Workshop on the Strategic Shaping of ECE: Vision, Branding and Advocacy January 20-21, 2016 Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center, Atlanta, GA

该项目的目标是组织一次讲习班，为电气和计算机工程学科制定长期战略愿景。 研讨会将于2016年1月20日至21日在佐治亚州亚特兰大的格鲁吉亚科技酒店会议中心举行。 由五名欧洲经委会系主任组成的方案执行机构将邀请来自不同大学集团的欧洲经委会领导人制定：㈠欧洲经委会今后五十年的知识远景，㈡向政府决策者和工业界宣传该学科的宣传模式，㈢鼓励学生在欧洲经委会从事职业的国家品牌工作。 讲习班产生的行动计划将提交给欧洲经委会部门首长协会，并分发给欧洲经委会所有部门。 该项目的知识价值是，讲习班将导致为欧洲经委会制定长期战略远景。 这一愿景将有助于塑造全国各地的ECE部门未来的研究和教育。 还将制定一个宣传模式，以提高政府供资机构和行业对这一学科的认识。该项目的更广泛影响将来自拟议的品牌努力，以激励更多的学生在欧洲经委会从事职业。 通过这一努力，欧洲经委会的工作人员队伍将更大、更多样化。 这反过来又会产生重大的经济影响，因为知识资本被引导到国家未来的挑战中。

The objective of this project is to organize a workshop to formulate a long-term strategic vision for the discipline of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). The workshop will be held on January 20-21, 2016, at Georgia Tech Hotel & Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. The PIs, comprising of five ECE department chairs, will invite ECE leaders from a diverse group of universities to formulate: (i) an intellectual vision for ECE for the next fifty years, (ii) an advocacy model to advocate the discipline to government decision-makers and industry, and (iii) a national branding effort to inspire students to pursue a career in ECE. The resulting action plan from the workshop will be presented to the ECE Department Heads Association and disseminated to all ECE departments. The intellectual merit of the project is that the workshop will lead to the development of a long-term strategic vision for ECE. This vision will help shape future research and education in ECE departments across the nation. An advocacy model will also be developed to increase the visibility of the discipline to government funding agencies and industry. The broader impacts of the project will come from the proposed branding effort to excite more students to pursue a career in ECE. A larger and more diverse workforce in ECE will be produced from such an effort. This will in turn create significant economic impact, as intellectual capital is steered toward future challenges for the nation.