76 countries annually

• a significant publisher of technical literature– 148 Transactions, Journals & Magazines – 1/3 of world literature in fields of interest– 2.5 million documents in IEEE Explore

• the world’s largest professional organization

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• 38 Societies & 7 Technical councils with specific fields of interest– Examples: Computer Society, Power and Energy

Society, Education Society

• 1,952 Chapters that unite local members with similar technical interests– Examples: Spanish, Portugal, Gulf, and Nordic Chapters

of Education Society

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IEEE evolution

to a global organization dedicated to using electricity to benefit

humanity

from a US centered organization focused on electronics and electrical

engineering

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The role of Education

• Important for engineering professional associations

• Most of the worldwide associations recognize the importance of education:– continuing education of members– community outreach– and education of university students

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• Many IEEE societies and councils provide some degree of transnational continuing education

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peer-reviewed journals

special-topic workshops

short courses distinguished lectures

conferences

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• Conferences and journals are two of the most important features attracting professionals to membership in IEEE technical societies

• In fact, the special-interest groups of IEEE • publish almost one third of the world's literature in

the IEEE fields of interest • sponsor more than 900 professional events around

the world every year!• Including internationally recognized continuing

education units (CEUs)

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• These events foster interaction

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practicing engineers researchers

and teachers of engineering

from different geographical regions and cultures

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Attract younger students

• Is a critical issue for engineering technical societies throughout the world

• It is essential for the future of the profession to bring the best minds into engineering

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Attract younger students

• IEEE has centrally coordinated services available to assist educators and students at the pre-university levels:– TryEngineering.org– TISP (Teacher In Service Program)– Engineering Projects in Community Service

(EPICS)

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TryEngineering.org

• A career discovery product that allows students, parents, and educators to learn about careers in engineering

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EPICS program

• Encourages and supports IEEE members working with youth on projects that help local humanitarian organizations improve the community

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Education

• The technical-field continuing education and the community outreach provided by the societies are very important to the practicing engineer

• IEEE Education Society was formed to specifically focus on the science and practice of teaching engineering to university students

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Vision The IEEE Education Society strives to be the global

leader in engineering education.

MissionThe 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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• Is a medium-sized society founded as a community in 1957

• It has nearly 3,000 members that are currently engineering educators or have an interest in engineering education

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• International membership has grown – 42% of the members live in the USA– 32% in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa– 14% in Asia Pacific– 9% in Latin America– and 3% in Canada

• The society leadership includes representatives from all around the world

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• The FIELD OF INTEREST is – the theory and practice of education – 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

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• Nearly 80 chapters provide local activities to members

• The governing body of the society coordinates international services and professional development events

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International Cooperation

• The society plays an important role in international cooperation as shown in its vision:

“The IEEE Education Society strives to be the global leader in engineering education”

• EdSoc is indeed a global community

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Conferences Publications Awards

Professional Development Activities

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• IEEE Transactions on Education [1958]– Focus on Field of Interest– Pioneering effort that has inspired other refereed Engineering

Education Journals

• IEEE-RITA (RevistaIberoamericana de Tecnologías del Aprendizaje) (Latin-American Learning Technologies Journal) [2006]– Focused on Latin America, Spain & Portugal– Published quarterly– Launched by Spanish Chapter of IEEE Education Society

EdSoc Peer Reviewed Journals

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• IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies [2008]– Joint publication with IEEE Computer Society– Computer technologies used to deliver engineering education to

students

• IEEE Multidisciplinary Engineering Education Magazine (MEEM) [2006]– Online student professional journal– Published 4 times per year– Forum for new engineering educators and students to discuss the

challenges facing the next generation of engineering educators

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EdSoc Peer Reviewed Journals

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Educators use the journals to:

Present research results in learning theory

Document innovative curriculum design

Share techniques used in the classroom

Explore the complexity and infrastructure requirements of distance education

Report on collaborations between universities and industry

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• 40 years of history

• Vision: Premier forum for computing, engineering,

and technology education professionals to:• learn best practices and innovations• enable better teaching and learning

• share ideas and foster community

• 600 Participants, 400 Peer Reviewed Papers, Works-

in-progress, Workshops & Special Sessions

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Frontiers in Education

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http://www.asee.org/

http://www.computer.org/

http://www.ewh.ieee.org/soc/es/

• Forum for academic, research and industrial collaboration on global engineering education

• International audience of 300 participants with – 70% from Europe (half of them from Spain)– 20% from the United States – 10% from the rest of the world

EdSoc’s Newest Conference

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• ICECE 2009 (Argentina)

• Intertech 2010 (Brazil)

• TAEE 2008 (Tecnologías Aplicadas a la Enseñanza de la Electrónica – Technologies Applied to Electronics Teaching) (Spain)

