1. Vision:
(a) How is the vision established in your Center?
(b) Is the vision updated on a regular basis? If so, who participates?

2. How are decisions arrived at regarding (list advantages and disadvantages in each area):
(a) policy issues
(b) establishment of research goals
(c) termination of old projects and establishment of new ones
(d) budget/resource allocations.

3. How do you revitalize the Center on a continuing basis?

4. What role has the Center and/or Director played in recruiting new faculty to the university?

5. What role has the Center played in promotion and tenure decisions?

6. How do departments participate in facilitating the success of the Center?

7. What effective ways have you found to leverage resources from the university?

8. What have you done to facilitate cross-disciplinary interactions within the Center?

9. How do you reward success in the Center?

10. How do you structure successful alliances or outreach activities with other institutions?

11. Is your Center located in contiguous space or is it "distributed"? If distributed, how do you meet the objective of an integrated/focused program?

12. What steps have you taken to distribute the work load and avoid burnout?

13. Is there a strategy in place to identify a successor to the director and to provide continuity of leadership if the director were to leave?

14. What effect has the responsibilities of being director had on your individual research?

15. Describe how your center balances the requirements of individual PhD dissertation research with the need for students to also provide services to other students and/or participate in the maintenance and repair of equipment, etc.

16. What impact has your Center had on educational programs? (new courses, new degree programs, etc.)

17. What are your mechanisms for interacting with industry?

18. How have your interactions with industry evolved over the years?

19. How do you identify potential new partners from industry and establish interactions with them on a "proper" basis?

20. How do you manage Intellectual Property Rights issues when funding for the center comes from several different sources?

21. What is the nature of your "testbed" and how does industry interface with it or benefit from it?

22. What role should ERCs play in promoting/supporting local and state economies?

23. Describe those efforts that have been especially effective in facilitating the success of the Center in research, education, industry interaction, and outreach.

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