2018
AAAS Engineering Section Business Meeting
Friday
February 16, 2018
Austin,
TX; Hilton Hotel, Room: Salon A
MINUTES
1.
Introductions: Linda Katehi, Section
Chair, called the meeting to order at 9:45 AM after around 15 minutes of networking
with coffee and snacks being served. She
asked those who are present to introduce themselves. The attendance list is
included in Appendix A.
2.
AAAS CEO Remarks. Dr. Katehi noticed that Dr.
Rush Holt, AAAS CEO, was among the attendees.
She asked him to make a few remarks.
Dr. Holt said that he would like AAAS to be a “Force for Science”. He
said that there is a real need for increased advocacy for the proper use of
scientific evidence for decision-making. Dr. Holt added that he will be trying
to use the Sections for advancing advocacy in a “cross partisan” way and that
he would like AAAS to be a force for advocating for Science at the
local/neighborhood level. He is also working with Science Magazine to identify
landmark articles in past issues of this publication to highlight the impact
and significant benefits of the science and engineering research described in
the article.
3.
Approval of Minutes: Dr. Simaan, Section Secretary asked for comments and
suggested corrections to the draft minutes of the Section Business Meeting held
on February 17, 2017 at the Boston, MA meeting. He mentioned that the draft
minutes were posted on the Section website http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/aaas-m shortly after the 2017 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.
4.
Section Chair Remarks: Dr. Katehi
summarized some of the points made at the general meeting of all section
officers held at 7:00am prior to our section meeting. She mentioned that our
section is one of the largest within AAAS with 5,671 members as of January
2018. She encouraged the attendees to
consider being involved in the 2019 Annual Meeting, which will be held in
Washington, DC, February 14-18, 2019.
The overall theme of the meeting is Science Transcending Boundaries. This should be an excellent venue for our
Section to be involved and we hope our members will submit a significant number
of symposia proposals (see the AAAS Website https://aaas.confex.com/aaas/2019/symp90/cfp.cgi for formats, and information required for proposals).
The deadline for proposal submissions is Thursday April 19, 2018 at 11:59pm
PT.
5.
Announcements: Dr. Katehi
announced the results of the 2018-19 AAAS elections for Section M. Sarah A. Rajala (Iowa State University was
elected Chair-Elect; Ilona Kretzschmar (The City College of New York, CUNY) was
elected Member-at-Large; Christina Chan
(Michigan State University) and Eric
K. Lin (National Institute of Standards and Technology) were elected as
members of the Section Electorate Nominating Committee; and Sankar
Basu (National Science Foundation) was elected
Section M Council Delegate. The term for
all those who were elected starts on Tuesday February 20, 2018.
Dr.
Katehi thanked all the officers whose terms will end
at the last day of this Annual Meeting:
Larry McIntire as Retiring Chair, Nicholas Abbot as Member-at-Large,
Stuart Cooper as Council Delegate, and Rebecca Richards-Kortum
and Carol Hall as Members of the Electorate Nominating Committee. On February 20, 2018, Dr. Katehi
will become the Retiring Chair and in that capacity she will serve on the AAAS
Council and he will also be a member of the Electorate Nominating
Committee.
Dr.
Katehi also announced that this year 29 members of
our section were elected Fellows of AAAS. A list of the names of the newly
elected Fellows and their citation was distributed at the meeting and is
attached as Appendix B. The Newly
elected Fellows were invited to attend our business meeting and 9 of the 29
were able to attend. Dr. Katehi welcomed them, and thanked them for attending the
meeting. She also asked each of them to say a few words about their research
that lead to their election as AAAS Fellows.
6.
Fellow Nomination Process: Dr. Katehi asked Marwan
Simaan, Section Secretary, to review the AAAS Fellow nomination process. Dr. Simaan mentioned the new rule that was
implemented beginning four 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, 2014.
