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EDS EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES REPORT
Meyya MeyyappanEDS Educational Activities Vice-President
June 2012
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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