Oregon Convention Center;
Tuesday, June 14 and Wednesday, June 15; 10:30 a.m.
- Noon
2305-Tapping Engineering's
Intellectual Equity: A Strategic Approach to Managing
Global Engineering Networks
KRISTIN ZIMMERMAN,
Manager, Environment and Energy Policy,
General Motors Corp.
In the real world of engineering, it is often taught
that new programs can be planned to "have low cost,
high quality, and on-time delivery…pick any two."
The suspicion began to grow in the early 90s that it
may be possible, just possible…to have all three...by
use of Asian capabilities.
Beginning in 1993, General Motors (GM) created a
novel operating concept called the Global Laboratory
Network (GLN) within their traditional automotive science
and technology laboratories. Traditional GM researchers,
at first, thought the notion was all about outsourcing.
Instead, what GM had really designed was a model for
insourcing intellectual equity (person knowledge) to
enhance their Research, Development, and Engineering
(RD&E) portfolios of projects and programs, specifically
aiming for the greatest level of productivity and return
on investment around the globe.
The GM Global Science and Technology Policy Vision
was truly a global vision. Within two years, the GLN
was implemented throughout North America, Europe, and
across Asia, and became a cornerstone of the negotiations
for GM's joint venture in Shanghai called SGM.
Over time, the GLN has set up local/regional nodes to
acquire science and technology to insource local talent
to support its burgeoning new business ventures, rather
than shipping talent and knowledge from the United States
overseas in either its physical or electronic state.
Zimmerman joined General Motors Research and Development
Center in 1993 and is currently working in GM's
Public Policy Center as manager of Environment and Energy
Policy, where she is in charge of GM's annual
corporate responsibility reporting, and greenhouse-
gas reporting policy, and practices for GM's global
operations. She is also GM's liaison to the Environmental
Protection Agency's voluntary programs, the Department
of Energy -Science Bowl programs, and program manager
of the GM/The Nature Conservancy Atlantic Rainforest
Project in Brazil. She received the 1999-2000 GM Fellowship
to the National Academy of Engineering in Washington,
D.C., where she worked on policy development to enhance
the country's engineering, science, and technology
workforce.
Zimmerman has been a technical consultant to numerous
entities across academia and industry. In 1999, she
participated in a war-gaming scenario development exercise
for the Department of Defense. She is the co-owner and
president of Med:For Inc., a biomedical/biomechanics
consulting firm.
Zimmerman serves the Society for Experimental Mechanics
as chair of the education committee and editor in chief
of Experimental Techniques, and is a member of both
the executive board and the finance committee. In 1993,
she was recognized nationally by the Alpha Sigma Mu-
Materials Research Honor Society and was inducted into
the Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, in 1997.
Sponsoring Division: Energy Conversion &
Conservation
2390-Highlighting the
Engineer of 2020
Chair: Don Giddens,
Dean of Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panelists:
Results of the Engineer of 2020 Project
Stephen Director,
Dean of Engineering, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Innovation in Engineering
Education
Sherra Kerns, Vice President for Innovation
and Research, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Changes in Curriculum
to Reflect the 2020 Project Objectives; Paul Peercy,
Dean of Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Engineer of 2020 Project was initiated by the
Committee on Engineering Education of the National Academy
of Engineering (NAE) and is being carried out by the
NAE Committee on the Engineer of 2020. Part 1 of the
project is "an effort to envision the future and
to use that knowledge to attempt to predict the roles
that engineers will play in the future," according
to The Engineer of 2020, which the NAE published in
the summer of 2004. The framework and the attributes
of the engineer of 2020 presented in Part 1 will be
applied in Part 2 of the project. Part 2 is focusing
on re-engineering the undergraduate curriculum to provide
engineers with the attributes they will need to be effective
in a global workplace in 2020 and beyond. This part
of the project will be completed by June of 2005. The
panel will explore high-profile examples of significant
improvements in engineering education colleges that
are being made to meet the needs of engineering education
in 2020.
Sponsoring Division: Engineering Deans Council
2391-The Creators'
Dilemma: The Struggle to Liberate Innovations and the
Internet From the Law
Lawrence Lessig,
Professor of Law,
Stanford Law School
Lawrence Lessig is one of America's most original
and influential public intellectuals. His focus is the
social dimension of creativity: how innovation builds
on the past and how society encourages or inhibits that
building with laws and technologies. Lessig shows us
how big corporations use the fear created by new technologies,
specifically the Internet, to shrink the public domain
of ideas, even as the same corporations use the same
technologies to control more and more what we can and
can't do with culture. As more culture becomes
digitized, more becomes controllable, even as laws are
being toughened at the behest of the big media groups.
What's at stake is our freedom—freedom to
create, freedom to build, and ultimately, freedom to
imagine.
Lawrence Lessig is a professor of law at Stanford
Law School and founder of the school's Center
for Internet and Society. Lessig represented website
operator Eric Eldred in the groundbreaking case Eldred
v. Ashcroft, a challenge to the 1998 Sonny Bono Copyright
Term Extension Act. He was named one of Scientific American's
Top 50 Visionaries for arguing "against interpretations
of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse
online."