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. Our primary membership this
year is 5,671 which results in our quota being 23 for this year. Information on the nomination process by a
group of three Fellows (method 2) and a copy of the on line nomination form can
be found on the AAAS website (http://www.aaas.org/fellows) A link to
that website can also be found on our section Website (http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/aaas-m). Dr. Simaan
mentioned that the deadline for Fellow nominations by a group of three Fellows
is April 11, 2018, and that there is quota for those elected through
nominations by that method equal to the Steering Group Quota (23 for this
year). He concluded by saying that in
both methods, a successful candidate must meet the quota and receive no less
than five “Yes” votes and no more than two “No” votes.
7. Update
on AAAS Council Issues of Interest to Section M: Drs. Cooper and McIntire who are our
representatives on council provided a report on issues that council is
considering that are of interest to our section. Dr. Cooper mentioned a
collaboration between AAAS and Sigma Xi in recruiting members and Dr.
McIntire mentioned that, in response to a request by council, the Fellows
subcommittee, of which he is a member, is working on establishing a fellow
revocation policy for unprofessional and/or unethical behavior by a AAAS
Fellow.
8.
Planning for the 2019 Annual Meeting: The 2019 AAAS Annual Meeting will be held in
Washington, DC, February 14-198 2019. The meeting theme is “Science
Transcending Boundaries” The deadline for the 2019 session proposal submissions
is Thursday April 19, 2018 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/2019/symp90/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 2019
Annual Meeting planning meeting, which will be held on Sunday afternoon
1:30-3:00pm. These hot topics will form
the basis for possible collaborative symposia sponsored by our section or
co-sponsored with other section at the 2019 Annual meeting. Dr. Katehi asked
for ideas and suggestions. A discussion
followed with everyone present contributing ideas. A summary of these ideas is
given below (including additional ideas received after the meeting but before
the Sunday afternoon planning meeting):
8.1 How Safe Are We? How Policy
can impact Our Well-being
Organizer: Sheldon H. Jacobson, Ph.D.
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
Summary: The media reports catastrophic events
each day. Policy makers often respond with knee jerk reactions that lead
to policy changes that may be sub-optimal and in some instances, create more
harm than good. This session looks at issues of safety and security that
face everyone at some point in their lives. These include the
proliferation of mass murders, aviation security breaches, and automobile
accidents and deaths, nuclear energy, water and food safety, and health care,
to name just a few. This session delves more deeply into the data to gain
a better understanding of the state of such threats, and looks into the future
as to what policy changes will provide the greatest societal benefits and
value.
8.2 Microgravity Research in Materials
Science and Engineering
Organizer -
Lynnette Madsen
Note: speakers have not been
contacted
Discussant -
Valerie Neal, National Air and Space Museum
Speakers
Summary: Crossing the boundaries of past-present-future.
Capabilities have changed. Areas most important for research have been refined.
What have we learned? Where does the future lie?
8.3 Engineering and Science without Borders
Organizer -
Lynnette Madsen, NSF
Discussant
-Al Romig, NAE
Speakers (NOTE:
potential speakers etc. have not been contacted)
Summary: How
is engineering used and developed around the world to address critical
problems.
8.4 Food-Water-Energy
Nexus and how it relates to sustainable development and design for
sustainability.
Organizer: Norma Alcantar, University of South
Florida
Summary: The scope of this topic is to be able to understand the
complex relationships between food production, use of fertilizers, soil
erosion, and food preservation with water usage, quality, treatment and
availability. Consequently, it also relates to how energy demands evolved
depending on water and food production.
8.5 Climate change impacts and engineering aspects of sustainability and
resilience
Organizers:
Kalliat
T. Valsaraj, Louisiana State University
Joyce Y. Wong, Boston University
Potential speakers:
Rick Leuttich,
Director of the Center for Resiliency (Univ of North
Carolina)
Phil Bedient,
Director SSPEED Center (Rice University)
Jeff Gooddell
( Scientific editor, Rolling Stones magazine and
author of the NYT bestseller “Water Will Come”)
One more
person to speak on Public Health aspects.
