Dear TC Education Liaisons,
It is my great pleasure to welcome you in 2015. I am looking forward to having an exciting and most productive year of working with you. In my first message of this year I will share with you our short term goals and longer term goals. Our mission and generals goals have been posted on our web page: http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/IFAC/tc_edu_liaisons.html
With your assistance and help, we plan to redesign this initial web page and make it the most attractive for our IFAC members but also for the general public, in particular for high school students.
Let us start collecting information about each member of the group. I kindly request the following information from you by March 23:
Your photo, affiliation with e-mail address, short bio, the link to your TC web page (be sure that the email address for the chair is in it) and the link to your personal web page.
I will be posting my messages monthly on 13th of each month. I like the number 13.
I would like to establish our Quarterly e-Newsletter:
I would like to publish important information relevant to control education and education in general, in particular to Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education.
I would like to promote: "Control Education Matters. Apply it!"
I will call for short success stories in teaching. Let us call them Best Practices. Since you are a TC Liaison you are asked to call for these success stories in teaching within your technical committee.
I will call for a short plain talk about the theme of the TC that you represent. Explain what that particular technical area is about in language that is accessible to a wide audience. Provide simple illustrative examples for the topic of your research. Ask other members in your TC to assist you on this task.
We plan to revisit our collected a long time ago control resources. I will ask you to visit our old web page (http://controlrc.ifac-control.org) and give us your feedback.
We are in preparation for the IFAC Advances in Control Education (ACE) 2016 Symposium and I will be asking you for organizing invited sessions on the topics relevant to education in a technical area that you represent.
In my teaching I promote passionately C^5: the 5 C's of collaboration, communication, connections, creativity and curiosity.
Therefore I will advocate for strong collaboration and communication. I will be looking for making connections among all technical committees and I will be curious about and open for your creativity in our joint work.
I plan to call for our in-person meeting at ACC in Chicago during the IFAC Council Meeting July 3-5, 2015.
I would love to know whether you plan to attend the meeting. If not you I will ask you to delegate another member of the TC you represent who will plan to attend the meeting.
I plan to engage you in the Outreach Program, in organizing and participating in the workshops for high school teachers and students.
We will celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Workshops on: "The Power, Beauty, and Excitement of Cross Boundaries Nature of Control, a Field that Spans STEM disciplines." See for the history of these by-now popular workshops at http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/bpdworkshops.html
I plan to organize the next workshop in Chicago. Let me know if you would be interested in attending it.
Finally, Let me ask you:
This will help us collectively prepare extraordinary products and activities to be presented at the next IFAC World Congress in 2017.
Please send me the requested information by March 23, 2015 and anything that you would like to include in our very first e-Newsletter.
Thank you!
With very best wishes for our collective efforts in education,
Bozenna
Bozenna Pasik-Duncan
Professor of Mathematics
Courtesy Professor of AE & EECS
Fellow of IEEE & Fellow of IFAC
Distinguished Member of IEEE CSS
University of Kansas
Mathematics Department
405 Snow Hall
Lawrence, KS 66045
phone: 785-864-5162 or 3651
fax: 785-864-5255
bozenna@ku.edu
http://www.math.ku.edu/ksacg/Bozenna.html