Hyatt Regency Chicago
Tuesday, June 20
10:30 a.m. -Noon

2305 - Globalization, Leadership and Diversity in Engineering Education

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Sponsors: Engineering & Public Policy Division, Professional Interest Council III
Facilitator: Douglas Sicker, University of Colorado, Boulder

FRANK S. BARNES
Distinguished Professor
University of Colorado at Boulder
Frank Barnes received his B.S.E.E. in 1954 from Princeton and his M.S., Engineer and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford in 1955, ’56 and ’58, respectively. He was a Fulbright Scholar in Baghdad, Iraq, in 1958 and joined the University of Colorado in 1959 where he is currently a Distinguished Professor. He has served as chairman of the department of electrical engineering and cofounded the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program in 1971.

He has served as chair of the IEEE Electron Device Society and editor of the IEEE Transactions on Education, and he is a Fellow of AAAS, IEEE and the International Engineering Consortium and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Dr. Barnes received the Curtis McGraw Research Award from ASEE, the Leon Montgomery Award from the International Communications Association, the 2003 IEEE Education Society Achievement Award, the 2002 ECE Distinguished Educator Award from ASEE and the Bernard M. Gordon Prize from the National Academy of Engineering for Innovations in Engineering Education 2004.

GARY DOWNEY
Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Virginia Tech
Gary Downey is professor of science and technology studies and affiliated faculty in the department of engineering education at Virginia Tech. He is 2005-06 Boeing Co. Senior Fellow in Engineering Education at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and was keynote lecturer on the engineer as problem definer at the seventh World Congress of Chemical Engineering in Glasgow, Scotland. Trained as a mechanical engineer (B.S., Lehigh University, 1974) and cultural anthropologist (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1981), he is winner of Virginia Tech’s 1997 Diggs Teaching Scholar Award for scholarship in teaching, the 2003 XCaliber Award for instructional technology and the 2004 William Wine Award for career excellence in teaching. He is principal investigator on three NSF-funded projects: Engineering Cultures: Building the Global Engineer; Engineers and the Metrics of Progress; and Engineering Education in the Middle East. He is author of “The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers” (Routledge 1998) and codeveloper of Engineering Cultures® multimedia courseware.

JUAN LUCENA
Associate Professor
Colorado School of Mines
Juan Lucena is associate professor in liberal arts and international studies and affiliated faculty member in the Center for Engineering Education at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM). He is also 2005-06 Boeing Co. Senior Fellow in Engineering Education at the National Academy of Engineering and was keynote lecturer at the 2004 National Conference on Engineering Education in Colombia. Trained in mechanical and aeronautical engineering (B.S., Rensselaer, 1987, 1988) and science and technology studies (Ph.D., Virginia Tech, 1996), he is principal investigator of the NSF-funded projects Global Engineers: Ethnography of Globalization in Engineering Education; Hiring, Practices and Designs; and Enhancing Engineering Education Through Humanitarian Ethics, which is developing a graduate curriculum in humanitarian engineering at CSM. He is author of “Defending the Nation: U.S. Policymaking in Science and Engineering Education from Sputnik to the War Against Terrorism” (University Press of America 2005) and codeveloper of Engineering Cultures® multimedia courseware.

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2390 - Systems Engineering Entrepreneurship - Uniquely Bridging the Engineering and Business Realms to Produce the Engineers of 2020

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Sponsors: Entrepreneurship Division, Professional Interest Council IV
Facilitator: David Barbe, University of Maryland-College Park

Carmo D’Cruz
Associate Professor
Florida Institute of Technology
Dr. Carmo D’Cruz is associate professor in the department of engineering systems at Florida Tech. He has also served as member of the adjunct faculty in the College of Engineering and the College of Business at the University of Central Florida and in the Engineering Management Program at Florida Tech. A 20-year veteran of the electronics and semiconductor industry, his previous experience ranges from R&D at Bell Labs, engineering at AMD, production management at Hitachi, operations management at RF Monolithics, worldwide operations planning at Harris, technical marketing at Tantivy Communications, strategic planning/business development at Chip Supply, Inc. and founder/CEO of NanoDynamo, Inc. D’Cruz’s current research and teaching focus is in technopolis creation, engineering management, product strategy, technology commercialization, technical marketing, systems engineering entrepreneurship and wireless data technologies. He has an M.S.E.E. from Drexel University, an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and a doctorate in engineering management from Southern Methodist University.

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2391 - The Unleashed Human Mind: Liberating Education for the 21st Century

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Sponsors: Liberal Education Division, Professional Interest Council III
Facilitator: Borjana Mikic, Smith College

Lewis Duncan
President
Rollins College
Lewis M. Duncan was elected 14th president of Rollins College in March 2004. He is former dean and professor of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College and was previously provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Tulsa.

Dr. Duncan received his bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics and his master’s and doctorate in space physics from Rice University in Houston. As a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow, he conducted research at the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center in Puerto Rico. He subsequently joined the Los Alamos National Laboratory as a research scientist and later became a section head in the Division of Earth and Space Sciences.

Following a year as a Carnegie Science Fellow at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Arms Control, he joined the faculty of Clemson University as associate dean of the College of Sciences. He was founding director of the South Carolina Space Grant Consortium and remains a fellow of Clemson’s Thurmond Institute of Government and Public Affairs. His current research interests include experimental space plasma physics, radiophysics and technology and public policy.

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Hyatt Regency Chicago
Wednesday, June 21
10:30 a.m. -Noon

3305 – Critical Issues Facing Engineering Education and Research

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Sponsors: Engineering Research Council
Facilitator: John Gilligan, North Carolina State University

Arden Bement
Director
National Science Foundation
Arden L. Bement Jr., became director of the National Science Foundation on Nov. 24, 2004. He had been acting director since Feb. 22, 2004.

