2012 AAAS Engineering Section Meeting

Friday February 17, 2012

Pan Pacific Hotel, Oveanview Suite 2

MINUTES

1. Introductions: Vince Poor, 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.

Before getting into the agenda items, William Press, AAAS President-Elect and Chair of the Program Committee for the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting, which will be held in Boston, MA, February 14-18, 2013, joined our business meeting for a brief period. He described some new initiatives for reviewing symposia proposals; namely a new process by which the officers of each AAAS section will be asked to rank order all submitted proposals that have indicated a relation between the proposal topic and a specific AAAS section. He then described the theme of the 2013 Annual Meeting: The Beauty and Benefits of Science. He pointed out that this theme points to the unreasonable effectiveness of the scientific enterprise in creating economic growth, solving societal problems, and satisfying the essential human drive to understand the world in which we live. He encouraged our section to submit symposia proposals for the meeting. The deadline for submission is Thursday April 26, 2013, 11:59pm, PT. The submission website is www.aaas.org/meetings. Decisions will be announced in late June. Before leaving, Dr. Press answered several questions from the attendees largely focused on the efforts of AAAS in attracting young scientists and engineers in joining the association.

2. Approval of Minutes: Dr. Poor asked for comments and possible changes to the draft minutes of the Section Business Meeting held on February 18, 2011, at the Washington, DC meeting. The draft minutes were posted on the Section website http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/aaas-m shortly after the 2011 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. Announcements: Dr. Poor announced that Kristina M. Johnson (Enduring Energy, LLC) has been elected Chair-Elect and Alan Willner (University of Southern California) has been elected Member-at-Large of the Engineering Section’s Steering Group both effective February 21, 2012. He also announced that Linda P. B. Katehi (University of California, Davis) and Gregory Stephanopoulos (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have been elected to the Engineering Section Electorate Nominating Committee; and Stuart L. Cooper (Ohio State University) and Larry V. McIntire (Georgia Tech/Emory University) have been elected as Council Delegates representing our section on Council. Dr. Poor thanked all the officers whose terms ended after this Annual Meeting: Duncan T. Moore as Retiring Chair, Cristina Amon as Retiring Member-at-Large, Kristen Fichthorn and Pradeep K. Khosla as Retiring Members of the Electorate Nominating Committee; and Gail H. Marcus and James L. Merz as Retiring Council Delegates. On February 21, 2012 Dr. Poor 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.

A list of the names of the new Engineering Section Fellows was distributed at the meeting and is attached as Appendix B. The Newly elected Fellows were invited to attend our business meeting and 20 of the 53 were able to attend. Dr. Poor welcomed them, and thanked them for attending the meeting. He then asked each of them to briefly describe their affiliations and research interests.

4. Fellow Nomination Process: Dr. Poor 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 6,361 Members including 902 Fellows who are affiliated with our section, and of these 3,213 Members and 514 Fellows have chosen Engineering as their primary section. This year 53 members of our section were elected as Fellows of AAAS out of a total of 539 newly elected Fellows for the entire AAAS.

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 membership, which is equal to 13 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 11, 2012, and that there is no quota for those elected through nominations by the three Fellows method. By May 16, 2012, 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 15, 2012. 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.

5. Planning for the 2013 Annual Meeting: The 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting will be held in Boston, MA, February 14-18, 2013. The theme of the meeting is “The Beauty and Benefits of Science”. AAAS asked our section to brainstorm at our business meeting and arrive at three or more hot topics to be discussed at the 2013 Annual Meeting planning meeting, which will be held on Sunday February 19. These hot topics will form the basis for possible collaborative symposia sponsored by our section or co-sponsored with other section at the 2013 Annual meeting. Dr. Poor asked for ideas and suggestions. A discussion followed with everyone present contributing ideas.

