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EDS EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES REPORT

Meyya MeyyappanEDS Educational Activities Vice-President

June 2012

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EDS DISTINGUISHED LECTURER AND MINI-COLLOQUIA PROGRAMS

* As of 5/21/12

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2012 DL & MQ Regional View

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COST OF THEEDS DISTINGUISHED LECTURER AND MINI-

COLLOQUIA PROGRAMS

2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012*

TOTAL DL & MQ COST TO EDS

$70.1K $95.9K $84.1K $84.2K $100.8K $66.3K

DL & MQ BUDGETED AMOUNT

$70K $90K $90K $90K $107K $80K

AMOUNT (OVER) / UNDER BUDGET

($0.1K) ($5.9K) $5.9K $5.8K $6.2K $13.7K

* As of 5/21/12

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EDS KEY INITIATIVES

On-line registration tool for DL-MQs - Update

•DL-MQ Registration tool created

•Piloted system for on-line registration for a few MQ

•Will start outreach efforts to attendees once the registration process is complete

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EDS KEY INITIATIVES

EDS Webinar – Update

•Our Webinars continue to be extremely successful

•Our last Webinar was held in conjunction with SSCS on

Date: May 23, 2012

Lecture Title: From Deep Trenches to Skyscrapers – Orthogonal Scaling

Speaker: S.S. Iyer

EDS Shortcourse DVD ?

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Meyya MeyyappanVP for Educational Activities

and

Juin LiouVP for Regions/Chapters

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• EDS by far has the most number of DLs, compared to similarly-sized IEEE Societies. We have 115 DLs currently.

CAS = 20 DLs, IAS = 13 DLs, MTTS = 13 DLs, SSCS = 17 DLs

• With this many DLs, is the title even prestigious? Other Societies only have a handful of DLs as above and the DL title is hard to come by; as a result, prestige also is high.

• Due to the large number of DLs, the administration of the DL Program is very time consuming.

• Current EDL DL Selection Guidelines are too lenient/easy

- Any Fellow can be a DL; automatic approval upon nomination

- Any Senior member can be a DL too, if nominated.

- Senior Member case goes for approval of the Education Committee, but it is rare that a nomination does not get approved.

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EDS DLS

EDS Members by Region

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• Grandfather the current list of DLs

• In the current list, drop the inactive DLs as we go along using the rule we have now: if a DL does not perform 2 lectures in 2 years, then he/she gets dropped

• Selection of Future DLs

- Minimum qualification: Fellow

- Exception ok for regions with not many Fellows (Regions 7 & 9) : then allow Senior Members

- Ask for a sample 5 minute ppt. in the nomination package?

- Ask the EduCom to be tough in the evaluation and approval

- Selection will be done only ONCE a year during December ADCOM. NO YEAR-AROUND VOTING!

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• Very popular currently, we get a lot of requests

• Limited funding; we declined 66% of the requests this year

• We always strive for a Regional Balance when granting funding requests

• Unscientific data tells this:

- Attendance for MQs is very high in Asia

- Attendance in North America and Europe is rather small

(One MQ in Canada had just the organizer’s group members plus a handful of people)

• Should we go for “maximum people per dollar”? If so, no MQs will be funded outside of Asia!

• Insist on organizers doing a good job of promoting the event.

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We need your comments and feedback

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• DL Program is designed more of a service to members than as a prestige to the DLs.- So, it is ok to have a larger number of DLs than other

societies of comparable size- Need the numbers to draw from a large pool to cover

all regions.• Fellow is not a criteria for a good DL. Demands are

good speaking ability, subject matter expertise, interesting topics…- Needs vary among countries and audiences- Advanced topics and recent results in advanced

countries whereas Introductory Lectures in chapters at Universities in developing countries

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• Use feedback from DL/MQs effectively

• Presentation of EDS slides needs to be streamlined and should be condensed to about 5 slides

• Strong sentiments against tinkering with the program too much

- Feeling is that it is working fine the way it is

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• No major changes to the DL/MQ programs, but make them more effective and productive.

• Condense the EDS slides and get more feedback from the chapters organizing the DL/MQ

• Use the current process in place to drop inactive DLs.

• DL Nomination Review once a year with final decision by the Committee in the December ADCOM

• Remove the ‘Automatic approval’ provision for Fellows. A number of feedbacks indicated that a nominee being a Fellow does not mean that he/she is a good speaker and/or the topic is interesting.

• Keep the Senior Member option open for all regions