The Triangle

Issue date: 1/28/05 Section: Sci-Tech

Professor Moshe Kam, of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was elected to serve as Vice President for Educational Activities and Chair of the Educational Activities Board (EAB). He thus serves as a member of the IEEE Board of Directors and the Executive Committee.

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. is the largest technological society, comprising more than 360,000 members, 68,000 of which are students. IEEE produces about 30 percent of the world's literature, and currently houses approximately 1.1 million documents in its electronic library, in addition to creating about 900 standards, such as IEEE 1394 high-speed serial bus, also known as firewire.

The EAB serves to develop educational programs to ensure technological literacy of pre-college students, providing accreditation, developing various products and standards, as well as public education. Kam's plan for the EAB this upcoming year includes:

* Institutionalization and expansion of IEEE's pre-college programs.

* Realization of EAB's efforts to develop and distribute on-line tutorials for self-paced study.

* Simplifying and streamlining access of IEEE members and the public of IEEE offerings in education.

Prior to this, Kam served as Director of Region 2 (Eastern USA) for IEEE and functioned on the Board of Directors. He has also served on the Regional Activities Board, the board of IEEE-USA, as Chair of the Audit Committee and the Philadelphia Section. He was made IEEE fellow in 2001.

Kam earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Tel Aviv University, his Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees from Drexel and subsequently joined the faculty. Before returning to graduate school, Kam served in the Israeli Defense Forces. His honors include a Third Millennium Medal from the IEEE, an NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the C. Holmes MacDonald Award of Eta Kappa Nu, and the Robert G. Quinn Award, founded in memory of Drexel ECE professor Robert Quinn, who established an innovative engineering curriculum at Drexel.

Kam currently teaches the sophomore level of the Drexel Engineering Curriculum (tDEC), required for all engineers. His courses include Systems I and II, which cover differential equations, system theory and modeling, as well as both levels of Ethics and Professionalism in engineering, a part of the Evaluation and Presentation of Data course of tDEC.

Kam founded and developed the Data Fusion Laboratory (DFL) under the Electrical and Computer engineering department, engaging in research and development in detection and estimation, dynamic systems and distributed control. He is also coordinator of Drexel's NSA Center of Excellence for Information Assurance Education and technical coordinator of the Department of Defense-funded project in Applied Communication and Information Networking.

Kam is a strong advocate of professional associations and believes that every "professional (and every professional in training) should help in strengthening the scholarly, educational and standardization activities that [they] support ... I believe that my service as IEEE Vice President for Educational Activities will enhance Drexel's reputation as a premier source for engineering education."

He hopes that his work at IEEE will contribute significantly to achieve this goal.

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