This is the plenary session of the ICEUTE 2010 Workshop held in Burgos September, 24th, 2010 about "International Professional (Engineering) Societies and their Role in Transnational Education – the example of IEEE"

1. @ieec.uned.es 1 International Professional (Engineering) Societies and their Role in Transnational Education – the example of IEEE Manuel Castro, UNED, IEEE Fellow IEEE SpainSectionChair IEEE SpanishChapter of theEducationSocietyFounder mcastro@ieec.uned.es Co-authors – Susan Lord and Russ Meier (IEEE) Presentation organization – Sergio Martin (UNED)

2. Introduction Education of engineers is a priority for both emerging and industrialized nations >>> Global Engineering Education http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Engineering_Education IEEE 2

3. Introduction (2) From Education to Conferences and Forums >>> Global Engineering Education http://www.educon-conference.org/ IEEE 3

4. Introduction (3) IEEE EDUCON >>> 2010 Madrid >>> 2011 Amman (open CallforAbstracts) >>> 2012 Marrakesh >>> 2013 Berlin >>> …….. IEEE 4

10. Engineers… IEEE 10

11. Historically… IEEE 11 11

12. EngineeringEducation response toGlobalization Researching pedagogical methods for using the same enabling technologies that led to globalization as tools in both on-campus virtual classrooms IEEE 12 12

13. Thisresearchiswidelydocumented IEEE 13

14. Countries’ response toGlobalization Encouraging or requiring training in global and cultural awareness IEEE 14

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16. The role of Professional Associations International professional associations can be leaders in cooperation between countries IEEE 16

17. 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” IEEE EngineeringSocieties 17

18. EngineeringSocieties 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 IEEE 18

19. History IEEE 19

20. 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 IEEE 20

21. Professional Societies IFAC, an organization focused on control engineering ISES, an organization focused on solar energy engineering applications ASEE, an organization focused on engineering education applications IEEE 21

22. Professional Societies 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 IEEE 22 22

23. Some are notglobalized 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 23

24. Professional Societies IEEE 24

25. 400,000 members 80,000 student members 160 countries 331 Sections in 10 Geographic Regions worldwide 125 years of history IEEE Today 25

26. 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 IEEE Today 26

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29. 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 IEEE Today 29

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31. IEEE evolution IEEE 31

32. 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 IEEE 32

33. The role of Education Many IEEE societies and councils provide some degree of transnational continuing education IEEE 33

35. 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) IEEE 34

36. The role of Education These events foster interaction IEEE from different geographical regions and cultures 35

37. Attractyoungerstudents 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 IEEE 36 36

38. Attractyoungerstudents 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) IEEE 37

39. TryEngineering.org A career discovery product that allows students, parents, and educators to learn about careers in engineering IEEE 38

40. EPICS program Encourages and supports IEEE members working with youth on projects that help local humanitarian organizations improve the community IEEE 39

41. 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 IEEE 40

42. IEEE Education Society 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. 41

43. IEEE EducationSociety 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 IEEE 42 42

45. 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 44 IEEE Education Society 44

46. IEEE EducationSociety Nearly 80 chapters provide local activities to members The governing body of the society coordinates international services and professional development events IEEE 45 45

47. 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” EdSocis indeed a global community IEEE 46

48. Professional Development Activities 47

49. EdSoc Peer Reviewed Journals 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 48

50. 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 49 EdSoc Peer Reviewed Journals 49

51. Educators use the journals to: IEEE 50

52. 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 51 Frontiers in Education 51

53. EdSoc’s Newest Conference 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 52

54. 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) 53 EdSoc as Technical Co-Sponsor 53

55. 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 54

56. 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 IEEE 55

57. IEEE EdSocSpanishChapter IEEE 56

58. Awards Within the topics of the IEEE Education Society Best Spanish Major Master final work Best Spanish Ph.D IEEE 57

59. Otheractivities Driving force behind the creation of the IEEE-RITA electronic journal Encourages, promotes, and supports educational research and innovative projects IEEE 58

60. 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 IEEE 59 59

61. IEEE StudentBranches 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 IEEE 60

62. GeographicalDistribution IEEE 6 1 21 15 1 22 3 2 2 1 61

63. Communication and Collaboration IEEE 62 62

64. IEEE StudentBranch of UNED Projects SSETI SWARM Bionichand Cellphonerecyclingforpowering a robot IEEE 63

65. IEEE StudentBranch of UNED Workshops Robotics Open Source SW Web Design Programming Security Networks … IEEE 64 64

66. Otheractivities IEEE 65 Events NationalCongress of StudentBranches Xuventude Galicia 2009 (Robotics) Ownpublications Digital Journal By and forstudents 65

67. IEEE StudentBranch of UNED Many of them are IEEE Education Society members They are creating an official Education Society Student Branch Chapter IEEE 66

68. 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 IEEE 67

69. Globalization vsGlocalization IEEE 68

70. Globalization vsGlocalization 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 IEEE 69 69

71. 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 IEEE 70

72. Glocalizationexamples 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 IEEE 71

73. 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 72 72

74. TISP application United States South Africa In expansion African countries Portugal Spain Saudi Arabia IEEE 73

75. 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 IEEE 74 74

76. 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 IEEE 75

77. 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 IEEE 76 76

78. 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 IEEE 77 77

79. Conclusions As anexample, 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 IEEE 78 78

80. 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 IEEE 79 79

81. 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 IEEE 80 80

82. Ourgoal Break down transnational educational borders by sharing knowledge and skills IEEE Questions and Comments ? 81

83. @ieec.uned.es 82 International Professional (Engineering) Societies and their Role in Transnational Education – the example of IEEE Manuel Castro, UNED, IEEE Fellow IEEE SpainSectionChair IEEE SpanishChapter of theEducationSocietyFounder mcastro@ieec.uned.es 82 Co-authors – Susan Lord and Russ Meier (IEEE) Presentation organization – Sergio Martin (UNED)