2007 AAAS
Engineering Section Meeting
Friday February 16, 2007
Hilton San Francisco
Hotel,
Room:
MINUTES
1. Introductions: Matthew Tirrell, Section
Chair, called the meeting to order at
2. Approval
of Minutes: Dr. Tirrell asked for comments and
possible changes to the draft minutes of the Section Business Meeting held on
3. Approval
of Agenda: The tentative agenda as shown in Appendix B was approved with no
changes or additions.
4. Announcements:
Dr. Tirrell announced that Priscilla P. Nelson was
elected Chair-Elect and Debbie A. Niemeier was
elected Member-at-Large of the Engineering Section’s Steering Group both
effective
Dr. Tirrell also announced that Melba M. Crawford and Rafael L.
Bras were elected to the Engineering Section Electorate Nominating
Committee. He also announced that as a
result of actions of the 2006 Council meeting, the retiring chair of each
section is now an ex officio member of the Electorate Nominating Committee for
their section and also serves as Chair of the ENC for that section. Dr. Amon, retiring chair has served in that capacity and
effective February 20, he as retiring chair will serve in that capacity.
Dr. Tirrell also announced that 36 members affiliated with the
Engineering Section were elected Fellows of AAAS in October 2006. A list of the names of the new Fellows was
distributed and is attached as Appendix D.
Dr. S.K. Sundaram, one of the newly elected
Fellows, was present at the meeting: Dr.
Tirrell introduced him, welcomed him, and thanked him
for attending the meeting.
5. Fellow
Nomination Process: Dr. Tirrell reviewed the AAAS
Fellow nomination process which is the same as in previous years. There are
three ways a candidate can be nominated: By a member of the Steering Group
(method 1), by a group of three Fellows (method 2), and by the AAAS Chief
Executive Officer (method 3).
He
discussed the procedure for Fellow nominations by members of the Steering Group
(method 1). He mentioned that each
nomination must include a complete Fellow nomination form and either a letter
of recommendation by the nominator or a detailed C.V. with a list of
publications (although a C.V. is an essential piece of the required
documentation). He encouraged members of
the Steering Group to submit both. He
mentioned that for the upcoming nomination cycle, these materials should be
mailed to Marwan Simaan (section Secretary) so that he receives it no later
than March 23, 2007. Marwan will then
forward the materials for all nominees to Ellen Carpenter, AAAS Governance
Associate, before March 30. Information
on the nomination process by a group of three Fellows (method 2) and a copy of
the nomination form can be found on the AAAS main website. A link to that website can also be found on
our section Website (http://www.engr.pitt.edu/aaas-m). Dr. Tirrell also
mentioned that the deadline for Fellow nominations by a group of three Fellows
is May 11, 2007. By May 31, all members of the Steering Group will receive from
Ellen Carpenter copies of the nomination materials for all nominees, including
those nominated by a group of three Fellows, and by the Chief Executive
Officer. They will also receive a voting
sheet which they will need to fill and return to Marwan Simaan by June 29,
2007. Marwan will then forward all votes
to Ellen Carpenter. By August 31, 2007
the Executive Office will mail a slate of all approved nominees to the Council
for formal election.
Dr.
Simaan mentioned that the number of Fellows elected through nominations by the
Steering Group is subject to a section quota which is 15 for this year (there
is no quota for those elected through nominations by three Fellows or by the
Chief Executive Officer). For this
reason, he asked that each member of the Steering Group nominate no more than 2
candidates this year. He also asked
members of the Steering group to inform him ASAP of how many candidates they
plan to nominate, especially if they plan to nominate less than 2
candidates. This will allow him to
coordinate with the group to insure that all slots in the group’s quota are
filled. He also mentioned that in all
three methods, a successful candidate must receive a majority vote from the
Steering Group. Furthermore, if a
candidate receives more than two negative votes, the candidate will not be
recommended for election to Fellow.
