2017 AAAS Engineering Section Business Meeting

 

Friday February 17, 2017

 

Boston, MA; Sheraton Boston Hotel, Room: Liberty AB

 

MINUTES

 

1.   Introductions: Larry McIntire, Section Chair, called the meeting to order at 9:35 AM after around 20 minutes of networking with coffee and snacks being served.  He asked those present to introduce themselves. The attendance list is included in Appendix A.

 

2.   Approval of Minutes: Dr. McIntire asked for comments and suggested corrections to the draft minutes of the Section Business Meeting held on February 12, 2016, at the Washington, DC meeting. The draft minutes were posted on the Section website http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/aaas-m shortly after the 2016 Washington, DC meeting.  Copies of the draft minutes were also distributed at the meeting.  There were no comments made or changes suggested.  A motion was made and seconded to approve the minutes.  The motion passed unanimously.

 

3.  Section Chair Remarks:  Dr. McIntire summarized some of the points made at the general meeting of all section officers held at 7:00am prior to our section meeting. He mentioned that the 2017 Annual Meeting has over 8,000 registrants and there are exhibits from over 50 countries in the Exhibition Area.  The 2018 Annual Meeting will be in Austin, Texas with the overall theme:  Advancing Science – Discovery to Application.  This should be an excellent theme for our Section and we hope our members will submit significant numbers of proposals for Symposia (see AAAS the Website for due dates, formats, and information required for proposals).  On the publishing front, there are two new Science journals – one in Robotics and one in Immunology.  Both of these journals should be good new venues for some of our members to submit their new research in a high impact setting.

 

Dr. McIntire added that our AAAS CEO, Rush Holt would like to change our mantra from being a “Voice for Science” to being a “Force for Science”. With recent changes that have taken place at various levels around Washington and the rest of the country, there is a real need for increased advocacy for the proper use of scientific evidence for decision-making. It is necessary to explain and defend the philosophy of science in the new world of “alternative facts”. Dr. Holt will be trying to use the Sections for advancing advocacy in a “cross partisan” way. One example would be to identify landmark articles from each Section in Science and then get an article written on each that demonstrates the significant benefits of this science and engineering research.

 

4.   Announcements:  Dr. McIntire announced the 2017-18 results of the AAAS elections. For the General Election, Margaret A. Hamburg (National Academy of Medicine) was elected President-Elect, and S. James Gates, Jr. (University of Maryland, College Park) and Kaye Husbands Fealing (Georgia Institute of Technology) were elected to the Board of Directors.  For Section M:  Deb Niemeier (University of California-Davis) was elected Chair-Elect; Norma A. Alcantar (University of South Florida) was elected as Member-at-Large; Sheryl H. Ehrman (University of Maryland, College Park) and Rodney D. Priestley (Princeton University) were elected as members of the Section Electorate Nominating Committee; and Ian M. Robertson (University of Wisconsin-Madison) was elected as Section M Council Delegate.  The term for all those who were elected starts on Tuesday February 21, 2017.

 

Dr. McIntire thanked all the officers whose terms ended after this Annual Meeting:  Kent Fuchs as Retiring Chair, Ilesanmi Adesida as Retiring Member-at-Large, Molly Sandra Shoichet as Council Delegate, and Linda Broadbelt and David B. Williams as Members of the Electorate Nominating Committee.  On February 21, 2017 Dr. McIntire will become the Retiring Chair and in that capacity he will serve on the AAAS Council and he will also Chair the Electorate Nominating Committee. 

 

Dr. McIntire also announced that this year 40 members of our section were elected Fellows of AAAS. A list of the names of the newly elected Fellows was distributed at the meeting and is attached as Appendix B.  The Newly elected Fellows were invited to attend our business meeting and 14 of the 40 were able to attend.  Dr. McIntire welcomed them, and thanked them for attending the meeting. He also asked each of them to say a few words about their research interest that lead to their election as AAAS Fellows. 

