1、IEEE AESS Board of Governors Meeting VP Education Report 15 October 2007,Robert ODonnell VP Education, IEEE AESS,Outline,A Word of Introduction Old Business AESS Video Education Program Review of Program Goals Implementation Progress Expansion of Tutorial Program Successes and Challenges New Busines
2、s Proposal to Integrate Live Tutorials and Distinguished Lectures Programs Calendar Year 2007 $ for Tutorial Expansion,A Word of Introduction,The goal of this video education initiative is to provide low cost, high quality ( both technical and video) education videos to our members, particularly our
3、 student members.We are allowed to do this endeavor by two but the emergence of two enabling technologies: Low cost, high-resolution, high-quality web cams and camcorders The maturation a low cost software package (Camtasia Studio 4), which allows: Screen capture of PowerPoint slides, and Simultaneo
4、us embedding the speakers, audio and video All done in a user friendly “click and drag” Windows environment,Outline,A Word of Introduction Old Business AESS Video Education Program Review of Program Goals Tutorials, Courses, and Student Lecture Series Implementation Progress Expansion of Tutorial Pr
5、ogram Successes and Challenges New Business Integration of Tutorial and Distinguished Lectures Calendar Year 2007 $ for Tutorial Expansion,Review of Program Goals (1),Procurer and develop hardware and software infrastructure that will enable acquisition of tutorial, courseware, student lecture serie
6、s library Gets server up and running Place initial tutorials on server (at least one) Developed education that webpage and interface to IEEE credit card system, and IEEE AESS webpage Tutorial Goals - Do beta testing of tutorials with three initial lectures Bistatic radar - Hugh Griffiths (3 hours) R
7、adar systems modeling Dick Curry (4 hours) Airborne radar and STAP - Dan Rabideau and Steve Kogon (4 hours) Introduction to Radar Systems - Bob ODonnell (7-9 hours) This tutorial will be placed on Lincoln labs open webpage and available free to all,Review of Program Goals (2),Course Program Goals -
8、Initiate in six months, the recording of a Digital Signal Processing course, by Dimitrius Manolakis 25 of 1-hour lecturesStudent Lecture Series Program Goals In this spirit of not lighting off more than we can handle, postpone major effort in this area for about six months to a yearDevelop committee
9、 infrastructure to support this major education initiative,Outline,A Word of Introduction Old Business AESS Video Education Program Review of Program Goals Implementation Progress Tutorials, Courses, and Student Lecture Series Server hardware and Software Infrastructure Development Business Plan (Pr
10、ogrammatic and Fiscal) Expansion of Tutorial Program Successes and Challenges New Business Integration of Tutorial and Distinguished Lectures Calendar Year 2007 $ for Tutorial Expansion,Implementation Progress Server Hardware and Software Infrastructure Development,Scott Valcourt UNH is leading the
11、Server effort The UNH CS expert in server hardware and software at College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (CEPS) Interface to IEEE Web gurus and IEEE AESS website contractor persons Working very well with them Scott has transferred from CS Dept to university CIS support This will insure his lo
12、ngevity with AESS service support The job function of his new position is to develop cooperatives web-based initiatives at UNH, similar to what AESS doing with UNH UNH Dean of (CEPS) chipped in $ 6K of Scott Valcourts time to the effort AESS provided $5.7 K grant for graduate student labor at $10.80
13、 per hour to write server and web where code and document saying UNH CEPS will get access to the surplus server space for their video education usage Scott has transferred from CS Dept to university CIS support The server (HW & SW) are funded through December 31, 2007,Implementation Progress Server
14、Hardware and Software Infrastructure Development,Server purchased and up and running with baseline webware in same format as IEEE AESS Web site. Formal interface to IEEE website is trivial Formal turn on awaits operational activation of education website Software interface to IEEE “credit card softw
15、are system” is proceeding in a timely manner IEEE has just shifted over to a new “credit card software system” We were advised by IEEE and not to interface to the old system and then change to the new system but to come up with a new system when it is operational, it became operational in Aug - Sept
16、 We are working with IEEE and we should be operational within a month,I will show you a demonstration of the server softwarein a few moments,Instruction for Lecturers Using Camtasia,Several months ago, I recorded and produced a Camtasia generated video, to instruct potential lecturers on the use of
17、Camtasia 114 PowerPoint slides Two versions of the video Users who understand Windows - 27 minutes “Caveman” Yes, even at caveman can do it! - 48 minutes Iram Weinstein tested the video for me and gave me feedback This video was and is being used by initial tutorial and lecture series speakers Feedb
