OPAS Vision for the year 2020 : “All Oregonians have the opportunity to explore, choose, and successfully pursue engineering or applied science as their field of study and career, thereby helping Oregon’s industries contribute to state economic needs, and innovate and prosper in the global economy.” adopted June 6, 2006
Agenda #37, Tuesday, November 11, 2008
3:30 - 3:35 |
Introductions,
opening remarks
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3:35 - 3:50 |
Update on ETIC budget process |
3:50 - 3:15 |
Planning for all-OPAS meeting on Feb. 4, 2009
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4:15 - 4:45 |
Recent work by workgroups & committees
- Motivate
- Status Summary
- OPAS endorsement of the Engineering Champion Pilot Program
- Draft proposal (v11, October 17) - doc - pdf
- Executive-level one-pager V3 -- doc - pdf
- Prepare
- Status Summary
- Succeed
- Status Summary
- Pathways
- ETIC Student Marketing Committee
- ETIC Computer Science Task Force
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4:45 - 4:55 |
Review of status reports from pre-college grants |
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Schedule next meeting - Tuesday December 9, 2008? |
Agenda #36, Friday, September 5, 2008
3:30 - 3:35 |
Introductions,
opening remarks
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3:35 - 4:15 |
Next Version of OPAS Proposal for 2009-2001 Biennium
- Governor's Request, ETIC Process Steps
- References:
- Brainstorm Next Steps
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4:15 - 4:45 |
Recent work by workgroups & committees
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4:45 - 4:55 |
Eastern Oregon University's pre-college outreach: Dean Marilyn Levine
- Overview: what EOU can bring to the table - slides - pdf
- For reference: EOU's CS program - pdf
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Schedule next meeting - Tuesday October 7, 2008 |
Task force meeting, Monday, Feb. 18, 2008, 3:30 p.m.
re: Preparing written proposal to ETIC,
Bridge: 503.725.7202 and conference ID is 202082.
OPAS Presentation to ETIC, 2/8/08
(1) The ETIC industry members and some key academic members really like our approach.
(2) What they like about it most is its ability to "deliver" more well-prepared college freshmen that are inclined to choose engineering, computer science, or material science as their major.
(3) They want to see systemic change that will outlast OPAS as a committee structure.
(4) They want to us to deliver a balance of quantity, quality and diversity.
(5) While they didn't see our proposed "price tag" of $4.5 million over two year as being too high, their ability to help us get this level of funding will be limited by two things:
(a) how well we make our case going forward; and
(b) the amount of new tax revenues that become available to the Oregon Legislature in 2009.
Next steps:
Produce a written plan that give the specifics of our proposal based on the template.
Submission deadline: March 7th to ETIC industry members. They will read the proposal in advance of their meeting on March 14th..
Intermediate deadlines: Subproposals ready for review on Feb. 26th. Combined proposal ready for final editing by February 29th.
The proposal should
- address items (2), (3) and (4) above.
- describe of how we will stage the growth of our programs in terms of geography, types of schools, target student audiences, etc
- describe each of the six areas:
- Extend national exemplar pre-engineering program (Knight, et al)
- Expand access to computer science (Knight, et al)
- Expand proven programs addressing under-represented (Davis-Lowe, et al)
- Seed engineering challenge programs (Manny, et al)
- Create summer internships (Cresswell, et al)
- Statewide communications/marketing campaign (Schafer, Hardigan, ...)
- not be brand-specific. In other words, instead of saying it will allocate $x thousand to program A, $y thousand to program B, and $z thousand to program C, it should say it will allocate $x+y+z thousand to program(s) with the following characteristics: (a)...(b)...(c)..., possibly citing programs A, B, or C as having some of those characteristics.
Action Items from the most recent Steering Committee meeting:
Criteria for prioritizing possible legislative concepts
•How well does this choice align with the vision, mission and strategies?
•What is the breadth of impact of this choice? How many students would be affected?
•What is the depth of impact of this concept?
•Will this concept have short-term or long-term impact? In either case, are the benefits lasting?
•Is this concept a prerequisite of one of our high-priority strategies?
•Are there methods other than legislation that could achieve the same results with less resources? E.g. Collaborative effort with other groups, policy action by an existing board, private or federal funding, grass roots efforts.