 

6.   Fellow Nomination Process: Dr. McIntire asked Marwan Simaan, the section secretary, to review the AAAS Fellow nomination process which is the same as in previous years.  Dr. Simaan mentioned that our section currently has 6,669 Members (primary affiliation: 3,949, secondary affiliation: 1,699, and tertiary affiliation: 1,031). This year 40 members of our section were elected Fellows of AAAS.  He also mentioned that there is a new rule beginning three years ago, which mandates that a nominee for Fellow must have been a AAAS member in good standing for the four consecutive years prior to the time of nomination.  This means that for the upcoming election, a member must have been a continuous member in good standing since December 31, 2013.

 

Dr. Simaan then described the Fellow nomination process. There are three ways a AAAS member can be nominated:

 

1)      By a member of the Steering Group (method 1),

2)      By a group of three Fellows (method 2), and

3)      By the AAAS Chief Executive Officer (method 3).

 

For Fellow nominations by members of the Steering Group (method 1), he mentioned that this method is subject to a quota of no more than 0.4% of the section primary membership, which is equal to 16 for this year.  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.eecs.ucf.edu/aaas-m).  Dr. Simaan also mentioned that the deadline for Fellow nominations by a group of three Fellows is April 26, 2017, and that there is no quota for those elected through nominations by the three Fellows method.   By May 22, 2017, all members of the Steering Group will receive from the AAAS Executive Office copies of the nomination materials for all nominees by the section and a voting sheet that they will need to complete and return to him by June 16, 2017.  Marwan will then forward all votes to the Executive Office.  He concluded by saying that in all three methods, a successful candidate must receive no less than five “Yes” votes and no more than two “No” votes.

 

Dr. McIntire mentioned that in 2015 AAAS has appointed a subcommittee to review the Fellows election process.  This subcommittee consists of the following six AAAS members: Ed Aboufadel (Section: Mathematics), Jessica Gurevitch (Section: Biological Sciences), Jeanne Robinson (Section: Chemistry), Marwan Simaan (Section: Engineering), Betty Smocovitis (Section: History & Philosophy of Science), and Saku Vrtilek (Section: Astronomy).   Marwan Simaan who is serving on this committee said that a set of recommendations were forwarded from the subcommittee to council for discussion at its Sunday meeting and that an update on these recommendations will be presented by our council delegates at the next agenda item.

 

 

7. Update on AAAS Council Issues of Interest to Section M:  Drs. Fuchs and Cooper who are our representatives on council provided a report on issues that council is considering that are of interest to our section.  Dr. Fuchs mentioned that the Fellows subcommittee forwarded eight recommendations to council for consideration at its Sunday meeting. These recommendations include:

 

(1) Adding a policy to encourage diversity,

(2) Waiving the four-year rule for one nomination per section per year,

(3) Defining a quota for the three-Fellow nomination to council,

(4) Using the term Distinguished Fellows instead of Fellows,

(5) Allowing sections to set-up subcommittes to manage the fellow selection process,

(6) Adding a statement of professional ethics,

(7) Requesting that the nominators in the 3-fellow process describe their relationship with the nominee, and

(8) Establishing a fellow revocation policy.

 

Additional details on the eight recommendations are provided in appendix C. 

 

Dr. Cooper provided an update on the activity of council in preventing the excessive use of the three-Fellow nomination process by some institutions in the past. 