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

1. Proposed Title: Worldwide Progress toward Fusion Energy

Organizers: John Lindl (LLNL) lindl1@llnl.gov (925) 422-5430; Miklos Porkolab (MIT) porkolab@psfc.mit.edu (617) 253-8448; Ned Sauthoff (ORNL) sauthoffnr@ornl.gov (865) 574-5955

Proposed Length: 180 minutes

Description: We are headed for a turning point in the path to fusion energy.  In the two complementary approaches to fusion - magnetic fusion energy and inertial fusion energy - we are entering new experimental regimes.  Construction has begun on ITER, the international magnetic fusion experiment in France that is projected to generate 500 million watts of fusion power, using 50MW external heating power in a nearly self-sustaining plasma.  The National Ignition Facility (NIF), the inertial confinement fusion experiment at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is approaching ignition, the condition in which a self-sustaining fusion burn wave propagates in the laser-imploded pellet, generating more fusion energy than laser energy used to drive the implosion.  Both of these upcoming milestones build upon huge advances over the past decade in the physics and engineering of fusion systems.  Actions in addition to ITER and NIF that are necessary to resolve the remaining challenges have been identified and integrated into roadmaps to deliver commercial fusion energy.

Proposed Speakers:

1. ITER: A Magnetically-Confined Burning Plasma;

Richard Hawryluk (Deputy Director General of ITER)

2. NIF Program and Ignition Campaign

Dr. John Lindl (Chief Scientist for NIF & Photon Science Directorate, LLNL)

3. Physics and Technology Accomplishments In Magnetic-Confinement Fusion

Professor Steve Cowley (CEO, UKAEA/Culham, Head of EURATOM/CCFE Fusion Association) or Dr. Martin Greenwald (Associate Director, Plasma Science & Fusion Center, MIT)

4. Alternate Approaches/Direct Drive in Inertial-Confinement Fusion

Dr. Robert McCrory (Director, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, Vice Provost, CEO, and Sr. Scientist, U Rochester Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

5. Issues and Paths to Magnetic-Confinement Fusion Energy

Dr. G. H. Neilson (Deputy Dept. Head, ITER & Tokamaks, Princeton Plasma Physics Lab)

6. Issues and Paths to Inertial-Confinement Fusion Energy

Professor Michael Dunne (Director for Laser Fusion Energy, LLNL)

2. Proposed Title: Cyber-physical Social Systems: Towards Smart Health Care

Organizers: Organizers: Ram Sriram, NIST, ram.sriram@nist.gov and Vint Cerf, Google, vint@google.com

Proposed Length: 180 minutes

Description: We are witnessing a new revolution in computing and communication. The Internet, which has spanned several networks in a wide variety of domains, is having a significant impact on every aspect of our lives. The next generation of networks will utilize a wide variety of resources with significant sensing capabilities. Such networks will extend beyond physically linked computers to include multimodal information from biological, cognitive, semantic, and social networks. This paradigm shift will involve symbiotic networks of people (social networks), intelligent devices, and mobile personal computing and communication devices (mPCDs), that will form net-centric societies or cyber-physical social systems. mPCDs are already equipped with myriad sensors, with regular updates of additional sensing capabilities. Additionally, we are witnessing the emergence of “intelligent devices,” such as smart meters, smart cars, etc., with considerable sensing and networking capabilities. Hence, these devices – and the network -- will be constantly sensing, monitoring, and interpreting the environment; this is sometimes referred to as the Internet of Things (IOT). The symbiosis of IOT and social networks will have significant implications for both the market for advanced computing and communication infrastructure and the future markets – for nearly 4.5 billion people -- that net-centric societies will create.

Well-designed and constructed net-centric societies will result in better quality of life, reduced threat from external sources, and improved commerce. For example, assume a scenario where people at various locations suffer from flu-like symptoms. In a net-centric society, mPCDs will send vital signs and other associated information to appropriate laboratories and medical centers. These centers will analyze the information, including searching the Internet for potential solutions, and will aid in determining possible causes for this phenomenon. Based on the diagnosis, people will be directed to the nearest clinic for treatment. Here we have several types of information flowing through the net: data from mPCDs; location information; images; video; audio; etc.

This joint symposium between Sections M (Engineering) and T (Information, Computing and Communication) will discuss examples of cyber-physical societies in the health care domain.

