2011 AAAS Engineering Section Meeting

 

Friday February 18, 2011

 

Renaissance Downtown Hotel, Washington, DC

 

Rooms 12 & 13

 

MINUTES

 

1.   Introductions: Duncan Moore, Section Chair, called the meeting to order at 9:15 AM.  He asked those present to introduce themselves. The attendance list is included in Appendix A.

 

2.      Before getting into the agenda items, Ian King (AAAS Director of Marketing) joined our meeting to talk about the AAAS MemberCentral new website and Nina Fedoroff (AAAS President-Elect) to talk about the theme of the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting.

 

2.1. AAAS Member Central:  Ian King, AAAS Director of Marketing, discussed a new website that has been launched by AAAS called MemberCentral. There is a link to this website on the main AAAS website and is password protected.   Ian explained that this website will include webinars, blogs, and career issues tailored to members of AAAS.  He mentioned that AAAS wants to work with the sections to include issues of specific interest to them such as a speaker series similar to TED talks, online Q&A sessions, and ways to connect the members of the section to the section officers.  He encouraged everyone to contact him at iking@aaas.org with ideas and suggestions.

 

2.2. 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting:  Dr. Nina Fedoroff, AAAS President-Elect and Chair of the 2012 Program Committee joined our business meeting for a brief period of time and gave an introduction to the theme for the 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting to be held in Vancouver, Canada, February 16-20, 2012. The theme is “Flattening the World: Building the 21st Century Global Knowledge Society”.  Dr. Fedoroff noted that the theme considers many of the issues that face our global society: climate change, energy, agriculture, health, water, biodiversity and ecosystems, population growth and economic development.  She emphasized that these issues are global in scope and profoundly interconnected.  She added that the engineering section is central to the 2012 theme and encouraged our section to submit proposals that relate to the theme of the meeting. The deadline for submission is Tuesday April 26, 2011, 11:59pm, PT.  The submission website is www.aaas.org/meetings. Decisions will be announced in late June.

 

2.      Approval of Minutes: Dr. Moore asked for comments and possible changes to the draft minutes of the Section Business Meeting held on February 19, 2010 at the San Diego Meeting. The draft minutes were posted on the Section website http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/aaas-m shortly after the 2010 San Diego 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.      Announcements:  Dr. Moore announced that John L. Anderson (Illinois Institute of Technology) has been elected Chair-Elect and J. Gary Eden (University of Illinois @ Urbana Champaign) has been elected Member-at-Large of the Engineering Section’s Steering Group both effective February 22, 2011.  He also announced that Sarah A. Rajala (Mississippi State University) and Margaret Murnane (University of Colorado, Boulder) have been elected to the Engineering Section Electorate Nominating Committee.  Dr. Moore thanked all the officers whose terms ended after this Annual Meeting: Robert Nerem as retiring Chair, Deborah Neimeier as Member-at-Large, and Kristi S. Anseth and Cindy Atman as members of the Electorate Nominating Committee. On February 22, 2011 Dr. Moore will become the retiring Chair and in that capacity he will serve on the AAAS Council also he will Chair the Electorate Nominating Committee.  The 2011-12 Steering Group for our section is shown in Appendix B.

 

Dr. Moore also announced that our section currently has 3415 primary members and that in December 2010 we have elected 51 members of our section as Fellows of AAAS out of a total of 503 newly elected Fellows for the entire AAAS.  A list of the names of the new Engineering Section Fellows was distributed at the meeting and is attached as Appendix C.  The Newly elected Fellows were invited to attend our business meeting and 13 of the 51were able to attend. Dr. Moore welcomed them, and thanked them for attending the meeting.  He also encouraged the new Fellows to be active in the section.  

 

4.      Fellow Nomination Process: Dr. Moore asked Marwan Simaan, the section secretary to review 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).

 

For Fellow nominations by members of the Steering Group (method 1), he mentioned that each nomination must include a completed 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 him so that he receives it no later than March 18, 2011.  Marwan will then forward the materials for all nominees to the AAAS Executive Office, on April 1, 2011.  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 20, 2011.  By May 18, 2011 all members of the Steering Group will receive from Kelly O’Brien at the AAAS Executive Office 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 that they will need to fill and return to him by June 29, 2011.  Marwan will then forward all votes to the Executive Office.   By August 31, 2011 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 (0.4% of the section membership) which equals 14 for this year (there is no quota for those elected through nominations by three Fellows or by the Chief Executive Officer).  He also mentioned that in all three methods, a successful candidate must receive no less than five yes votes and no more than two no votes.