 

8.  Planning for the 2018 Annual Meeting:  The 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting will be held in Austin, TX, February 15-19, 2018. The meeting theme is “Advancing Science: Discovery to Application.” The deadline for the 2018 session proposal submissions is Thursday April 20, 2017 at 11:59pm PT.  Dr. Simaan mentioned that those who are interested in submitting proposals should check the proposal submission website: https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2018/symp/cfp.cgi  for instructions about the submission procedure and proposal requirements. He added that AAAS asked our section to brainstorm at our business meeting and arrive at three hot topics to be discussed at the 2018 Annual Meeting planning meeting, which will be held on Sunday afternoon 2-4:30pm.  These hot topics will form the basis for possible collaborative symposia sponsored by our section or co-sponsored with other section at the 2018 Annual meeting.   Dr. McIntire asked for ideas and suggestions.  A discussion followed with everyone present contributing ideas. A summary of these ideas is given below (including additional details obtained after the meeting but before the Sunday afternoon planning meeting):

 

8.1 Title: The “OMICS” Revolutions: From Laboratory to Applications

Submitter’s Email: Sriram@nist.gov

Session Duration: 90-Minute Symposia

 

Symposium Description: The past few decades have seen three major “omics” revolutions: genomics is transforming the way we diagnose and treat diseases; mateomics (or the Material Genomics Initiative) is helping us discover new materials, leading to novel engineered artifacts; sociomics (social networking) is accelerating change in many societies. In this symposium we will present several case studies showing the impacts of these “omics” in our everyday life.

 

Primary  Information Technology, Medicine, Engineering

      Secondary: Communication, Health, Technology, Computer Science

 

Relevance to Theme or Special Relevance to Audience: This symposium has broad relevance to the 2018 AAAS theme, From Discovery to Applications.  It includes: 1) science, knowledge, and dissemination in several disciplines: engineering, computer science, medicine, and society; and 2) how the convergence of these disciplines has led to powerful tools that are aiding new innovations in medicine and engineering.

     

Disciplinary Sections Consulted: Engineering (M), Information, Computing and Communication (T) Medical Sciences (N) 

 

Organizer: 

Ram D. Sriram, Fellow AAAS (Section M)

Chief, Software and Systems Division

Information Technology Laboratory

National Institute of Standards and Technology

100 Bureau Drive, MS 8970

Gaithersburg, MD 20899

Phone Number: 301-975-3507

Fax: 301-975-6097

Email: Sriram@nist.gov

 

Co-Organizer 

Ramesh Jain, Fellow AAAS (Section T)

Professor

Department of Computer Science

University of California

Irvine, CA 92697

Phone Number: 949-824-0133

Fax: 949-824-4056

Email: jain@ics.uci.edu

Status: Confirmed

 

Key Words: Material Genome Initiative, Social Networks, Genomics, Computer Science

 

SPEAKERS

 

Vijay Chandru

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Strand Life Sciences

5th Floor, Kirloskar Business Park 
Bellary Road, Hebbal,
Bangalore 560024 

INDIA
Phone:+91-80-40-STRAND (787263) 

E-mail: chandru@strandls.com

Status: Confirmed

Topic: How Genomics is Helping To Treat Diseases in Developing Nations

 

Gregory Olson or his Colleague from CHiMaD

Northwestern University,

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Co-Director, CHiMaD

Email: g-olson@northwestern.edu

Status: TBA

Topic: Material Genomics: From Discovery to invention

 

Kathleen M. Carley
Director of Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organization Systems

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh, PA 15213

E-mail: kathleen.carley@cs.cmu.edu

Tel: (412) 268-6016
Fax: (412) 268-1744

Topic: The Social Network Revolution: From Theory to Applications

 

 

8.2 Title: Smart, Resilient Infrastructure

 

Proposers:  Jim Garrett (CMU, AAAS Fellow, Section M);

Sankar Basu (NSF, AAAS Fellow, Section T)

 

Abstract:  The nation’s infrastructure is a trillion dollar investment that if effectively monitored, could be much more cost effectively operated and maintained.  As unusual weather will challenge this infrastructure more and more, our infrastructure will be more resilient by making it smarter, using advanced sensing, computing, communications, data analytics and modeling.   As we add more and more intelligence and connectedness to our infrastructure, we must ensure that this infrastructure is secure as well.   This session will illustrate, using a number of different real-world examples, how cyberphysical systems research has discovered technological approaches that has then been applied to make different types of infrastructure smarter, more sustainable and more resilient.