7.1:
Globalization of Engineering Education
This symposium will address the issues of what should
engineers know and how they should manage their careers in order to function
effectively and be productive in a global engineering environment both to
facilitate international cooperation and to maintain
7.2:
Engineering to Meet Global Needs
Engineers are at the forefront in developing
technologies to meet societal needs in a global environment. Clean water, Clean coal, CO2 sequestration,
Bioengineering are just a few of the globally challenging fields that engineers
will be working in. Several symposia
could be proposed along these lines. Dr.
S.K. Sundaram volunteered to organize a symposium on
clean coal with a tentative title:
“Clean Coal Technology: Myths,
Challenges, and Opportunities”. This
symposium will address the myths, challenges and opportunities in the
development of clean coal technology. It
will include prominent speakers from DOE, universities, industries, and some
international speakers to bring in a global perspective.
7.3: Grand
Engineering Challenges
Within this topic, we hope to have a session organized
by someone from the NAE Committee that is evaluating the responses obtained as
a result of the NAE call for a worldwide brainstorming to determine the Grand
Challenges for Engineering for the next 100 years and beyond. Proctor Reed volunteered to make the
necessary contacts within NAE to organize such a symposium. The symposium might
include speakers that will describe the various challenges that the NAE
committee has formulated.
Another possible symposium within the same general
theme could be organized to include speakers who are past recipient of prizes
for providing best solutions to grand engineering challenges. Many of the
challenging engineering problems are being addressed through an approach of
submitting solutions for prize money through foundations, academies, etc... For
researchers (such as faculty in academia) who are used to the standard grant
funding approach, this is drastic change.
Chris Hill volunteered to contact possible organizers for such a
symposium. In this symposium, it is hoped that engineers who have received
prize monies for submitting winning solutions to challenging problems could
discuss their experience in what it would take to produce a winning submission.
Two
other possible symposia were also discussed. The first was suggested by Al
Wechsler via an email message to Marwan Simaan prior to the business
meeting. Al suggested a symposium on
“Open Innovation” which basically means the acquisition of
technology/innovative ideas, products and processes from sources external to your
organization that may extend beyond just
Finally,
Dr. Tirrell asked for suggestions for Plenary and
Topical lectures speakers. The following
names were suggested. For plenary
speakers: Susan Hockfield (MIT), Dwight Streit (Northrop Grumman), Bob Brown (
8.
Other Business: Sarah Banas of the
9.
Adjournment: The meeting was
adjourned at 12:35 PM.
Submitted by:
Marwan A. Simaan
Section Secretary
February 20, 2007
Appendix
A
Attendance List
1.
Matthew Tirrell, Chair
2.
Marwan Simaan,
Secretary
3.
Cristina Amon, Retiring-Chair
4.
S. K. Sundaram
5.
Sarah Banas, AAAS Liaison
6.
Peter Bainum, Representative, American Astronautical
Society
7.
Proctor Reid,
Section P Secretary/NAE
8.
Chris Hill,
Member-at-Large
9.
Gail H. Marcus,
Chair-Elect
10.
Subhash Singhal
11.
David Lubman, Representative, Acoustical Society of
12.
James Merz, Member-at-Large
13.
Grigorios Delaportas
14. James G. Harris
Appendix B
AAAS
2007 Engineering Section Business Meeting
Place:
Hilton
Room:
TENTATIVE AGENDA
1. Introductions
2. Approval of minutes of previous meeting
3. Announcements
(a) Officers for 2007-2008
(b) New Engineering Section AAAS Fellows
4. Discussion of Fellow nomination process
5. Discussion of proposed symposia and seminars for the 2008 Annual Meeting
6. New Business
2007-08
AAAS Section on Engineering Steering Group
(Officers and
Members-at-Large, effective February 20, 2007)
Officers |
Members-at-Large |
Gail H. Marcus, Chair (2007) OECD Nuclear Energy Agency F-75016, Fax: +33-1-45-24-11-19 E-mail: ghmarcus@aol.com |
Christopher T. Hill (2008) Office of the Provost Fairfax, VA 22030 Tel: (703) 993-2270 Fax: (703) 993-8871 |
Matthew Tirrell,
Retiring Chair (2007) Tel: (805) 893-3141 Fax: (805) 893-8124 E-mail: tirrell@engineering.ucsb.edu |
Frances H. Arnold (2009) Div. of Chemistry & Chemical
Engineering MC 210-41 California Institute of Technology Tel: (626) 395-4162 Fax: (626) 568-8743 E-mail:frances@cheme.caltech.edu |
Priscilla P.
