Workshop on Climate, Society, and Technology
Huntington Room at the Beckman Center of the National Academies
June 7-8, 2011
Agenda
Background: The goal of the CCEP Phase I project on “Climate Change, Engineered Systems, and Society” is to develop conceptual and educational frameworks and networks of change agents to promote effective formal and informal education for engineering students, policymakers and the public at large. These activities should address, visibly and systematically, issues of climate and engineered systems, including issues of governance, sustainability, justice, and public engagement and trust. The goal of the workshops component of the project is to lay the foundations for the project partners—the National Academy of Engineering, Arizona State University, Boston Museum of Science, Colorado School of Mines, and University of Virginia-Charlottesville—to use in developing these frameworks and networks.
In the intersection of climate, engineered systems, and society, it is the second term in this triumvirate that provides important and under-recognized challenges and opportunities for our examination. The implications of how engineered systems interact with climate for engineers and the public must be emphasized in the project. The planning effort for this project includes two workshops: one focusing on the interactions between climate and socio-technological systems, and a second one on the educational dimensions of this interaction between climate and those systems.
The first workshop focuses primarily on issues of adaptation and mitigation for climate and engineered systems, where these systems are understood as complex socio-technical systems with significant political, cultural, economic and ethical dimensions. It also pays attention to larger scale climate interventions such as geo-engineering. The second workshop focuses on the implications for engineering and public education of incorporating the interactions between climate change and engineered systems.
The first workshop is scheduled for June 7-8, 2011; the second workshop for October 18-19, 2011. For both events, the day prior to the workshop (June 6 and October 17 respectively) consists of a project planning meeting with project members; days two and three are the public workshops.
Available members of the project team and external advisory board may meet also for a short post- workshop review just following the event.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
7:30 – 8:25 | Breakfast |
8:25 – 8:35 | Call to Order: Rachelle Hollander, NAE CEES |
8:35 – 10:30 | Session I: Interactions-Defining the Problems |
In this opening session, speakers will present views about climate and its interaction with engineered systems understood as socio-technical systems, from the varied perspectives of their expertise and experience. The session will review the contributions that those perspectives make to identifying and understanding the problems facing engineered systems in society. Much research and many reports identify problems expected from the likely range of interactions among climate, engineered systems and societies, and some recommend solutions. More than a few consider problems of sustainability as an environmental rather than a social issue. Relatively few consider or critically explore associated issues of governance, sustainability in social contexts, justice, and public engagement and trust. In their talks, speakers are invited to explore the ways
in which scientific, engineering, political and social interventions and priorities can, do, and should influence the interactions of climate, engineered systems, and society, and how these influences are likely to affect the success of programs and recommendations.
Moderator: | Juan Lucena |
Liberal Arts and International Studies; Colorado School of Mines | |
Speakers: | James McCarthy |
Biological Oceanography; Harvard University | |
Science Perspectives | |
Jay Golden | |
Center for Sustainability & Commerce; Duke University | |
Business and Engineering Perspectives | |
Ann Bostrom | |
School of Public Affairs; University of Washington | |
Public Perspectives | |
Respondents: | Joseph Herkert |
School of Applied Arts and Sciences; Arizona State University | |
Jason Delborne | |
Liberal Arts and International Studies; Colorado School of Mines | |
10:30 – 10:45 | Break |
10:45 – 1:00 | Session II: Interventions-Examining the Range of Socio-technological Responses |
Adaptation? Mitigation? Geo-engineering? Other Large Scale Interventions? All of the above? Often, discussions about responding to climate change focus on one or more of these options and involve projections about potential costs and benefits. Speakers in this session will probe further on the social justice dimensions of these options, e.g., the kinds, likelihood and distribution of potential benefits, costs, risks, and harms from the range of options under discussion. Also considering issues of governance, sustainability, and public engagement and trust, the panelists should summarize and assess positions that have been taken about these interventions, their potential likelihood, and estimations of those associated consequences and their distribution. They should consider how cultural and societal norms and priorities would be likely to influence results.
