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PAC 2007 Activities
Amy Bell, PAC Chair
EAB Public Awareness Committee (PAC)
02/17/2007 Universal City, CA, USA
Introduction
Associate Professor ECE at Virginia Tech
Signal processing and image processing
Husband: Sanjay Raman also an ECE professor (RFIC)
Two sons: 7 and 3 years old
Primary 2007 Activity
Joint New Initiative with WIE
Increasing the Representation of Women in IEEE Fields of Interest
EAB-WIE New Initiative: Increasing the Representation of Women in ECE and CS
EAB-WIE New Initiative Two year project: 2007-2008 Total budget: $380,000 Approved for funding in 2007
Discovery-based projects for first-year ECE and CS students
Best teaching practices workshops for the ECE and CS classroom
New Initiative: Focus on High-Quality Undergraduate Education
IEEE will provide ECE and CS faculty with first-year, discovery-based, projects that focus on real-world problems whose solutions impact society
IEEE will provide ECE and CS faculty with online, self-study workshops on the best pedagogical techniques for the engineering/computer science classroom
Discovery-Based Projects
Novel: emphasis on contemporary, real-world technical projects where the benefit to society is explicitly addressed
Benefit: improve quality of undergraduate ECE and CS engineering education for all students; impact will be greater for students from under-represented groups
Example Projects
Power Engineering Blackout Prevention—the Big Picture
Computer Systems (Hardware) Energy-Efficient Tracking Devices for Container
Security Image Processing
Biomedical Tomographic Image Reconstruction Computer Systems (Software)
Simulating the Motion of the Bacterium E. Coli Microelectronics, Wireless Communications and
Networking Environmental Sensor Network for the Detection of
Toxic Heavy Metals in Groundwater
Signal Processing: Arrhythmia Detection Algorithms for Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators
Heart controlled by electrical impulses that govern the contract-relax cycle
Arrhythmia is an irregular heartbeat caused by disordered electrical activity
Person can faint, suffer chest pains, and even sudden death may occur
Heart can be converted back to a normal rhythm with an electrical shock
An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) administers an electric shock to the heart; it is an effective treatment for people at high-risk
ICD must accurately and quickly detect when the rhythm becomes abnormal
Signal Processing Example (cont.)
A normal heart rhythm (left) is described by the “PQRSTU” wave. A ventricular fibrillation arrhythmia occurs (right) when abnormal electrical activity upsets the heart’s normal contract-relax cycle.
Example (cont.)
Hands-on project: the students will use Matlab to program and evaluate basic rate-based arrhythmia detection algorithms employed in ICDs
Evaluate their algorithms using real electrocardiograms Learn some statistical performance measures like sensitivity
Through their evaluation, the students will discover the impact of algorithm computational complexity on the real-time constraint that is critical to the ICD’s ability to save lives
Why Does IEEE Care?
“IEEE needs to better define its role in engineering education beyond its focus on outreach.”
“Too many industry managers do not recognize the value of IEEE.”
From “IEEE Strategic Challenges”
57th Intel International Science and Engineering Fair: 3 Grand Award Winners
1,500 students from 47 countries competed for $4M (US) in scholarships
Each young woman will receive the distinguished Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award
Each award includes a $50,000 scholarship
Women’s Persistent Under-representation
<10% of BS engineering degrees awarded to women in Japan, South Korea, Italy, Spain, Austria
19.5% in U.S. (2005, all BS engineering degrees) 15% of all Electrical Engineering degrees 12% of all Computer Engineering degrees Enrollment in BS engineering is declining
Why?: Few examples of how engineering helps people Lack of faculty interest and involvement
Reasons IEEE Cares
Industry managers are very concerned about hiring enough technically proficient engineers
Women represent the largest untapped population for ECE and CS degrees
Women’s persistent under-representation adversely impacts our profession, our technological proficiency, and countries’ economic stability
Best Pedagogy Workshops: Topics from Research on Learning
Design course around core concepts Employ real-world, contemporary applications (context) Address student diversity: learning styles,
background/preparation level, entering skills and knowledge, attitudes and expectations
Develop problem-solving skills through use of hands-on projects and case studies
Use collaborative learning techniques to help students work effectively on teams (one example: pair-programming)
Effective (contrasted with ineffective) assessment techniques
Foster community and create a supportive learning environment
Generating High-Quality Project and Workshop Submissions
Two-step, peer-reviewed, competitive selection process
Author award: $5000 development grant Honor—serve a term in the “IEEE
Education Academy” Recognition and promotion of work
Promoting Use of Projects and Workshops
High-quality, free, material for use in ECE/CS curriculum
Educators who use these products awarded a certificate of achievement
Educators would have access to other users’ experiences and results—thereby creating a virtual community
Evaluating Impact
Educators would “register” to access the projects and workshops
Educators given assessment tools to administer and report back on results
Primary impact on student outcomes: retention, satisfaction, and enrollment (all students, but expect greater impact on women)
How You Can Help
Help promote initiative generate many high quality project and workshop submissions
Promote use of projects and teaching workshop methods in undergraduate curriculum by IEEE members
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