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Summary of Activities in the Meeting Series

An update for EAB OpCom

Moshe Kam, Educational Activities

15 June 2007

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Major progress since the last meeting series (1)

New initiatives progressing well Munich Summit Real World Engineering Projects

TryEngineering ‘soaring’ 4-fold increase in popularity University search in 15 countries Translation into 6 languages New trivia game

Discussions with Eta Kappa Nu

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Major progress since the last meeting series (2)

Hiring of a university-level manager

Selection of a new Director Representative to ABET

We are doing very well with TISP

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Eta Kappa Nu

We are presenting the Eta Kappa Nu item to RAB and the BoD Complex and sensitive issue In the last minute, the item converted

from a discussion item to request for due diligence funding of $250K

A lot of work between now and November

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Policy Papers

The Accreditation Policy paper is progressing well

We will omit licensing references

The First Professional Degree in Engineering paper creates controversy

Will be presented in The Institute in September

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New SEOC

For the first time (ever?) we brought together all Education Chairs from IEEE Regions

An opportunity to identify needs and improve cooperation

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New Editorial Board

We are creating an Editorial Board for IEEE EAB educational portals TryEngineering.org Accreditation.org

A committee of OPCOM Like the Editorial Board of Expert Now

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Internal Affairs

Changes in charters More to come: CTAA, CEAA, APC

Selection of recommended candidates for VP-EA 2008

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A Few Concerns…

Slow progress with TAB items On line pre-university magazine Pre-university activities in IEEE conferences TAB participation in TryEngineering

TISP lessons plans

Slow progress with ABET governance issues

ICACIT

SETF

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