GOLD EAB

1. GOLD EAB EAB Meeting 19 Nov 2011 NJ T L Prasanna Venkatesan , GOLD Liaison to EAB

2. GOLD – EAB Efforts (2010 / 2011) • Pre University Education • Helped expand TISP / EPICS in India • GOLD AG's take complete charge of Pre University activities in India and have shown tremendous commitment and maturity • EPICS Championed in R9 by GOLD Volunteers 11/21/10

3. Pre University • TISP - India • 3 Sections have formed dedicated teams for TISP at section level • 4 workshops hosted – 130 teachers trained • Several partnerships have been struck with school administrations to sustain the effort • A Science club has been opened in a school in Bangalore with the help of IEEE Volunteers • TISP India Committee approved by R10 • All efforts lead by GOLD Volunteers • Further interest to host TISP Workshop by GOLD Volunteers from Pakistan 11/21/10

4. Pre University - TISP Photos 11/21/10

5. Pre University • EPICS in IEEE • Increasing leadership by GOLD AG in EPICS • Several new projects initiated in R10 and R9 GOLD AG's • 3 Projects lead by Argentina GOLD • 6 Projects lead by GOLD Members in India • 1 Full page article in GOLD Rush Newsletter about R9 efforts • Efforts to sustain EPICS • Proposal to partner with a successful Humanitarian activity in India to further sustain EPICS in India • New Project with Purdue University to create E Learning modules for EPICS in IEEE • GOLD Liaison appointed to R10 EAC 11/21/10

6. Continuing Education • Meeting on "Continuing Education in India : opportunities and challenges" • well attended by Industry / Academia leaders • EAB VP , EAB MD , IEEE President take part • Industry / Academia leaders share inputs on how IEEE can help w.r.t Continuing Education of members • Training of Academicians identified as one of the key areas • EAD effort launched in India on Continuing Education for academicians in partnership with IIT - key for GOLD since almost 80% of academicians are young engineers 11/21/10

7. Continuing Education • New Initiative Proposal • Environmentalscan of the current set of training opportunities in India done • 3 Step proposal to set up an "IEEE Young Academician Training Cell in India" was presented at the June meeting to CPEC • Further discussion with IEEE India Director and possible cooperation with the existing EA effort to further scale 11/21/10

8. Continuing Education - New Initiative • Engaging Developer communities • Focus on Practicing Engineers - Engineers more focused on trivial technologies , hence not interested in our primary set of products and services including Explore , Conferences , Local meeting content and network etc • Opportunity is huge - this group of practicing engineers form the major part of engineering population in developing nations (eg - BRIC)  • Need to identify gaps , create and engage developer communities . Start offering educational resources to developers in the form of local CE workshops , online webinars / tutorials , developer conferences etc • An example – more interest in DB Programming techniques compared to Database Indexing concepts . 11/21/10

9. Continuing Education - New Initiative • Engaging Developer communities - first step • Hyd GOLD hosted the first ever Drupal Camp Conference in Hyderabad on 11.11.11 • Drupal Co founder as Keynote Speaker • Drupal is the worlds largest CMS used by NSE , whitehouse.gov and many more  • Conference gave us an opportunity to understand the needs of Drupal developers (practicing engineers) and gave us an opportunity to open up dialog with Drupal • Action item - follow up dialog and draft a basic strategy to engage developer communities 11/21/10

10. Summary • Primary objectives of collaboration • GOLD Volunteers as EA Champions (Pre University / University and CE Programs) • GOLD as a focus customer base • Identify new opportunities to serve Young \ Engineers • Create Educational offerings and innovative delivery mechanism to serve Young Engineers 11/21/10