IEEE-Based Implementation of Engineering Projects in Community Service

Author

Dandekar, Kapil R. ; Sinha, Saurabh ; Ampofo-Anti, Nana-Ampofo

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA

fYear

2011

fDate

Oct. 30 2011-Nov. 1 2011

Firstpage

481

Lastpage

486

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how a professional society like IEEE can leverage its organizational structure and global reach to encourage the world wide dissemination of the Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) concept. We discuss the "EPICS in IEEE" program developed through the Educational Activities Board (EAB) of the IEEE. After 1 year of operation, there are now 13 EPICSin-IEEE projects in progress all over the world. The goal of this paper is to describe these projects, present the EPICS-in-IEEE program in general, and discuss how potential EPICS-in-IEEE sites can start their own projects.

Keywords

IEEE standards; organisational aspects; societies; EPICS-in-IEEE program; EPICS-in-IEEE sites; community service; educational activities board; engineering projects; organizational structure; professional society; Blades; Communities; Educational institutions; Organizations; Temperature sensors; Wind turbines; Engineering projects in community service; Service learning;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Humanitarian Technology Conference (GHTC), 2011 IEEE

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-634-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4595-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GHTC.2011.70

Filename

6103682