Dear ECEDHA Members and Partners,

As the academic year comes to a close, I want to reflect on what a great year it has been for ECEDHA.

The ECEDHA Annual Conference and the inaugural ECExpo was a huge success drawing nearly 200 department heads from across North America for networking and discussions on timely topics for academia.

The addition of the ECExpo and ECE Spotlight Seminars introduced the opportunity for our department heads to fully engage with corporate industry partners to learn how their products and services could benefit departments, faculty, and students.

We have completed a successful first year of The ECEDHA Source e-Newsletter which has provided a platform to communicate the latest information and to keep you all current on relevant news for our organization. In this issue we have two excellent feature articles discussing ECE curriculums. The first article is by Prof. and Head Ed Schlesinger and Prof. Bruce Krogh of CMU discussing the ECE curriculum at CMU. Prof. Schlesinger is also the 2010-2011 President of ECEDHA. The second article is by Prof. and Head Moshe Kam from Drexel University discussing reforms to the ECE curriculum. Prof. Kam is also the 2010 President Elect of IEEE.

Feel free to contact me about the newsletter and any suggestions you may have for future feature articles. I hope you have an enjoyable summer and look forward to another exciting year for ECEDHA!

Best regards,

Anthony Kuh
Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering Department, University of Hawaii, Manoa
2009-2010 Editor, The ECEDHA Source

Electrical and Computer Engineering for a New Generation
By T.E. Schlesinger and B. Krogh

Electrical and Computer Engineering and similarly named departments that developed out of Electrical Engineering share an important characteristic, namely, the ability to evolve in response to changing trends in science and technology and to redefine what comprises this discipline. At the same time Electrical and Computer Engineering as a discipline has had and continues to offer students the opportunity to be trained for success in a broad spectrum of career options.

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It is Broke and it Needs Fixin'
By Moshe Kam

The desire to reform the Engineering curriculum is a recurring theme in public speeches and essays, which are produced with some regularity by engineering educators and academic administrators. It is such a popular topic, that one wonders what will all the after-dinner speakers do if we actually did something about reform rather than continue to muse idly about it.

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Recent Regional Meetings:

Canada (CHECE/DGEGI)    Central States Region (CSECEDHA)

Great Lakes Region (GLECEDHA)    Western Region (WECEDHA)

2010 Robert M. Janowiak Outstanding Leadership and Service Award

J. David Irwin Earle C. Williams Eminent Scholar in Electrical and Computer Engineering Auburn University

2010 Innovative Program Award

Opportunity Research Scholars Program (ORS) Program Director: Jill Auerbach School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology

Gary S. May, Ph.D.
Professor and Steve W. Chaddick School Chair, School of ECE,
Georgia Institute of Technology

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Anthony Kuh
Professor and Chair, Electrical Engineering Department,
University of Hawaii, Manoa

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There is still time to renew your 2010 ECEDHA Membership online at www.ecedha.org. ECEDHA's new online system has been designed to allow department heads to easily download invoices and pay membership renewal fees online with a credit card. Act now to take advantage of membership benefits including regional meetings, job postings, access to the ECEDHA Annual Survey results, and much more!

ECEDHA is collecting department information in a new ECEDHA online directory. Please visit www.ecedha.org to access your user account. Update your department information and register the department head and up to two colleagues (i.e. business office, department administrator) who can access the department's account to make payments and access other membership benefits as they are added. The directory information will be available online after the ECEDHA administrator processes the updates.

Captured live at the ECEDHA Annual Conference, ECE Spotlight Sessions offer the opportunity to view short corporate presentations and to learn more about what these companies can offer you.

Featured ECE Spotlight Sessions:

Presenter: Sherry Hess, Vice President of Marketing View AWR ECE Spotlight

Presenter: Tom Gaudette, Technical Marketing - Education View The MathWorks ECE Spotlight