•How well does this match the expertise, connections, and passions of members?
•How likely is it that we can get this concept turned into a bill and get it passed? Does it align with the work of education or workforce boards? Do we have ideas about who might endorse it?
• What is sequence / roadmap of steps for success over long term
Possible ideas for legislative concepts
- Pre-service teacher preparation
- In-service professional development
- Integration of technology including computer science in science standards
- Middle School
- High School
- Endorsement area for computer science or ...
- Funding for technology courses, e.g. base x 1.3 for technology courses
- Incentives for future teachers, e.g. tuition forgiveness
- Creating bridge programs for under represented students to support the transition to college
- Tax credits to business for
- establishing internships
- connecting to classrooms
- Early-year salary supplement for teachers in shortage areas
- Gather data on level of preparation vs. success of students
- High to college
- Community college to university
- Make it easier for technology professionals to become teachers
ETIC/OPAS Pre-College RFP
Budget: $390K covering remainder of 2007-2009 Biennium
Eligibility
- Universities, colleges, school districts, etc.
- Non-profits organizations
- Others
Minimum proposal size: $25,000
Maximum proposal size: $100,000
Selection Criteria approved by ETIC, 7/20/07
- Alignment with ETIC mission and OPAS strategies.
- Breadth and depth of impact on target audiences.
- Sustainability, ability to grow the program cost-effectively, long-term impact.
- Organizational track record.
- Proven methodology.
- Quality of evaluation plan.
- Overall cost, efficient use of funds, and leveraging of other resources.
Steering Committee Members: email to
entire committee-
William Becker |
Director, Center for Science Education, Portland State University; Prepare Workgroup |
Jay Bockelman |
Program Director, Software Engineering Technology, OIT/Beaverton ; Pathways Workgroup |
| Eda Davis-Lowe |
Director, SMILE at OSU, Chair, Succeed Workgroup |
Steve Day |
Principal, Health and Science High School (HS2) , Beaverton School District ; Prepare Workgroup |
Don Domes |
Technology Instructor, Hillsboro High School; Motivate Workgroup |
Larry Flick |
Chair, Dept. of Science and Mathematics Education, Oregon State University |
| Bob Harder |
Director of Engineering Programs, George Fox University |
Dick Knight |
Interim Dean, Maseeh College of Engineering and Computer Science; Chair Emeritus, Prepare Workgroup |
Dave Krumbein |
Instructor, Blue Mountain Community College |
| Margie Lowe |
Policy Advisor, Education and Workforce Development, Governor's Office |
Ben Manny |
Retired from Intel R&D; Co-chair, Motivate Workgroup |
| Walt Mayberry |
Chair, Prepare Workgroup. Retired from industry; entrepreneur; former high school CS teacher. |
Ron McGuire |
Technology Instructor, Roseburg High School |
| John McKee |
Division Dean for Science and Engineering at Portland Community College Sylvania Campus |
| Steffen Moller |
Dean of Business, Math and Sciences at Clackamas Community College. |
Roger Rennekamp |
Professor, Department Head & State 4H Leader, Oregon State University; Motivate Workgroup |
Skip Rochefort |
Professor, OSU Engineering |
Diane Saunders |
Director of Communications, Oregon University System |
Bruce Schafer |
Director, Industry Affairs, Oregon University System |
| Tom Thompson |
Industrial and Engineering Systems Specialist, Oregon Department of Education |
| Jo Oshiro |
OPAS Staff Support, OUS |
Advisors and Interested Observers (on the listserv to stay informed, but not attending meetings):
| Eileen Boerger |
ETIC Voting Member; Executive VP, CorSource Technology Group & General Manager, Agilis Solutions |
| Aubrey Clark |
Intel Community Relations |
Scott Huff |
Dean of Instruction, Portland Community College |
| Don Kirkwood |
CS Teacher, North Salem High School; Succeed Strategy Workgroup |
| Tom Lieurance |
Electronics Instructor, Columbia Gorge Community College |
| Jeff Triplett |
Division Dean, Math & Industrial Technology, Portland Community College, Sylvania |
For questions or information regarding this webpage, please email Jo Oshiro or call (503) 821.1139
