REPORT OF THE TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
on CONTROL EDUCATION
prepared by Bozenna Pasik- Duncan, chair
May 15, 2003
for the BoG Meeting in Denver, Colorado
The committee met at the 2002 CDC in Las Vegas. The minutes from the
meeting are posted on the committee's web page.
The Committee's focus since the last meeting of the BOG in December,
2002 has been on the following activities:
- Control Engineers and Control Engineering Students Team Up to Show
High School Students that Control is Everywhere.
- Over 130 High School Students and 10 Teachers from Las Vegas Magnet
High Schools attended the Workshop at 2002 CDC. The mini preparation
course offered at the school, before the workshop was recognized and
very highly appreciated by students. The Workshop was very successful
and has built an important network between students/teachers and control
researchers. The professionally prepared evaluation was given to participants
at the end of the Workshop and the results have been very important
for improvements of future workshops.
- The committee received many thank you messages from students and teachers,
three have been selected and listed below:
- Dr. Pasik-Duncan,
What a wonderful day, my students and I all agreed that listening
and thinking so hard truly wore us out. I have had my ears open for
the candid comments among the students, because I was listening so
intently I had not closely followed my student's responses. They were
all were greatly impressed with the level of knowledge presented,
the achievements of the young students, and the many ways that math
could be applied. Of course, the soccer team was the favorite, but
among my students it seems that most of the presentations were a favorite
with a smaller group of students. Also you were high on the list of
favorites, they loved your enthusiasm. Education is a very hard sell
in Las Vegas. We compete with some very high paying jobs that require
only strong feet or maybe an extra curvaceous body so the kind of
exposure you offered our students was most welcome. Thank you again
for the invitation. Karlene McCurry Anatomy/Genetics Instructor CHS
A.M.S.A.T.
- Bozenna,
It was wonderful meeting last week. The students had wonderful things
to say about you and the speakers we heard at the Venetian. Thank
you for taking the time to arrange this very worthwhile event for
us. One of the teachers wrote an article about the event for our newsletter.
I will e-mail you the article with picture and I'll send you a newsletter
when it is printed in January. Hope your trip home was safe. Have
a wonderful holiday season! Shirley McLees, Magnet Coordinator, Clark
High School.
- Dear Professor Pasik- Duncan,
My name is Keith English and I talked to you at the 2002 Control Awareness
Program. I discussed briefly about how I wanted to study epileptics
and find a way to have them play video games. I wanted to search for
a way to have them wear glasses or something to where they can't see
all of the flashes and play. I was told that this would be to dangerous
because this could harm many subjects. Professor Pasik-Duncan, I ask
you to help me start this I am willing to find a way to help the many
people that would like to have the fun like I have. I enjoyed talking
with you and the Presentations today were very impressive. I was very
happy to attend this event. Thank you and I will be waiting for your
reply. Thank you from myself and all at Clark High School ....
- The students asked for assistance on research/science fair projects
and the committee has started building students/researchers networks.
- The Committee will organize the Second NSF Workshop for High School
Teachers of Math, Science and Technology on "Ideas and Technology
of Control Systems," at 2003 ACC (see 2nd
NSF Workshop Poster). Teachers were invited by recommendation
or from the list of 2002 Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics
and Science Teaching.
- Complete information about the Workshop is at: http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/NSF2/HSWkshop0603.html
- The Committee will also organize the Second Workshop for High School
Students at the 2003 CDC in Hawaii.
The First NSF Workshop for High School Teachers of Math and Science
was held in Chicago in 2000, and it was a big success, visit the web
site: http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/nsf_hswkshop.html.
The proceedings are available. The photos from the First NSF Workshop
can be viewed at http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/nsf1clips.html.
The program of the First Workshop for High School Students
in Las Vegas as well as the abstracts of the talks can be found at
http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/CSS/caworkshop1202.html.
- The purpose of these Workshops is to expose high school students
and teachers to control applicatons and research, to initiate such
workshops as regular events at each of the two major CSS conferences
and also to initiate a series of similar workshops, organized by control
groups at every University around the world. These workshops will
bring together undergraduates, graduates and high school students.
- The Workshops will also enhance cooperation among various control
groups and high school teachers and students throughout the United
States and the world. To give attention to control and systems, ideas
and technology, and to increase the general awareness of the importance
of control and systems technology and its cross-disciplinary nature
among high school teachers and students.
- FOUR proposals for the Workshops as well as for students travel
for NSF funding have been prepared and submitted.
- The Committee submitted the proposal for a Poster Session at the 2003
CDC in Hawaii.
- The Committee on Control Education is planning to work on joint project
with CSS Standing Committee on Women in Control, NSF-CSS Mentoring Travel
Grant for Women.
- The objective of the NSF-CSS Mentoring Travel Grant is to help
junior women to develop a long-term working and mentoring relationship
with a senior engineer. This relationship should help the junior engineer
to establish her research program and eventually receive tenure.
- Each grant will fund travel, accommodations, and other required
expenses for an untenured woman engineer to travel to an institute
or a department to do research with a specified individual for one
month.
- The First CSS Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Recent Ph.D.'s
in Honor of Cheryl Schrader, 2003 President of CSS will be held at the
2003 CDC in Hawaii, and will be organized jointly with the Association
of Women in Mathematics.
- The Committee would like to initiate a series of Workshops for Women
Graduate Students and Recent Ph.D's in conjuction with major control
conferences.
- The Workshops will consist of a poster session by graduate students
and two or three mini-symposia featuring selected recent Ph.Ds, plus
an informational mini-symposium directed at starting a career. The
graduate student poster sessions will include all areas of research,
but each mini-symposium will have a definite focus selected from the
specified research areas. The committee has become a "dynamical system",
it changes in time. The door to the Control Education Committee is
open to all CSS members with new initiatives, who have a lot to offer
to control education. The Committee promotes Collaborative Efforts
in Control Education.
- The Committee believes in collaborative work .
- In recent years many new application areas of control have arisen,
e.g. medicine and telecommunications. While researchers from CSS are
involved in these applications, there does not seem to be courses
for graduate students to develop a suitable expertise in control applications
to these other important areas. Such courses seem to be very important
for the next generation of control researchers.
- The Committee is seeking for remarkable examples of collaboration
between Engineering School and other schools or other departments.
These examples should serve as models for others. We are looking for
examples of new control engineering courses that has been created
recently and have useful applications towards the future.
- We want to have links to new courses, to conferences On Control Education,
DISTINGUISHED LECTURES ON CONTROL EDUCATION , Society educational offerings.
- The Committee needs to work closely with other Technical Committees.
It is time for vertical and parallel collaboration.
- Vertical means: engineers, graduate students, undergraduate students,
high school students and elementary students. Parallel means: engineers,
mathematicians, educators, medical doctors, and business schools,
science and even fine arts researchers .
THE COMMITTEE IS SEEKING SUCCESS STORIES IN THESE TYPES OF COLLABORATIONS.
THE COMMITTEE WILL HIGHLY APPRECIATE NEW CONTRIBUTIONS. IT IS TIME FOR
PROGRESSIVE EDUCATION AND PROGRESSIVE EDUCATORS. IT IS MOST EXCITING TIME
FOR ALL OF US AND OUR PRESENT AND FUTURE STUDENTS.
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Professor Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
Department of Mathematics
University of Kansas
405 Snow Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045
phone: 785-864-5162 or 3651
fax: 785-864-5255
e-mail - bozenna@math.ku.edu
http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/Bozenna.html
http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/index.html
http://www.ieeecss.org/TAB/Technical/education/links.html
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