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Pre-College Education. IEEE Region 4 Meeting Jan 31 – Feb 1, 2004 Don C. Bramlett, PE, SMIEEE IEEE Region 4 East Area Chair Southeastern Michigan Section. Pre-College Education. Any IEEE Section can have a Pre-College Education Committee and Program
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Pre-College Education IEEE Region 4 Meeting Jan 31 – Feb 1, 2004 Don C. Bramlett, PE, SMIEEE IEEE Region 4 East Area Chair Southeastern Michigan Section
Pre-College Education Any IEEE Section can have a Pre-College Education Committee and Program It does not matter where the Section is, how large/small the Section is in area, how many members the Section has, how many officers the Section has, or how active the Section technical program/professional programs are
Pre-College Education IEEE organizational support: • IEEE-USA • Pre-College Education Committee www.ieeeusa.org/committees/PEC/ • IEEE Region 4 • Ken Reid, reid@ieee.org • IEEE Education Activities Board • Pre-College Education Coordinating Committee www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/pecc/
Pre-College Education Southeastern Michigan Section: www.ieee-sem.org/ (ongoing Section involvement) • Michigan Regional Future City Competition www.esd.org/future_city.htm • (Mentors, IEEE Special Award Judges, Competition Judges) • National Engineer Week Discover E Program www.eweek.org/site/DiscoverE/ • (Career Day like presentations, Section provides materials) • Science and Engineering Fair of Metropolitan Detroit www.sefmd.org • (IEEE Special Awards Judges, General Category Judges)
Pre-College Education Many nationwide Pre-College Education Programs: • MATHCOUNTS (NSPE) (middle school) www.mathcounts.org/ • National Engineers Week (NEW)– Discover E Program (K-12) www.eweek.org/site/DiscoverE/ • Future City Competition (NEW committee) (middle school) www.futurecity.org • The Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) National Engineering Design Competition (NEDC) (high school) www.jets.org/programs/nedc.cfm • Science Olympiad (middle school) www.scienceolympiad.org • TEAMS (Test for Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics & Science) (JETS) (high school) www.jets.org/programs/teams.cfm • A World in Motion – Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) (K-12) www.sae.org/foundation/awim/
Pre-College Education Many nationwide Pre-College Education Programs: • FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition (high school) www.usfirst.org/robotics • FIRST Lego League (elementary & middle school) www.usfirst.org/programs/jrobtcs/flego.htm • Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day (NEW committee) www.eweek.org/site/News/Eweek/girlsday.shtml • ZOOM into Engineering (NEW committee) www.eweek.org/site/Engineers/zoom.shtml • etc
Pre-College Education Many local Pre-College Education Programs: • Robofest (Lawrence Technological University – Southeastern Michigan Section) (5th – 12 grades) www.robofest.net • Young Scholars (Central Indiana Section) (middle & high school) • Robot Challenge (Baltimore Section) (9th – 11th grades) www.robotchallenge.com • Engineers Day Project (Cedar Rapids Section) (open attendance) • Science Fairs • etc