2003
AAAS Engineering Section Meeting
MINUTES
1. Denice Denton, Section Chair, called
the meeting to order at
2. Dr. Denton asked for comments and
possible changes to the Draft Minutes of the Section Business Meeting held on
3. The tentative agenda was approved. (See Appendix B)
4. (a) Jose B. Cruz, Jr. was elected as
Chair-elect of the Section and James L. Merz was elected Member-at-Large of the
Engineering Section Steering Committee effective
(b)Dr. Marwan A. Simaan,
(b)
The new Engineering Section AAAS Fellows elected in September 2002 are listed
in Appendix D.
1. 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. 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 Chief Executive Officer to forward a nomination. Only method (1) 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.
2. The list of 2003 Symposia sponsored or cosponsored by the Engineering Section is included as Appendix E.
3. Discussion of Ideas for Proposed
Participation in the 2004 and 2005 Annual Meeting
The
Chair called for suggestions for possible symposia topics for the 2004 Annual
Meeting to be held in
8. Adnan Alsaffar
discussed the ASCE organization and it is methods of cooperation with other
organizations. He provided a hand out on ASCE structure for information. The
activity of AAAs of interest to the
civil engineering profession was discussed. It was suggested that an information on AAAS be publicized in ASCE news.
4. The
meeting was adjourned at
Appendix
A
Attendance
List
1. Denice D.
2.
Sheri D. Sheppard, Chair-elect
3.
Jose B. Cruz, Jr., Secretary
4.
Norman Fortenberry, Member-at-Large,
2002-2006
5. Adnan
Alsaffar, American Society of Civil Engineers
6. Corinne Lengsfeld, American Society of
Mechanical Engineers (sub for Milton Franke)
7.
Taft Broome, American Astronautical Society
( sub for Peter Bainum)
8.
David Lubman, Acoustic Society of
9.
U.
Sunday Tim, American Water Resources Association
10.
William
E. Splinter, American Society of Agricultural Engineers (sub for Arthur
Johnson)
11.
Ted Conway, AAAS/COOS,
12.
James G. Harris, Council Delegate
13.
Joseph
14.
Stuart
Nelson, USDA Agricultural Research Service
15.
Virginia
Stern, AAAS Staff Liaison for 2003
16.
Crispin
Taylor, AAAS, part-time
17.
Appendix
B
2003 Engineering Section Business Meeting
TENTATIVE AGENDA
1.
Introductions
2.
Approval of minutes of previous meeting
3.
Announcements
(a) Officers for 2003-20034
(b) New
Engineering Section AAAS Fellows
4. Discussion of Fellow nomination process
5. Discussion of proposed symposia for 2004 and 2005 Annual Meetings
6. Discussion of Interfaces and Cooperation with Engineering Societies
(a) ASCE, Adnan Alsaffar
(b) Others
7.
New Business
2003-2004 AAAS Section on Engineering Steering Group
(Officers and Members-at-Large, effective
Officers
Sheri D. Sheppard, Section Chair
The Carnegie Foundation
Tel: (650) 566-5773
Fax: (650) 326-0278
E-mail: sheppard@carnegiefoundation.org
Jose B. Cruz, Jr., Section Chair-Elect
Department of Electrical Engineering
The
752 Dreese Laboratories ,
Tel/Fax: (614) 292-1588
E-mail: cruz.22@osu.edu
Denice D.
Tel: (206) 543-1829
Fax: (206) 685-0666
E-mail: denton@engr.washington.edu
Marwan A. Simaan, Section Secretary
Department of Electrical Engineering
348 Benedum Hall
Tel: (412) 624-8099
Fax: (412) 624-8003
E-mail: simaan@pitt.edu
Members-at-Large
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) 314-9560
E-mail: dmote@deans.umd.edu
Ward O. Winer (2005)
Georgia Institute of
Technology
Tel: (404) 894-3200
Fax: (404) 894-1658
E-mail: ward.winer@me.gatech.edu
Norman L. Fortenberry (2006)
National
Tel: (202) 334-1926
Fax: (202) 334-1680
E-mail: nfortenb@nae.edu
James L. Merz (2007)
Department of Electrical
Engineering
Notre
Tel: (574) 631-3111
Fax: (574) 631-0651
E-mail: jmerz@nd.edu
Appendix
D
New AAAS Fellows elected in September 2002
Engineering Section
Mikhail A. Anisimov,
Taft H. Broome, Jr., Howard
Univ.