18、ack will be incorporated future versions of this instruction, tutorial,Demonstration of the instructional video,Implementation Progress - Tutorials,Tutorial Goals - Do beta testing of tutorials with three initial lectures Bistatic radar - Hugh Griffiths (3 hours) Hugh has just given me the productio
19、n discs, DONE Radar systems modeling Dick Curry (4 hours)DONE Airborne radar and STAP - Dan Rabideau and Steve Kogon (4 hours) Lincoln laboratory has set up a Camtasia studio to support this work Authors is very busy with work First two hours expected to be recorded by November 1. It will be a slow
20、process (Guess, tutorial out in 6-9 months) Lincoln Laboratory and Government release will be slow and tedious, but will happenIn Production,Implementation Progress - Tutorials,Introduction to Radar Systems - Bob ODonnell (7-9 hours) This tutorial will be placed on Lincoln Laboratory open webpage an
21、d available free to all It is being produced with the assistance of the MIT Open Course Ware (OCW) consortium on campus in Cambridge, and will also be available on the OCW website All view graphs needing “re-rendering” are finished All required copyright releases of photographs have been sent to aut
22、hors / copyright owners awaiting many release forms Government re-release of view graphs will follow When view graphs released, course will be recorded and produced Expected production finished & released by Summer 2008In Process Have successfully solicited another tutorial Space-Time Adaptive Proce
23、ssing Dr Mike Picciolo (possibly with Dr Scott Goldstein),Implementation Progress - Courses,Working to initiate, the recording of a Digital Signal Processing course, by Dimitrius Manolakis 25 of 1-hour lectures No copyrighted material in his course view graphs Course view graphs need to be released
24、by Lincoln laboratory Potential problems Examining to see if there is a non-competition clauses in his contract with publishers of his book Dimitrius work load at Lincoln laboratory is very heavy Little time available to record videos, even at home I am watching this closely Looking for other potent
25、ial courses to record Global Positioning System, etc: Can you give me any ideas for potential course lecturers?,Implementation Progress Student Lecture Series,Three student lectures have been recorded use MIT video equipment Synthetic Aperture Radar Dr Gerald Benitz Dr James Kuchar Integrating Unman
26、ned Air Vehicles in Civil Airspace Three-Dimensional Imaging with Arrays of Geiger-Mode Avalanche Photodiodes - Dr Brian Aull Four other MIT staff members have agreed to participate in this project and will be recording student lectures shortly All seven lectures have been publicly released Copyrigh
27、t release issues regarding photos, in their lectures, need to be addressedLincoln Laboratory management will approve three best lectures for Web usage These should be available for distribution on Web in 3-6 mo.,Implementation Progress Student Lecture Series,When these three baseline lectures are av
28、ailable for external review, I will visit with high-level management of several aerospace and electronics systems companies and solicit their participation in this program The first three lectures will demonstrate the quality (both video and technical), of the content that we expect of their partici
29、pation It will also demonstrate format and be a guideline for developing process issues when working with other organizations In this area, we are way ahead of schedule, but the road ahead is expected be slow, because of the release process Lincoln Laboratory, and at other participating organization
30、s,Implementation Progress - Summary,A lot has been learned about the process of getting video courseware released, and a lot more will be learned in the coming months. The process will be easier, but not simple, second timeRelease review of video material with DOD content will not be straightforward
31、, but its time-consuming.Because we are publishing on the Web, authors will need to obtain copyright release, if copyrighted material, particularly photographic, is used in their presentationsWe should go live when we have three finished tutorials ready to air,Business Plan (Big Picture) 2007,Procur
32、e server and its infrastructure and get it operational Procure editing infrastructure and yet it operational Develop instructional material so that videos recorded easily by tutorial lecturer, at his/her location Develop associated logistics processes Procure laptops, Camtasia SW, and web cams Beta-
33、test them operationally with several tutorials Integrates server and its associated webware into IEEE AESS website Integrate with IEEE system - for credit card payment When three tutorials are ready, to make system operational,Business Plan (Big Picture) 2008,GROW THE TUTORIAL PROGRAM CAREFULLY Add
34、more tutorials as they become available Develop tutorial sources in Europe Broaden tutorial subject matter from radar to the broad range of our Societys interests Develop and Strengthen the Video and Technical Quality monitoring capability Do not sacrifice quality for quantity Goal - add 10 addition
