2019 BIENNIAL MEETING PROGRAM

Below is the agenda for the 2019 NSF ERC Biennial Meeting

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Time Event Location
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM Registration  Independence Foyer
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Administrative Director Meeting Potomac VI
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM Industrial Liaison Officer Meeting Potomac V
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Perfect Pitch Workshop
Raquell Holmes, improvscience
Potomac IV
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Networking Reception
Raquell Holmes, improvscience
Independence A

Thursday, October 24, 2019

7:00 AM – 6:00 PM Registration  Regency Foyer
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast Independence A
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM Welcome and Introduction
Kon-Well Wang, Divison Director, EEC Division, National Science Foundation
Regency EF
8:15 AM – 8:30 AM Opening Remarks
F. Fleming Crim, Chief Operating Officer, National Science Foundation
Regency EF
8:30 AM – 9:15 AM Opening Keynote
Kelvin Droegemeier, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
Regency EF
9:15 AM – 10:30 AM Sustainablilty Panel
Moderator: Krishnendu Roy
Panelists:  Kaarin Goncz
Veena Misra
S.V. Sreenivasan
Regency EF
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM Break Regency EF Foyer
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM Breakout Session 1
1A: Waking Up to Implicit Bias
Denise Driscoll, Director of Diversity and Inclusion, CISTAR
1B: Bias Busting Across the Center
Tricia Berry, Director of the Women in Engineering Program, University of Texas at Austin
Carolyn Nichol, Education Director, NEWT
1C: The ASU Tri-ERC Consortium
Adam Carberry, Associate Professor, Arizona State University
Alison Cook-Davis, Assistant Director for Program Evaluation, Arizona State University’s Office of Evaluation and Educational Effectiveness
Michelle Jordan, Education Director, QESST
Jean Larson, Educational Director, CBBG
Megan O’Donnell, Research Professional, College Research and Evaluation Services Team, ASU
1D: Science Communication
AnneLynn Gillian-Daniel, Director of Education and Outreach, Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
1E: Continuous Creation and Evolution of Value Propositions at All Levels within ERCs
Paul Westerhoff, Deputy Director, NEWT
1A – Potomac I
1B – Potomac II
1C – Potomac III
1D – Potomac IV
1E – Potomac  V
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM Working Lunch Regency EF
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM   Dialogues on Diversity
Ron Jones, Executive Director, Dialogues on Diversity
Tierre Diaz, Actor, Dialogues on Diversity
Regency EF
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM   Break Regency EF Foyer
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM Breakout Session 2
2A: Center Directors

2B: Diversity Directors
2C: Industrial Liaison Officers
2D: Administrative Directors
2E: Student Leadership Council
2F: Education Directors
2A – Potomac I
2B – Potomac II
2C – Potomac III
2D – Potomac IV
2E – Potomac  V
2F – Potomac VI
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM Presentation of Breakout Summaries
Regency EF
5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Networking Poster Session Independence A

Friday, October 25, 2019

7:00 AM – 3:00 PM Registration  Regency Foyer
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast Independence A
8:00 AM – 8:15 AM Welcome
Don Millard, Deputy Division Director, EEC Division, National Science Foundation
Regency EF
8:15 AM – 8:30 AM ERC History Book Project
Courtland S. Lewis, President, SciTech Communications, LLC
Regency EF
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM Breakout Session 3
3A: Center Directors
3B: Diversity Directors
3C: Industrial Liaison Officers
3D: Administrative Directors
3E: Student Leadership Council
3F: Education Directors
3A – Potomac I
3B – Potomac II
3C – Potomac III
3D – Potomac IV
3E – Potomac  V
3F – Potomac VI
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Presentation of Breakout Summaries
Regency EF
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Break Regency EF Foyer
10:30 AM – 12:00 PM Perfect Pitch Competition Regency EF
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Lunch Regency EF
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM Keynote Address
C.D. Mote, President Emeritus, National Academy of Engineering
Regency EF
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM PANEL and Q&A with NSF Program Officers
Regency EF
2:45 PM – 3:15 PM Perfect Pitch Award and Remarks
Dawn Tilbury, Assistant Director, Engineering Directorate, National Science Foundation
Regency EF
3:15 PM – 3:30 PM Wrap-Up and Closing Remark
Kon-Well Wang, Division Director, EEC Division, National Science Foundation
Regency EF