 

Possible speakers:

 

Steve Koonin, Center for Urban Science and Progress, NYU

 

Burcu Akinci, Smart Infrastructure Institute, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Ian Smith, EPFL, working with Government of Singapore

 

Carlo Ratti, MIT Sensable Cities Project

 

 

8.3   Title: The CATME Team Tools: An infrastructure for teaching, measuring, and doing research on teamwork.

Proposed by: Matthew W. Ohland

Likely co-sponsoring sections: Q, J, and K

Likely audience: general – all interested in improving their management of student teams and those interested in doing research with team-member or team effectiveness as a dependent or independent variable

 

The CATME Team Tools (http://info.catme.org/), primarily the Team-Maker tool for criterion-based team formation and the Comprehensive Assessment of Team-Member Effectiveness, a behaviorally anchored peer-evaluation instrument, have been used by over 13,500 faculty worldwide to manage the team experience of over 850,000 students. Engineering is the largest user among a wide variety of disciplines using the system. This symposium will focus on three main messages, the science behind the tools, how they are used to improve the experience of students in academic teams, and the use of the system for assessment and research.

 

 

8.4 Title: The Multiple-Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development: An infrastructure for longitudinal studies of student pathways.

 

Proposed by: Matthew W. Ohland

Likely co-sponsoring sections: Q, K, U

Likely audience: general – all interested in studying student pathways in any discipline as well as larger scale multidisciplinary pathway studies

 

The Multiple-Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development (MIDFIELD) contains whole population student records data for 11 institutions over a 25-year period, comprising pathways data for over 1,000,000 students. A project is underway to expand the database to include data from more than 10 million students from more than 100 institution. Plans are also underway to expand access to this unique resource by the broader research community to encourage diverse methods of analysis. The symposium will focus on the structure of the database, how it has been validated and studied, and the new research pathways that will open up when research questions can be addressed in which the institution is the unit of analysis.

 

8.5 Title: How Good Analytics Translates into Effective Homeland Security Policy

 

The events of 9/11 changed the security landscape of the United States.  The need to define polices that provide cost-effective homeland security has become paramount in financially constrained environments.  This session provides examples of how policy changes in the United States and around the world have been shaped by sound analytics that use methodologies from engineering and operations research.  Areas to be discussed include emergency response, terror attacks, and aviation security.

 

Organizer;

Sheldon H. Jacobson, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Sim. & Opt. Lab.
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
201 N. Goodwin Avenue (MC258)
Urbana, IL 61801-2302
217-244-7275 (office)
sheldon.jacobson1 (skype)

Moderator:  

Jeffrey M. Cohen, Director, Public Affairs & Marketing, INFORMS

jeff.cohen@informs.org,

(443) 757-3565.

 

Potential Speakers:

Edward H. Kaplan, PhD, William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Operations Research, Professor of Public Health, Professor of Engineering, Yale School of Management, edward.kaplan@yale.edu, (203) 432-6031 (phone).

 

Laura Albert, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, lmclay@wisc.edu, (608) 262-3002

 

Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, shj@illinios.edu, (217) 244-7275.

 

8.6   Title: Sustainability and the 4th Industrial Revolution

 

Proposed by: Linda Katehi

 

 

Dr. McIntire encouraged all those who have suggested these ideas to develop them further and submit them on the AAAS proposal submission website by the deadline of April 20, 2017.

 

Finally, Dr. McIntire asked for suggestions for plenary and topical lectures speakers.  The name of Donald Dell was suggested as possible plenary or topical speaker.

                                                                                                                                                                                            

9.  Adjournment:  Dr. McIntire asked the attendees if there are any new business.  In the absence of new business, the meeting was adjourned at 11:30AM.  Lunch was served.

