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Chapter: Appendix B: Committee Meeting Information and Teleconference Speakers

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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meeting Information and Teleconference Speakers." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. A New Vision for Center-Based Engineering Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24767.
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Committee Meeting Information and Teleconference Speakers

MEETING 1: DECEMBER 14-15, 2015, WASHINGTON, D.C.

Speakers

Persis Drell Dean of Engineering, Stanford University
Pramond Khargonekar Director of Engineering, National Science Foundation (NSF)
Robert Nerem Georgia Institute of Technology
Colin Rementer Graduate Student, University of California, Los Angeles Translational Applications of Nanoscale Multiferroic Systems Engineering Research Center (ERC)
Donna Riley Department of Engineering Education, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Jagannathan Sankar ERC Director, North Carolina A&T State University
Gerald Stanley Harman Crown Audio, Liaison to the Center for Power Electronics Systems ERC
Galip Ulsoy University Michigan, graduated ERC Deputy Director
Michael Ward Director, New York University Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Ronald Young General Motors Corp.

MEETING 2: APRIL 6-7, 2016, WASHINGTON, D.C.

Speakers

Katherine Banks Dean of Engineering, Texas A&M University
Andreas Cangellaris Dean of Engineering, University of Illinois
Jean-Lou Chameau President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Dean Chang Associate Vice President, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Maryland
France Córdova Director, NSF
Frederic Farina Chief Innovation and Corporate Partnerships Officer, California Institute of Technology
Orin Herskowitz Director, Columbia Technology Ventures, Columbia University
John Holdren Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Arvind Krishna Senior Vice President for Global Research, IBM
Richard Miller President, Olin College of Engineering
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meeting Information and Teleconference Speakers." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. A New Vision for Center-Based Engineering Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24767.
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Eoin O’Sullivan Director, Centre for Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy, University of Cambridge
David Parekh Corporate Vice President for Research, United Technologies, and Director, United Technologies Research Center
Thomas Siebel Founder and CEO, C3 IoT
Kelly O’Sullivan Manager, Institutional S&T Investments, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

MEETING 3: JUNE 29-30, 2016, WASHINGTON, D.C.

Speakers

Jenna Carpenter Dean of Engineering, Campbell University
Frederick Cartwright Executive Director, Clemson University International Center for Automotive Research
Marcus Huggans Senior Director for External Relations, The National GEM Consortium
Donald Ingber Founding Director and Core Faculty, Wyss Institute (via WebEx)
Nickolas Justice Executive Director, PowerAmerica
William King Senior Advisor to the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute (DMDII)
Nathan Lewis Principal Investigator, Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (via WebEx)
Pamela McCauley Professor, University of Central Florida
Edward Morris Vice President and Director, America Makes, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute
Blake Simmons Division Director for Biological Systems and Engineering, Joint BioEnergy Institute (via WebEx)

MEETING 4: AUGUST 30-31, 2016, IRVINE, CALIFORNIA

Speakers

Michael Crow President, Arizona State University (by WebEx)
Pramond Khargonekar Vice Chancellor for Research, University of California, Irvine

COMMITTEE TELECONFERENCES

Speakers

Chad Mirkin Director, International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University (March 2, 2015)
   
Arati Prabhakar Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (March 24, 2015)
   
Nancy Cooke Professor, Arizona State University (May 19, 2015)
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meeting Information and Teleconference Speakers." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. A New Vision for Center-Based Engineering Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24767.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Committee Meeting Information and Teleconference Speakers." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. A New Vision for Center-Based Engineering Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/24767.
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The future security, economic growth, and competitiveness of the United States depend on its capacity to innovate. Major sources of innovative capacity are the new knowledge and trained students generated by U.S. research universities. However, many of the complex technical and societal problems the United States faces cannot be addressed by the traditional model of individual university research groups headed by a single principal investigator. Instead, they can only be solved if researchers from multiple institutions and with diverse expertise combine their efforts. The National Science Foundation (NSF), among other federal agencies, began to explore the potential of such center-scale research programs in the 1970s and 1980s; in many ways, the NSF Engineering Research Center (ERC) program is its flagship program in this regard.

The ERCs are "interdisciplinary, multi-institutional centers that join academia, industry, and government in partnership to produce transformational engineered systems and engineering graduates who are adept at innovation and primed for leadership in the global economy. To ensure that the ERCs continue to be a source of innovation, economic development, and educational excellence, A New Vision for Center-Based Engineering Research explores the future of center-based engineering research, the skills needed for effective center leadership, and opportunities to enhance engineering education through the centers.

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