The IEC Brief: October 5, 2021

Making Better Engineers Through Social Justice

Join the IEC for a two-day virtual workshop that brings together MSIs, PWIs, and industry partners to discuss strategies, research opportunities and establish equitable partnerships that address emerging technologies and research opportunities. Learn about best practices for making better engineers through social justice!

Day 1-October 26, 2021 11:00 am - 1:00 pm CDT

Day 2--October 28, 2021 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm CDT

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Day 1- October 26: Program Schedule

11:00 am

Welcome and Introductions

Program Features / IEC Sustaining Member Highlights

11:15 am

Opportunities and Resources for Support

12:00 pm

Breakout Sessions

Session 1 - Tech Pipeline: What Industry Needs from Future Engineers

Session 2 - Retaining & Preparing Engineers of Color

Day 2- October 28: Program Schedule

1:00 pm

Welcome and Review of Day 1

Building Equitable Partnerships & Increasing the Pipeline to Address Technical Topics in ECE

1:15 pm

Technology Group Breakouts

2:30 pm

Technology Group Reports and Summary

2:45 pm

Open Forum

IEC Sustaining Member Meeting Recap

From September 21, 2021

Thank you to each of our member schools that participated in the IEC Sustaining Member Meeting! The meeting provided an update on the organization and outlined several grant proposals and partner collaboration opportunities for our members.

Partner Collaboration Opportunities:

We ask that each member school share the content of this meeting with their faculty and colleagues and encourage their participation in areas of interest. We are very excited about these opportunities but need the full support of our member schools to take advantage of them.

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Capacity Building for Research at Minority-Serving Institutions (CyBR-MSI) Program

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) and

the National Science Foundation (NSF)

October 2021 - January 2022

Save the date and mark your calendars to join ASEE and NSF in the Capacity Building for Research at Minority-Serving Institutions (CyBR-MSI) program. The CyBR-MSI program seeks to increase the participation and competitiveness of MSIs for NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) core programs. This is a fully-funded program with no cost to researchers at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs).

The purpose of the CyBR-MSI program is threefold:

to help participants identify and co-create research ideas for NSF CISE core programs;
to form and develop research teams among researchers from MSIs; and
to establish the groundwork for competitive grant proposals.

Virtual Events Schedule

Part I: Networking, Ideation & Team-building Workshop (NITW)

3-sessions: Oct 22, 25, 27 at Noon - 5 pm ET. Registration opens September 29, 2021

*Participation in Part II is only open to Participants of Part I

Part II: Proposal Development

5-sessions: Nov 30; Dec 3, 10; Jan 7, 14 at Noon - 5 pm ET. Registration opens November 10, 2021

Help spread the word and share this event with other Computer Science/Computer Engineering MSI researchers you know who would benefit from this program. For more information about the CyBR-MSI program, contact cise-mis@asee.org.

The IEC Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

Hispanic Heritage Month is an opportunity to recognize the contributions and influence of Hispanic Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. The IEC is proud to highlight the accomplishments of two Hispanic electrical engineers: Guillermo González Camarena and Dr. Ellen Ochoa.

Dr. Ellen Ochoa was born on May 10, 1958, in Los Angeles, California. She studied electrical engineering at Stanford University. She helped create several systems and methods that were awarded patents. In April 1993, she served as a mission specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery, becoming the first Latina to be launched into space.

She later became the first Hispanic director of Johnson Space Center in 2013. She is currently the chair of the National Science Board (NSB).

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Guillermo González Camarena was born 17 February 1917 in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. Camarena studied engineering and specialized in electronics at the National Polytechnic Institute. In 1939, he created the first Trichromatic Field Sequential System for color transmission for television. In 1963, the first transmission with the chromatic system was made, with the most recognized transmission being the 1964 Olympics.

Unfortunately, Guillermo González Camarena passed away at the age of 48 in a car accident on April 18, 1965