2001 AAAS Engineering Section Meeting

February 16, 2001

Sutter Room A, Hilton San Francisco & Towers, San Francisco, California

 MINUTES

1.     Stuart L. Cooper, Section Chair, called the meeting to order at 9:05 AM. He asked those present to introduce themselves. The attendance list appears in Appendix A.

2.     Dr. Cooper asked for comments and possible changes to the Draft Minutes of the Section Business Meeting held on February 18, 2000. The draft was posted on the Section web site shortly after the Washington DC meeting and distributed at this meeting. There were no suggested changes and the draft was approved.

3.     The tentative agenda was approved. (See Appendix B)

4.     (a) Denice D. Denton was elected as Chair-elect of the Section effective February 21, 2001. Ward O. Winer was elected Member-at-Large of the Engineering Section Steering Committee effective February 21, 2000. The list of Section Officers and Members-at Large for 2001-2002 appears in Appendix C.

(b) The new Engineering Section AAAS Fellows elected in September 2000 are listed in Appendix D.

5.     Review of Fellow nomination process. There are three ways a candidate can be nominated: (1) The Steering Committee members prepare nominations and vote on forwarding a number of the candidates not to exceed the quota for the Section. The quota is based on the number of AAAS members in the Engineering Section. This year this quota is 15. In the past the steering committee decided to limit the number of nominations from each of the 8 members to two. In the event that some submit more than two and if the total number of nominations from the 8 members exceeds the quota, the Secretary requests the member with the most number of nominations to rank order the list and voluntarily delay the nomination of the candidate lowest in rank. This process was continued with other members until the total just equals the quota. This procedure will be followed again this year. (2) The second method of nominating a candidate for Fellow is for three Fellows to endorse the nomination. (3) The third method of nomination is for the AAAS Executive Director to forward a nomination. Only method (a) is subject to the quota. In all three of the methods, the candidates are evaluated by the Section Steering Group, and the candidates must receive a majority vote from the steering group. Furthermore, if a candidate receives more than two negative votes, the candidate is not recommended for election to Fellow.

6.     It was noted that of the various symposia topics suggested by the Section last year, only one was accepted. This is “Food Safety and the Technology Revolution”, co-organized by Stuart L. Cooper, Gail H. Marcus, and Charles Sizer.

7.     Discussion of Ideas for Proposed Participation in the 2002 Annual Meeting:

The Chairman called for suggestions for possible symposia topics for the 2002 Annual Meeting to be held in Boston, and the 2003 Annual Meeting to be held in Denver. After some discussion, it was suggested that the following be proposed to the Program Committee:

(a)          Energy, Sustainability, and the Environment.  A similar topic was suggested last year by L. S. Fan (Ohio State University). The session will focus on government initiatives and policies affecting the use of fossil energy, confluence of growing energy demands and environmental needs for the21st century. Stuart L. Cooper will contact L. S. Fan to co-organize a session with him.  This can be for 2003 also.

(b)  Star Wars Revisited (suggested by Martin Jischke last year).

(c)   BioMicroElectroMechanical Systems (BioMEMS) (suggested by Alice Agogino last year). Perhaps this could be Bio-nanotechnology. This can be for 2003 also.

(d)  Safety and Control of Vehicles in Highways. Suggested by Richard Goldstein. This can be for 2003 also.

(e)          Productivity. Suggested by Stuart Cooper.

(f) Communications Explosion: Information Overload or Panacea. Suggested by Richard Goldstein. 

1.   Kathryn Makeig made a brief presentation regarding a proposed legislation to restore the funding for the Office of      Technology Assessment in Congress. She also briefly described a bill for the National Improvement in Mathematics and Science Teaching. Chair Cooper will write a letter to the AAAS President to endorse the proposals.

2.   The meeting was adjourned at 11:15 AM.

Appendix A

Attendance List

 

1.     Stuart L. Cooper, Chair

2.     Jose B. Cruz, Jr., Secretary

3.     Richard J. Goldstein, Member-at-Large 

4.     Peter M. Bainum, American Astronautical Society

5.     Catherine Campos, AAAS Staff Liaison for 2001 

6.     Virginia W. Stern, AAAS Staff part-time

7.   Michael Strauss, AAAS Staff, part-time

8.   Michael Spinella, AAAS Staff, part-time

9.   Kathryn Makeig, AAAS Congressional Science and Technology Fellow

 

Appendix B

Engineering Section Meeting

February 16, 2001

8:45 AM - 11:45 AM

Sutter Room A, Hilton San Francisco and Towers

TENTATIVE AGENDA

1.                 Introductions

2.                 Approval of minutes of previous meeting

3.                 Announcements

(a)              Officers for 2001-2002

(b)             New Engineering Section AAAS Fellows

4.                 Discussion of proposed symposia for 2002 and 2003 Annual Meetings 

5.                 New business

 

 

Appendix C

2001-2002 AAAS Section on Engineering Steering Group

(Officers and Members-at-Large, effective February 21, 2001)
 

Officers

 

Alice M. Agogino, Section Chair
229 California Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-1506
Tel: (510) 642-7609
Fax: (510) 642-9483
E-mail: aagogino@me.berkeley.edu
 
 Stuart L. Cooper, Section Retiring Chair
Illinois Institute of Technology

Perlstein Hall, Rm. 221
10 W. 33rd St.
Chicago, IL 60616
Tel: (312) 567-3213
Fax: (312) 567-6931
E-mail: cooper@iit.edu

 

 

Denice D. Denton, Section Chair-Elect

College of Engineering, 369 Loew, Box 352180

University of Washington

Seattle, WA 98195

Tel: (206) 543-0340

Fax: (206) 685-0666

E-mail: denton@engr.washington.edu

 

 

Jose B. Cruz, Jr., Section 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
 

Richard J. Goldstein (2003)
125 Mechanical Engineering
University of Minnesota
111 Church St., S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Tel: (612) 625-5552
Fax: (612) 625-3434
E-mail: rjg@me.umn.edu
 

Gail H. Marcus (2002)
8026 Cypress Grove Lane
Cabin John, MD 20818
Tel: (202) 586-2240
Fax: (202) 586-8353
E-mail: gail.marcus@hq.doe.gov
 
 

C. D. Mote, Jr., (2004)
Office of the President
1101 Main Administration Bldg.
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: (301) 405-5803
Fax: (301) 405-9560
E-mail: dmote@deans.umd.edu

 

Ward O. Winer (2005)

Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering

Georgia Institute of Technology

Atlanta, GA 30332-0405

Tel: (404) 894-3200

Fax: (404) 894-1658

E-mail: ward.winer@me.gatech.edu

 

Appendix D

2000 AAAS Fellows

The following Section M members were elected in September, 2000: 

 

Richard J. Arsenault, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

Maria de Graca Carvalho, Technical Univ. of Lisbon

Jared Leigh Cohon, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Garth E. Cummings, Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

Denice D. Denton, Univ. of Washington

David K. Holger, Iowa State Univ.

Jeffrey A. Hubbell, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Univ. of Zurich

Walter Y. Kato, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lawrence A. Kennedy, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago

Max G. Lagally, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Enrique J. Lavernia, Univ. of California, Irvine

Jon Orloff, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

David Pnueli, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa

Kenneth W. Potter, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

Matthew Tirrell, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

Joseph A. Zasadzinski, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

            

 

 

Submitted by:

Jose B, Cruz, Jr,

Section Secretary