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PAC 2008 Activities

PAC 2008 Activities. EAB Public Awareness Committee (PAC). Joan Carletta, PAC Chair. 21 June 2008 Denver, CO, USA. RWEP Real World Engineering Projects: Discovery-Based Projects for First-Year EE/CE/CS/EET Students. EAB Joint New Initiative with WIE Two year project: 2007-2008

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PAC 2008 Activities

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  1. PAC 2008 Activities EAB Public Awareness Committee (PAC) Joan Carletta, PAC Chair 21 June 2008 Denver, CO, USA

  2. RWEPReal World Engineering Projects:Discovery-Based Projects for First-Year EE/CE/CS/EET Students • EAB Joint New Initiative with WIE • Two year project: 2007-2008 • Total budget: $380,000

  3. Focus:High-Quality Undergraduate Education Goal is to provide faculty worldwide with: • Fully developed curricula • for first-year EE/CE/CS/EET team-based projects • discovery-based • illustrate real-world problems • solutions impact society • Workshops • for EE/CE/CS/EET faculty • online, self-study • on the best pedagogical techniques

  4. Benefits of RWEP • Students discover excitement of real-world problems and understand the importance of IEEE fields to society • Of benefit to all students, but critical for recruiting and retaining women • Former name: Increasing the Representation of Womenin IEEE Fields of Interest

  5. RWEP Review:A Three-Stage Process • Abstract submission • Reviewed double-blind online, followed by teleconference meeting of review committee • Accepted abstracts are invited for proposals • Proposal submission • Reviewed double-blind online, followed by in-person meeting of review committee • An award is expected for accepted proposals, as long as authors take reviewers’ comments into account and submit a final project/workshop • Project/workshop submission • Vetted by a volunteer subject matter expert • Ready for posting in the RWEP portal • An award is made

  6. Review Criteria for Projects • Relevance • Does addressed problem’s solution benefit society? • Is context a real-world, contemporary application? • Are connections to real world societal impact explicit? • Quality • Is project straightforward, organized, and complete? • Are descriptions of methods accurate, clear, and concise? • Is project tractable for first year EE/CE/CS/EET students? • Discovery • Does project result in student discovery of an underlying principle or concept? • Does the proposed project illustrate strategies and trade-offs that are important in the engineering problem solving process?

  7. Results of RWEP Calls • 2007 • Eight project awards made • Projects to be posted in the RWEP portal • Available to the public after site registration • Approx. three of eight awards extended to women • 2008 • Project abstracts • 21 received, 14 invited for full proposal • Workshop abstracts • 5 received, 2 invited for full proposal • Global participation • authors from US, Canada, Mexico, Western Europe,Eastern Europe and Asia

  8. Eight 2007 Project Awards Span seven technical categories: • Circuits • Communications • Computer hardware / architecture • Controls • Human computer interaction • Power electronics • Signal processing

  9. 2008 RWEP Timeline • Summer 2008 • Post 2007 awarded projects in RWEP portal and publicize their availability • August 2008 • 2008 submitted proposals reviewed (double-blind)at in-person meeting • Best invited to submit projects / workshops for publication • December 2008 • 2008 projects / workshops completed • 2008 awards made to authors

  10. RWEP 2008 Goals • Continue to develop RWEP portal • Develop assessment plan to understandimpact on student outcomes • Publish and promote inaugural projects • Run second year of calls for projects and workshops • Work out plans for other author benefits(besides monetary award) • Work out plans for continuation funding www.realworldengineering.org

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