Alexander Mikerov, "IEEE TECHNICAL ENGLISH PROGRAM IN SAINT PETERSBURG"

IEEE TECHNICAL ENGLISH PROGRAM

IN SAINT PETERSBURG

Professor Alexander Mikerov

IEEE Senior MemberControl Department, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University

Saint Petersburg, RUSSIA

IEEE TEP Seminar-October 2-3, St.Petersburg, Russia Alexander Mikerov2

FIRST PROPOSAL

April 2005 – IEEE R8 Meeting in Paris October 2005 – IEEE Section

Congress in Tampa, USA Incitement: Poor English in the

former Soviet Union and Russia

LETI Conference 2011


ENGLISH LEARNING IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION

• Non obligatory in a secondary school• Non obligatory in technical

universities• Not useful in engineering practice:

• International contacts not encouraged• All literature in Russian (translated

IEEE magazines)



POOR ENGLISH – LOW IEEE MEMBERSHIP

• Russia (Population 145 mil)• IEEE membership 710 (2005)• 1 IEEE Member for every 180,000

population• Finland (Population 5.3 mil)• IEEE membership 969 (2005)• 1 IEEE Member for every 5,500 population



TEP AS A TOOL TO INCREASE IEEE MEMBERSHIP

CAUGHT:IEEE

MembershipTOOL: Technical English



TEP – THE FIRST PLAN

• Free Electrical Engineering training in English for all by Russian IEEE volunteers (one semester)

• Tutorial (once per a semester) by a visiting lector from the DLP

• Final student presentation in English at a Conference



TEP EXPENSES: Vilnius’s R8 meeting (April 2006)

• Pilot project: one group - $1,486• Region 8 project: 10 groups per year - $13,470• Main items:

• Additional expenses for a visiting DLP lecturer • English textbooks in electrical engineering

(Shaum’s outlines)• One $1000 student grant for visiting an IEEE

Conference• Assigned to Russia Northwest Section:

$2,000 per year



PILOT TEP PROJECT(St. Petersburg – RUSSIA, Sept.-Dec. 2006)

• Entry contest: 30 LETI students for 10 positions

• 11 students passed 32 h course “Basic Electrical Engineering” of Professor Alexander Mikerov”

• Tutorial of Prof. Kurt Richter (Austria) “Development of Leadership Skills”

• Final student presentation in English at the Annual IEEE Students Conference



FIRST RESULTS

• Best student Sergey Miropolski submitted the paper at the Eurocon2007 ($1000 Grant)

• One year student IEEE membership for 5 students

• IEEE R8 Certificates to all students

• Impact on students Membership:

2006 - 52 ; 2007 – 57?



TEP: NEW INITIATIVESat R8 Meeting in Sofia (April 2007)

New TEP Administrator Yuriy Sepp proposal:

1. IEEE Membership should be obligatory2. Small Tuition fee and TEP trainers payment3. Training period 3 semester (General English,

Basic EE, Advanced course)4. Students involvement into an IEEE activity

(“Spectrum” as a textbook, guide service, IEEE conferences and seminars, etc.)



MOSHE KAM’S TUTORIALS

Professor Moshe Kam - Drexel University (Philadelphia, USA), 2005-2007 IEEE Vice-President for Educational Activity

November 24, 2007: LETI, 23 studentsMay 24, 2008: Renaissance Hotel34 students December 20, 2008: Radisson SAS Hotel23 studentsMay 15, 2010: Radisson SAS Hotel49 students



TECHNICAL ENGLISH PROGRAM IMPACT

November 24, 2007

May 24, 2008

Number of student attended tutorials

23 34

Number of presentations in English at a final TEP student conference

12 20

Number of TEP graduate certificates

12 20

Number of students trained in all TEP groups

29 62

Number of St. Petersburg active IEEE Student members

57 72

Number of students entered in the LUT

8 11


IEEE TEP Seminar-October 2-3, St.Petersburg, Russia Alexander Mikerov

TEP WORKSHOPS

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• October 2009Carinthia Palace HotelSt. Petersburg, Russia39 students + 22 educators• March 2010Abu Dhabi Men’s CollegeUnited Arab Emirates• November 2010Shangri La HotelBeijing, China


From 2009 – TEP became the IEEE educational benefit:www.ieee.org/education_careers/education/technical_english/

Moshe Kam - 2011 IEEE President


MAIN ST.PETERSBURG TEP FEATURES - 1

1. Technical English Program should be provided only for IEEE members

2. It includes three one semester steps:- General English- Basic Electrical Engineering or/and Basic Electronics- Advanced Course



MAIN ST.PETERSBURG TEP FEATURES – 2

3. General English with professional linguist teachers

4. Second and third step with Electrical Engineering professors



MAIN ST.PETERSBURG TEP FEATURES - 4

5. Every TEP semester course includes three components:- 2-3 hours every week lessons - One day tutorial during 5-8 hours with invited foreign lecturer - Concluding student conference




6. A special IEEE certificate identifies the TEP graduation

7. Every year best TEP graduate is granted to visit any IEEE Region 8 Conference with a paper




8. The IEEE and small student tuition fees cover all TEP expenses

9. Local TEP teachers obtain hourly pay



TEP OFFICERS

Piscataway:Douglas Gorham – Managing DirectorCharles Hickman – Director of University Programs

St. Petersburg:Alexander Mikerov – TEP CoordinatorYuriy Sepp – TEP Administrator



TECHNICAL ENGLISH PROGRAM

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

Alexander Mikerove-mail: [email protected]


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