 

 

Submitted by:

Marwan A. Simaan

Secretary, Engineering Section (M)

February 23, 2017

Appendix A

Attendance List

1)      Larry McIntire, Chair

2)      Kent Fuchs, Retiring Chair

3)      Linda Katehi, Chair -Elect

4)      Marwan Simaan, Section Secretary

5)      Nadine Aubry, Member-at-Large

6)      Stuart Cooper, Council Delegate

7)      Josh Freeman, AAAS Program Office

8)      Michael Bass, Newly Elected Fellow

9)      Sumista Bose, Newly Elected Fellow

10)  Alexander N. Cartwright, Newly Elected Fellow

11)  Shu-Ching Chen, Newly Elected Fellow

12)  Peter Francis Davies, Newly Elected Fellow

13)  Z. Hugh Fan, Newly Elected Fellow

14)  James H. Garrett, Jr., Newly Elected Fellow

15)  David Arthur Gough, Newly Elected Fellow

16)  Ali Khounsary, Newly Elected Fellow

17)  Sidney Leibovich, Newly Elected Fellow

18)  Frank L. Lewis, Newly Elected Fellow

19)  Matthew W. Ohland, Newly Elected Fellow

20)  Judson W. Virden, Newly Elected Fellow

21)  Wei Hong (Katie) Zhong, Newly Elected Fellow

22)  Joel Mobley, Acoustical Society of America

23)  Giacomo Ahboni

24)  Victor Aguilar

25)  Iman Azzouzi

26)  Sankar Basu

27)  Jennifer Curtis

28)  Gordon Day

29)  Mahamed El-Faham

30)  Karan Godard

31)  Sheldon Jacobson

32)  Daniel Izu

33)  Louis Lee

34)  Guru Madhavan

35)  Sundarsan Rachuri

36)  Ned Sauthoff

37)  Ram D. Sriram

38)  Phil Sharp

39)  Zoran Zvonar

 

 

Appendix B

 

Fellows affiliated with Section M (Engineering) Elected in 2016

 

Chandra Mauli Agrawal, University of Texas at San Antonio: For distinguished contributions to the fields of orthopaedic and cardiovascular biomaterials and implants, with significant impact on biomedical sciences and improving healthcare outcomes.

 

Kaustav Banerjee, University of California, Santa Barbara: For distinguished contributions to nanoelectronics, particularly for pioneering devices and interconnects with nanomaterials, and innovating circuit and chip design concepts, all advancing towards ultra energy-efficient electronics.

Michael Bass, University of Central Florida: For outstanding contributions in optical rectification, laser induced damage, laser displays, and laser applications in medicine.

Kamran Behdinan, University of Toronto (Canada): For distinguished contributions to engineering education, particularly the development of Canada's first stand-alone aerospace engineering department and the creation of multidisciplinary design institutes and courses.

Gerald M. Borsuk, Naval Research Laboratory: For extraordinary sustained leadership and innovation in electronic sciences for National Defense and Security.

Susmita Bose, Washington State University: For distinguished contributions toward advanced ceramic materials, biomaterials, bone tissue engineering, for education of the next generation of material scientists, and for service to science.

Alexander N. Cartwright, State University of New York: For outstanding research, teaching and mentorship in optics, for advancing science in New York, nationally, and internationally, and for strengthening diversity and inclusion in science.

Shu-Ching Chen, Florida International University: For outstanding contributions to multimedia data management and disaster information management.

Jianjun Cheng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: For the discovery, development and clinical translation of nanomedicines and biomaterials, especially for targeted cancer therapies.

Simon R. Cherry, University of California, Davis: For distinguished contributions to imaging science, particularly for innovative important improvements in positron emission tomography technology.

Brian T. Cunningham, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: For exceptional contributions to the advancement of photonic crystal-based biosensing.

David Darwin, University of Kansas: For distinguished contributions to the field of concrete structural behavior and durability, particularly for bond and anchorage of reinforcement, and cracking and corrosion control.