Nelson,
Chair-Elect (2007) New
Jersey Institute of Technology Fenster Hall 380 Tel:
(973) 596-3220 Fax:
(973) 642-4079 E-mail:
pnelson@njit.edu |
Herbert H. Richardson (2010) Texas Transportation Institute The Tel: (979)-845-8552 Fax: (979)-845-9356 E-mail: herbert-richardson@tamu.edu |
Marwan A. Simaan, Secretary (2010) Department of Electrical Engineering 348 Benedum
Hall Tel: (412) 624-8099 Fax: (412) 624-8003 E-mail: simaan@engr.pitt.edu |
Debbie A. Niemeier (2011) Dept.
of Civil and Environ. Engineering Tel:
(530) 752-8918 Fax:
(530) 752-7872 E-mail:
dniemeier@ucdavis.edu |
Appendix D
New AAAS Fellows elected in October 2006
Engineering Section
·
Reza Abbaschian,
·
Cereje Agonafer,
·
Kristi S. Anseth,
·
Norman Augustine,
Retired President and CEO, Martin Marietta Aerospace
·
David D. Awschalom,
·
·
Ray M. Bowen,
·
Linda J. Broadbelt, Northwestern University
·
Robert J. Budnitz, Lawrence
·
Wilfred Chen,
·
Marc Deshusses,
·
Yasuhiko Fujii, Tokyo Institute of Technology
·
Alice P. Gast,
·
Chris T.
Hendrickson,
·
Linda P. B. Katehi,
·
Mujid S. Kazimi, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
·
Robert M. Kelly,
·
Chaitan Khosla,
·
Gyungho Lee,
·
Sang Yup
·
Mark S. Lundstrom,
·
Susan McCahan,
·
Robert G. Parker,
·
Victor G.J. Rogers,
·
David Rossin,
·
Kirk H. Schulz,
·
Krishna Shenai,
·
Michael L.
Shuler,
·
William H. Steier,
·
S.K. Sundaram,
·
Thomas George Thundat,
·
Fawwaz T. Ulaby, The
·
Usha Varshney, National Science
Foundation
·
Zhong Lin Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology
·
Richard C.
Warder, Jr.,
·
Charles Wyman,
Appendix E
2007 Annual Meeting Symposia and Seminars of Interest to Engineers
1. Symposia and Seminars Sponsored by the Engineering Section
Friday February 16:
8:30am - 11:30am
8:30am - 10:00am
90-Minute Symposium. 90-54. Teaching
Sustainable Engineering
Parc Ballroom 3
9:30am - 12:00pm
Section Business Meetings. 20-11. Engineering
Section Business Meeting
Union Square 14
10:30am - 12:00pm
90-Minute Symposium. 90-195. Global
Clean Water Challenge: Where Are the Civil Engineers When We Need Them?
Continental Ballroom 3
180-Minute
Symposium. 180-25. Renewable Energy from Biomass:
Technology, Policy, and Sustainability
Imperial
Ballroom B
Saturday February 17:
8:00am - 11:00am
Seminar. 180-26. Robotics Seminar Part I: Robots --
Our Future's Sustainable Partner
Da Vinci Ballroom
Seminar. 180-117. Robotics Seminar Part II: Robots
-- The Next 10 Years
Da Vinci Ballroom
90-Minute Symposium. 90-193. The Drive for Energy Security: Impacts on U.S. Security
Parc Ballroom 1
90-Minute
Symposium. 90-134. Identifying Pathways for
Underrepresented Students in Science and Engineering
Union
Square 23-24
Sunday February 18:
8:30am - 10:00am
90-Minute Symposium. 90-997. The Future of Nuclear Energy
Franciscan D
10:30am - 12:00pm
90-Minute Symposium. 90-124. From Research to Markets: Advancing the Development and
Deployment of Clean Energy
Continental Ballroom 6
180-Minute Symposium. 180-62. Energy or
Climate Security: Do We Have To Choose?
