Administrative Directors’ Closed Meeting
Moderator: Leigh McGrath (Administrator, UMich RMS)
Speakers: Ann Craig (Administrative Manager, CPES) “Scope of AD’s Role: Operations Management”; Nichole Philips (Executive Administrative Director, IMSC): “Strategic Planning for Self-sufficiency”

Industrial Liaison Officers’ Closed Meeting
Speakers: Carl Rust(1.21MB) (ILO, Georgia Tech PRC), “Role of the ILO”, Steven Currall (Rice Univ.), “Strategic Planning Best Practices Across the ERCs”

Education/Outreach Directors’ Closed Meeting
Speakers: Anne Donnelly on “Role of the Education/Outreach Director”; Debasish Dutta(334K) on "IGERT Awards"

Student Retreat Photos

Plenary Session I: Opening Session

Welcome & Meeting Plan – Lynn Preston and Court Lewis

Lynn Preston(105KB) on Interdisciplinary Research: Issues & Impacts

BPEC’s History & Achievements – Linda Griffith(1.73MB) (Center Director), Douglas Lauffenburger (Deputy Director), Matthew Croughan(1.06MB) (ILO)

Plenary Session II: NSF Session

Moderator: Lynn Preston

Welcome & Plan for the Day – Court Lewis

Remarks by New EEC Division Director, Gary Gabriele(1.22MB) (with following Q&A)

Program News & Updates (including a study on value of 3-plane chart in strategic planning) –Lynn Preston(3.31MB)

Thinking Outside the Disciplinary Box as a Career-building Strategy – Farshid Asl (Vice President, GMAC Enterprise Risk Services)

Student Retreat Reporting-out – Bassirou Sock (President, CPES SLC)

Breakout Session I

International Partnerships: Pros & Cons
Moderator: Ulrich Neumann (Director, USC IMSC)
Panel: Dan Edie(288K) (past Director, CAEFF); Joe Giachino (ILO, WIMMS); Jun Ni (Dep. Dir., UMich RMS); Madhavan Swaminathan (Dep. Dir., Georgia Tech PRC)

Marketing the ERC to Students
Co-moderators: Kathy Rubin (Educ. Dir., CASA) & Michael Maturo (Pres., IMSC SLC)
Speakers: Leigh Abts (Dep. Dir., Center for Educational Outreach, JHU), “Pre-college Outreach and Pipelining”; Gary Webber(725K) (Educ. Prog. Coordinator., U Kansas CEBC), “Recruitment & Retention”; Ogechi Ibe (student, UMass CASA), “Recruitment & Retention from a Personal Perspective”; Michael Maturo(2.44MB), “Student Council Recruitment & Retention”

Graduation Planning Workshop
Co-moderators: Rao Tummala(5.63MB) (Director, PRC) & Bill Costerton (past Director, Montana State CBE)
Panel: Andy Branca (Dir. Industry Relations, UWEB); Brij Moudgil (Director, U Fla. PERC); Farhang Shadman (Director, U Arizona CEBSM);

Education Innovation: Assessment & Evaluation
Co-moderators: Win Aung (ERC Engrg Educ. Coordinator, NSF) & Beth Tranter (Educ. Dir., VA Tech CPES)
Speakers: Win Aung, “Assessment of Dissemination of ERC/EERC Education Innovations”; Leyla Conrad(152K) (Educ. Dir., Ga Tech PRC); Elijah Kannatey-Asibu (Assoc. Dir. For Educ., UMich RMS); Beth Tranter; Taylor Martin (VanTH, UTexas-Austin)

Lunch Speaker: Dr. Susan Butts(272K) , Director, External Technology, The Dow Chemical Company, and Representative to the Industrial Research Institute: “Impacts of Globalization on Industry-University Intellectual Property Issues”

Breakout Session II

Globalization: Impacts on Membership
Moderator: Yoram Koren (Director, RMS )
Panel: Yoram Koren, Brij Moudgil (Director, UFla PERC), Farhang Shadman (Director, UAz EBSM), Susan Butts(74K) (Dow Chemical Co.)