Moderator: | Junko Munakata Marr |
Environmental Science and Engineering: Colorado School of Mines | |
Speakers: | Edward Rubin |
Environmental Engineering and Science; Carnegie Mellon University | |
Mitigation Strategies – Potentials and Problems | |
Jackie Kepke | |
Water Portfolio Management; CH2M Hill | |
Engineering Perspectives – Towards Structural Change | |
David Daniel | |
President’s Office; University of Texas at Dallas | |
Adaptation of Technological Systems | |
Alan Robock | |
Department of Environmental Sciences; Rutgers University | |
Geoengineering Potentials and Myths | |
Respondents: | Kathryn Johnson |
Division of Engineering; Colorado School of Mines | |
David Slutzky | |
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; University of Virginia |
1:00 – 2:00 | Lunch |
2:00 – 3:00 | Session III: Panel on Cross-Cutting Themes |
Moderator: | Deborah Johnson |
Science, Technology, and Society; University of Virginia | |
Panelists: | Joe DesJardin |
President’s Cabinet; Saint John’s University | |
Justice | |
Paul Thompson | |
Agricultural, Food and Community Ethics; Michigan State University | |
Sustainability | |
Susanne Moser | |
Institute for Marine Sciences; University of California-Santa Cruz | |
Governance, Trust, Public Engagement | |
3pm – 4:30pm: | Group Breakouts |
This session consists of four small group breakouts that will address each of these topics in relationship to the presentations and discussions in prior sessions, and report back to a roundtable/plenary about what we know, and what we need to know, based on the results.
A. Governance | (Emerald Bay Room) |
B. Justice | (Laguna Room) |
C. Sustainability | (Huntington Room) |
D. Public Trust and Engagement | (Irvine Cove Room) |
Group A - Governance | |
Facilitator: | David Sittenfeld |
Forum Program; Museum of Science, Boston | |
Rapporteur: | Borna Kazerooni |
Engineering and Applied Science; University of Virginia | |
Group B - Justice | |
Facilitator: | Joseph Herkert |
School of Applied Arts and Sciences; Arizona State University | |
Rapporteur: | Jon Leydens |
Liberal Arts and International Studies; Colorado School of Mines | |
Group C - Sustainability | |
Facilitator: | Helene Hilger |
Civil and Environmental Engineering; UNC-Charlotte | |
Rapporteur: | Jen Schneider |
Liberal Arts and International Studies; Colorado School of Mines | |
Group D - Trust, Public Engagement | |
Facilitator: | Paul Fontaine |
Education; Museum of Science, Boston | |
Rapporteur: | Liz Cox |
Institute for Sustainability in Education; Red Rocks Community | |
College | |
4:30 – 5:30 | Reports From Breakouts |
Facilitator: | Rachelle Hollander |
NAE CEES | |
5:30 – 6:00 | Closing Session |
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 |
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8:00 – 9:00 | Breakfast |
9:00 – 11:00 | Session IV: Education |
This plenary will brainstorm ideas about the implications for education that have come from the prior sessions and informal interactions among workshop participants. The goal of this session is to help us map stakeholders and issues to be considered in workshop II in October which will focus exclusively on education. These considerations should address where limited investments are likely to provide the greatest payoff for a Phase II implementation project.
Chair: | David Rabkin |
Current Science and Technology; Museum of Science, Boston | |
11:00 – Noon | Session V: What We’ve Learned |
In this session, the co-principal investigators of the Phase I CCEP award will highlight the initial take-home messages from the workshop and ask the participants for their comments, suggestions, criticisms, and additional thoughts.
Chair: | Clark Miller |
Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes; Arizona State University | |
Noon | Workshop Adjourns |
Networking Educational Priorities for Climate, Engineered Systems, and Society
House of Sweden, Washington DC
October 18-19, 2011
AGENDA
Project Focus and Goals: The goal of the Climate Change Educational Partnership Phase I project on “Climate Change, Engineered Systems, and Society” is to develop a conceptual and educational framework and a network of change agents to promote effective formal and informal education for engineering students, policymakers and the public at large. The project should address, visibly and systematically, issues of climate and engineered systems, including governance, sustainability, justice, and public engagement and trust. The goal of the workshops component of the project is to lay the foundations for the project partners—the National Academy of Engineering, Arizona State University, Boston Museum of Science, Colorado School of Mines, and University of Virginia-Charlottesville—to use in developing the implementation plan for the second phase.
The project assumes that the role of engineered systems vis-à-vis climate and society provides important challenges and opportunities for formal and informal engineering education in classrooms, public forums, and science museums and centers, and those educational programs need to address both technical and societal issues. The implications of the interactions of engineered systems with climate—for engineers, engineering, and the public, must be recognized.
NAE Project Workshops: Considerable research and many reports identify problems expected from interactions among climate, engineered systems and societies; and some recommend solutions. More than a few consider problems of sustainability, as an environmental rather than a social issue. Relatively few consider or examine associated issues of governance, sustainability in social contexts, justice, and public engagement and trust. This project invites participants to explore the ways in which the separation of technical from social issues may affect the success of formal and informal educational programs and recommendations, and how to overcome the divide so as to increase the likelihood of success.
The first project workshop in June 2011 focused on the interactions among climate and social and technological systems. The upcoming workshop on October 18-19, 2011, at the House of Sweden in Washington, DC will focus on education about these interactions. The day prior to the workshop (October 17) consists of a project planning meeting with project team and external advisory board (EAB) members; days two and three are the public workshop.
