Workshop Title:
IEEE Standards Education Presents: IEEE Workshop on Technical Standards and Consensus Building
Workshop Description: (2 sentences appropriate for use in the conference program)
During this double-session workshop, representatives of the IEEE Standards Education Committee facilitate an interactive consensus-building exercise in which attendees take on the roles of different members of a standards working group tasked with the goal of starting to develop a standard. The workshop demystifies how standards are developed and used, and provides ideas for how capstone instructors can bring the industrial standards that students are likely to encounter in the workplace into the classroom, thereby aligning educational concepts with real-world applications.
Workshop Objectives:
· To facilitate a better understanding of the importance of standards to industry and demonstrate the fundamentals of standards development.
· To enable fuller understanding of the economic, political and technical realities of standards development.
· To put participants into the role of a working group member
o To enable better appreciation for motivating factors of working group participants;
o To enable better understanding of the dynamics that make up a working group and the decision-making process.
Presenter/Facilitator Info: (complete for each)
Presenter A: Steve Carlson ()
Presenter B: James Irvine, PhD ()
Presenter C: Jennifer McClain ()
Presenter D: Susan Tatiner ()
Presenter/Facilitator Background and Qualifications: (provide a short paragraph for each)
Presenter A:
Steve Carlson, Executive Secretary, IEEE 802.3, High Speed Design, Inc.
Steven B. Carlson is the President of High Speed Design, Inc., a Portland, Oregon-based consulting company. Mr. Carlson has over 40 years’ experience in embedded control systems and networking for the entertainment and energy management industries. He currently serves as the Chair of the IEEE P802.3bp 1000BASE-T1 Task Force, the P802.3bw 100BASE-T1 Task Force, and is the Executive Secretary of the IEEE 802.3
Ethernet Working Group. Mr. Carlson previously served as the Chair of IEEE 802.3af- 2003 DTE Power via MDI project, usually referred to as “Power over Ethernet,” the IEEE 802.3bf – 2011 Time Sync Task Force and was a founder of the Entertainment Services and Technology Association’s Technical Standards Program, ANSI E1- Entertainment Technology.
Presenter B:
James Irvine, PhD (Tentative)
Dr. James Irvine is a Reader in the EEE Department at Strathclyde University in Glasgow. His research interests include resource management and security for wireless systems, and he works as Academic Coordinator within the Mobile VCE program. Prior to this he worked on the ACTS MOSTRAIN project providing communication services to high speed trains. He holds four patents, with three more being pursued, and has authored two books. Technical Program Chair of VTC2004-Spring in Milan, Dr. Irvine was elected in 2002 to the Board of the IEEE VTS, where he is chair of the VTS Technical Advisory Committee, and President for 2008-09. He is currently Chair of the IEEE Standards Education Committee.
Presenter C:
Jennifer McClain, Senior Manager, Standards Education & Business Development, IEEE Educational Activities
Jennifer McClain has been with IEEE for 17 years. She began her career at the IEEE as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science and IEEE Transactions on Magnetics. She spent eight years with the IEEE Standards Association editing standards, aiding working groups with the standards development process, and as the Managing Editor of the Standards Information Network, publishing handbooks and guides to help with the implementation and understanding of standards. Now with IEEE Educational Activities, she is Senior Manager, Standards Education and Business Development, managing all functions related to the Standards Education Program and Committee (SEC) and is primary liaison between Educational Activities and the Standards Association.
Ms. McClain holds a B.A. with History and English Majors from Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, and attended the Masters of Education in Social Studies program at West Chester University, West Chester, PA, obtaining a Pennsylvania Secondary Education Teaching Certificate in Social Studies.
Presenter D:
Susan Tatiner, Director, Standards and Technology Policy Education, IEEE Standards Activities
As Director, Standards & Technology Policy Education, Susan Tatiner is responsible for strategic planning, maintenance and growth of internal and external business relationships, and oversight and implementation of all activities in the areas of Standards and Technology Policy Education for the IEEE Standards Association. Tatiner helps create and communicate the strategic vision for a global standards and technology policy education program, directs staff and resources to create a mix of workshops, conferences, products and services in the fields of standards education, technology policy, and standardization research. Tatiner has been a standards professional since 1997. Tatiner is a member of the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives (CESSE) and of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE). She is a member of the ANSI Committee on Education, and has served on the ANSI National Policy Committee and Organizational Membership Council. She has been a Certified Association Executive (CAE) since 2008. Tatiner holds a B.A. from Queens College, of the City University of New York, and an M.A. from New York University.
Workshop Outcomes: (List the top 2-3 things that participants will be able to do by the end of the session)
At the end of the workshop, participants will:
· Have a better understanding of the importance of standards to industry, and see industrial standards as catalysts for technological innovation and global market competition.
· Appreciate more fully the technical, economic, political and realities of standards development.
· Understand better the role of a working group member, motivating factors of working group participants, and the dynamics that make up a working group and the decision-making process.
Target Audience
[ X ] General
[ X ] New capstone instructors
[ X ] Experienced capstone instructors
[ X ] Students
[ ] Other (please list)
Facilitation Plan: (address each of the following questions)
Ideally, this workshop will consist of two 90-minute sessions combined as one session.
a. What readings/questions would you like participants to process before the workshop?
Watch the following two IEEE Standards Education videos:
1. Standards Education: An Introduction
https://ieeetv.ieee.org/ieeetv-specials/ieee-standards-education-introduction?rf=channels|86&
2. Standards Education: Creating Global Standards
https://ieeetv.ieee.org/ieeetv-specials/creating-global-standards?rf=channels|86&
b. How much of the 90 minute session will be devoted to formal presentation? What material?
15 minutes + Group Presentation. See proposed agenda below.
c. How much of the 90 minute session will be devoted to interactive tasks? What tasks?
90 minutes. See proposed agenda below.
d. How will workshop outcomes be assessed at the end of the session?
Group presentation and lessons learned discussion.
- What closure/follow-up (if any) do you anticipate after the workshop?
We will survey the workshop participants to see whether they’ve implemented anything they’ve learned from the workshop in their classrooms.
Proposed Agenda:
· 15 minutes: Welcome Address, Workshop Overview, and Objectives
· 15 minutes: “Standards: A Practitioner’s View”
· 30 minutes: Intro to Group Consensus-Building Exercise: All workshop participants will be presented with a scenario that requires their group to reach consensus by following IEEE principles.
· 30 minutes: Begin Group Consensus-Building Exercise
· Break
· 45 minutes: Continue Group Consensus-Building Exercise
· 45 minutes: Group Presentations and Lessons Learned Discussion, including emphasis on ways the information can assist capstone design professors and students
Logistical Requirements:
AV technology needed: Projector, microphone for each panelist
Laptops/software needed: None
Anticipated handouts: Workshop materials
Room set-up desired: Round tables for each group of 10-12
Maximum audience size: up to 50
At least two groups of 10-12 people are ideal for the workshop to function as intended. At a minimum, two working groups with 10 people each are required. The reason for having two groups is to show that there are more than one outcome possible. (Sometimes people sign up and then do not come; we would need at least 20 people to sign up.)
Other: