Engineering Education Centers and Infrastructure Industrial Innovation and Partnerships

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Engineering Education Centers and
InfrastructureIndustrial Innovation and
Partnerships

• Kesh Narayanan
• Gary Gabriele
• Askhok Agrawal
• Janie Fouke
• Marshall Jones
• Linda Katehi
• Jacquelyn Sullivan
• E. Jennings Taylor
• Judy Vance
• Lillian Wu

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Discussion Topics

• Proposed changes to EEC and OII
• Future for Centers

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Proposed Changes to EEC and OII

• Establish Working Groups for
• Engineering Education
• Engineering Research Centers
• OII to take on
• Partnerships for Innovation (PFI)
• Industry/University Cooperative Research Centers
  (I/UCRC)
• Grants Opportunity for Industrial Liaison (GOALI)
• To form new IIP Division
• EEC to take on leadership for research
  infrastructure programs

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Recommendations

• Working groups can provide
• technical liaison with divisions
• assistance in strategic planning
• assistance in award process
• PFI, GOALI, I/UCRC going to OII
• Seems like a natural for PFI and GOALI
• Probably a natural for I/UCRC and perhaps would
  provide opportunity for better links with smaller
  companies to partner in I/UCRC
• EEC is a logical place to house large
  infrastructure initiatives
• New organization would promote stronger ties with
  the rest of the engineering research portfolio

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Future for Centers

• Discovery to Innovation Centers
• technology, business, marketing bring new life
  into ERC
• Pancake paradigm compared to Pyramid paradigm
• Currently, fund a lead, core partners, etc. a
  pyramid
• Fund a network of the best people in the nation
  a pancake
• Bring people from totally different disciplines
  together to solve problems
• How do you encourage successful researchers to
  come together?

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Future for Centers

• Possible Grand Challenges
• Grand challenges in service sector
• Basic research
• Innovation aspect
• Not just designing better goods but also services
  and systems Health delivery services complex
  services
• Fits into priority areas
• Innovation itself could be a Grand Challenge