Potential speakers will include:

Prof. Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine

Dr. Koji Zettsu/Kyoung-sook Kim, MICT, Japan

Fred Hosea, Kaiser Permanente

Speaker 4, MIT Media Lab

Speaker 5, TBA

Speaker 6, TBA

3. Proposed Title: Water monitoring and purification under minimal resource setting

Organizers: Sushanta Mitra and Thomas Thundat, Univ of Alberta, sushanta.mitra@ualberta.ca

Proposed Length: 90 minutes

Description: The symposium will focus on low-cost engineering solutions for water cleaning and monitoring challenges, particularly relevant to developing world and Northern communities in Canada. The proposed symposium will bring together leading scientist and technologists in water management, end users like government bodies and municipalities and also social scientists who will look at the implications of deployment of water monitoring technologies in the community level.

4. Proposed Title: Flatland Revisited – The Beauty of Edwin Abbott’s “Romance”

Organizer: James Merz, University of Notre Dame

Proposed Length: 180 Minutes

Description: In 1884 Edwin A. Abbott, a theologian with mathematical propensity, published the novella “Flatland – A Romance of Many Dimensions, with Illustrations by the Author,

A SQUARE.” In this charming tale the hero, a perfect square living in a two-dimensional world, stumbles across worlds of even lower dimension: Lineland and Dotland, and eventually the most incomprehensible of all, the three-dimensional world of Spaceland.

In recent decades, Abbott’s romance has been realized by physicists, chemists, materials scientists, and microscopy engineers, who have succeeded in fabricating and investigating the extraordinary properties of low-dimensional structures at the nanoscale. At a time when the integrated circuit industry is struggling to shrink circuits to nanometer size and introduce new paradigms of computing in order to continue the extrapolation of circuit complexity and computing power predicted by Gordon Moore, many scientists and engineers are considering Richard Feynman’s observation that “There is room at the bottom.” Researchers are attempting to make structures from the bottom up, by assembling devices and circuits atom by atom, rather than carving them into ever smaller structures. Many interesting results have already been realized, but this symposium focuses instead on the inherent beauty of the unexpected physical properties of the structures that are being pursued. Quantum wells, wires, and dots are being fabricated by a variety of techniques, and their often-unexpected properties disclosed. Leaders in this field will describe the richness of the results that have been realized.

Possible speakers and my attempt at providing them with titles (none of these people have been contacted as yet):

1. Herbert Kroemer, Nobel Laureate 2000: “Heterostructures for Everything, Engineered for Novel Physical Properties.”

2. Hiroyuki Sakaki, NEC Computer and Communications Foundation Prize, 2010: “Quantum Wire Transistors and Quantum Dot Lasers.”

3. Horst Stormer, Nobel Laureate 1998: “Fractional Quantum Hall Effect for Dummies.”

4. George Whitesides, National Medal of Science 1998, Kyoto Prize 2003: “Diagnostics for All – the One-Cent Solution.”

5. Pierre Petroff, ISCS Quantum Devices Award 2005: “From Atoms into Self-Organized Dots.”

6. Alexander Mintairov, Research Professor, University of Notre Dame and former Research Member, Ioffe Institute St. Petersburg: “The Curious Behavior of Wigner Molecules.”

5. Proposed Title: Science on the Hollywood Screen

Organizers: Dr. Donna Nelson, University of Oklahoma, djnelson@ou.edu, and Dr. Bruce Lewenstein, Cornell

Proposed Length: 90 minutes

Description: Contributions from advisers to and writers of and about TV shows and movies with science content. Speakers will be experts with connections to “moving media” (television and movies) and most would have experience as producers, writers, and science advisers. Each will present his/her work which makes science appealing to the general public. Particular emphasis will be on chemistry.

6. Proposed Title: Convergence of Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Life Science: Transforming the Next Innovation

Proposed Length: 180 minutes

Organizer: Larry Nagahara (National Cancer Institute/National Institutes of Health; larry.nagahara@nih.gov)

Description: Investment in both basic and applied research has transformed many of innovations in the 20^th century. For instance, the semiconductor and telecommunication revolution has roots in basic discovery (beauty), which transformed the way we ‘process’ our daily lives and drove a remarkable economic growth worldwide (benefit). These breakthroughs grew out of the convergence between discoveries in the physical sciences and engineering. New (perhaps grander) opportunities are emerging at the convergence of the physical sciences and engineering with the life sciences. This convergence has been reported in various National Academies reports, including A New Biology for the 21st Century and Research at the Intersection of the Physical and Life Sciences, noted editorials, “The Next Innovation Revolution” [Science 323, 1147 (2009)], and national funded programs such as the National Cancer Institute’s (NCI’s) Physical Sciences-Oncology Centers program. The convergence of these fields can spawn new discoveries and applications in areas well beyond biomedicine. However in order to successfully nurture and accelerate these next innovations, incorporating multiple perspective, innovative approaches in the education of students and young investigators, as well as changing evaluation and funding opportunities in interdisciplinary team science will be needed. This symposium will highlight some of the emerging opportunities to address major questions and barriers in biomedical research and challenges facing the convergence of these fields.