Available members of the team and advisory board may meet also for a short post-workshop review just following the event.
Day One: Tuesday, October 18, 2011
8:30-9:15am Session I: Welcome and Introduction to the Program
This session provides a project overview and status report on the Phase I activities to date, with 5-minute slide presentations from the team leaders.
9:15-11:15am Session II: Effective Interventions in Undergraduate Engineering Education
The goal of session II is to educate project participants about engineering education innovations that can improve the process of integrating climate change and engineered systems (CC&ES) in engineering curricula and scale up across multiple institutions.
The session is divided in two one-hour parts. In Part I speakers address specific questions. The speakers are:
- Jason Delborne, Colorado School of Mines (Moderator)
- Ann McKenna, Arizona State University
- Bob Madsen, Chief Dull Knife College
- Karl Smith, Purdue University/University of Minnesota
- Suresh Dhaniyala, Clarkson University
Part II is a panel-format dialogue to explore the answers further; three or four project representatives will join the speakers for a dialogue about these questions and answers. Audience members will submit questions to a moderator who will present them to the group for responses.
- Edward Berger, University of Virginia- Charlottesville
- Liz Cox, Red Rocks Community College
- Jen Janacek Hartman, United Tribes Technical College
- Jon Leydens and Junko Munakata Marr, Colorado School of Mines
11:15am-noon: | Session III: Engineering in the K-12 Curriculum, A Review Richard Duschl, Penn State University |
Noon-1pm | Lunch |
1-1:45pm | Plenary Welcome |
Introduction: John Ahearne, NAE, Chair, CEES Advisory Group Speaker: Charles Vest, President, National Academy of Engineering | |
1:45-3:45pm | Session IV: Informal Education, Science Center Capabilities and Public Engagement |
This session will explore the role that science and technology centers play in the educational community, their institutional strengths and limitations in communicating multifaceted information, and present a model for engaging the general public and school-aged audiences in the topic of climate change, engineered systems and society intended to function within and through the context of the larger CCEP collaboration. It consists of two parts: a panel overview followed by an open space exercise to explore the merits of key aspects of science center engagement.
- Paul Fontaine, Vice President of Programs, Museum of Science, Boston (Moderator)
- Kate Crawford, Project Manager, Communicating Climate Change, Association of Science and Technology Centers, Washington, DC
- Rae Ostman, Director of National Collaborative Projects, Sciencenter, Ithaca, NY
- David Sittenfeld, Program Manager, Forum Program, Museum of Science, Boston
3:45-4pm | Break to go to Breakout Groups |
4-5:30pm | Breakouts |
First Day | Breakout Groups will consider the following (reporting back to a plenary): |
Ways to enhance undergraduate engineering curricula
Community and tribal college programs
K-12 education
Informal education and public engagement
Public policy education
Outreach, dissemination, special projects
(Some breakout groups may consider several topics in the course of discussion. Organizers reserve right to rearrange these sessions based on expressions of interest and program changes).
Adjourn for Day
Day Two: Wednesday, October 19, 2011
8-8:30am Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:15am Report back from Breakouts
9:15-11:00am Session IV: Institutional and Professional Society Initiatives
In this panel session, speakers will provide information about their activities regarding educational priorities for climate, society, and technology. The general discussion will encourage audience members to identify the work other organizations have been doing that addresses these issues and
associated opportunities for networking.
- William Kelly, American Society for Engineering Education (Moderator)
- William Wepfer, ABET
- Helene Hilger, University of North Carolina Charlotte
- Dick Wright, American Society of Civil Engineers, Founder Societies’ Carbon Management Project
- David Lapp, Engineers Canada/Ingénieurs Canada
11-11:10am | Break |
11:10-1pm: | Corporate Perspectives on Engineering and Education on Climate, Engineered Systems, and Society |
The premise here is that engineers should be trained to prepare for addressing issues of climate change. Businesses that employ engineers are well equipped to provide insights into their thinking about these issues in the context of the demands they face and the technological and organizational challenges they see ahead. The panel will focus on what employers of engineers perceive as the underlying principles, skills, and experiences that will prepare future engineers to effectively meet the challenges of climate change in the practice of engineering. The session will consist of two parts. Each of the participants will make a brief introduction, followed by a facilitated discussion.
- Kristina Hill, PhD Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at University of Virginia (Facilitator)
- Keith Williams, Chief Technology Officer, Navy Research and Engineering Division, SAIC
- Jonathan T. Malay, Director Civil Space & Environment Programs, Lockheed Martin
- John Carberry P.E., Independent Consultant (DuPont retired)
- William Flanagan, PhD, GE Global Research
- Laurens van der Tak, P.E., D.WRE, Water Resources & Ecosystem Management, CH2M HILL
1-2 pm Lunch and Roundtable on Outreach and Dissemination – A brainstorming session on how to work with different electronic dissemination outlets to promote project goals.