35、al tutorials by end of 2008Full Course Development Get Digital Signal Processing Course into recording phase Grow Introduction to Radar Course into a full Course Add one more Course (e.g. GPS),Business Plan (Big Picture) 2008,Continue Development of Student Lecture Series When first 3 videos (from L
36、incoln Laboratory) have been publicly released, do mass solicitation (10 selected institutions) to each develop to lectures for the web based library of videos lecturesthis will requirethe development of significant instructional material for the institutions Continuing monitoring of the institution
37、s so that they dont go down the wrong track in their development of the videos Keep quality high Keep the technical level of the lectures, tuned to the appropriate audience No marketing videos etc. etc. Put these on website as they become released by the institutions Near the end of the calendar yea
38、r, solicit 20 more institutions,Business Plan (Big Picture) 2009,Possible new ideas Developed a video series for high school students Possibly have university students develop these videos Some people are doing this already, or things like it Can we do it better? A committee could start in 2008 to a
39、ddress this issue and develop a strategy Other ideas?,Accounting of Funds Received,$40K allocated for this project Funds sent to NH IEEE section VP Education sends reimbursement form and receipts (for all expenditures) to Treasurer IEEE NH Section and it is reimbursed by check As of 7 October 2007 F
40、unded spent $36.405.72 Other Funds allocated but not spent $2576.50 Total $38,982.22Reserve $1,017.78,Accounting of Funds Spent or Allocated,Spent Server $8,948.19 Desktop Computer (Editing/Archiving) $3520.43 Editing Software (Adobe Premier CS3) $781.97 4 Laptops $10,006.08 Camtasia Software $1221.
41、00 4 Camcorders $3,933.41 8 Web Cameras $1075.65 Student Labor ($10.765 per hr) $5950.00 Cabling, Books/Manuals/SW/Postage, etc $968.99 Total $36,405.72Committed Honoraria advance (2007) not paid $1500.00 Student Labor (Support/Editing) $1076.50 Total $2576.50Grand Total (Spent or Committed) $38,922
42、.22Present Reserve $1,077.78,Business Plan - Assumptions,There are a lot of assumptions in the Business PlanI may be too optimistic as to the number of viewers in 2008Revenue projections are also very sensitive to:The number of finished tutorials that are posted on the web site, and When they get po
43、sted on the web site Pricing structure of Tutorials My philosophy is to keep the price low to build up market share“YGIAGAM” Your Guess is as Good as Mine,Business Plan (Course Development),Business Plan (Fixed Costs),Business Plan (Production Costs),Business Plan (Video Viewing Projections),Busines
44、s Plan (Fee Structure),Business Plan (Bottom Line),Outline,A Word of Introduction Old Business AESS Video Education Program Review of Program Goals Implementation Progress Expansion of Tutorial Program Geographically to into Europe Broadening of Tutorial Topics Partner ship with Ocean Engineering So
45、ciety Meeting in November IEEE BOD Video Education Sub-group in Boston, MA Successes and Challenges New Business Integration of Tutorial and Distinguished Lectures Calendar Year 2007 $ for Tutorial Expansion,Tutorial Expansion to Europe,Chris Baker, University College London and Marina Ruggiero( AES
46、S BOG) (I hope) will lead this effort We need to get them laptops with Camtasia and web cams ASAP Request $10 K of funding this year for this expansion Laptop, software, web cams, and tutorial advancement $500/tutorial)Chris can work the European radar communityMarina can work the European space com
47、munityInitial Goal 3 tutorials per year per laptop,Broadening of Tutorial Topics,I have focused on the radar community Focus needs to be broadened to Guidance and Navigation PLANS 2008 conference tutorials John Weyrauch can be a great resource Space systems (USA) Systems of systems Civil Sector Air
48、Traffic Control Avionics Vince Socci, IEEE Binghamton Chapter Chair has volunteered to help with video education effort I will be asking him to take the lead in this effort,Potential Partnership with IEEE Ocean Engineering Society,A Colleague of mine, Prof Christian de Moustier, at UNH, is the Edito
49、r of the IEEE Journal on Ocean Engineering and on the Ocean Engineering Society ADCom He is aware of the AESS Video Education Initiative and its cost relative to Expert Now My counterpart on their Society, Liz Creed, contacted me to obtain information, that she could present to their ADCom (BOG) re
50、video education in their society I gave her Video Tutorial Samples (the instruction Video and PPT presentations) Their ADCom meeting was the week of Oct 1st They may be interested in collaborating on server usage if they decide to embark on a similar initiative They seemed quite interested at the time of the meeting I will keep the BOB and Officers informed, as I hear from them and events unfold,