Mitra Dutta,
Thomas W. Eagar,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John J. Gilman,
Charles N. Haas,
Dennis W. Hess, Georgia
Institute of Technology
Nick Holonyak, Jr.,
Asad M. Madni, BEI
Technologies, Inc.,
Arunava Majumdar,
Christine M. Mazier,
Priscilla P. Nelson,
National Science Foundation
Stuart O. Nelson, USDA
Richard B. Russell Agricultural Research Ctr.,
Donald L. Nuss,
Henry M. Paynter,
Lisa A. Pruitt,
Mary J. Sansalone,
Subhas K. Sikdar,
Craig F. Smith, Lawrence
Kim A. Stelson,
Lung-Wen Tsai,
Kambiz Vafai,
Jeffrey Wadsworth, Lawrence
Felix E. Zajac, V.A.
Appendix E
Some
2003 AAAS Symposia of Interest to Engineers
Sponsored by the Engineering Section
1. Title: NSDL: Progress toward Enhancing Education
via Digital Libraries
Cosponsored by the Engineering
Section
2. Title: Game Theoretic Aspects of Internet
Computation
3. Title: Mathematical Models for Traffic Flow (Phantom Jams and Real
Data)
4. Title:
5. Title: Making Science Relevant to Undergraduates
6. Title: Fires, Floods, and Freezes: Next-Generation
Tools for Disaster Prevention
7. Title: Is Science a Deteriorating Way of Life?:
Workforce Trends
8. Title: Modeling the Internet and the World Wide Web
9. Title: Heroes and Heroism in Engineering
10. Title: Security for Life: The Science Behind Security
11. Title: Nuclear Waste: File and Forget?
12. Title: Biologically Inspired Intelligent Robotics
13. Title: Design for Life: Technologies for
Rehabilitation
14. Title: Face and Object Recognition in Man, Monkey,
and Machine
15. Title: Science and
Technology Policy and Its Publics: Challenges for Democracy
16. Title: Experiments with Ultra Short Pulses:
Shining Light on Ultra Fast Processes
17. Title: High Intensity Laser Science
18. Title: Gravity: A New Tool for Measuring Global
Change
Appendix F
Ideas for 2004 AAAS
Meeting in
Section M
Observation the word engineering
does not appear. We recommend the
following changes:
-Information,
Science, Engineering and Society
-Science,
Engineering and Security
-Changing
Paradigm in Science and Engineering
We recommend that in the future, AAAS make engineering more visible in the meeting title and/or theme track names
Bob Nerem GA Tech
Biomedical
Engineering
Mary Lidstrom
Engineering
and Biology working together
Bob Langer MIT
Biomedical
Engineering
Astronaut Engineer (e.g. Ellen Ochoa, Bonnie Dunbar)
Discussion
of bioengineering in space and/or analysis of
Rehab Engineering (to follow this
years symposium)
Ted
Conway COOS Chair
Track
Information, Science and Society
Possible
co-sponsors:
Impact of the Learning Sciences on
Higher Ed T&L in STEM
Norman
Fortenberry NAE
Track
Learning Sciences
Possible
co-sponosrs: Physics, Chemistry,
Education, Psychology
Technological Citizenship and Public Engagement
Taft Broome
Possible co-sponsors: General Interest in S&E, History and Philosophy of Science, Societal Impacts of S&E
Possible Speakers: Bill Wulf (NAE), an editor from Science, Rick Reis (Stanford)
Examination of the Physical Environment for Learning
David Lubman Acoustical
Society of
Possible co-sponsors: Linguistics, Physics, Chemistry, Education
Possible Speakers: Karan Watson (
Symbiotic Partnerships of Biologists and Engineers
Denice Denton
Possible co-sponsors: Biological Sciences, Medical Sciences, Neuroscience, Pharmaceutical Sciences
Possible Speakers: Tom Daniel (
Once the symposia are chosen, send tailored messages to the affiliated societies that they can send on to all of their members. This must be done in a timely fashion so that folks can make travel plans. This can also serve as a recruitment tool
Make engineering more prominent in the themes and symposia (see above).
Submitted
by:
Section
Secretary
February
18, 2003