STUDENT RETREAT
SUMMARY 2000 NSF ERC Meeting
November 4, 2000
Photos from Retreat
By Tae Kim, UWEB SLC
taekim_uw@hotmail.com
206-221-5827
All presentation slides are linked from
the session or presenter below.
All student participants are listed at the end with
associated ERC, university, and e-mail address.
NETWORKING:
Panel members were asked questions by the moderator
(Rachit Ohri) and the student audience.
Panel Members:
Jeff Bonadio (UWEB)
Joy Pauschke (NSF)
Buddy Ratner (UWEB)
Csani Varga (MIT)
Andrea Messer (Hawaii)
John Harder (Michigan)
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Build up your credentials. Better credentials will allow
you to make a better first impression. A variety of experiences can
be valuable.
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Even failed or unsuccessful events can be good networking
opportunities. Example: writing a research grant that is not funded
still provides chances to interact with new people who may prove to
be valuable contacts.
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ERCs provide excellent networking opportunities.
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industrial partners
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NSF personnel and other ERC students and staff
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faculty and students within your ERC
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Networks can be self-propagating. Once you start one,
it can grow on its own.
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How do you maintain your network?
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Use a contact database to manage who is in your network.
Add keywords to simplify searching through the database.
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Formalize network by incorporating them into your thesis
committee.
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Send published articles to your contacts to update them
on your work.
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Be bold.
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Organize informal networking events with industrial partners.
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Express an interest in contacts’ company. Ask for tour,
etc.
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Get contacts (specifically industrial contacts) involved
in your research. Ask them to be a technical coach or mentor.
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Use literature to find potential contacts in your field.
- Networking skills can
be different in different areas: academia, industry, government agency.
- Networking among peers
is important. One of the earthquake ERCs did a mini student conference.
Good opportunity for multi-site ERCs.
- How to network with
NSF staff?
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send e-mail
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send updates on progress and successes
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update NSF on what happens to students after graduation
- How different are industry
people?
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networking principles are the same
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how they communicate can be different
- How can we improve
internal networking?
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seminars
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student only brown bag seminars (over lunch)
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social events, after-work events
EFFECTIVE
COMMUNICATION:
Panel discussion, members included:
Andrea Messer (Hawaii)
Charley Hamilton (UC Irvine)
Diane Muratore (Vanderbilt)
Ritwik Chatterjee (MIT)
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yearly turnover
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different school quarters/semesters
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one SLC for multiple sites
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distance, time, cost
- Use engineering societies
to identify and communicate with students.
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couple SLC meetings with society meetings
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plan SLC meetings at conferences
- How do we identify
students at other sites of multi-institution ERC?
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identify a faculty member at each site who will be the
communications contact.
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identify a student communications contact at each site.
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share opportunities/benefits of SLC involvement at all
sites to get students to come to you (SLC)
- Great starting point
is a list of students funded through the ERC.
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keep in mind that many active and interested students
are not totally or directly funded by the ERC, however these students
should not be overlooked
- How do you tackle a
lack of faculty support for what the SLC is trying to do?
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faculty support is important and their support is invaluable
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try to get faculty to agree upon priorities (student priorities,
research group priorities, ERC priorities)
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show how SLC participation will increase the quality of
their students’ research and the quality of the ERC
- Do many multi-institutional
ERCs have projects that involve multiple sites?
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yes
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link project groups by e-mail and teleconferencing
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some travel to use sole source equipment
- Multi-site ERCs compliment
each other.
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each site brings unique skills and equipment to the
ERC
- Use web message board
to post info and ask questions.
- How is curriculum shared?
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some site working on web-based courses
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Hawaii has video classes (using video tapes) to link classrooms
in Hawaii and UC Berkeley
- How are the SLC organized
at multi-site ERCs?
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most have a single SLC for all sites
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some have one SLC member per site
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some have 1 rep per core institution and 5 reps for remaining
affiliate institutions
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have the current SLC find a replacement, better way to
manage turnover
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all SLC members meet quarterly in person an rotating location
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some have weekly meetings in chat rooms
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use student only retreats to reward active students.
ERC
WEBSITE:
- 2/3 of survey respondents
had not visited the website.
- ½ of visitors are single-time
users.
- Resume posting lacks
critical mass to be successful.
- Site needs info/data
that will attract multi-visit users to be successful long-term.