 

Our representatives on AAAS Council, Gail Marcus and James Merz, mentioned that council is currently examining the Fellow election process and asked for any ideas or concerns that the attendees might have so that they can bring them up at the Sunday morning Council meeting.

 

  1. Planning for the 2012 Annual Meeting:  The 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting will be held in Vancouver, Canada, February 16-20, 2012.  The theme of the meeting is “Flattening the World: Building the 21st Century Global Knowledge Society”.  AAAS asked our section to brainstorm at our business meeting and arrive at three or more hot topics to be discussed at the 2012 Annual Meeting planning meeting, which will be held on Sunday Feb 20.  These hot topics will form the basis for possible collaborative symposia sponsored by our section or co-sponsored with other section at the 2012 Annual meeting.   Dr. Moore asked for ideas and suggestions.  A discussion followed with everyone present contributing ideas.

 

At the end, the ideas were grouped into seven important topics that would encompass many symposia that could be planned and sponsored by our section.  A summary of these topics is given below.

 

 

5.1 Proposed Title: Global Earth Observations-Society Benefits

Proposed by: Russell Lefevre (r.lefevre@ieee.org) University of North Dakota

Description: The Group on Earth Observations (GEO) is coordinating efforts to build a Global Earth Observation System of Systems, or GEOSS to collect all earth observation data in a common data base.

 

GEO is a voluntary partnership of governments and international organizations. It provides a framework within which these partners can develop new projects and coordinate their strategies and investments. As of October 2010, GEO’s Members include 85 Governments and the European Commission. In addition, 61 intergovernmental, international, and regional organizations with a mandate in Earth observation or related issues have been recognized as Participating Organizations.

 

GEO is constructing GEOSS on the basis of a 10-Year Implementation Plan for the period 2005 to 2015. The Plan defines a vision statement for GEOSS, its purpose and scope, expected benefits, and the nine “Societal Benefit Areas” of disasters, health, energy, climate, water, weather, ecosystems, agriculture and biodiversity.

 

GEOSS will yield a broad range of societal benefits, notably:

 

• Reducing loss of life and property from natural and human-induced disasters;

• Understanding environmental factors affecting human health and well-being,

• Improving the management of energy resources,

• Understanding, assessing, predicting, mitigating, and adapting to climate variability and change,

• Improving water resource management through better understanding of the water cycle,

• Improving weather information, forecasting and warning,

• Improving the management and protection of terrestrial, coastal and marine ecosystems,

• Supporting sustainable agriculture and combating desertification, and

• Understanding, monitoring and conserving biodiversity.

 

GEOSS, Jay Pearlman-Past Chair, IEEE Committee on Earth Observation,

Chair GEO Architecture and Data Committee

 

Draught, Forestry and Biodiversity, Max Craglia, Technical Coordinator of EC program EuroGEOSS addressing the three Society Benefit Areas. Senior researcher at JRC. Founding Member Vespucci Initiative for the Advancement of Geographic Information Science.

Health, Pai-Yei Whung, Chief Scientist, Office of the Science Advisor, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

 

Water, Dr Stuart Minchin: Research Program Leader, Environmental Observation and Landscape Science, CSIRO Australia.

 

Disaster, Hans-Peter Plag, Research Professor Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Chair Science and Technology Committee task Promoting the Benefits and Awareness of GEO

 

Earth Observing Satellite 1, Dan Mandl, NASA Official



5.2 Proposed Title: Is there Life Beyond Moore’s Law?

 
Proposed by Sankar Basu (sabasu@nsf.gov) and Robert Trew (rtrew@nsf.gov), National Science Foundation.


Description:  Digital electronics is a major driver of the modern economy, and have accounted for a large proportion of the productivity gains that have characterized the US and global economy since the mid-1990s. Recent advances in this area have been fueled by what is colloquially known as Moore’s Law scaling that has successfully predicted the exponential increase in the performance of computing machines for the last 40 years. This gain has been achieved due to increasing miniaturization (“smaller and faster”) of tiny switches (“transistors”), literally billions of which make up the guts of today’s computing machine. However, since due to rapid miniaturization, the physical size of these devices are now reaching atomic dimensions, it is widely believed that further progress will be stalled by limits imposed by the fundamental physics [ITRS Roadmap, 2009]. One of the many impediments to progress in this area has been that nano-scale switching devices cannot be systematically arranged, organized, and interconnected by conventional technological means to orchestrate a useful computational architecture. To take computing power and communications beyond Moore’s Law would require entirely new scientific, engineering, and conceptual frameworks.

