NEW EDSOC PUBLICATION—PEDAGOGY & CURRICULUM??
At its June meeting the EdSoc's Administrative Committee (AdCom) asked Transactions's Editor-in-Chief David Conner to look-into the feasibility of creating another publication that would address "curriculum and teaching pedagogy" issues and report back to them at the November 2004 AdCom meeting in Savannah, GA USA (FIE Conference).

This action was prompted by the AdCom's interest in responding to the 2003 IEEE Membership Survey of the EdSoc members. Among a wide-range of questions, the Survey asked subjects to: "Indicate the amount of content coverage in the following areas you would like to see in IEEE Education Society publications, conferences, products and services." The respondees indicated that they wanted to see more "curriculum and teaching pedagogy." In reviewing the data from this question the AdCom noted that "curriculum and teaching pedagogy" generated almost twice the number of responses as did the second place item.

EDSOC DISTINGUISHED MEMBER AWARD MOVING FORWARD
Under the leadership of Burks Oakley II, and with the support of the AdCom, the EdSoc is moving toward IEEE-approval of the Distinguished Member Award.

This award will "recognize outstanding long-term service to the Education Society and significant contributions to higher education in fields of interest of the IEEE."

According to Oakley, "to be eligible for this award a person must have been a member of Education Society for at least the previous ten years." He also noted that "multiple awards may be given each year."

The award consists of a commemorative plaque that will be presented at the annual FIE Conference, which is held every fall.

Oakley also notes that "the award is based upon evidence of distinction in long-term service to the Education Society... and that selection criteria includes leadership roles and leadership quality, innovative and important contributions to the Education Society, service and dedication to the Education Society, and technical achievement."

Oakley expects that the first awards will be given at the FIE 2005 Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana USA.

ONLINE DISCUSSION UNDERWAY—BECOMING A BOOK AUTHOR
Dr. David Fogel, book author, Board Member of the IEEE Press, former Editor in Chief of a Transactions journal for the Neural Networks Society, and IEEE Fellow, is making a presentation in regard to becoming a book author. The discussion began this past Friday, but you can still join-in; you can also review the archive of the discussion that you have missed, or you can just follow the discussion via the EdSoc's Web site.

BATCHMAN PRESENTATION STILL GOING STRONG AFTER IT'S CONCLUSION!!
This past May Ted Batchman gave an online presentation entitled: "Getting Published in the IEEE Transactions on Education," which ran approximately 10 days.

The presentation concluded several weeks ago, but the traffic into the archive of that presentation is still very robust—about 5-7 hits per day into the Batchman archive.

NOMINATE SOMEONE FOR AN EDSOC AWARD
The Education Society offers several awards that are normally presented at the Frontiers in Education (FIE) Conference. Some of the award deadlines have past BUT others have not.

August 15th is the deadline for the Meritorious Service Award, the Achievement Award, the Transaction of Education Best Paper Award, the McGraw-Hill/Millman, and the Hewlett-Packard/Rigas.