Minutes of the 1999 Business Meeting

AAAS Section on Engineering

Anaheim Hilton and Towers, January 22, 1999, 8:00-11:00 p.m.

1. Section Chair Joseph Bordogna opened the meeting at 8:00 p.m. and asked those present to introduce themselves. The attendance list appears in Appendix A.

2. Winners of the 1998 election of officers for the Section on Engineering (M) were announced. The terms of office of the elected individuals start on January 27, 1999.

The complete list of officers and steering committee members for 1999-2000 appears in Appendix B.

3.The following AAAS members were elected Fellows in 1998:


Jan D. Achenbach, Clark K. Colton, Alfred L. Crosbie, Nils J. Diaz

Paul Ducheyne, Robert Goulard, Susan Hackwood, Lee L. Huntsman

Herbert S. Isbin, R. Noel Longuemare, Larry V. McIntire,

Peter H. McMurry, Phillip S. Myers, Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis

Michael M. Reischman, Leon Riebman, Hans J. Schneider-Muntau

Robert F. Shurtz, James A. Smith, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Jack Keil Wolf.

The proposed changes in Fellow elections for 1999 were discussed. The principal change is a proposed requirement that a successful candidate must have at least 4 positive votes and not more than two negative votes from the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee consists of the Section Chair, Chair-elect, Retiring Chair, Secretary, and four members-at-large. The Council at its meeting on January 24, 1999 will consider the proposal.

4.The following Symposia at the 1999 Annual Meeting were sponsored or co-sponsored by the Section on Engineering:


5.Discussion of Ideas for Proposed Symposia for 2000

The Chairman called for topics for possible symposia for the year 2000 at the next AAAS Annual Meeting, which will be held in Washington, DC, February 17-22, 2000. After considerable discussion it was agreed that the following topics are to be developed for possible symposia topics:


6. Report by Council Delegate

There was no report from the Council Delegates.

7. Other Business

    8. There being no further business, the meeting was adjourned at 11:00 p.m.
 

Submitted by:
Jose B. Cruz, Jr., Secretary
 
 

Appendix A

Attendance List


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Appendix B

AAAS Engineering Section Steering Group 1999-2000

(Officers and Members-at-Large)

Officers

Martin C. Jischke, Chair
Office of the President
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2035 Tel: (312) 567 3213
Tel: (515) 294-2042 Fax: (312) 567 6931
Fax: (515) 294-0565
E-mail: president@iastate.edu
 

Stuart L. Cooper, Section Chair
Illinois Institute of Technology
117 Beardshear Hall 10 W. 32nd ST., Rm. 117 E1
Chicago, IL 60616-3792
E-mail: cooper@admin.iit.edu

Joseph Bordogna, Retiring Chair
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230
Tel: (703) 306-1001
Fax: (703) 306-0109 E-mail: jbordogna@nsf.gov


Jose B. Cruz, Jr., Secretary
The Ohio State University
752 Dreese Laboratories
2015
Neil Avenue
Tel: (614) 292-1588
Fax: (614) 292-1588
E-mail: cruz+@osu.edu
 
 
 

Members-at-Large

Alice M. Agogino (2000)

Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
University of California
5136 Etcheverry Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-1740
Tel: (510) 642-6450
Fax: (510) 849-3974
E-mail: aagogino@euler.me.berkeley.edu
 

Nancy A. Da Silva (2001)

Dept. of Chemical and Biochemical
Engineering and Materials Science
University of California
Irvine, CA 92697-2575
Tel: (949) 824-8288
Fax: (949) 824-2541
E-mail: ndasilva@uci.edu

Gail H. Marcus (2002)

K-1 House #403
 1-19-15 Kitazawa Setagaya-ku
Tokyo 155-0031, Japan
Tel: (81-3) 5734-2966
Fax: (81-3) 5734-2959
E-mail: ghmarcus@alum.mit.edu

Richard J. Goldstein (2003)

125 Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tel: (612) 625-5552
Fax: (612) 625-3434
E-mail: rjgumn@mailbox.mail.umn.edu
 

Council Delegates
 
 

Jane G. Evans (2000)

John S. Maulbetsch (2000)

90 Lloyden Drive
Atherton, CA 94027
Tel/Fax: 650 327 3339
E-mail: maulbets@ix.netcom.com
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Appendix C

Agenda

SECTION M ---AAAS

Tentative Agenda for the 1999 Business Meeting

8:00-11:00 PM

Friday, January 22, 1999

Chairman, Joseph Bordogna, Presiding


1998-99 Officers:

Chair: Joseph Bordogna

Chair-elect: Martin C. Jischke

Retiring Chair: J. Ray Bowen

Secretary: Jose B. Cruz, Jr.

Section Committee Members at Large

Edward W. Ernst (1999)

Alice M. Agogino (2000)

Nancy A. Da Silva (2001)

Gail H. Marcus (2002)

Council Delegates

Jane G. Evans (2000)

John S. Maulbetsch (2000)