INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING CENTERINTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING CENTER

A Permanent Structure for Mature Interdisciplinary Councils and Others

H.S. Tzou, ChairBoard on Technical Knowledge Dissemination (BTKD)

Business Operations Systems , Funding & Staff

To Build Technical Communities...

Needed to Produce Content...

To Drive Growth...

And Realize the Vision

Provide Governance & Business Support…

DivisionsDivisions

Our business model operational concept:

Research Committees

Interdisciplinary Councils

Energy Committee

Congress Steering Committee

Technical Committees

TCOBTCOB

Products &Services

BDS-CDOT-CAF-CoH

BRTD

BTKD-SPC-CPC-TPC

Technical Groups

3 years3 years

OUTLINE

• Background & Context

• Value Proposition

• Considerations and Recommendation

• Rationale & Characteristics of a New Interdisciplinary Engineering Center (IEC)

• IEC Guiding Principles, Framework & Structure

• Framework for IEC Committees

• Proposed TCOB Organization Chart

• Appendices

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BACKGROUND & CONTEXT

• The Nanotechnology InstituteNanotechnology Institute was created more than 10 years ago to develop and foster ASME’s nano activities; the term “institute” was deployed in 2001 to position ASME in the marketplace, although currently it is not consistent with ASME definition of institutes.

• The NanoEngineering CouncilNanoEngineering Council was created 3 years ago under K&C and is the governing body of the Nano Institute. The NEC is a fully active and engaged (though nascent) body.

• NEC is due for its 3-year assessment in Nov. 2012– Options include:

• Sunset Council• Request additional 3 years• Recommend other/permanent structure option

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VALUE PROPOSITION

• Technical Communities Value Proposition: “Provide opportunities for engagement that facilitate technical knowledge exchange and relationship building.”

– The NanoEngineering Council aims to accomplish this via direct collaboration with ASME Divisions, other ASME Units, members, and collaborative partnerships with outside organizations.

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CONSIDERATIONS AND RECOMMENDATION

• Examination and evaluation of options available to make a sound recommendation (pros/cons)

• Input gathered from NEC, ICC, BTKD and ASME staff• Alignment with ASME’s and NEC’s strategic goals• Current status of NEC as a “transient body“transient body”; recommendation to

make a permanent entity

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• Create an Interdisciplinary Engineering CenterInterdisciplinary Engineering Center (IEC)(IEC) to house mature Interdisciplinary Councils (ICs).

• Mature ICs will become the Committees in the new Interdisciplinary Engineering Center. For example, the mature NEC becomes the NanoEngineering Committee in IEC

• Endorsed by NEC (April 2012) Endorsed by ICC (May 2012) Endorsed by BTKD (October 2012)

RATIONALE FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY ENGINEERING CENTER (IEC)

Activities of an Interdisciplinary Engineering Center & its Committees may involve expertise and participation from multiplemultiple ASME Technical Divisions/Groups and/or Sectors.

No oneone Technical Division or Group can provide the desired level and/or breadth of technical expertise for the activities of a true IEC.

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IEC CHARACTERISTICS

The Interdisciplinary Engineering Center & its Committees should minimize conflict with existing TDs/TGs by (a) avoiding parallel technical programming in the particular interdisciplinary space, and (b) providing avenues for the new units to operate without encouraging primary membership from existing divisions/groups to migrate.

The Center’s Committees should be able to pursue rich portfolios of products (as determined by their ECs) that may include expert panels, poster forums, workshops, conferences, webinars, podcasts, achievement awards, technical journals, courses, etc.

The Center’s Committees should interact with ASME Government ASME Government RelationsRelations to develop and present white papers to influence public policy, and federal funding initiatives.

The Center’s Committees may seek project and programming resources from the ASME General Fund. Revenues will be returned to the Society’s General Fund and/or via Division revenue-sharing.

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IEC GUIDING PRINCIPLES & FRAMEWORK

• Guide mature interdisciplinary councils (and potentially other interdisciplinary entities like the Energy Committee) to the new structure.

• Establish a governing structure & Operation Guide.• Report to TCOB and provide mandatory yearly assessments.• Promote interdisciplinary collaborations: members of the IEC

Committees would continue to declare and work with a primary Division while actively collaborating with the new unit.

• Foster development of new multi-disciplinary products & services by collaborating with multiple ASME units.

• May pursue option of petitioning to become an ASME DivisionASME Division or Institute Institute contingent on ASME requirements, market conditions, opportunities, etc.

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IEC STRUCTURE

• Governance structure should include an IEC Executive Committee (EC)Executive Committee (EC):– Participants: Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary who

oversee Committees’ activities and promote engagement with other ASME technical units.