Continental Ballroom 6
90-Minute Symposium. 90-131. How Will
Stem Cell Research Be Sustained?
Continental Ballroom 2
90-Minute
Symposium. 90-158. Placing the U.S. Cyberinfrastructure in a Global Context
Continental
Ballroom 7
Monday February 19:
9:15am - 10:45am
90-Minute Symposium. 90-162. The Future of Renewable Energy
Union Square 17-18
2. Symposia and Seminars of Interest
to the Engineering Section
Friday February 16:
180-Minute Symposium. 180-45. What Is Agrifood Nanotechnology?:
Technical, Ethical, Legal, and Social Questions
Continental Ballroom 7
90-Minute Symposium. 90-118. Ethical
Issues in Nuclear Weapon Programs
Continental Ballroom 8
90-Minute
Symposium. 90-71. Fifty Years of Space Exploration:
Historical Insights into Societal Impacts
Continental
Ballroom 1
Saturday February 17:
8:00am - 11:00am
180-Minute Symposium. 180-71. Grand
Challenges of Sustainability Science
Continental Ballroom 2
90-Minute Symposium. 90-104. Domestic Bioenergy: Weaning Ourselves from Foreign Oil Addiction
Parc Ballroom 3
9:45am - 11:15am
90-Minute Symposium. 90-129. Graduate
School Alliances To Diversify the Science and
Engineering Work Force
Union Square 15-16
9:45am - 11:15am
90-Minute Symposium. 90-159. Plutonium
Reprocessing and Recycling
Parc Ballroom 3
9:45am - 11:15am
90-Minute Symposium. 90-80. America's
Achilles Heel: Critical Infrastructure Services in Time of Disaster
Parc Ballroom 2
180-Minute Symposium. 180-56. Decision-Making
Under Uncertainty: The Challenge of Sustainable
Well-Being
Union Square 15-16
90-Minute Symposium. 90-185. Coping
with a Dirty-Bomb Detonation
Parc Ballroom 2
Sunday February 18:
8:30am - 11:30am
180-Minute Symposium. 180-61. Drylands in Crisis: Science, Technology, and Sustainable
Living on Arid Lands
Franciscan A
8:30am - 10:00am
90-Minute Symposium. 90-063. Ensuring
the Future of Science: Developing Underrepresented Minority Doctorates
Continental Ballroom 9
10:30am - 12:00pm
90-Minute Symposium. 90-39. Novel
Materials and Processes for Medical Prostheses
Franciscan D
10:30am - 12:00pm
90-Minute Symposium. 90-58. The Future of Nuclear Weapons
Continental Ballroom 8
180-Minute Symposium. 180-59. Diasporas,
Technology Transfer, and Development: Migration Gains or Drains?
Continental Ballroom 9
90-Minute Symposium. 90-142. Knowledge
Systems for Sustainable Development: Mobilizing Research and Development for
Decision-Making
Big Sur
90-Minute Symposium. 90-24. How Should
Elementary Mathematics Be Taught?
Franciscan C
90-Minute
Symposium. 90-33. Mathematics and America's Future: A
Call to Action
Union
Square 17-18
Monday February 19:
9:15am - 10:45am
90-Minute Symposium. 90-151. New Models
for Materials Use, Biocomplexity, and Sustainability
Parc Ballroom 2
9:15am - 10:45am
90-Minute Symposium. 90-153. New
Approaches to the Development of the U.S. Computing Work Force
Continental Ballroom 9
11:00am - 12:30pm
90-Minute Symposium. 90-08. Blockbuster
Science: Math and Science Behind Movies and
Entertainment
Parc Ballroom 2
11:00am - 12:30pm
90-Minute Symposium. 90-64. The Small and Big of It: Nanotechnology in the Developing
World
Continental Ballroom 1