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
(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.