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History of Standards in Education
- Mid-1990s: engineering education recognized the importance of standards as reflected in the current wording of Criterion 4 of the ABET Engineering Criteria for accreditation of engineering programs, namely: “Students must be prepared for engineering practice through the curriculum culminating in a major design experience based on the knowledge and skills acquired in earlier course work and incorporating appropriate engineering standards and multiple realistic constraints.”
- The US National Standards Strategy 2000: called for education about standards
- 2002: American National Standards Institute (ANSI) established committee on education to encourage and create more educational experiences about standards
- 2003: IEEE, in collaboration with the Standards Association (SA), the Educational Activities Board (EAB), established Standards in Education Task Force (SETF) to develop web-based educational products
- 2006: IEEE establishes the Standards Education Committee, a joint committee of the IEEE-SA and the IEEE EAB to replace the Standards in Education Task Force (SETF) to continue the development of the web-based educational products contained within this website and to expand its reach to explore continuing education programs in the area of standards as well
Overview
The evolutionary content on this web site is designed to benefit both students and their faculty mentors as they face challenging design processes.
Goal … to help electrical and computer engineering undergraduate programs incorporate standards in their learning processes.
Purpose … to provide learning tools to use in learning about standards and their impact on design and development.
Content
| Tutorial |
- provides information about standards-
- how they came about
- how they are classified
- how they impact the development of a product, process or service
- how they benefit the economy
- provides links to a Glossary of terms and phrases in common use by standards' developers and users
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| Domain Tutorial |
- provides information about standards in a technological domain, such as wireless telephony and industrial and commercial power
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| Case Illustration |
- describes the application of standards to achieve a specific design objective
- begins with a posed task e.g., consider what standards might be applicable to the design of a multi-mode telephone
- identifies potentially applicable standards
- determines design and development constraints imposed by standards
- explores proposed solutions
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| Applications |
- illustrates specific standards applied to a task
- students and/or faculty describe the way in which standards impacted the design process
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| Reference Guide |
- provides list of standards development bodies and standards related terminologies
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| Glossary |
- contains words or phrases used in the tutorials and case illustrations
- accessed through embedded hyperlinks or directly from the portal screen
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| News and Features |
- reports on standards and/or standards related to education
- cites publications and articles about standards
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Gateway to Other Learning Opportunities |
- identifies other standards learning tools
- provides available links
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Current Status
| Pilot Phase |
- three academic institutions are pilot testing these web-based learning products from fall term 2005 through spring 2008
- Colorado School of Mines with product and process design students
- DeVry University (New Brunswick, New Jersey) with product and process development students
- San Francisco State University with lower division students students using the materials
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| Open Use Phase |
- Available, but without the benefit of lessons yet learned from the Pilot Phase
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