Title  : Engineering News, Fall 1992
Type   : Letter
NSF Org: ENG
Date   : September 25, 1992
File   : nsf9296




Engineering News, Fall 1992
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Engineering News Fall 1992 Highlights

Water Quality Meeting Held  3

SBIR Shown to Spur Manufacturing Gains     3

Impact of Climate Change on
Coastal Zones  4

ENG Strategies Prompt Organizational Change     4

Former Soviet Union Grants Prioritized     5

Structural Control Initiative Awards  5

Martin-Vega to Leave for F.I.T.  6

Possible U.S.-China Earthquake Research    6

PFF Fellows Named 6

NSF Outreach Programs Continue   7

Staff Update 7

Director's Awards to ENG Employees    7

Calendar of Events     8



NSF Support for Infrastructure Research

New and active efforts in civil infrastructure systems are
forthcoming following a number of recent moves by the Engineering
Directorate. These include the Structural Control Research
Initiative awards (reported elsewhere in this issue), the
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between NSF and the Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA), and the NSF Workshop on Civil
Infrastructure Systems (CIS).
The MOU signed by Dr. Joseph Bordogna, Assistant Director for
Engineering, and R. J. Betsold, Deputy Associate Administrator
for Research and Development, FHWA, promotes the advancement of
mutual engineering research interests of the two groups and
better provides for technology transfer among the agencies and
the private sector. The MOU sets forth basic guidelines under
which both parties foster cooperative and joint sponsorship of
research.
One of the primary examples of NSF/FHWA cosponsorship is the
establishment of the U.S. National  Geotechnical Experi-
mentation sites, a three-year, $900,000 project
co-funded by the two agencies. Similar national sites have
been effectively used to great advantage in other countries,
resulting in significant economic benefits.
In this country, such sites would facilitate the evaluation of
new techniques in environmental geotechnology, soil improvement
and geotechnical infrastructure
construction through large-scale experiments.
Installation of permanent instrumentation permits
measurement of site response during earthquakes and
improves the understanding of predictive capabilities.
The CIS Workshop, held earlier this year, brought together more
than 40 experts from government, industry, and academe to review
the current state of CIS knowledge and practice, problems and
solution approaches. The general consensus spoke of a need to
initiate a research program on CIS that would be broadbased and
multidisciplinary and would have a key component of knowledge
transfer and realization. Results of the Workshop are being
analyzed prior to publication. Emphasis is being placed on
integrating all engineering and science disciplines across NSF
toward resolving the nation's civilian infrastructure dilemmas.



New EECs: GATEWAY and SUCCEED

Two new Engineering Education Coalitions (EECs) now funded by the
NSF support bold, innovative, comprehensive, and systematic
new models for undergraduate education.
Each of the university coalitions, GATEWAY and SUCCEED, has been
awarded $15 million over a five-year period, with matching funds
provided by participating academic institutions and their
industrial partners. The coalitions are expected to foster
curriculum innovation based on the integrative nature of
engineering and to attain a dramatic increase in the quality of
education and the number of engineering baccalaureate degrees
awarded, especially to women and underrepresented minorities.
The coalitions are formed from diverse institutions. They include
historically black schools, public and private universities,
small institutions that concentrate on undergraduate education,
and major research universities with large graduate programs.
Changes in engineering education in the United States are
needed as we confront the challenges of the 21st century,
said NSF Assistant Director for Engineering, Joseph Bordogna.
Through the Engineering Education Coalitions Program, NSF is
making a serious commitment to foster systemic, structural change
in engineering education.

The GATEWAY coalition encourages engineering students by focusing
on four broad areas: curriculum structure; human potential and
development; instructional technology and methodology; and
quality assurance and evaluation measures. The collaborative team
includes Case Western Reserve University, Columbia University,
Drexel University, Cooper Union, Florida International
University, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Ohio State
University, University of Pennsylvania, Polytechnic University,
and University of South Carolina.

The SUCCEED (Southeastern University and College
Coalition for Engineering Education) coalition strives to achieve
a 50 percent increase coalition-wide in the enrollment and
graduation rates of female and underrepresented minority
students, as well as to restructure the engineering curriculum
and improve the quality and quantity of engineering graduates.
The participating universities are Clemson, Florida A&M/Florida
State University, University of Florida, Georgia Institute of
Technology, North Carolina A&T State University, University of
North Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina State University, and
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Both coalitions emphasize engaging students in
engineering from the day they matriculate; making the study of
engineering more attractive, exciting, and fulfilling; developing
students as emerging professional leaders; increasing the
diversity of academic backgrounds and the number of women,
underrepresented minorities, and people with disabilities in the
field; and drawing engineering faculty to an investment in the
teaching of undergraduate students.

The emphasis in engineering education must
shift from a dedication to course content to a more comprehensive
view, focusing on the development of human resources and the
broader educational experience in which the individual parts are
connected and integrated, said Eli Fromm, Project Director
of the GATEWAY coalition.

His view is supported by SUCCEED Project
Director Michael Littlejohn who added, We hope we're going
to be so successful that universities around the world will use
what we have developed.

With the addition of the two new coalitions, NSF
has brought to four the total number of university coalitions
funded. The first two, ECSEL and SYNTHESIS, were established in
1990 and already are making a dramatic impact on the quality of
engineering education, according to educators and professionals
in the field.

