Rama Shastri, Chair, IEEE-USA PEC

Ensuring the Next Generation of Engineers

An IEEE-USA PEC Perspective

Mission

To effect improvements in the

mathematics, science and technology

education of all pre-college students in the

United States and to help increase their

functional and technological literacy.

PEC in IEEE-USA

Programs

Awards Brochure Precollege Teacher Reward/Grant

program Web site Partnerships

Awards 7th annual IEEE-USA Best Communications

System Award Engineers Week Future Cities competition Turkey Valley Community School, Jackson Junction, IA

Teacher / Engineer Partnership Award Awarded to a true partnership between an engineer

(member) and teacher Joy Huebel (Educator) and Renato Recio (Engineer)

Brochure

Brochure aimed at Middle School students was designed,50,000 distributed

Precollege Teacher Grant/Reward Program Easy to apply for small grants to foster innovation Gave out $4.25K for 6 grants in 2006 Have $4.25K for 2007 Have a commitment from IEEE-USA BoD for an

additional 15K through 2010 Program will to grow through corporate

sponsorship / cooperation

PEC Website and VC

IEEE-USA PEC Website - http://www.ieeeusa.org/volunteers/committees/pec/index.html

IEEE Online Communities - "IEEE Educator / Engineer Collaboration“ - https://www.ieeecommunities.org/pc_ed_eng

Partnerships The issues of pre-engineering programs is

too large for any single organization to “fix”PEC is exploring a new partnership with Junior

Engineering Technical Society (JETS) to promote K-12 engineering programs

Collaborate with IEEE PECC on US centric programs

Participate at NSTA and NCTM conferences

Partnership with PECCCalling all Engineers in Region 5!!!

Are you interested in working with your local schools, school districts andteachers? Do you want to help improve the level of technical literacy of teachers and their students in your local community?

Then you should attend IEEE’s Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) Training Workshop!Started in 2001, TISP features IEEE volunteers developing and presenting technologically oriented subject matter to educators in a professional development or “in-service” setting. In the last several years, IEEE volunteers have made more than 50 presentations to over 1200 pre-university educators within the United States, Asia and Africa. These educators reach over 130,000 students!

Now you can be a TISP Champion! The IEEE Educational Activities Department Region 5 and the Dallas Section are hosting a TISP Training Workshop: July 13-14, 2007, at the Marriott DFW North Hotel in Dallas, TX.

Example of Section Activity

Cedar Rapids Section Members helped to judge the Eastern

Iowa Science and Engineering FairSponsored a special award at the Fair. Advised students and teachers in local

schools in projects for the Future Cities and First LEGO League design contests.

Participated in the Career Guidance Dinner with the Iowa Engineering Society.

Example of Section Activity

Galveston Bay Section Programs Elementary School

○ Science Fair Mentoring○ Honor Students Presentations

Space ToysBuilding Structures

○ Science Demo & Competition during Engineering Week

Example of Section Activity

Intermediate SchoolScience Fair JudgingCareer Day

PresentationsFuture City CompetitionBEST Robotics

High SchoolScience Fair Mentoring,

Judging and AwardsCareer Day PresentationsFIRST Competition

SupportSchool Math Competitions

ISDEngineering Week Brief

Summary

Future generations must be technologically and scientifically literate

IEEE-USA has an important role to play in making this happen

Your PEC Contacts Rama Shastri – Chair – r.shastri@ieee.org Ken Reid – Past Chair – kreid1@iupui.edu

Region 1 – Larry Nelson - l.nelson@ieee.org Region 2 – Amarjeet Basra - amarjeet.basra@ieee.org Region 3 – Mark McKeage - m.d.mckeage@ieee.org Region 4 – Steven James – james@ieee.org Region 5 – Dusty Fisher - dlfisher@ieee.org Region 6 – Suresh Vadhva - vadhva@csus.edu

Sandra Kim – IEEE-USA Staff - sandra.kim@ieee.org