 

Fundamental research across disciplines involving electrical engineers, computer scientists, chemists, physicists, material scientists, and biologists would be needed during the coming decades to combat this technological bottleneck and economic slowdown resulting from it. The problem is further compounded by the fact that recent data reveals [1] that the US seems to be rapidly losing ground in international competition in this area. The symposium will attempt to focus on the multidisciplinary nature of the scientific problem in the context of global economy. There has been considerable discussion of these issues in various technical forums (see e.g., [1], [2] below) that will be sources of the material and the speakers for the proposed symposium.

 

[1] “The Future of Computing Performance: Game Over or Next Level?” National Academies Press, to appear in March 2011. Also http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12980

 

[2] “Interdisciplinary Challenges beyond the Scaling Limits of Moore's Law”, National Science Foundation Workshop, August 2010. Also http://www.nnin.org/nnin_nsf_workshop_2010.html



5.3 Proposed Title: Energy: resources, climate change and economics


Proposed by Leonard J. Bond (leonard.bond@pnl.gov), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory


Description: There is a complex set of competing demands when energy, water, food and mineral resources intersect. The growing population of the planet is increasing demands for all resources needed to meet even the most basic levels of sustainable human life. With many in developing countries seeing a more equal share of global resources business as usual will simply not meet the demands of exploding numbers of people in developing countries. The USA currently uses 25% of global resources to meet the needs of just 5% of global population – given that much of the resources come from outside the USA as others seek more the USA can expect to maintain energy and resource security. Domestic sources must become the norm and innovation will be needed. Business as usual will not meet the aspirations of the global population – including people who reside in North America.

 

The symposium would seek look at options and opportunities for scientific and engineering activities to bring the energy, and related water and resource systems into a sustainable system, while at the same time understand the impacts on climate change and food supply. Speakers would be asked to look at the next 10, 25 and 50 years.

 

Energy – a limited resource: A speaker (potentially Dr Anthony Janetos) – Joint Global Change Research Institute, University of Maryland – will present various energy – resource scenarios.  The Center at UM is partially sponsored by PNNL – he is also a PNNL Laboratory Fellow.

 

Energy options and impacts: The USA lacks an Energy Policy. Speakers to inform the discussion. The USA energy scene is REACTIVE (it let industry meet the demand) – but without an energy policy there is a real risk of supply failures. Investments are needed in generation and the US distribution grid: Several speakers looking at the complex relationships between wand, solar, natural gas, coal, hydro and nuclear. How are base-load energy demands met? What are the implications of electric transportation? [I am told if all US transportation were electric it needs 200 GW to provide the power]. Need to look at the REAL cost of generation – eg a wind farm with 30% capacity factor combined with a natural gas generation facility to cover remaining 70% of demand etc. Need to also look at energy storage implications (eg pumped water storage)….. and then you throw into the mix constraints relating to limiting carbon emissions AND energy implications of increasingly severe and extreme weather as the climate changes. Finally – there are the potential implications of smart grid and conservation. Throw this into the mix: how much domestically resourced energy does the USA need? How can that need be met in a way that is sustainable and faces the fact that there are climate changes occurring? Long list of potential speakers from academic centers as well as industry and national labs --- don’t have names but could get some.

 

Energy water nexus --- 80% of the cost of water in the USA is the cost of the energy to process and distribute it. Also almost equal amounts of water are used for cooling electric generation as are used for irrigation. Clean water is going to become an increasingly limited resource. Speaker TBD (possibly someone at the INL – but several out there – again don’t have a name)

 

Energy food nexus: 25% of US corn now going to produce ethanol. With global crop failures in 2010 (China, Russia and Australia) what are the options for fuel (ethanol) vs food? How can fuel needs be met and the planets people fed? [Several potential organizations --- don’t have a name but could get one]

 

A good symposium would include speakers from industry – (i) EPRI or a major utility, (ii) policy-think-tank and (iii) some researchers able to provide the big picture of the energy scene.