Proposed Speakers:

1) Phillip Sharp (MIT – Nobel Prize 1993)

2) Tyler Jacks (MIT – Director, The Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research)

3) Roger Tsien (UCSD – Nobel Prize 2009)

4) Alexander van Oudenaarden (MIT)

5) Franziska Michor (Dana Farber)

6) Chad Mirkin (Northwestern University)

7) Jim Heath (Cal Tech)

8) Peter Kuhn (Scripps Institute)

7. Proposed Title: Engineering Solutions for Future Diagnostics and Therapeutics

Organizers: Ali Adibi, Georgia Institute of Technology; adibi@ece.gatech.edu, and Richard C. Willson, University of Houston, willson@uh.edu

Proposed Length: 180 minutes

Description: This symposium will focus on novel engineering solutions to enable new dimensions in diagnostics and therapeutics. By employing nano science and engineering, efficient detection of multiple biomarkers in a very short time with low cost is becoming a reality. The availability of such information over a long period of time will be an asset for monitoring the health condition of healthy people, predicting potential problems before they occur (i.e., predictive medicine), detecting serious health problems (e.g., cancer) at early stages, and monitoring the dynamics of recovery and the effectiveness of therapy. In addition, the possibility of low-cost monitoring of multiple blood biomarkers over a long period of time will enable new research in medicine for studying the role of these biomarkers and their relative concentrations in different health issues. Future extension of such capabilities to in vivo monitoring of blood biomarkers and the study of their role in different health conditions will change the path of medical care towards "personalized medicine". In addition to the advanced detection technologies for health monitoring and diagnostics, new advances in drug development and in vivo drug delivery have created breakthroughs in therapeutics. The use of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for such applications has emerged in the last decade. The use of these novel engineering approaches for addressing the needs of diagnostics and therapeutics in the foreseen future will be discussed in this symposium. This 180-minute symposium will include 6-7 talks with different lengths Between 15 and 25 minutes each. The speakers will be selected from 4 different subgroups of academic engineers (who will talk about the new solutions), clinicians (who will talk about the futures needs from the medical prospective), top healthcare industries, and policy makers/funding agencies (e.g., DARPA and NIH). The talk shall take a total of 120 minutes followed by a 60 minute panel discussion.

Selected Potential Speakers (each of whom we have a reasonable prospect of landing through prior contacts):

1. George Whitesides, Harvard. World respected chemist, increasingly involved in diagnostics through Diagnostics For All.

2. David Walt, Tufts. Founder of Illumina and Quanterix.

3. Anthony J. Sinskey, MIT. Director, MIT Center for Biomedical Innovation

4. K. Dane Wittrup, MIT. Leading developer of therapeutic antibodies, and founder of Adimab

5. Robert Langer, MIT. The most-cited engineer in Earth, prolific developer of biomedical technologies and translational companies.

8. Proposed Title: Control Engineering of Brain in Health and Disease

Organizers: Alok Sinha, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, PSU (AAAS, Engineering); Steven J. Schiff, Professor of Neurosurgery, PSU, (AAAS, Medical Sciences); Mauricio Terrones, Professor of Physics, PSU (AAAS, Physics)

Proposed Length: 180 Minutes

Description: Brain is a highly complex dynamical system. Can we utilize control system theory to observe and understand the brain’s activity? Can we control the brain’s dynamics, in particular, to treat neural diseases such as Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy and migraines? There are currently many activities towards these lofty goals. In complex networks, we are now gaining an understanding of the controllability that is possible. Optimal and robust strategies emerge in our decision making. Our ability to control smart prosthetics and robotics from brain signals is making rapid progress. There are mathematical models for Parkinson’s disease, which have given us new insight into the mechanism of this debilitating condition, as well as guiding us to more optimal methods of electrically controlling the symptoms of the disease. The emerging advances from the transdisciplinary intersection of control engineering, dynamical physics,, and medicine, is one of broad impact.