Peter Francis Davies, University of Pennsylvania: For seminal discoveries in the role of mechanical forces in atherogenesis and for distinguished contributions in vascular biology and vascular pathology in general.

Z. Hugh Fan, University of Florida: For distinguished contributions to the field of microfluidics, particularly for platform development and their biomedical applications.

Philippe M. Fauchet, Vanderbilt University: For extraordinary scientific and engineering research accomplishment in photonics, energy, and the semiconductor/biology interface, and for distinguished academic leadership.

James H. Garrett, Jr., Carnegie Mellon University: For contributions to the field of computing and civil engineering, particularly for pioneering work on intelligent civil infrastructure and fostering interdisciplinary academic culture.

David Arthur Gough, University of California, San Diego: For pioneering development of implantable biosensors, particularly for use in both short term and long term monitoring of blood glucose in humans.

Ashwani K. Gupta, University of Maryland, College Park: For distinguished contributions to combustion, propulsion, energy and environment sustainability and for contributions to education and outreach training and education, and services to industry.

Chih-Ming Ho, University of California, Los Angeles: For pioneering contributions in phenotypic personalized medicine, microfluidics, bio-molecular sensing and control of turbulent flows.

Hongxing Jiang, Texas Tech University: For outstanding contributions to the fundamental understanding of nitride semiconductors and the development of novel nitride photonic devices for sensing, display, and solid-state lighting applications.

Ali Khounsary, Illinois Institute of Technology: For exceptional contributions to the engineering and technology of third-generation synchrotron radiation sources and to the heat transfer and X-ray optical communities.

Ilona Kretzschmar, City College of City University of New York: For distinguished contributions to the field of colloid and interface science, particularly in terms of fabricating and understanding heterogeneous particles.

Sidney Leibovich, Cornell University: For significant contributions to theories of vortex dynamics, hydrodynamic stability, wave propagation in fluids, and geophysical fluid dynamics especially the dynamics of the upper ocean.

Frank L. Lewis, University of Texas at Arlington: For distinguished contributions in the development of new neural adaptive control architectures, parameter tuning algorithms, and techniques with improved performance for nonlinear control systems.

Xuelong Li, Chinese Academy of Sciences: For achievements in optical imagery analysis and learning.

Zheng-Hong Lu, University of Toronto (Canada): For distinguished contributions to the development of next-generation OLEDs, which are far more energy-efficient and cost-effective to manufacture than their predecessors.

Carmen S. Menoni, Colorado State University: For distinguished contributions to nano-scale imaging and spectroscopy at extreme ultraviolet wavelengths and for advancing the science and technology of optical materials and devices.

Matthew W. Ohland, Purdue University: For distinguished contributions in how engineering students are educated through classroom teaching, research impact, development of educational technology, and society leadership.

Jeffrey Alan Packer, University of Toronto (Canada): For distinguished contributions to the field of tubular steel structures, particularly the design of unique cast steel connectors and its influence on international design specifications.

Joan M. Redwing, Pennsylvania State University: For key contributions to the understanding of materials synthesis of nanostructured materials including nanowires, 2D structures, group-III nitrides, topological insulators and boride-based superconductors.

Paul Sajda, Columbia University: For distinguished contributions to the understanding of neural correlates of vision, human perceptual decision making, and cortically-coupled computer vision.

Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan: For broad contributions to the field of applied electromagnetics, to engineering education, and to sustained economic growth.

Mohammad Shahidehpour, Illinois Institute of Technology: For distinguished contributions to the field of electric power engineering, particularly to the design of renewable energy sources, energy sustainability, power grid modernization, and microgrids.

Michael J. Solomon, University of Michigan: For distinguished contributions to the field of colloid science, particularly for creating and understanding colloidal self-assemblies with new symmetries and new functions.

Yu Sun, University of Toronto (Canada): For distinguished contributions in developing innovative micro- and nano-technologies for biomedical research and clinical applications, particularly the automated manipulation and characterization of cells and nanomaterials.