 

 

5.4 Proposed Title: Technological Innovations for Global Health Care

Proposed by: Don Giddens (don.giddens@coe.gatech.edu), Georgia Institute of Technology Ram D. Sriram (ramdsriram@gmail.com), National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Description: Globally we are witnessing a steady increase in the cost of health care. This increase has a considerable adverse effect on the economies of both developed and developing nations. Although developed nations have been the beneficiary of advanced technologies in health care – albeit at a cost – there is a considerable concern on the rising costs of the health care enterprise. Additionally, lack of adequate information transfer is costing billions in lost revenue. Technological innovations can reduce disparities in health care across the globe (flatten the quality of health care). This session will present case studies of various innovations that engineers have made to make health care more affordable in both developing and developed nations. Sample topics would include:

 

1. How developing nations are using advanced information technologies to deliver affordable health care to remote villages

2. How supply chain technology can aid in ensuring medical supplies are properly dispersed during epidemics in third world countries.

3. How technology is used to develop inexpensive solutions for safe drinking water, inexpensive medical devices and sensors

4. How the United States is using health information technology to ensure patient safety and cost reductions in health care delivery

5. How technology will make genomics affordable for the masses.



5.5  Proposed Title: Toward Global Energy Efficient Sustainable Manufacturing 

Proposed by: Ram Sriram (ramdsriram@gmai.com), Vijay Srinivasan (vijay.srinivasan@nist.gov) and Sudarsan Rachuri (sudarsan@nist.gov).

Description:   Sustainability is a holistic systems approach for the production and consumption of goods and services that minimizes resource depletion while maximizing value to the producer, consumer, and society at large. Sustainability has become imperative to product manufacturing and is gaining momentum every day, with the constant influx of new players and new initiatives. There are many forces behind the present sustainability movement, including climate change, energy and resource depletion, market and consumer demand, branding and innovation, corporate social responsibility, and regulation. Sustainable manufacturing is taking root in industry, with many countries defining notions of extended producer responsibility, product category rules, environmental product declaration, eco-labeling and related standards and regulations.

 

The manufacturing industry -- which is vital to all economies -- in the US, EU and emerging economies like China, India, and Brazil is being challenged to improve its energy efficiency and reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by transforming its production processes and technologies. These challenges organically create great opportunities for new business fields related to the demand for carbon neutral and energy efficient products and processes. The challenge of moving towards a carbon neutral economy requires us to develop a range of low carbon energy technologies for the electricity, heat and transportation markets.

 

As far as reducing energy consumption in the manufacturing sector, we need to have a portfolio approach such as 1) energy conservation and waste reduction, 2) new manufacturing processes for energy efficiency including the supply chain, and 3) use renewable and clean energy technologies. The following topics will be presented to address the above topics:

1) Case studies for energy harvesting in manufacturing processes, combined heat and power (CHP), energy conservation and waste reduction (industrial buildings – HVAC and lighting, compressed air, motors and drives, packaging)

2) Technological innovations in energy efficient engineering

3) Renewable and clean energy technologies (including energy storage)

4) Future intelligent power grids such as smart grid technologies (GridWise-US, SmartGrid-EU) for manufacturing applications.

 

This session will also draw attention to the importance of policies (EU Strategic Energy Technology Plan-SET-Plan, Japan New National Energy Strategy, US DOE/EPA National Action Plan for Energy Efficiency-Vision 2020, standards and regulations in the area of energy management (ISO 50001) and ISO 9001 (quality management) and ISO 14001 (environmental management). 

 

5.6  Proposed Title: Predictive Health 

Proposed by:  Richard Willson (willson@uh.edu)

Description:   The long history of medicine has largely been one of reaction after the emergence of problems. We are entering an era of predictive health, in which advanced diagnostic, monitoring and informatics tools allow measures to be taken in advance of the actual occurrence of disease. Examples range from clinical diagnostics such as high-sensitivity troponin measurements, which detect very low levels of cardiac cell death and may predict the occurrence of heart disease well before symptoms emerge, to the Google Flu Tracker, which analyzes disease-related queries from a given geographical area to detect the arrival of seasonal flu in that area, to the prediction of outbreaks of meningitis based upon satellite observations of environmental conditions.

 

I work in diagnostics, and would be interested in organizing this session.  The following persons have also expressed interest in this session:

a. Tamara Lewis-Johnson, US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, (lewisjohnsont@niaid.nih.gov)

b. Russell Lefevre, (r.lefevre@ieee.org)

c. Yu-Ling Chon, Director of the Center for Global Engineering at the University of Toronto, might also be interested in this topic. 