Potential speakers are

Eric Shea-Brown , Vision, (Math, Decision Making), University of Washington

Jonathan Rubin, (Math, Parkinson’s Disease), University of Pittsburgh

Jeff Ojemann, (Engineering and Medical Sciences, Brain Machine Interfaces), University of Washington

Laslo Barabasi, (Network Physics), Northeastern University

S.J.Schiff (Engineering, Physics and Medical Sciences), Penn. State University

9. Proposed Title: Engineering Behind the Beauty of a Flower: Clues for Energy-Efficient Human-Built Environment

Organizer: Lakshmi Reddi, Florida International University, lreddi@fiu.edu

Proposed Length: 90 minutes

Description: This symposium will address the scientific and engineering processes manifested in a flower, particularly of the hydrodynamic nature, and examines the thermoregulatory processes that could be mimicked in human-built environment.

At the scale of an individual plant system, plant physiologists have excelled in understanding the ‘engineering’ behind the processes of water transport through plants. About 99% of water absorbed through plant roots is transpired through an intricate network of pores in plant leaves and flowers allowing these leaves and flowers to thermoregulate themselves. The engineering mechanisms operating through opening and closing of the stomata (minute pores in the epidermis of the leaf or the stem of the plant) to cool the leaf systems, are well understood.  The environmental cues affecting stomata opening and closing, viz., light, water, temperature, and CO2, contribute to the auto-thermoregulatory nature of plant leaves.  The intricate mechanisms involved in the flow of water through xylem (vascular tissue in plants conducting water upward from the roots), in response to demand from leaf transpiration, in spite of the presence of possible air-locks (‘cavitation’) could be regarded as a highly evolved form of nature’s engineering.  The evolution of a waxy, hydrophobic layer (cuticle) on the leaf controls the transpiration rate from the leaves, which in turn modifies the flow requirements from the roots and the xylem.

This symposium will bring together experts from botany, structural and construction engineering, and biomimetics, to explore the relevance of nature's engineering behind the beauty of flowers in the context of building energy-efficient structures.

10. Proposed Title: Urban Habitat: Applying Science and Engineering to Improve the Quality of Life

Organizer: John L. Anderson (Section M), Illinois Institute of Technology; johna@iit.edu

Proposed Length: 90 minutes

Description: A few years ago the world hit a tipping point when more than half of the population was living in an urban environment. As that fraction grows, challenges must be overcome to provide energy, water and food to the urban habitat and provide an aesthetically pleasing, sustainable environment. There has been a revolution in technology associated with designing and building high-rise residential and office structures, based on scientific and engineering principles and recognizing the importance of quality of life. This symposium deals with advances in concepts and technology - such as zero net energy buildings, vertical farming, transportation in congested urban environments, and new materials - to achieve goals of both form and function with least disturbance to the environment.

Potential Speaker:

1. William F. Baker, Partner in Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP (Structural Engineer, NAE member) – structural design of tall buildings

2. Roger E Frechette III, President of PositivEnergy Practice LLC (Structural Engineer) – building design for zero net energy consumption

3. Adrian Smith, formerly of SOM (Architect) – design of tall buildings.

4. Dietmar Rempfer, Mechanical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology – computational fluid dynamics of wind flow around tall buildings

5. Antony Wood, Executive Director, Center for Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (Architect) – technical and human challenges

6. Ken Yeang, eco design of buildings (Architect) - vertical farms in highrise buildings

7. Dickson Despommier, Environmental Health and Sciences at Columbia University (Scientist) – coined the term “vertical farming”

8. Speaker on transportation in urban environments

Dr. Poor 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, 2012.

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

Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman of GE

John E. Kelly III, Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research.