Panelists include: Josh Bishoff and Megan O. Hayes, Ethics CORE; Representative from Engineering
Pathways (tentative); Frank Niepold, NOAA and Tamara Ledley, TERC – Cleanet.org; Simil
Raghavan, Onlineethics.org. Questions to address:
What are the goals of these sites? How might they connect with one another, what audiences will each reach, what additional audiences might we need to reach, etc?
1-3pm: Breakouts
Second day breakouts will consider the following (reporting back to a plenary):
What academic administrators, deans, and center directors can do
The role of professional societies
The politics of climate change
Corporate engagement
Outreach, dissemination, special projects
(Some breakout groups may consider several topics in the course of discussion. Organizers reserve right to rearrange these sessions based on expressions of interest and program changes.)
2-3:45pm Reports from Breakouts
3:45-4pm: Break
4pm Closing Session – Next Steps
5pm Adjourn
Climate Change and America’s Infrastructure: Engineering, Social and Policy Challenges
January 28-30, 2013
Agenda
Sunday January 27th | |
4:30-6-00pm | Registration Open (Lobby) |
Monday January 28th | |
7:00am | Registration Opens - Breakfast Buffet |
INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW: CLIMATECHANGE, CLIMATE ADAPTATION, AND INFRASTRUCTURE VULNERABILITY
8:00am | Welcome |
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Keynote Presentations | |
8:45am | Kathy Jacobs, Assistant Director for Climate Adaptation and Assessment, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy |
9:45am | Daniel R. Cayan, Researcher, Climate Atmospheric Science and Physical Oceanography (CASPO), Scripps Institution of Oceanography |
10:45am | break |
11:00am | Thomas Wilbanks, Corporate Research Fellow, Climate Change Science Institute, Oak Ridge National Laboratories |
Lunch Speaker | |
Noon - 1:00pm | Gerald Galloway, Glen L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering, University of Maryland |
ASSESSING THE PROBLEM Keynote Presentations: Engineering Perspectives |
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1:00pm | Kathy Freas, Global Water Resources Director, CH2MHill |
1:30pm | David Lapp, P.Eng., Manager, Professional Practice, Engineers Canada, Secretariat, Public Infrastructure Engineering Vulnerability Committee (PIEVC) |
2:00pm | Discussion |
2:30pm | Break |
3:00pm | Panel 1: Policy and Governance Challenges and Strategies |
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4:30pm | Panel 2: Engineering, Justice, and Human Rights |
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6:00pm | Adjourn for Day/Registration Closes (dinner on your own—looking for folks to dine with? Meeting in the lobby at 6:30) |
Tuesday, January 29th | |
7:00am | Registration Opens - Breakfast Buffet |
CASE STUDIES IN INFRASTRUCTURE VULNERABILITY AND ENGAGING POLICY AND THE PUBLIC | |
Keynote Presentations: Sea Level Rise and Storm Surge | |
8:00am | Greg Kiker, Associate Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida |
8:30am | Robert Lempert, Director, Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition, RAND Corporation |
9:00am | Discussion |
9:30am | Break |
10:00am | Panel 3: Local Government Solutions |
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Noon | Panel 4: Engaging the Public in Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation (over lunch) |
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1:30pm | Panel 5: Colorado River Water Resources |
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3:30-4:00pm | Break |
Native Perspectives Keynote | |
4:00pm | Tracey LeBeau, Director, U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs |
4:30pm | Panel 6: Native American Perspectives |
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6:00pm | Adjourn for Day/Registration Closes (dinner on your own—looking for folks to dine with? Meeting in the lobby at 6:30) |
Wednesday, January 3oth | |
7:00am | Registration Opens - Breakfast Buffet |
EDUCATIONAL CHALLENGES | |
8:00am | Panel 7: Informal Science Education |
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10:00am | Panel 8: Engineering Education |
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11:30am | Concluding Remarks |
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Noon | Conference Adjourns 12:30pm Registration Closes |
12:45pm | CChESS Core Planning Group meets |
5:00pm | CChESS Core Planning Group adjourns |
This conference is part of the National Science Foundation Climate Change Education Partnership: Climate Change, Engineered Systems and Society project led by the National Academy of Engineering. The Conference is organized by the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University.
For more information on the Climate Change Education Partnership: Climate Change, Engineered Systems and Society project, see http://www.onlineethics.org/Projects/CCEP.aspx
For more information on the National Academy of Engineering, see http://www.nae.edu/
For more information on the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes at Arizona State University, see http://www.cspo.org.
Speaker biographies are available on the conference website at http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=1155563