Summary: Climate change can have catastrophic consequences to
the sustainability and resiliency of coastal and inland cities. It is
imperative that engineering solutions be envisaged so that adequate
preparations are in place for handling physical infrastructures as well as
public health aspects. A panel of experts will be assembled with an interactive
90 minutes session.
8.6 Food
Banks to Healthcare - A Recipe for Community Wellness?
Organizers: Gilda
Barabino, The City College
of New York (CCNY)
Soundar Kumara, Penn State University
Speakers: (Possible – to be
contacted)
Professor
Molly Jahn, University of Wisconsin
Speaker
- International (India/Canada)
Speaker
- Foodbank/USDA /Practitioner from
Disciplinary Sections: Effort from Engineering and Medical Sciences
(presented the idea. Talked to Anice Anderson;
Secretary, and John Newsam; Chair) of the Industrial
Science and Technology section.
Relationship to the theme: Science transcending boundaries: This symposium
examines science and engineering at the intersection of healthcare delivery, poverty
and food insecurity. Not only is the theme along the lines of the conference
theme but also the effort will be of direct benefit to humanity.
Summary: Poverty, wellness and healthcare are intricately
intertwined. Chronically ill patients, especially in rural areas tend to be
food insecure, and are dependent on foodbanks and other agencies for their
daily food. Can healthcare providers work with food banks and patients to
provide proper nutritionally adequate food to the patients? There is a need for
new models of food selection, packaging and distribution to help such patients
and improve their wellness. This symposium will examine this futuristic
question from optimization, technology, community wellness, healthcare
providers’ and foodbanks’ perspectives.
8.7 AI and Machine Learning and Manufacturing-Transcending
Technological and Social Boundaries
Organizers: Sudarsan Rachuri,
NIST
Jim Garrett, CMU
Summary:
This symposium will focus on AI for manufacturing, in particular the challenges
and opportunities in:
1) Moving from automation to autonomy in manufacturing
2) Closing the Skills gap and creating job opportunities
3) Ethical issues, privacy, and cyber security risks.
8.8 How the OMICS revolutions are leading
to innovations in engineering and medicine
Organizers: Ram Sriram; NIST
Ramesh Jain; UC Irvine
Summary: OMICS
can be viewed as the study of a domain in a massive scale, at different levels
of abstraction, in an integrative manner.
The past few decades have seen three major “OMICS” revolutions: genomics
is transforming the way we diagnose and treat diseases; materiomics
(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
leading researchers will present several case studies in these three areas, showing the impacts
of “OMICS” in our everyday life.
8.9 Health
Care in the 21st Century: P7 Medicine
Organizers: Ram Sriram; NIST
Ramesh Jain; UC Irvine
Nageshwar Reddy
Potential Speakers: Amit Sheth, Vijay Chandru (India), Leroy Hood.
Summary: The IoT revolution combined
with the Omics revolution (genomics and sociomics or
social networks) will have significant implications on the way health care is
delivered in the United States. This symbiosis will result in the P7 concept,
as described below.
This
symposium will discuss this new paradigm and how it transcendent the boundaries
of engineering, computer science, medicine and social networks.
8.10
How Blockchain
Technology could enable the tracking of arms production, sales, and
transfers
globally, and allow for an effective arms control
Organizer:
Ali Khounsary, Illinois Institute of Technology
Summary: Transparency in the flow of arms from state and
non-state actors to conflict zones could help reduce the flow enhancing parties
to engage in negotiation and mediation to resolve conflicts. This session
examines techniques to encourage transparency and their potential impact to
reduce human suffering.
8.11
Engineering is the backbone of our
society, but has no voice in policy-making. What are the
barriers and
how to overcome them?
Organizer: Ali Khounsary, Illinois
Institute of Technology
Summary: Engineering has enabled the technological societies we
live in. Yet engineers, as a community, do not seem to have a voice in
policy-making. This session examines common values and views among
engineers, whether and how advocating those views can benefit the society, and
the potential approaches and venues to make engineers views on policy matter
heard.
