Call for IEEE Education Projects

Discovery-Based Projects for First Year EE, CE and CS Students

The IEEE is launching a new program to develop hands-on discovery-based projects for the benefit of first year students in Electrical Engineering (EE), Computer Engineering (CE), and Computer Science (CS).

This call for participation is directed at educators of these students, and is a public invitation to submit project plans for consideration for full development. The technical areas of interest are:

Bioinformatics / Computational Biology / Systems Biology	Microelectronics and Nanotechnology
Circuits	Networking
Communications	Operating Systems
Computer Hardware / Architecture	Parallel and High Performance Computing
Control / Systems	Power Electronics/Systems
Cybersecurity	Signal and Image Processing
Electromagnetics and Optics	Simulation (software)
Human-Computer Interaction	Software Engineering
	VLSI

Important Note: For single person submissions, only one technical area can be selected. However, for a team submission (2-4 people), multiple technical areas (up to 4) can be selected.

Authors of completed projects will receive an honorarium from IEEE and their work will be disseminated widely through IEEE websites, conferences, and publications.

Project Submission

A Three Step Process

At this stage we invite project abstracts. The abstracts should describe briefly the technical subject of the project, the general context, and the expected impact.
Authors of selected abstracts will be invited to develop a project proposal for a project requiring a total of 10-30 laboratory and classroom hours. We expect 30-40 invitations for proposals.
Authors of selected proposals will be invited to develop a full project implementation. We expect 10-20 invitations for full implementation.

Click here for Key Program Dates

Abstract Submission

Due Date: 15 June 2007
One page, 1 inch margins on all sides, Times New Roman 12 point font OR Arial 11 point font, single spacing
See the Abstract Submission description in the Call for Projects document for the content of the abstract
Applicants may not cite their own work or list their name or in any other way indicate author identity on the abstract; also, the applicant’s university name may not be indicated
Abstract submissions that do not adhere to the requirements stated in this call for projects will not be reviewed
Click here to view an example abstract
To submit an abstract, go to the abstract submission site Note: The abstract submission site is now closed. The RWEP program will solicit abstracts again in spring 2008. Please check back in early 2008 for more information
Applicants will be notified by email of the abstract decisions (reject OR invite for full project submission) by July 31, 2007