He joined NSF from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where he had been director since Dec. 7, 2001. As head of NIST, he oversaw an agency with an annual budget of about $773 million and an onsite research and administrative staff of about 3,000, complemented by a NIST-sponsored network of 2,000 locally managed manufacturing and business specialists serving smaller manufacturers across the United States. Prior to his appointment as NIST director, Bement served as the David A. Ross Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering and head of the School of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University. He has held appointments at Purdue University in the schools of Nuclear Engineering, Materials Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, as well as a courtesy appointment in the Krannert School of Management. He was director of the Midwest Superconductivity Consortium and the Consortium for the Intelligent Management of the Electrical Power Grid.

Bement came to the position as NIST director having previously served as head of that agency’s Visiting Committee on Advanced Technology, the agency’s primary private-sector policy adviser; as head of the advisory committee for NIST’s Advanced Technology Program; and on the Board of Overseers for the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.

Bement joined the Purdue faculty in 1992 after a 39-year career in industry, government and academia. These positions included: vice president of technical resources and of science and technology for TRW Inc. (1980-1992); deputy under secretary of defense for research and engineering (1979-1980); director, Office of Materials Science, DARPA (1976-1979); professor of nuclear materials, MIT (1970-1976); manager, Fuels and Materials Department and the Metallurgy Research Department, Battelle Northwest Laboratories (1965-1970); and senior research associate, General Electric Co. (1954-1965).

Bement holds an engineer of metallurgy degree from the Colorado School of Mines, a master’s degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Idaho, a doctoral degree in metallurgical engineering from the University of Michigan, an honorary doctoral degree in engineering from Cleveland State University, an honorary doctoral degree in science from Case Western Reserve University and an honorary doctoral degree in engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Sponsor: Engineering Research Council

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3390 - Present and Future Challenges for Education and Research in Europe

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Sponsors: International Division, Professional Interest Council IV
Facilitator: Russ Jones, World Expertise LLC

Claudio Borri
Professor of Computational Mechanics of
Structures
University of Florence
Claudio Borri, professor of computational mechanics of structures at the University of Florence (Italy), is the president elect of SEFI for 2005/2007, vice dean for international relations of the School of Engineering, University of Florence and vice president of the CRIACIV (Interuniversity Research Centre on Building & Environmental Aerodynamics). He is the author or coauthor of approximately 120 scientific publications on structural mechanics, computational methods in structural engineering, wind engineering, nonlinear problems in structural design, stochastic dynamics and shell structures, and he has edited the following books: “L’ Ingegneria del vento in Italia,” “Structural Dynamics,” and “The Renaissance Engineer of Tomorrow.” Professor Borri was awarded in 1994 with the M. Plank Research Award in structural mechanics by the von Humbold Foundation in Germany and in 2001 with Honorary Doctor Degree in Engineering Sciences by the University of Architecture, Civil Engineering & Geodesy (UACEG) of Sofia, Bulgaria.

From 1992 to 1996 he was project manager for the research network BEATRICE (Building and Environmental Aerodynamics) and academic expert for CRE/EUA (European University Association, former Conférence des Recteurs Européènnes, Ginevra).

He has been deputy rector for the SOCRATES program at the University of Florence since 1996. From 2001 to 2003, he was scientific coordinator of the national research project WINDERFUL (MIUR-COFIN) and chairman of the COST action C14 on Urban Wind Engineering (EC-DG XII, Brussels) in 2003.

Professor Borri has been the president and legal representative of the Socrates E4 Thematic Network (Engineering Education in Europe) and is currently president and legal representative of the Socrates Thematic Network TREE (Teaching and Research Engineering in Europe).

Professor Borri’s activity in the engineering education field is related to his multiannual membership in SEFI. He took part in all its annual conferences during recent years, devoting special attention to the continuing education, accreditation and motivation to engineering studies. He has attended seminars and organized working group activities in the context of European programs.

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3391 - Engineering and History

Sponsors: Mechanical Engineering Division, Design in Engineering Education Division, Civil Engineering Division, Construction Engineering Division, Professional Interest Councils I & II

Henry Petroski
Professor of Civil Engineering
Duke University
Henry Petroski is the Aleksandar S. Vesic Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of history at Duke University. He has written on many aspects of engineering and technology, including design, success and failure and the history of engineering and technology. His books on these subjects, which are intended for professional engineers and general readers alike, include “To Engineer Is Human,” which was adapted for a BBC-television documentary, and “Design Paradigms,” which was named by the Association of American Publishers as the best general engineering book published in 1994. His “Engineers of Dreams” is a history of American bridge building. He has also written books on commonplace objects, including “The Pencil,” “The Evolution of Useful Things,” “The Book on the Bookshelf,” and “Small Things Considered,” and has published collections of essays on engineering subjects under the titles “Remaking the World” and “Pushing the Limits”. A memoir about delivering newspapers in the 1950s and about what predisposed him to become an engineer is entitled “Paperboy.” His books have been widely translated, into such languages as Chinese, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Spanish and Turkish.

Before moving to Duke in 1980, Petroski was on the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin and on the staff of Argonne National Laboratory. He is a professional engineer licensed in Texas and a chartered engineer registered in Ireland. He has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Humanities Center. Among his other honors are the Ralph Coats Roe Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Civil Engineering History and Heritage Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers. He has received honorary doctoral degrees from Clarkson University, Manhattan College, Trinity College (in Hartford, Conn.) and Valparaiso University, as well as distinguished engineering alumnus awards from Manhattan College and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers (whose History and Heritage Committee he chairs), the Institution of Engineers of Ireland and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is an honorary member of the Moles and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering.

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