He is the author of three books: Free Culture:
How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down
Culture and Control Creativity, the Future of Ideas,
and Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. He is
a monthly columnist in Wired magazine. He also chairs
the Creative Commons project. Professor Lessig is a
board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
a board member of the Center for the Public Domain,
and a commission member of the Penn National Commission
on Society, Culture, and Community at the University
of Pennsylvania.
Sponsoring Division: Engineering Libraries
Division
3305-Creating New Learning
Environments for Engineering Education: How Educational
Research Drives Change
Jack M. Wilson,
President
University of Massachusetts
Formerly the founding Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
of UMassOnline, Wilson worked with the five UMass campuses—
Amherst, Boston, Dartmouth, Lowell, and Worcester—to
provide online access to academic programs. Wilson is
a tenured professor of management at UMass—Amherst
and has served the university system as vicepresident
for academic affairs.
A well-known entrepreneur and distance educator,
Wilson was a co-founder, president, and chairman of
LearnLinc Corp. (now Mentergy), a supplier of software
systems for corporate training to Fortune 1000 corporations.
Prior to UMass, Wilson was at Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute where he was the J. Erik Jonsson ‘22
Distinguished Professor of Physics, Engineering Science,
Information Technology, and Management and the co-director
of the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship.
During his 11 years at Rensselaer, Wilson served at
various times as dean of undergraduate and professional
education, dean of faculty and provost. In these roles,
Wilson led a campus-wide process of interactive learning
and restructuring of the educational program. He was
known for the design of the Studio Classrooms, the growth
of the Distributed Learning Program, the creation of
the faculty of information technology, and the initiation
of the student mobile computing (universal networked
laptop) initiative.
Prior to Rensselaer, Wilson was a professor of physics
at the University of Maryland. He served for eight years
as the Executive Officer of the American Association
of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and on the governing board
of the American Institute of Physics (AIP). His 31-year
career as a professor has included terms as department
chair, four dean's positions, director of a research
center, and acting provost.
Wilson is a fellow of the American Physical Society
and was awarded the Distinguished Service Citation from
the American Association of Physics Teachers. He recently
completed a term as the chair of the American Physical
Society Forum on Physics Education.
Wilson has served as a consultant to many computing
and communications firms including AT&T, Lucent,
and Hewlett Packard, and an International Consulting
Scholar for the IBM Corp. He has authored over 55 scholarly
articles, written or edited five books, and given over
200 invited lectures. Wilson has enjoyed over $23 million
in funding for his research and scholarly activities.
For more information about Jack Wilson, please visit
www.JackMWilson.com.
Sponsoring Division: Educational Research
and Methods
3390-Decade of Change in
Engineering Education
Panelists/topics TBA
Industry needs and interests have played a significant
role in defining the changes required in engineering
education programs over the past decade—however,
the predominance of attention has been focused in a
domestic (U.S.) context with international competition
as a motivating concern. The newer imperatives and opportunities
that globalization presents and what this may mean for
engineering education, both nationally and around the
world, is only in the early stages of discussion. This
panel will view emerging global trends from the perspective
of what has been accomplished in a decade of education
enhancement and reform efforts, in order to suggest
strategies and directions for the future.
3391-Engineering Education
to Prepare the NAE's Engineer
of 2020
KARAN WATSON,
Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost, Texas A&M
University
The National Academy of Engineers published the document
"The Engineer of 2020" in 2004 in which
they described the information gathered from business,
industrial, and academic leaders on what they expect
engineering and the work of engineers to be in 2020.
In a second phase of this project, the NAE brought professional
leaders together to visualize the educational setting
and curricula that are needed to develop the engineers
for this future vision. The presenter will discuss these
visionary perspectives and the change processes that
must begin today if we are to meet this vision for engineering.
Watson is the dean of faculties and associate provost
at Texas A&M University. In this position she is
responsible for the coordination processes for faculty
recruitment, retention, development, promotions, awards,
as well as grievances and discipline. In 1983 she joined
the faculty of the electrical engineering department
of Texas A&M University, where she is currently
a Regents' Professor of Electrical Engineering.
Prior to her current position she served as the associate
dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Programs in the
Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M
University. In addition, Watson serves as the PI on
the NSF's Texas Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority
Participation and was formerly a leader for the NSF
Foundation Coalition for Engineering Education.
Watson is a fellow of ASEE and IEEE. She was named
an inaugural senior fellow of the National Academy of
Engineers' Council for the Advancement of the
Science of Engineering Education (2003), the IEEE Centennial
Medal (2000), the American Association for the Advancement
of Science Mentoring Award (1999), the Women in Engineering
Programs Advocates Network Founders' Award (1999),
the U.S. President's Award in Engineering and
Science for Mentoring Underrepresented Minorities and
Women (1997), the ASEE Minority Award (1997), the IEEE
Undergraduate Teaching Medal (1996), and the HP/IEEE
Harriett B. Rigas Award (1996).
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