Mason B. Tomson, Rice University: For research and education on aqueous chemical adsorption, desorption and transport important in environmental chemistry of arsenic, hydrocarbons, and mineral scale prediction and inhibition.

Judson W. Virden, Jr., Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: For exceptional contributions and demonstrated leadership nationally and internationally to solve clean energy challenges through science-based innovation, and develop partnerships that move technology to market.

Xin Zhang, Boston University: For distinguished contributions to the field of micro/nanoelectromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS), addressing a wide range of important problems in advanced materials, biophotonics and energy.

Wei Hong (Katie) Zhong, Washington State University: For distinguished contributions to the

field of composites, nanotechnology and energy materials, particularly for affordable composite manufacturing, multifunctional nanocomposites and new materials for safe batteries.

Yimei Zhu, Brookhaven National Laboratory: For distinguished contributions to the field of electron microscopy instrumentation and techniques to understand atomic and electronic structures and the physical behavior of functional materials.

 

Appendix C

 

Below are eight recommendations submitted to the Council by the AAAS Subcommittee on Fellows. Additional context and rationale for these recommendations may be found in the full report. The specific recommendations below are the ones that require Council approval, and will be up for a vote at the AAAS Council meeting on February 19, 2017.***

 

·         Recommendation 1-6:  The following statement (which is derived from one of the statement that the AAAS uses in its election process) should be added to the policy governing Fellows: “AAAS encourages diverse nominations that include a fair representation of women, minorities and persons with disabilities.”  This statement should also be added to the nomination forms.

 

·         Recommendation 2-1:  A pilot program, allowing each Steering Group to consider at most one nomination per year that waives the Four-Year Rule.  This nomination can be a Steering Group nomination only.  Three-Fellows and CEO nominations of this type would not be allowed in order to keep this pilot manageable.  During this period, Steering Group quotas would be increased by one per Section, but only for the non-four-year-rule nomination.  Nominees would need to be AAAS members at the time of nomination.  At the end of the four-year period, a review would be conducted, with results shared with Council and the Board of Directors.

 

·         Recommendation 3-1:  Define a section-by-section quota for 3-Fellows selections [nominations to Council].  The quota would be equal to the Steering Group quota or equal to five, whichever number is larger.  However, the number of nominations [from 3-Fellows groups] would not be constrained.

 

·         Recommendation 3-3:  Begin to use the term Distinguished Fellows.

 

·         Recommendation 3-4:  To allow Sections to set up subcommittees, appointed by their Steering Committees, to manage the Fellows selection process.  (For example, this may be appropriate for large sections or sections where there are different disciplinary subdivisions that are not familiar to all members).

 

·         Recommendation 4-2: The AAAS should amend the “Policy Governing Nomination and Election of AAAS Fellows” document to add the following to “1:  Criteria for AAAS Fellow”, before the sentence that begins, “The following examples …”

 

Election as an AAAS Fellow is an honor, and all Fellows are expected to abide by the AAAS Statement of Professional Ethics and Integrity [whose creation is recommended above]. 

   

All nomination forms (Steering Group, 3-Fellows, CEO) to also be amended to add the recommended new sentence.

·         Recommendation 4-3:  The AAAS should modify their nominations forms (or additional forms attached to the nomination forms, at the discretion of the AAAS Executive Office) to include the following prompts.  In the case of a 3-Fellows nomination, all three nominators should address these questions:

 

o   Describe your relationship with the nominee.

 

o   All Fellows are expected to abide by the [proposed] AAAS Statement of Professional Ethics and Integrity.  Do you know of any concerns that the AAAS should be aware of regarding the nominee satisfying this expectation?  If yes, please explain.

 

·         Recommendation 5-1:  The AAAS will establish a revocation policy for Fellows to address cases of scientific misconduct and breaches of professional ethics.