• IEC Chair is appointed & approved by TCOB; Vice Chair comes to TCOB for information. IEC Chair is a non-voting member of TCOB.

– Actions: Develop & implement an assessment tool with metrics to measure the success of the individual Committees; make necessary recommendations.

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FRAMEWORK FOR IEC COMMITTEES

• Committees will operate under existing governance, and Operation Guides may continue to be used:

– Elections of Committee Chairs (with approval of IEC EC), Vice Chairs, and other officers

• Committee Chairs are approved by TCOB. Vice Chairs come to TCOB for information.

• Committees report directly to IEC, which is under TCOB

• Committees may seek project and programming resources from the ASME General Fund. Revenues will be returned to the Society’s General Fund and/or via Division revenue-sharing.

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Luc GeraetsVice President

Amit Bagchi, Chair - Board on Division Support

George Papadopoulos, Leader Basic Engineering

Group

HS Tzou, Chair, Board on Technical Knowledge

Dissemination

Jack Lloyd, Chair - Board on Research &

Technology Development

Shiv Kapoor, Chair Technical Committee on

Publications and Communications

Pradeep Lall, Chair Congress Steering

Committee

Hamid Hamidzadeh, Chair, Conference

Planning Committee

Chinh Bui, Chair Interdisciplinary Councils

Committee

Muhammad Rahman, Chair, Strategic Planning

Committee

OpenCommittee on Inter-Unit

Service

Alfonso Ortega, Chair Committee on Division Operations & Training

Fred Proctor, Chair Committee on Admin

and Finance

Victor Wong, Chair Committee on Honors

Center for Research & Technology

Development (12 Research Committees)

Joe Beaman, Chair Technology Policy

Committee

Emerging Technology Committee

Technology & Policy Task Forces

Krishna GuptaVice Chair/Secretary

Steven Unikewicz, ChairEnergy Committee

Vikas Prakash, ChairNanoEngineering

Council

Mike Hightower, Chair

Energy-Water Nexus Interdisciplinary

Council

Doug Reed, Leader - Energy Conversion Group

David Lee, Leader Systems & Design Group

Amit Bagchi, Leader Manufacturing Group

Steve Long, Leader Engr & Tech Management Group

Alan Moghissi, Leader Environment &

Transportation Group

TBD, ChairInterdisciplinary Engineering

Center

TBD, ChairNanoEngineering

Committee

PROPOSED TCOB ORGANIZATION CHART

Luc GeraetsVice President

Amit Bagchi, Chair - Board on Division Support

George Papadopoulos, Leader Basic Engineering

Group

HS Tzou, Chair, Board on Technical Knowledge

Dissemination

Jack Lloyd, Chair - Board on Research &

Technology Development

Shiv Kapoor, Chair Technical Committee on

Publications and Communications

Pradeep Lall, Chair Congress Steering

Committee

Hamid Hamidzadeh, Chair, Conference

Planning Committee

Chinh Bui, Chair Interdisciplinary Councils

Committee

Muhammad Rahman, Chair, Strategic Planning

Committee

OpenCommittee on Inter-Unit

Service

Alfonso Ortega, Chair Committee on Division Operations & Training

Fred Proctor, Chair Committee on Admin

and Finance

Victor Wong, Chair Committee on Honors

Center for Research & Technology

Development (12 Research Committees)

Joe Beaman, Chair Technology Policy

Committee

Emerging Technology Committee

Technology & Policy Task Forces

Krishna GuptaVice Chair/Secretary

Steven Unikewicz, ChairEnergy Committee

Vikas Prakash, ChairNanoEngineering

Council

Mike Hightower, Chair

Energy-Water Nexus Interdisciplinary

Council

Doug Reed, Leader - Energy Conversion Group

David Lee, Leader Systems & Design Group

Amit Bagchi, Leader Manufacturing Group

Steve Long, Leader Engr & Tech Management Group

Alan Moghissi, Leader Environment &

Transportation Group

TBD, ChairInterdisciplinary Engineering

Center

TBD, ChairNanoEngineering

Committee

PROPOSED TCOB ORG. CHART-2

Questions/comments…

Thank you for your support.

