One of the central themes of the Inclusive Engineering Consortium is the concept of the “virtual department”. Many of our departments are of modest size and do not allow us to achieve critical mass in our research or academic concentration areas.
By working together, the faculty of the IEC can collaborate to accomplish things that are challenging as a single department. The Digital Systems Community of Practice will create a group of scholars whose academic responsibilities include leadership of their department’s digital systems curriculum.
Planned Activities:
We will hold regular meetings to accomplish the following:
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Build Community: Learn what each other is doing, develop relationships
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Develop Tools: Create solutions that meet the needs of our departments
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Learn: Discover or modify existing tools, techniques
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Share: Publish the results of our work to benefit the community
The first Digital Systems meeting was held on February 26th. A dozen IEC colleagues had a great exchange of ideas, helped one another begin building a solid working group and are looking forward to our next meeting on Friday, March 26th at 12pm ET/11am CT
To sign up for this working group and participate in the next meeting, please email Claire Seifert, cseifert@iec.org
