Message from the Chair 07/06/04

Dear Members of the Committee,

I have just come back from Boston, from the ACC'04 where we had a very productive meeting of the Control Education Committee.

A big "Thanks," to Molly and Tyrone and also to our new member Shane, and student members: Yiannis, Dominique, Sarah, Ian and Josh.

First :
Let me take the opportunity and thank you very much for your and your team's important contributions to making the CDC 2003 a most successful and most memorable event which includes two of the Workshops that I had the privilege and honor to organize.

Your help, assistance, understanding and outstanding support have been extremely highly appreciated.

The two workshops were a big success due to a collaborative effort of many people including all on the operating committee. The feedback from students, teachers, all women in control and those who visited both workshops have been very positive, enthusiastic, and most rewarding.

Big "Thanks," also go to Molly and Floyd for their articles in the last issue of the CSM, about the Workshop for High School Teachers and Students, and about the Women in Control Workshop. I would like to thank each of you for your incredible support.

Let me share with you a "Thank You" note from one of the teachers who participated in the Workshop:

" I do not know how to find the words for how wonderful my trip was - I learned SO much and am forever grateful. As I write this, I am also working on a number of lesson plans based on the information I learned. You did an amazing job with the full-day workshop - I know how much work those are. On the whole, I felt that the students took away a lot of newly found enthusiasm for engineering. Now, that enthusiasm has to be cultivated by their teachers. I am working on condensing my notes into an outline form and will email it to you once I am done. Feel free to share it with the other teachers if you'd like to. I would love to help you put on your next one so please, keep me in mind! I could certainly put together some pre and post activities and assessments and would enjoy doing it. Is it possible for we teachers to receive the PowerPoint presentations from the presenters?"

I have received many of these thank you notes...

Second :
below please find the announcement submitted to the CSM indicating our terrific ( I am very excited about it) control education project which will expand our high school students + high school teachers workshops, by involving undergraduates and graduates, in this important workshop for their professional career Outreach Program for K-12 students.

Let me share with you our new plan. The ACC'05 control education mini track is our new most challenging project,
emphasizing the vertical education by involving graduates, undergraduates and high school students together
with mentors, advisors and teachers combining with the horizontal aspect of control education by showing a broad spectrum of control applications including new applications to bioscience, biomedicine and finance. If this model (a plenary talk for all, app. 50 high school students and app. 25 teachers, other talks in parallel two hour sessions, poster sessions by undergraduates and graduates, and discussions with all participants) works well the first time (at ACC'05) we will carry it on to all major control conferences sponsored by AACC, CSS and IFAC.

The following is the list of invitations to :ACC'05, MED'05, IFAC Congress'05, CDC'05, ACC'06, CDC'06.
A big "Thanks" goes to each of you for your support, assistance, generous understanding and kind recognition
for our control education activities. We have a lot to do so I hope that each of you will be involved.
Be active, share with me how you would like to assist, what your strength is, maybe you would like to maintain
our web page and update it frequently, maybe you can provide important and useful ideas for control education links,
maybe you can make a list of great speakers for our workshops for high school students and high school teachers,
and maybe you have other great ideas or suggestions for new activities. I hope you will share them with me.

Thanks for ALL,

with my very best wishes to you for the best summer - Bozenna

P.S. I will be in Italy until August 2 so I will be in touch with you after that.

Attention Undergraduate and Graduate Control Students:
The AACC, CSS and IFAC Control Education Committees jointly invite submissions for a one day mini-conference to be attended by high school math, science and technology students and teachers during the ACC' 05 in Portland, Oregon. Graduate students are invited to submit for a poster session and for classroom materials for high school students. Undergraduates students, in particular those involved in the NSF REU programs, are invited to submit for a poster session. There will be monetary prizes in each category for the best poster presentation or the best classroom material.

The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2004 with notification by January 15, 2005.
Submissions have to be endorsed by a student's project advisor.

For more information contact:
Professor Bozenna Pasik-Duncan,
the chair of AACC and CSS Control Education Committees and Co-chair of the IFAC Control Education Committee,
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.ieeecss.org/TAB/Technical/education/links.html

TeXneeXs
July 2004