8.12 AI and Machine learning and the Ethical
Implications
Organizer: Linda Katehi, UC Davis
Summary: This
discussion has been avoided and needs to happen while industries like google
and facebook are developing the most advanced
hardware and software in the dark.
Dr. Katehi encouraged all those who have suggested these ideas
to develop them further and submit them on the AAAS proposal submission website
before the deadline of April 19, 2018
Finally,
Dr. Simaan also asked for suggestions for plenary and topical lectures speakers
as well as suggestions for the 10 minutes Flash Talks.
9.
Adjournment: Dr. Katehi asked the attendees if there is any new
business. In the absence of new
business, the meeting was adjourned at 11:40AM.
Lunch was served.
Submitted
by:
Marwan
A. Simaan
Secretary,
Engineering Section (M)
February
22, 2018
Appendix A
List of Attendees List
1) Linda Katehi, Chair
2) Larry McIntire, Retiring Chair
3) Deb Niemeier,
Chair-Elect
4) Marwan Simaan, Section Secretary
5) Norma Alcantar, Member-at-Large
6) Stuart Cooper, Council Delegate
7) Ian Robertson, Council Delegate
8) Rush Holt, AAAS CEO
9) Sarah Rajala, Elected Chair-Elect
10) Ilona Kretzschmar, Elected Member-at-Large
11) Sankar Basu, Elected Council
Delegate
12) Rory A. Cooper, Newly Elected Fellow
13) Joseph Helble Newly Elected
Fellow
14) Clifford L. Henderson, Newly Elected Fellow
15) Petros A. Ioannou, Newly Elected Fellow
16) Lynette D. Madsen, Newly Elected Fellow
17) Gregory B. McKenna, Newly Elected Fellow
18) Keshab K. Parhi, Newly Elected
Fellow
19) Sudarsan Rachuri, Newly
Elected Fellow
20) Joyce Wong, Newly Elected Fellow
21) Joel Mobley, Acoustical Society of America
22) Laura Albert
23) Gilda Barabino
24) Sumista Bose
25) Jennifer Curtis
26) Sheldon Jacobson
27) James Garrett
28) Pramod Khargonekar
29) Ali Khounsary
30) Soundar Kumara
31) Stuart Rubin
32) Ned Sauthoff
33) Phil Sharp
34) Ram D. Sriram
35) Kaliat Valsaraj
Appendix
B
Fellows affiliated with Section M
(Engineering) Elected in 2017
Steven
James Battel, Battel
Engineering: For distinguished contributions to engineering, particularly in
support of NASA’s space science missions, and for mentoring and training the
next generation.
Kenneth
T. Christensen, University
of Notre Dame: For distinguished contributions to the field of experimental
fluid mechanics, particularly for laser-based measurements of turbulence
interactions with complex topography.
Baratunde A. "Bara" Cola, Georgia Institute of Technology: For distinguished
contributions to the field of nanoscale engineering, particularly using
nanotube arrays for new heat dissipation materials and the first nanotube-based
optical rectenna.
Rory
Alan Cooper, University
of Pittsburgh/U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: For distinguished
contributions to the field of bioengineering and health and rehabilitation
sciences, particularly for applications for people with disabilities.
Steven
M. Cramer, Rensselaer
Polytechnic University: For distinguished contributions to the field of
chromatographic bioprocessing, achieved through combined experimental and
computational approaches.
Joseph Helble,
Dartmouth College: For contributions in the areas of air pollution,
aerosols, nanoscale ceramics, and air quality, and for excellence in teaching
and professional service.
Clifford
L. Henderson, University
of South Florida: For distinguished research contributions to the fields of
functional materials, microlithography and nanomanufacturing,
and for leadership contributions to advance chemical and materials science and
engineering.