… APPENDICES

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Timeline• January 2012 – NEC working group formed to recommend option(s) for a

permanent structure to house the Council

• April 2012 – Request to NEC members to endorse Interdisciplinary Energy Group (IEG) concept

• April 2012 – IEG concept endorsed by NanoEngineering Council

• May 2012 – IEG concept endorsed by ICC

• May 2012 – BTKD informed of NEC & ICC endorsement of IEG concept

• June 2012 – Request from BTKD to ICC to form a volunteer/staff working group to develop a permanent structure proposal

• July 2012 – ICC working group established; meeting held to evaluate option(s), value proposition & NEC proposal development

• August 2012 – key leadership (NEC, ICC, BTKD, TCOB & staff) establish working group to develop NEC proposal by IMECE2012

• September/October 2012 – Proposal developed for BTKD (endorsed by BTKD in Oct.) and TCOB. IEG modified to IEC (Interdisciplinary Engineering Center)

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Next Steps

• Aug/Sept 2012 – volunteer/staff working group conference calls to develop NEC proposal

• Oct 2012 – proposal presented by ICC to BTKD for review; endorsed by BTKD

• Oct 2012 – proposal circulated to TCOB for review & socialization

• Nov 2012 – proposal presentation at TCOB for vote

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ASME FY’13 Nanotechnology Portfolio

Conferences: NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology Global Congress 2013IMECE2012 tracks & panel sessions Workshops:Challenges for Engineers in Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, April 2012 (White paper produced)Nanofabrication Workshop (TBA, 2013) Forums: Micro and Nano Forum at IMECE 2012

 A successful technical division maintains a progressive, long-range program and has a record of successfully reaching its goals. A successful technical division maintains a viable technical program (publications, conferences, or other technical activities of merit).

Conferences:Participates in at least one technical event/year

Podcasts: 4 produced in FY’13  Webinars: 3 planned in FY’13  Journals:•Journal of Nanotechnology in Engineering and Medicine•Journal of Micro and Nano-Manufacturing 

 

Community:•NanoEngineering Council•NanoEngineering for Medicine and Biology (NEMB) Steering Committee•NanoEngineering for Energy and Sustainability (NEES) Steering Committee•297 ASME Members selected the Nanotechnology Institute as their primary affiliation•850 secondary & tertiary affiliations 

 Community:•At least 300 primary members with a positive member growth rate•Large secondary interest membership•At least 30 members actively participating within the executive, technical, and general committees.

Social Media:LinkedIn page (514 members)Facebook page (1,232 likes)

 

ASME Division Activities

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Case Studies of Centers:Academia/Case Western Reserve University

CWRU Energy Institute Great Lakes Energy Institute (http://energy.case.edu/)•Multidisciplinary proposals are submitted by teams with combinations from the Case School of Engineering, College of Arts & Sciences, Weatherhead School of Management, and School of Law. GLEI promotes industry–academia collaborations to enable the transition to advanced sustainable energy generation, storage, distribution and utilization, through coordinated research, development, and education. Since its inception in 2008, GLEI has quadrupled its energy-related research. 

CWRU Materials InstituteInstitute for Advanced Materials at Case Western Reserve University(http://case.edu/advancedmaterials/)•Established as an interdisciplinary research alliance under the university’s strategic plan and aided by the largest grant from the 2010 Provost’s Investment Fund, the institute provides a central hub for collaborations among the university’s researchers, private industry and government partners that drive innovation of new materials from ideas to proven models to marketable technology.

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Case Studies of Centers:Government/National Science Foundation

http://www.nano.gov/partners

The National Nanotechnology Initiative is a multi-agency, collaborative project, with Federal agencies participating under the auspices of the Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council.

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Case Studies of Centers: Industry/Airbus

http://www.airbus.com/company/aircraft-manufacture/how-is-an-aircraft-built/airbus-centres-of-excellence/

Airbus Centres of Excellence

Airbus industrial activity is handled in three disciplines: Operations, Programmes and Core Functions. Within Operations, there are four Centres of Excellence (CoEs), each founded on expertise in key production areas: fuselage and cabin, wing and pylon, aft fuselage and empennage, and industrial processes and aerostructures. The CoEs simplify and unify design and production management during aircraft development.

The CoEs fall under the responsibility of Airbus’ head of operations, who is in charge of all industrial processes. This includes ensuring that the best tools, methods and processes are selected and implemented across the CoEs in order to increase efficiency and control costs.

The Programmes function is responsible for the work of Airbus’ final assembly lines, including cabin definition and installation, as well as overall management processes. Programmes works closely with the CoEs in order to secure firm commitments on what is delivered to the final assembly lines.

The Centres of Excellence also maintain close links with core Airbus functions such as procurement, human resources, engineering, quality and customer services to ensure that Airbus employees share knowledge and ideas

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ASME NanoEngineering Council (NEC)

Recommendation to Form a Permanent Structure: Interdisciplinary Engineering

Center (IEC) White Paper

May 2012

Provided upon request

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