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June 4, 2003 The Workshop has the technical sponsorship of the IEEE Control Systems Society and the American Control Council THE PURPOSE of the WORKSHOP: The purpose of this workshop is to enhance the cooperation among various control groups and high school teachers of mathematics and science 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. Control and Systems Science occurs in many different disciplines and its applications occur in a wide variety of technologies. It involves a variety of tasks, such as, modeling, identification, simulation, planning, decision making, and optimization. Some application areas of control and systems include transportation, manufacturing, communications, processing industries, and financial markets. The basic control systems science influences and impacts a diverse range of study, such as, biology, physics, chemistry, economics, and medicine. The broader impacts of the proposed Workshop: The need of modern industry for well-trained systems scientists is growing and changing, due to the marketplace pressures and the advances in technology. Future generations of our students will have to be broadly educated to cope with cross-disciplinary applications and rapidly changing technology. The backgrounds of our students are changing too. They are better prepared to work with modern computing technologies. Thus the time is ripe for major renovations in mathematics and science education in high school. It is important to develop a cross-disciplinary set of examples, demonstrations and laboratory exercises that illustrate systems and control across the entire spectrum of mathematics and science. We will share with high school teachers our successful control stories, existing tools and experiments. There is much to be gained by the sharing of educational experiences and practices. The First Workshop for High School Teachers of Math and Science was held in Chicago in 2000 and it was a big success. It was recommended by teachers to organize the second workshop. The outcomes of the second workshop are expected to be of global interest and applicability. It is expected to make high school teachers of mathematics and science more aware of the fundamental importance of the control systems technology in the day-to-day lives of people everywhere. It is expected that teachers will take to their classrooms the ideas for research projects for theirs students. It is expected that teachers will generate a strong interest in research among their students. They will built an important network with control researchers. They will learn how to integrate research into teaching. Finally they will get the information about resources for research projects and existing technology. Topics include: Robotics, feedback control, networks, MATLAB and control, animation and stochastic modeling. Organizing and Program Committee:
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