Charles M. Vest, President of the National Academy of Engineering

Robert J. Birgeneau, Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley

Bernard Amadei: Founder of Engineers Without Borders

6. Adjournment: The meeting was adjourned at 12:00PM. Lunch was served.

Submitted by:

Marwan A. Simaan

Section Secretary

February 21, 2012

Appendix A

Attendance List

1. H. Vincent Poor, Elect

2. John L. Anderson, Chair-Elect

3. Marwan Simaan, Secretary

4. Cristina Amon, Member at Large

5. Gail Marcus, Council Delegate

6. James Merz, Council Delegate

7. Ali Adibi, Newly Elected Fellow

8. Pedro J.J. Alvarez, Newly Elected Fellow

9. Panos Antsaklis, Newly Elected Fellow

10. Terry Bahill, Newly Elected Fellow

11. Robert J. Butera, Newly Elected Fellow

12. Barry Carter, Newly Elected Fellow

13. Ni-Bin Chang, Newly Elected Fellow

14. Suzanne Fortier, Newly Elected Fellow

15. Suresh V. Garimella, Newly Elected Fellow

16. Yogi D. Goswami, Newly Elected Fellow

17. K. Jimmy Hsia, Newly Elected Fellow

18. Antonios G. Mikos, Newly Elected Fellow

19. Larry Akio Nagahara, Newly Elected Fellow

20. Lakshmi N. Reddi, Newly Elected Fellow

21. William B. Russel, Newly Elected Fellow

22. Vijay Srinivasan, Newly Elected Fellow

23. Paul G. Steffes, Newly Elected Fellow

24. Moe Z. Win, Newly Elected Fellow

25. Hussein M. Zbib, Newly Elected Fellow

26. Mengchu Zhou, Newly Elected Fellow

27. Sankar Basu

28. Moe Khaleel

29. Sushanta Mitra

30. Donna Nelson

31. Miklos Porkolab

32. Carolyn Sealfon

33. Alok Sinha

34. Ram D. Sriram

35. Richard Willson

36. Fen Zhao

Appendix B

New AAAS Fellows elected in December 2011

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

· Ali Adibi, Georgia Institute of Technology

· Suresh K. Aggarwal, University of Illinois at Chicago

· Muhammad A. Alam, Purdue University

· Pedro J.J. Alvarez, Rice University

· Panos Antsaklis, University of Notre Dame

· Terry Bahill, University of Arizona

· Rashid Bashir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

· Wesley R. Burghardt, Northwestern University

· Robert J. Butera, Georgia Institute of Technology

· Barry Carter, University of Connecticut

· Sanjeev Chandra, University of Toronto, Canada

· Srinivasan Chandrasekar, Purdue University

· Ni-Bin Chang, University of Central Florida

· Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland, College Park

· Vikram L. Dalal, Iowa State University

· Pablo G. Debenedetti, Princeton University

· Debasish Dutta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

· Suzanne Fortier, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

· Benny Dean Freeman, University of Texas at Austin

· Suresh V. Garimella, Purdue University

· Andrew Avi Goldenberg, University of Toronto, Canada

· Yogi D. Goswami, University of South Florida:

· Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside

· Joseph P. Heremans, Ohio State University

· K. Jimmy Hsia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

· Yingbo Hua, University of California, Riverside

· Michael M. Khonsari, Louisiana State University

· Lee Rybeck Lynd, Dartmouth College

· Antonios G. Mikos, Rice University:

· Larry Akio Nagahara, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health

· Chul Park, University of Toronto, Canada

· Bhakta B. Rath, Naval Research Laboratory

· Lakshmi N. Reddi, Florida International University

· William B. Russel, Princeton University

· Michael Vivian Sefton, University of Toronto, Canada

· Michael L. Simpson, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

· Tarunraj Singh, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

· Alexander J. Smits, Princeton University

· Randall Q. Snurr, Northwestern University

· Vijay Srinivasan, National Institute of Standards and Technology

· Paul G. Steffes, Georgia Institute of Technology

· Michael Tsapatsis, University of Minnesota

· Darrell Velegol, Pennsylvania State University

· Richard E. Waugh, University of Rochester

· Alan E. Willner, University of Southern California

· Moe Z. Win, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

· Karl Dane Wittrup, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

· William W-G. Yeh, University of California, Los Angeles

· R. Paul Young, University of Toronto, Canada

· Paul K.L. Yu, University of California, San Diego

· Hussein M. Zbib, Washington State University

· Kemin Zhou, Louisiana State University

· Mengchu Zhou, New Jersey Institute of Technology