• TAEE 2010 (Madrid, Spain)

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EdSoc as Technical Co-Sponsor

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• 8 prestigious awards to recognize efforts that– Improve the Society– Improve Engineering Education

• Region 8 well represented– Outstanding Chapter Leadership– Edwin C. Jones, Jr. Distinguished Service– Chapter Achievement

• Distinguished Lecture Program

Awards and Recognition

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The importance of IEEE Education Society chapters

• Chapters are technical units allocated to the IEEE region

• Spanish Chapter in IEEE Region 8 – the largest IEEE Education Society chapter in

the world – with nearly 200 members

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IEEE EdSoc Spanish Chapter

Technical accreditation and evaluation

Dissemination of on-site and web-based continuing education activities

Establishing memberships and relationships with other associations and entities

Developing and maintaining educational resources

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Awards

• Within the topics of the IEEE Education Society– Best Spanish Major Master final work – Best Spanish Ph.D

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Other activities

• Driving force behind the creation of the IEEE-RITA electronic journal

• Encourages, promotes, and supports educational research and innovative projects

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IEEE EdSoc Milwaukee Chapter

• Organizes and sponsors an annual research and design poster competition

• Open to undergraduate students that have finished their engineering design project

• Open to graduate students documenting their masters or doctoral research work

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IEEE Student Branches

• Student branches are organizational units attached to universities

• IEEE student branch of UNED is a model of how students can provide continuing education to each other by extending and expanding upon their classroom learning

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Geographical Distribution

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Communication and Collaboration

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IEEE Student Branch of UNED

• Projects – SSETI SWARM– Bionic hand– Cell phone recycling for powering a robot

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• Workshops– Robotics– Open Source SW– Web Design– Programming– Security– Networks– …

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Other activities

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• Events– National Congress of Student Branches– Xuventude Galicia 2009 (Robotics)

• Own publications– Digital Journal– By and for students

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• Many of them are IEEE Education Society members

• They are creating an

official Education Society

Student Branch Chapter

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Globalization versus Glocalization

• A focus on globalization has advantages because the worldwide community works to develop products with commonalities so that they can share those applications and ideas in any part of the world

• Challenges appears when implementing activities because of cultural, social, or political differences

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Globalization vs Glocalization

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Challenges

Cultural differences

Social differences

Political differences

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Globalization vs Glocalization

• Glocalization tries to avoid these challenges by including – local cultural information– social views– low level local management plan in the design

of any global product or service

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Glocalization goal

• Keep focus with the worldwide people grouped in the society

• The different cultural and local

vision can add some unique

approaches that are more adjusted

to the specific needs of the local

group

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Glocalization examples

• TISP - Teacher In-Service Program Training– where IEEE is trying to improve the total

worldwide number of young students attracted to study engineering

– based on a "train the trainers" model. It focuses on helping teachers in the secondary level acquire the capacities and competences to introduce engineering in the classroom

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TISP• General program was initiated and

developed inside the IEEE headquarters • Plan for the local implementation is

developed at the local section site• sharing and adapting at the same time the

most successful practices from other geographic areas

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TISP application

• United States • South Africa• In expansion

– African countries– Portugal– Spain – Saudi Arabia

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TISP

• Local flavor based on their geographical area when developing examples and methods:– Some places: Robots (because local industry)– Others: Wi-fi or communications systems– Developing countries: infrastructure and food

production

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Other uses of TISP

• Continuing education for

senior IEEE members

• To help them stay current and increase their interest in community service by introducing teachers to new engineering topics

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Conclusions

• In addition to technical knowledge, today's engineering educators must provide students with key knowledge of– cultural, social, and political issues – needed to succeed in the modern

global engineering marketplace

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Conclusions

• This requires a level of continuing education for teachers

• International engineering professional societies plan and implement a number of continuing education products that can help educators stay current

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Conclusions

• As an example, IEEE– Publishes standards and best practices

published– To help educators ensure worldwide continuity

• In some countries, IEEE plays a role in curriculum design and accreditation

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Conclusions

• Recruiting and retention programs developed by IEEE help educators learn effective techniques to encourage youth to become engineers

• So that their country and the world continues to advance

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Conclusions

• 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

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Our goal

Break down transnational educational borders by sharing knowledge and skills

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Questions and Comments ?

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Manuel Castro, UNED, IEEE Fellow

IEEE Spain Section Chair

IEEE Spanish Chapter of the Education Society Founder

[email protected]

Co-authors – Susan Lord and Russ Meier (IEEE) Presentation organization – Sergio Martin (UNED)

International Professional (Engineering) Societies and their Role in Transnational

Education – the example of IEEE

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