- It has been difficult
to make the job postings page successful because some Industrial Liaisons
do not support posting jobs on a website accessible to all ERCs.
By posting to all ERCs it is a loss of benefit to their specific students
and dilutes their particular industrial relationships.
- It appears that the
Effort/Benefit ratio is very high.
- A sub-group met and
developed the following action steps:
- Link all ERC industrial
partners by center. Include contact person if possible.
- Add linkage page:
links to a wide variety of information useful to ERC students.
- Expand links to SLC
and ERC webpages to subdivide for greater specificity. (e.g. publications,
awards, etc)
- Post guidelines for:
- SWOT analysis
- posters for student
retreat
- SLC structures/organization
- student retreat
planning
- Job link will be
continued to get a sufficient number of student resumes to let industrial
partners access the database.
- Will combine the
message boards to one, and drop the exclusivity of the SLC.
- Get a current SLC
student subcontractor to actively manage the website and the interactions
among ERC-SLCs.
GUEST SPEAKER: Jeff Bonadio, Professor, UWEB
- Is there a significant
difference in the SCIENCE in industry vs. academia?
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no, science is a method, there is no fundamental difference
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YES
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faculty are small businessman, funding themselves
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in industry the funding is not yours, you need to be a
team player
- Is the culture different?
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in academia the focus is placed on research*, teaching,
and service
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early years spent at the bench, basically an extension
of a post-doc
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you need to generate ideas, don’t have to finish things
off
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the goal is to create
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in industry you have a more concrete state of completion
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individuals are measured on cost, teamwork, problem solving
ability, skill set, and project planning
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personality and how you interact with your team is important
- Innovation in academia
is creativity
- Innovation in industry
is execution
- Excellence now
(regardless of what you’re doing) will provide more opportunities
in the future.
- Potential reading:
Advice to a Young Scientist, Peter Medawar
CURRENT
BEST PRACTICES IN OUTREACH:
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outreach to scientific community, graduate students, undergrads,
and community in general
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outreach to grad students focus on student growth and
development
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student seminar
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faculty seminar
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industrial tours
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outreach to undergrads
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introduction to ERC
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use engineering paint lab as hands-on tool
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seminars to highlight grad school
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undergraduate research (60 students/semester)
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undergrad paired with grad student
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scholarship fund to encourage participation ($800-$1000
per semester)
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10-20 hrs of research per week
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attend meetings and seminars
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submit report at end of each semester
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projects usually last multiple semesters
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industry can submit projects
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strong culture supporting undergrad research
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REU program
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built partnerships in Europe
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K-12 outreach has 2 co-chairs, 10 committee members, and
30 participants.
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introduce bioengineering as a career path
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60% of events are classroom presentation
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40% of events are lab tours
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judge science fairs
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tie into existing programs to mentor high school students
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Prosthetic Pete, model showing implants
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match implants to part of the body
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Bone fracture fixation demo
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Education In-Reach
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give grad students opportunity to teach
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mentor training
CURRENT BEST PRACTICES IN ERC/INDUSTRY COLLABORATION:
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Lunch with Leaders
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2X per year, site visit and industrial symposium
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Learn about Industry From Experts (LIFE) Short Course
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invite industrial speaker
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45 minute presentation, 45 minute discussion followed
by informal dinner and drinks
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11 short courses per year
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48 enrolled students for short courses
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Topics have included:
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intellectual property
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R&D management
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FDA
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process development
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scale-up
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Student Liaison with industrial partners
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liaison gathers/updates company information
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share student/ERC publications
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update industry on interesting events
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this program led to a library of industrial partners
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A future project is developing an alumni resource network.
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Issues associated with industrial interactions:
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project initiation
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student management
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post scholastic placement
STUDENT
INVOLVEMENT BREAKOUT SESSION:
The 3 questions posed to all the students:
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How do we get students to attend SLC meetings?
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How do we maintain leadership with student turnover?
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How do we measure ‘student involvement’?
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GOOD free food, more free food.
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Go to other student groups.
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Give out t-shirts.
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No limit on membership. Does not have to belong to ERC.
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Pay SLC officers to compensate for their time commitment.
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Get students involved early, as soon as they join the
ERC.
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Give everyone a task.
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Put comments on student involvement on the ERC website.
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Keep meetings short and concise (30-60 minutes).
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Create an SLC mission statement.
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Plan social activities.