Hanchen Huang, Northeastern
University: For significant contributions to multiscale modeling, nanomechanics and nanorod growth,
and for leadership in mechanical engineering.
Petros
A. Ioannou, University
of Southern California: For distinguished contributions to robust adaptive
control and intelligent transportation systems.
Bamin Khomami, University of Tennessee, Knoxville: For
insightful application of novel numerical methods, molecular modeling, and
experiments toward the physical understanding of complex fluids, including
discovery of thermo-elastic flow
Miroslav Krstic, University
of California, San Diego: For revolutionizing
control of distributed parameter systems and extremum seeking, with
applications to fluid flows, nuclear fusion, particle accelerators, batteries,
and semiconductor manufacturing.
John H. Linehan, Northwestern
University: For contributions to lung physiology, for leadership in
building the infrastructure for biomedical engineering growth and education,
and in understanding the medical device innovation process.
Zhenqiang (Jack) Ma, University
of Wisconsin-Madison: For distinguished contributions to the field of
flexible electronics, particularly for inventing fast flexible electronics,
flexible optoelectronics and nanomembrane-based
photonics.
Lynnette D. Madsen, National Science Foundation: For original
contributions in thin film research, effective scientific leadership, and
commitment in promoting equity and inclusion.
Gregory B. McKenna, Texas Tech University: For seminal
contributions to understanding the constitutive behavior in glassy polymers and
highly influential experimental studies of phase transitions in confined
systems.
David J. Odde, University
of Minnesota: For fundamental contributions to our quantitative
understanding of the self assembly and force
generation of microtubles, F-actin, and associated
proteins.
Keshab K. Parhi, University of Minnesota: For pioneering
contributions to architectures and methodologies for VLSI design of digital
signal processing systems, and physical layer communication systems that form
the backbone of the Internet.
Sudarsan Rachuri, U.S.
Department of Energy: For significant contributions in standards
development for computer-aided design and smart manufacturing.
James J. Riley, University of Washington: For fundamental
contributions in fluid mechanics, including advancements in turbulent,
multi-phase flows, turbulent density-stratified flows, turbulent shear flows,
and turbulent reacting flows.
Ares J. Rosakis, California
Institute of Technology: For distinguished contributions in the field of
aeronautics and mechanical engineering, particularly for fracture mechanics of
materials ranging from thin films to eathquakes.
Stuart Harvey Rubin, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command: For
distinguished contributions to the field of intelligent systems, particularly
for the development of computational creativity for improving the quality of
life and global economics
Mei-Ling Shyu, University of
Miami: For outstanding contributions to multimedia semantics mining and
retrieval.
David Allan Sinton, University of Toronto (Canada): For
distinguished contributions to the field of microfluidics, particularly in
pioneering the development of microfluidic methods for applications related to
energy and the environment.
Dacheng Tao, University
of Sydney (Australia): For distinguished contributions to the field of
computer vision and machine learning, particularly for theories and algorithms
of representation learning.
Thomas M. Truskett, University
of Texas at Austin: For distinguished contributions to our understanding of
the structure and dynamics of complex fluids and biomolecular systems through
use of computational methods.
Miroslav N. Velev, Aries
Design Automation: For distinguished contributions to the field of
automated reasoning, particularly formal verification of microprocessors, and
Boolean satisfiability. {Dr. Velev was also submitted
to the Section on Information, Computing and Communication}
Robert M. Wagner, Oak Ridge National Laboratory: For
distinguished contributions to the fields of combustion and fuel science,
particularly for seminal research on combustion instabilities and abnormal
combustion phenomena.
Joyce Y. Wong, Boston University: For innovative discoveries
in biomaterials development to probe how structure, material properties and
composition of cell-biomaterial interfaces modulate fundamental cellular
processes, and for promoting women in STEM.
Jerry M. Woodall, University of California, Davis:
For novel contributions to the science and engineering of compound
semiconductor heterojunction materials and devices ubiquitous in
telecommunications and information and communications systems.