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College Electronics Teachers Association

ICETA - What is it?

The International College Electronics Teachers Association is an informal organization of college electronics teachers, instructors, professors, administrators, educators, authors, publishers, and other interested persons. The purpose of the association is to provide a forum wherein members can learn from one another, broaden the perspectives of their profession and of the electronics profession in general, share knowledge, methodology, techniques, and pedagogy, assess the health and future of the electronics education profession, and other activities deemed pertinent. The association is intentionally informal and unincorporated. There are no elected officers. The organization succeeds because of the interest, enthusiasm, initiative, and spirit of the members.

ICETA functions primarily through annual conferences. The first conference was organized by Leon Lucchessi, an electronics technology professor at Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada. Leon Lucchesi is the founder and prime mover behind ICETA and merits the credit for its success. Conferences have been held at Reno, Nevada; Vancouver, British Columbia; Windsor, Ontario; and Salt Lake City, Utah.

ICETA has approximately 300 members from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Mexico. The number increases each year.

In 1993 Canada organized the International Electronics Technician Articulation Committee (IETAC/Common Core) to provide a common core of electronics instruction in Canadian educational institutions. Since many of the IETAC members are the same as ICETA members, and since many of the interests and functions of the two organizations overlap, the two organizations have held their annual conferences in conjunction with one another since 1995.