Reporting, Database, & Financial Management
Co-moderators: Linda Parker (NSF/EEC), Chris Bishop(61K) and Sean Teehan (ORC Macro), & Charles Zeigler (NSF Budget Office)

Reshaping Engineering Education to Adapt to Global Realities
Moderator: Leyla Conrad(15K) (Educ. Dir., PRC)
Panel: Michael Celaya (Educ. Dir., EUV ERC); Anne Donnelly(3.4MB) (Assoc. Dir., Educ., UFla PERC); Jerry Collins(203K) (ILO, VaNTH); Sandeep Sankararaman (student, PRC)

Breakout Session III – Cross-Center Issues

Bioengineering Centers Discussion Section
Co-moderators: Bob Nerem (Director, GTEC) & Sohi Rastegar(NSF PD)
Topic: Challenges of long translation times for tech transfer in bioengineering & how ERCs can succeed in this environment All staff, students, industry
Speakers: Sohi Rastegar(116K), “Technology Transfer Challenges in Bio-focused ERCs”; David Cheney (Dir. S&T Policy Program, SRI Intl.), review of an SRI study on Industry Expectations of ERCs
Panelists: Linda Griffith (Director, BPEC); Andy Branca (ILO, UWEB)

Manufacturing & Processing Centers Discussion Section
Co-moderators: Bala Subramaniam (Director, U Kansas CEBC); Tap Mukherjee (NSF PD)
Topic: Ways to exploit synergies between ERCs and other centers to mutual benefit All staff, students, industry
Speakers: Irwin Feller(28K) (Economics Professor, Penn State), “Benefits of connectivity across centers”; Farhang Shadman(50K) (Director, CEBC), “Barriers to connectivity across centers and how to facilitate meaningful collaborations”; Rao Tummala(894K) (Director, PRC), “Examples of connectivities. What worked and what didn’t work?”; Dan Edie(330K) (past director, CAEFF) as “adjunct” panelist

Earthquake Engineering Centers Discussion Section
Co-moderators: Amr Elnashai (Director, MAEC) & Joy Pauschke (NSF PD)
Topic: Tri-center Field Missions and Future Plans All staff, students, industry

Microelectronic Centers Discussion Section
Co-moderators: Dave McLaughlin (Director, CASA) and Bruce Kramer(96K) (NSF PD)
Topic: Educating Engineers About Innovation All staff, students, industry
Panel: Bruce Kramer (NSF PD); Michael Malone (Dean of Engineering, UMass); Michael Silevitch (Director, CenSSIS)

ADs’ Planning & Discussion Section
Co-moderators: Pam Luther & Shawna Young-Garcia (GTEC)
Topic: Continued discussion from closed meeting, and 2005 Summer Retreat agenda planning

Plenary Session III: Diversity Issues – Vista Ballroom BC, Conference Level

Moderator: Bob Norwood (Education Program Director, EEC Division)

Welcome & Plan for Day – Court Lewis

Mary Poats (Diversity Coordinator, EEC Div.) with new policy and snapshot of stats
Vital Need for Diversity in S & T Education for Minorities (STEM) – Calvin Mackie (Assoc. Prof. of Mechanical Engineering, Tulane University)

Diversity program highlights: RMS & Morgan State collaboration – S. Keith Hargrove (Assoc. Prof., Industrial, Manufacturing and Information Engineering Dept., Morgan State University) with students Babatunde Olubando and Richard Queen Operating LSAMP & AGEP programs – Anne Donnelly(9MB), Assoc. Director for Education, U Florida PERC

Lynn Preston(7.76MB) recap with charge to the ERCs

Breakout Session IV — Sharing Creative Ways & Means to Improve Diversity

Bioengineering Centers Diversity Workshop
Moderator: Ralph Etienne-Cummings Assoc. Dir. for Educ. & Outreach Programs, CISST
Speaker: Jerry Prince(15.3MB) (Assoc. Dir., Research, CISST)
Panel: Jean Alley (Education Coordinator, VaNTH); Edward Botchwey III (Asst. Prof., Biomedical Engineering, U. Virginia; Edward Brown , Jr., Asst. Prof., Electrical Engineering, Rochester Institute of Technology

Manufacturing & Processing Centers Diversity Workshop
Moderator: John Kennedy (Director, Clemson University CAEFF)
Topic: Center Strategic Plans for Diversity
Speakers: Jane Jacobi (Admin. Dir., Clemson CAEFF); Joseph Heppert(660K) (Educ. Dir., U Kansas CEBC); Kim Ogden(486K) (Educ. Dir., U Arizona CEBSM); Anne Donnelly(887K) (Assoc. Dir., Educ & Outreach, U Florida PERC); Yoram Koren(202K) (Director, UMich RMS)

Earthquake Engineering Centers Diversity Workshop
Moderator: Scott Ashford (Asst. Dir., Educ., UC-Berkeley PEER)

Microelectronics Centers Diversity Workshop
Moderator: Leo McAfee(4.4MB) (Assoc. Dir., Educ., UMich WIMS)
Panel: Michael Celaya(19MB) (Educ. Dir., Colorado State EUV ERC); Paula Leventman(100K) (Diversity Coordinator, Northeastern CenSSIS); Beth Tranter (Educ & Outreach Dir., VA Tech CPES)