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Special Sessions
IDETC/CIE
DFMLC-12-1: NSF CAREER PROPOSAL
WRITING WORKSHOP – HOSTED BY DFMLC
Wednesday, August 9
8:00am–11:40am
Room 21 ESD, SYS and DEMS programs in the Division of Civil, Mechanical and
This workshop, integrated with the Design for Manufacturing and Life Cycle
(DFMLC) Technical Conference, will provide an opportunity for PhD
students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty to learn how to frame research
objectives and develop research plans in ways that lead to competitive
research proposals, particularly for submission to the National Science
Foundation. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with NSF
personnel directly, and obtain an accurate concept of the distinctions
between competitive and non-competitive research proposals. Students
and faculty at all stages of their careers are likely to benefit from this
workshop.
INVITED SPEAKERS
George Hazelrigg
National Science Foundation, CMMI
Biography: George Hazelrigg enjoyed designing and building things when
he was young, so he decided to go to college to study engineering.
He obtained a BS in mechanical engineering from Newark College of
Engineering (now New Jersey Institute of Technology) and went to work
for Curtiss-Wright. There, he found that his education had utterly destroyed
his abilities to do engineering design. So he felt it necessary to get a
master’s degree. He completed an MS in mechanical engineering, also
from NCE, but still hadn’t regained his design abilities. While getting his MS,
however, he did some teaching and liked it. So he figured that, if he
couldn’t do design, the next best thing would be to teach it. Five years
later, he had obtained MA, MSE, and PhD degrees in aerospace
engineering from Princeton University. Now, in addition to not knowing
how to do design, he couldn’t teach it either. For the next 25 years, he
roamed industry and academe in an attempt to understand the theory of
engineering design, including time spent at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
General Dynamics, Princeton University and a consulting firm of which he
was a co-founder. He also spent a year in Korea helping to found the
Systems Engineering Department of Ajou University. He joined the National
Science Foundation in 1982 and, in 1996, became program director for the
Engineering Design program where, for eight years, he provided support to
others in the field. In January, 1996, he did a stint as Station Science Leader
of the U.S. South Pole station. In 2004, he became Program Director for the
Manufacturing Machines and Equipment program and, since the formation
of the CMMI Division, he has been Deputy Division Director. For relaxation,
he spends his weekends soaring over the Shenandoah Valley, and he is a
certified flight instructor in gliders (CFI-G) with about 1,900 total flying
hours.
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Richard Malak
National Science Foundation
Biography: Dr. Richard Malak currently serves as Program Director for the
Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI) of the National Science Foundation.
He holds an academic appointment at Texas A&M University where he is
Associate Professor and Morris E. Foster Faculty Fellow I in the Department
of Mechanical Engineering. His personal research interests include
decision making in systems engineering and computational design
methods. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from SUNY Stony Brook,
an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon
University, and MS and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the
Georgia Institute of Technology.
INDUSTRIAL COLLABORATION PANEL
Wednesday, August 9
10:00am–11:40am
Room 1
Industrial development efforts, like technical work in other venues, can
benefit from multiple approaches to design optimization or technical issue
resolution. Leveraging creative approaches from multiple communities,
disciplines, and technical backgrounds may produce better, more robust
product designs, resolve issues, or otherwise improve process and product
development for the benefit of a company. Corporate budgets are typically
constrained, and it is expensive to keep a varied technical staff on hand
just in case the latest technical challenge requires or could possibly benefit
from a particular approach or technical perspective. On the other hand,
university faculty represent an enormous pool of deep technical expertise
in a wide spectrum of engineering and science disciplines. Furthermore,
faculty members who work on industrial problems may benefit from their
perspective and insights gained through their involvement in product
development initiatives and issue resolution. How specifically can a
company benefit from involving academic researchers in their product
development efforts? What benefits do academic researchers gain from an
association with industrial development? What are the difficulties and
challenges inherent to building cross-community teams? This panel
discussion will attempt to address these questions through presentation of
particular examples of company and university joint work.