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Hold regular meetings.
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Clearly share the reward/benefits of SLC involvement from
the beginning.
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Create undergrad scholarships.
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Collaborate with other campus student organizations.
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GET FACULTY SUPPORT!
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Set clear goals and milestones.
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Create student only seminar.
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Service learning.
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Get feedback on SLC events to learn how to improve events.
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Get a student representative on the ERC executive committee.
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Potential ways to measure student involvement:
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measure contact time during outreach, with industry, etc.
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check meeting attendance
OVERALL FEEDBACK ON THE STUDENT RETREAT:
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Needed more time for student discussion, particularly
on the Outreach, ERC/Industry Collaboration, and Student Involvement
topics.
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Discuss undergrad research programs next year.
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Good industrial speaker.
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Good icebreaker.
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Better Friday night (night before) activity. Need better
prior communication and single point contact person.
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Pre-plan a Saturday night student activity.
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Have more time to share research. Include an introduction
to each centers research.
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possibly include in the individual introductions
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Good outreach opportunities.
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Next year, have several concurrent presentations so students
can choose what they want to go to.
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Would work very well for topics where mutli-site vs. single
site ERCs have different needs.
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Could also have breakout sessions for different research
areas (e.g. biotech, electronics/communication, earth sciences, etc)
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Give two months for any surveys that need to be filled
out.
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Send reminder e-mails for all deadlines.
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Put notices/surveys on the ERC website.
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Share SLC organizational methods.
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Write up summaries of each SLC org chart and include in
packets.
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Put pictures of SLCs on the ERC website.
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Clarify objectives of posters.
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Recommended that each SLC choose one goal they want to
accomplish by next meeting.
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Format and organization of the meeting was good.
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Good choice of speakers.
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Want more outreach brainstorming.
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Have session on SLC interactions with:
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NSF
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ERC administration
- Incorporate the following
topics into next years retreat:
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5 min. introduction of each center
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info on NSF funding proposals
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case studies of SLCs
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maybe based on size, research, etc.
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or a 1 page summary of each SLCs work to date
- Include a list of SLC
committee members at each site.
- Table rotations were
good.
- Good balance of topics
for talks.
- Copying education directors
on info e-mails a good idea.
- Great job!
- Better communication.
Possible post info on the web.
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To improve communication there has to be an updated list
of SLC presidents somewhere. ERC website list was out of date.
- Need ice cream social.
- Need to figure out how
to promote resumes on ERC website.
SUNDAY STUDENT SESSION:
Bioman game can be found at www.guysimplant.org.
It can also be accessed through a link at the UWEB homepage at www.uweb.engr.washington.edu.
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ATTENDEES
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ERC
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UNIVERSITY
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E-MAIL
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Adler, Joshua
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PST
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Florida
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jadler@erc.ufl.edu
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Brown, Ames
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VaNTH
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Vanderbilt
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ames@nicsweb.com
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Brown, Erika
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VaNTH
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MIT
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elb@mit.edu
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Brown, Scott
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PST
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Florida
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scottbcn@ufl.edu
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Burdyshaw, Chad
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CCFS
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Miss.St.
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chad@erc.msstate.edu
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Chatterjee, Ritwik
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EBSM
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MIT
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ritwik@mit.edu
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Coe, Tiffanie
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RMS
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Michigan
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tcoe@engin.umich.edu
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Dusch, Brian
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PRC
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Georgia Tech
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briandusch@hotmail.com
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Emeagwali, Nkiruka
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CISST
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Johns Hopkins
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nae1@jhu.edu
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Ensley, Ann
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GTEC
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Georgia Tech
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aensley@earthlink.net
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Erbay, Omer
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MAEC
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Illinois
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erbay@uiuc.edu
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Forster, Aaron
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CAEFF
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Clemson
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aforste@clemson.edu
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Gerovichev, Oleg
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CISST
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Johns Hopkins
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oleg@jhu.edu
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Graham, Dan
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UWEB
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Washington
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dafyduck@u.washington.edu
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Guha, Gauri
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MCEER
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Penn State
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gsg121@psu.edu
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Hamilton, Charley
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PEER
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UC Irvine
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chamilto@uci.edu
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Hanson, Ariel
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CenSSIS
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Northeastern
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ariello00@aol.com
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Harder, John
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RMS
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Michigan
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jharder@engin.umich.edu
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Harpster, Timothy
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WIMS
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Michigan
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tharpste@eecs.umich.edu
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Hutchinson, Tara
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PEER
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UC Davis
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tchutchinson@ucdavis.edu
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Joshi, Pushkar
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IMSC
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USC
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ppj@usc.edu
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Katsis, Dimos
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CPES
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Virginia Tech
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dkatsis@vt.edu
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Kiley-Zufelt, Michael
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MCEER
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Delaware
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kileyzuf@udel.edu
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Kim, Tae
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UWEB
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Washington
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taekim_uw@hotmail.com
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Kraver, Keith
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WIMS
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Michigan
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kkraver@umich.edu
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Lambert, Brian
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CCFS
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Miss. St.