 5.7  Proposed Title: The natural gas revolution 


Contact Person: Richard Willson (willson@uh.edu).

 
Description:  The extraordinary increase in North American (and probably soon global) supplies of natural gas created by advanced drilling and production technologies will greatly change the assumptions upon which energy and environmental decisions are based. For example, natural gas is greener than coal, but less green than wind, the development of which it may delay; what does that mean for CO2 and other emissions? Should societies develop infrastructure for cars running on electricity, or compressed natural gas? Does temporarily-abundant gas mean we should take more time for further improvement of renewable energy technologies before investing heavily in their large-scale deployment? 

 

 

Dr. Moore 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 26, 2011.

                                                                                                                                                                              

Finally, Dr. Moore asked for suggestions for Plenary and Topical lectures speakers.  Below are some of the names that were suggested.

 

For plenary lectures the following names were suggested:

a) Steven Chu (DOE)

b) Steve Jobs (CEO, Apple)

c) Yu-Ling Chen (Director of Center of Global Engineering- Univ. of Toronto)

d) Bill Gates (Microsoft)

e) Alan Mullaly (CEO, Ford)

f) Brian MacCraith (President, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland)

 

For Topical lectures the following names were suggested:

a)      Nam Suh (KAIST)

b)      Dennis Assanis (University of Michigan)

c)      Robert Langer (MIT)

d)      Raj Reddy (CMU)

e)      Vinod Khosla (Khosla Ventures)

f)       V. S. Arunachalam (cstep.in)

g)      William Brinkman (Director of Office of Science at DOE)

h)      Sebastian Thrum (Stanford University)

 

      6.   Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 11:45 AM.  Lunch was served.

 

 

Submitted by:

Marwan A. Simaan

Section Secretary

February 24, 2011

 

 

Appendix A

Attendance List

 

1.                  Duncan Moore, Chair

2.                  H. Vincent Poor, Chair-Elect

3.                  Robert Nerem, Retiring Chair

4.                  Marwan Simaan, Secretary

5.                  Cristina Amon, Member at Large

6.                  Cindy Bruckner-Lea, Member Electorate Nominating Committee

7.                  Gail Marcus, Council

8.                  James Merz, Council

9.                  Peter Bainum, Representative, American Astronautical Society

10.              David Lubman, Representative, Acoustical Society of America

11.              Jessica Hunter, AAAS Executive office

12.              Gilda Barabino, Newly Elected Fellow

13.              Leonard Bond, Newly Elected Fellow

14.              Don Giddens, Newly Elected Fellow

15.              Arthur Heuer, Newly Elected Fellow

16.              Russ LeFevre, Newly Elected Fellow

17.              Ramana Pidaparti, Newly Elected Fellow

18.              Michael Plesniak, Newly Elected Fellow

19.              Chuck Reilly, Newly Elected Fellow

20.              Alok Sinha, Newly Elected Fellow

21.              Andrew Steckl, Newly Elected Fellow

22.              Robert Trew, Newly Elected Fellow

23.              Kon-Well Wang, Newly Elected Fellow

24.              Richard Willson, Newly Elected Fellow

25.              Kishan Baheti

26.              Sankar Basu

27.              John Herp

28.              Tamara Lewis Johnson

29.              Raphael Lee

30.              Shobhaa Ravi

31.              Lakshmi Reddi

32.              Ned Santhoff

33.              Sudipta Seal

34.              Ram Sriram

35.              Vijay Srinavasan

36.              Kirankumar Topodurti

37.              Usha Varshney,

38.              Annica Wayman

39.              Hae-Bum Yun

 

 

Appendix B

 

2011-12 AAAS Section on Engineering Steering Group

 

(Officers and Members-at-Large, effective February 22, 2011)

 

Officers

Members-at-Large  

H. Vincent Poor, Chair (2012)

School of Engineering and Applied Science

C305 Engineering Quadrangle

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ 08544

Tel: (609) 258-3500

Fax: (609) 258-3745

E-mail: poor@princeton.edu

 

Cristina H. Amon (2012)

Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering

University of Toronto

35 St. George Street, Room 170

Toronto, ON M5S 1A4  CANADA

Tel: (416) 978-3131

Fax: (416) 978-4859

dean@ecf.utoronto.ca

Duncan T. Moore, Retiring Chair (2012)

