1. Section Chair Joseph Bordogna opened the meeting at 8:00 p.m. and asked those present to introduce themselves. The attendance list appears in Appendix A.

2. Winners of the 1998 election of officers for the Section on Engineering (M) were announced. The terms of office of the elected individuals start on January 27, 1999.

• Chair-Elect: Stuart L. Cooper, Illinois Institute of Technology,  10 W 32^nd St., Rm. 117 E1, Chicago, IL 60616-3792
• Member-at-Large of the Section Committee: Richard J. Goldstein, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 111 Church St., S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455.Members of the Electorate Nominating Committee:
  • Cynthia J. Atman, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195.
  • Robert M. Gray, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 127 Durand Bldg., Stanford, CA 94305.

3.The following AAAS members were elected Fellows in 1998:

Jan D. Achenbach, Clark K. Colton, Alfred L. Crosbie, Nils J. Diaz

Paul Ducheyne, Robert Goulard, Susan Hackwood, Lee L. Huntsman

Herbert S. Isbin, R. Noel Longuemare, Larry V. McIntire,

Peter H. McMurry, Phillip S. Myers, Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis

Michael M. Reischman, Leon Riebman, Hans J. Schneider-Muntau

Robert F. Shurtz, James A. Smith, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan

Jack Keil Wolf.

The proposed changes in Fellow elections for 1999 were discussed. The principal change is a proposed requirement that a successful candidate must have at least 4 positive votes and not more than two negative votes from the Steering Committee. The Steering Committee consists of the Section Chair, Chair-elect, Retiring Chair, Secretary, and four members-at-large. The Council at its meeting on January 24, 1999 will consider the proposal.

4.The following Symposia at the 1999 Annual Meeting were sponsored or co-sponsored by the Section on Engineering:

• Preparing University Faculty to Teach while Educating Future Teachers. Section sponsors: Engineering.
• Changing Academic Labor Markets and Careers in Science and Engineering. Section sponsors: Engineering; Social, Economic, and Political Sciences; Social Impacts of Science and Technology.
• Adding Public Outreach to Research Agendas. Section sponsors: Engineering; General Interest in Science and Engineering; Medical Sciences; Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering; Committee on Public Understanding of Science and Technology.
• Science, Technology, and Food Safety Policy. Section sponsors: Engineering; Social, Economic, and Political Sciences; Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering.
• Using Knowledge to Reduce Earthquake Losses. Section sponsors: Engineering; Social, Economic and Political Sciences.
• Earthquakes and the Urban Environment. Section sponsors: Engineering; Geology and Geography.
• Breaking the University-Industry Technology Transfer Logjam. Section sponsors: Engineering; Industrial Science and Technology.
• Intelligent Transportation Systems: Challenges of Implementing a Complex New Technology. Section sponsors: Engineering; Industrial Science and Technology.
• Innovation Patterns: Value in Formulating Company Strategies and Public Policy. Section sponsors: Engineering; Industrial Science and Technology.
• Issues in High-Tech Startups and Venture Capital. Section sponsors: Engineering; Industrial Science and Technology; CONNECT-University of California-San Diego.
• The University/Industry Interface: Room for Improvements. Section sponsors: Engineering; Industrial Science and Technology; Social Impacts of Science and Engineering.
• Investing in Research: Distributed Science or Elite Science? Section sponsors: Engineering; Directorate for Science and Policy Programs.
• National Network for Engineering Earthquake Simulation (NEES). Section sponsors: Engineering; Geology; Geography.


5.Discussion of Ideas for Proposed Symposia for 2000

• Integrative Science and Engineering Education in the Twenty-First Century. (Agogino)
• Nanotechnology - A Frontier for Integrative Research. (Bordogna)
• Confluence of Biology and Engineering. (Smith)
• Architecture for Massively Parallel Processing Combined with Super Fast Analog Preprocessing. (Anderson)
• Digital Libraries for Science and Engineering Education. (Agogino)
• National Network for Engineering Earthquake Simulation (NNEES). Engineering, Geology, and Geography may cosponsor this.


6. Report by Council Delegate

There was no report from the Council Delegates.

7. Other Business

• The Secretary reported that he requested AAAS Headquarters to add a link to the Engineering Section web page, almost two months ago. Thus far there has been no response. The Secretary reported that he mentioned this at the Section Officers meeting earlier in the day. Action may be forthcoming.

• Members present noted that several Sections were meeting simultaneously, and in particular Sections M, O, and G are meeting at the same time. AAAS Meetings Schedule management will be requested to avoid meeting conflicts for these three sections in the future.

Submitted by:
Jose B. Cruz, Jr., Secretary
 
 

• Joseph Bordogna, NSF, Section Chair
• Martin C. Jischke, Iowa State University, Chair-Elect
• J.Ray Bowen, University of Washington, Retiring Chair
• Jose B. Cruz, Jr., The Ohio State University, Secretary
• Alice M. Agogino, University of California, Berkeley, Member-at-Large
• John S. Maulbetsch, Council Delegate
• Cliff Doke, USDA/NRCS, Liaison ASAE
• John Frey, Minnesota State University
• Warren W. Sadler, Camp. Dresser, and McKee
• Jean-Claude Henisch, Geneva Switzerland
• James A. Smith, NASA GSFC
• Fonda Wu, Raytheon Systems Company
• Gordon Wood Anderson, Department of Defense
• Virginia Stern, AAAS Staff
• Eileen O'Connell, AAAS Intern

Martin C. Jischke, Chair
Office of the President
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2035 Tel: (312) 567 3213
Tel: (515) 294-2042 Fax: (312) 567 6931
Fax: (515) 294-0565
E-mail: president@iastate.edu
 

Stuart L. Cooper, Section Chair
Illinois Institute of Technology
117 Beardshear Hall 10 W. 32^nd ST., Rm. 117 E1
Chicago, IL 60616-3792
E-mail: cooper@admin.iit.edu

Joseph Bordogna, Retiring Chair
National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22230
Tel: (703) 306-1001
Fax: (703) 306-0109 E-mail: jbordogna@nsf.gov

8:00-11:00 PM

Friday, January 22, 1999

Chairman, Joseph Bordogna, Presiding

• Welcome and Introductions
• Introduction of new officers effective January 27, 1999
• Report of 1998 Fellows elected
• Section-cosponsored symposia for current meeting
• Discussion of proposed symposia for 2000
• Reports by Council Delegates
• Heightening Engineering's presence in AAAS
• Other business
• Adjournment

1998-99 Officers:

Chair: Joseph Bordogna

Chair-elect: Martin C. Jischke

Retiring Chair: J. Ray Bowen

Secretary: Jose B. Cruz, Jr.

Section Committee Members at Large

Edward W. Ernst (1999)

Alice M. Agogino (2000)

Nancy A. Da Silva (2001)

Gail H. Marcus (2002)

Council Delegates

Jane G. Evans (2000)

John S. Maulbetsch (2000)