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lambert@erc.msstate.edu
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Lin, Oliver
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CISST
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Johns Hopkins
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o.lin@jhu.edu
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Lingaraju, Navin
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VaNTH
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nbl@po.cwru.edu
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Margerum, Sarah
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VaNTH
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Northwestern
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s-margerum@nwu.edu
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Matocha, Kevin
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CPES
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RPI
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matock@rpi.edu
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Meeker, Daniella
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CNSE
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Cal. Tech.
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daniella@caltech.edu
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Messer, Andrea
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MarBEC
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Hawaii
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amesser@soest.hawaii.edu
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Muratore, Diane
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VaNTH
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Vanderbilt
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diane.muratore@vanderbilt.edu
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Ohri, Rachit
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UWEB
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Washington
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rohri@u.washington.edu
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Otero, Manny
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BPEC
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MIT
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manny1@mit.edu
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Panotopoulos, George
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CNSE
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Cal. Tech.
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gpano@caltech.edu
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Paydenkar, Chetan
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PRC
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Georgia Tech
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gte545k@prism.gatech.edu
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Pfingsten, Dave
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MAEC
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Texas A&M
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d-pfingsten@tamu.edu
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Rejaie, Ali
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MCEER
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USC
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rejaiesh@usc.edu
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Ross, Alexander
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CenSSIS
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RPI
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rossa@rpi.edu
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Shen, Mingchao
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UWEB
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Washington
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mshen@u.washington.edu
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Stabler, Cheri
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GTEC
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Georgia Tech
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gte445k@prism.gatech.edu
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Stephans, Paige
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UWEB
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Washington
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stephans@u.washington.edu
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Stephansson, Sean
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GTEC
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Georgia Tech
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gt8159d@prism.gatech.edu
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Swannack, Charles
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CAEFF
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Clemson
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cswanna@clemson.edu
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Taha, Ali
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IMSC
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USC
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taha@usc.edu
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Tsiagkli, Sandy
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GTEC
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Georgia Tech
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gte328k@prism.gatech.edu
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Vanderploeg, Eric
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GTEC
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Georgia Tech
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gte217r@prism.gatech.edu
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Varga, Csani
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BPEC
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MIT
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csani@mit.edu
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Voogt, Jason
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MarBEC
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UC Berkeley
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jvoogt@uclink.berkeley.edu
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Welchko, Brian
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CPES
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Wisconsin
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welchko@cae.wisc.edu
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Wiester, Lisa
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UWEB
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Washington
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lwiester@u.washington.edu
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ACRONYM
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ERC
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BPEC
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Biotechnology Process Engineering Center
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CAEFF
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Center for Advanced Engineering Fibers and Films
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CCFS
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Center for Computational Field Simulation
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CenSSIS
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Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems
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CISST
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Computer-Integrated Surgical Systems and Technology
ERC
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CNES
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Center for Neuromorphic Systems
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CPES
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Center for Power Electronics Systems
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EBSM
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ERC for Environmentally Benign Semiconductor
Manufacturing
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GTEC
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Georgia Tech/Emory Center for the Engineering
of Living Tissues
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IMSC
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Integrated Media Systems Center
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MAEC
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Mid-America Earthquake Center
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MCEER
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Multidisciplinary Center for Earthquake Engineering
Research
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PEER
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Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
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PRC
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Microelectronic Packaging Research Center
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PST
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ERC for Particle Science and Technology
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RMS
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ERC for Reconfigurable Machining Systems
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UWEB
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University of Washington Engineered Biomaterials
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VaNTH
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VaNTH ERC for Bioengineering Educational Technologies
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WIMs
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Wireless Integrated Microsystems
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