The Institute of Optics

University of Rochester

409 Georgen Hall

Box 270186

Rochester, NY 14627-0186

Tel: (585) 275-5248

Fax: (585) 473-6745

Email: moore@optics.rochester.edu

 

Christine M. Maziar (2013)

University of Notre Dame

300 Main Building

Office of the Provost

Notre Dame, IN 46556-5602

Tel: (574) 631-2749

Fax: (574) 631-4782

Email: cmaziar@nd.edu

 

John L. Anderson, Chair-Elect, (2012)

Illinois Institute of Technology

Office of the President

10West 33rd Street

Chicago, IL 60616

Tel: (312) 567-5198

Fax: (312) 567-3004

Email: johna@iit.edu

 

Gary S. May (2014)

School of Electrical and Computer Eng’g

Georgia Institute of Technology

777 AtlanticDrive

Atlanta, GA 30332

Tel: (404) 894-2902

Fax: (404) 894-4641

E-mail: gary.may@ece.gatech.edu

 

Marwan A. Simaan, Secretary (2014)

College of Engineering and Computer Science

410 Harris Engineering Center

University of Central Florida

Orlando, FL 32816

Tel: (407) 882-2220

Fax: (407) 823-5825

Email: simaan@mail.ucf.edu

 

J. Gary Eden (2015)

University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign

Dept. of Electrical and Computer Eng’g

1406 West Green Street

Urbana, IL 61801

Tel: (217) 333-4157

Fax: (217) 244-7097

Email: jgeden@illinois.edu

Note: Terms end on the last day of the Annual Meeting held in the years given in parentheses

 

Appendix C

 

New AAAS Fellows elected in December 2010

 

Newly elected Fellows affiliated with section M (Engineering) are:

 

·         Sos Agaian, University of Texas at San Antonio

·         J. Stewart Aitchison, University of Toronto

·         James M. Anderson, Case Western Reserve University

·         Bahman Anvari, University of California, Riverside

·         Nasser Ashgriz, University of Toronto

·         Gilda A. Barabino, Georgia Institute of Technology

·         Rena Bizios, University of Texas at San Antonio

·         Leonard J. Bond, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

·         Joan F. Brennecke, University of Notre Dame

·         Shih-Fu Chang, Columbia University

·         Shaochen Chen, University of Texas at Austin

·         Robert L. Clark, Jr., University of Rochester

·         Michael W. Deem, Rice University

·         Stephen P. DeWeerth, Georgia Institute of Technology

·         Duane B. Dimos, Sandia National Laboratories

·         Francis J. Doyle III, University of California, Santa Barbara

·         Vinayak Dravid, Northwestern University

·         Elizabeth Edwards, University of Toronto

·         Jay A. Farrell, University of California, Riverside

·         W. Kent Fuchs, Cornell University

·         Don P. Giddens, Georgia Institute of Technology

·         Ahmed Hassanein, Purdue University

·         Arthur H. Heuer, Case Western Reserve University

·         Kristina M. Johnson, U.S. Department of Energy

·         Jimmy (Chih-Ming) Kao, National Sun-Yat-Sen University, Taiwan

·         Mostafa Kaveh, University of Minnesota

·         Ashok Kumar, University of South Florida

·         Kelvin H. Lee, Delaware Biotechnology Institute

·         Russell J. Lefevre, Private Consultant, Radar Systems

·         Edward J. Maginn, University of Notre Dame

·         Bhubaneswar Mishra, New York University

·         Salvatore D. Morgera, University of South Florida

·         Rajakkannu Mutharasan, Drexel University

·         Jun Nogami, University of Toronto

·         Ramana M. Pidaparti, Virginia Commonwealth University

·         Michael W. Plesniak, George Washington University

·         Charles H. Reilly, University of Central Florida

·         J. Paul Santerre, University of Toronto

·         Molly S. Shoichet, University of Toronto

·         Mrityunjay Singh, Ohio Aerospace Institute

·         Rajiv K. Singh, University of Florida

·         Alok Sinha, Pennsylvania State University

·         Andrew J. Steckl, University of Cincinnati

·         Kirankumar V. Topudurti, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

·         Robert J. Trew, North Carolina State University

·         Arvind Varma, Purdue University

·         Albert Z.H. Wang, University of California, Riverside

·         Kon-Well Wang, University of Michigan

·         Richard C. Willson, University of Houston

·         Eugene Wong, University of California, Berkeley

·         Zhuomin Zhang, Georgia Institute of Technology