Health Care Technologies Subject of Meeting

New engineering research efforts in improved delivery and health
care cost containment are expected to be stimulated following a
meeting jointly sponsored by ENG's Division of Biological and
Critical Systems (BCS) and the Whitaker Foundation.
The meeting, April 23-24 in Washington, D.C., brought
together a panel of experts, including representatives from the
Division of Design and Manufacturing Systems (DDM). Among
audience participants were biomedical engineers, physicians,
social workers, health care professionals, and others concerned
with containing or reducing health care costs and improving the
cost effectiveness, quality, and accessibility of the health care
system.

The major objectives of the meeting were to
initiate a dialog between leaders in the field, establish the
major issues facing the health care system, and identify those
areas where engineering can make significant contributions to the
resolution of the issues identified. Some of the areas addressed
include:

Research to develop appropriate technology for low-cost
measurement and monitoring systems intended for alternative
sites, and to enhance patient independence and return to
function;

Research to develop new low-cost diagnostic systems;

Research to develop methods of using technology to
minimize hospital stays;

Research in communication and information technologies;

Technology for behavior modification to improve disease
prevention and compliance;

Research to develop new therapeutic technologies; and

Technology for system integration.

The panel discussed a host of possible criteria
for evaluation of research proposals, and recommended the
planning of a workshop to include such topics as appropriate
technology, minimally invasive sensing, production
technology/cycle time, information technologies, education,
communications, and design and manufacturing.

Water Quality Meeting Held

The International Water Quality Association
(IWQA) conference drew more than 200 attendees from 60
countries and heard many papers dealing with NSF-supported
research, including one on the survivability of HIV when
subjected to environmental stress.

Dr. Edward H. Bryan, Director of ENG's
Environmental Engineering Program, reported that a number of the
papers focused on critical societal issues and application of new
technologies. For example, a paper in the session on
health-related water microbiology by Drs. Leonard W. Casson and
Phalguni Gupta of the University of Pittsburgh described efforts
to assess the stability of the HIV virus in domestic wastewater.

In a paper based on this research, which was
published in the May/June 1992 issue of Water Environment
Research, Casson and his coauthors compared the survival of
the HIV to poliovirus and found that...under similar
conditions, HIV survival was significantly less. In his
renewal project, he plans to study the survival of the HIV in
wastewater after various stages in its treatment and work on
improvement of concentration and assay procedures for the virus.

Other papers included one presented by S.
Farooq, Professor of Civil Engineering at the King Fahd
University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia, and
co-authored by professors in the University of Miami and Florida
International University's (FIU) Departments of Civil
Engineering, FIU's Drinking Water Research Center, and Miami's
Department of Industrial Engineering. His research on treatment
of wastewater was conducted using a large-scale electron beam
accelerator located at the Miami-Dade Wastewater Treatment Plant
on Virginia Key. This accelerator was installed there ten years
ago following NSF-supported research that found the ionizing
radiation from an electron beam to be an effective method to
disinfect sludges derived from treatment of wastewater.

The water conference, formerly known as the
International Association on Water Pollution Research and Control
(IAWPRC), officially became the International Water Quality
Association (IWQA) at its 16th Biennial Conference in Washington,
D.C., May 24-30.

SBIR Shown to Spur Manufacturing Gains

An analysis of grant awards by Small Business
Innovation Research (SBIR), Division of Industrial Innovation
Interface, indicates that a significant number of them can be
directly linked to manufacturing and productivity enhancement.

Awards from 1977 through 1991 were reviewed for
relevance to manufacturing. Relevance was defined as closely
related, related, or supportive of manufacturing.

Of more than 1,600 awards, 44 were ranked as
closely related, namely those resulting in the
development of a process or machine for use on the manufacturing
floor. Projects ranked as related numbered 214 and
involved the development of tools, robots, software, and
materials handling equipment or sensors for use in industrial
manufacturing processes. Projects rated as supportive
numbered 360 and involved such items as instruments for
nondestructive testing or tool quality, preparation of or growth
of materials for semiconductor manufacturing, or computer
programs for the design of chips.

While not all of these projects were successful
or resulted in a commercial product, the analysis shows almost 40
percent of the awards were related to manufacturing. Industrial
relevance and commercial potential, as well as scientific
excellence, are the criteria used in making awards.

Impact of Climate Change on Coastal Zones

Final decisions from the proposal review process on a climate
change impact initiative are expected to be announced soon. NSF
received forty proposals in response to the announcement in NSF
92-33, before the May 15 deadline.
Dr. J. Eleonora Sabadell, Director of the Natural and Man-Made
Hazard Mitigation Program, reported that information about the
initiative had been sent to the research community informing it
of the opportunity to present proposals regarding the possible
impact on coastal zones by climatic change.
The joint effort supported by the Divisions of Biological and
Critical Systems (BCS), Mechanical and Structural Systems (MSS),
Electrical and Communication Systems (ECS), and Chemical and
Thermal Systems (CTS) seeks to advance ways to predict, assess,
and mitigate the effects of climatic changes on coastal zone
physical characteristics. Four main critical research areas
identified for this initiative are:

Vulnerability of coastal areas to the action of natural
and anthropogenic forces coupled with possible global climate and
sea level changes;

Effects of these combined stresses on shorelines,
estuaries, marshlands, barrier islands, infrastructure,
geosystems, and constructed systems;

Improved and new adaptation measures to potential new
coastal conditions; and

Improved and new mitigation and modification techniques
and procedures for minimizing impacts on these areas under
climate-induced changes.
Up to $5 million will be awarded over a period of five years.

ENG Strategies Prompt Organizational Change
The merger of two ENG Divisions, Engineering Research Centers and
Engineering Infrastructure, to form the Division of Engineering
Education and Centers (EEC) will streamline Directorate efforts
in engineering education and center-based research and make
long-range strategies more flexible. In addition, the name change
of the Division of Industrial Science and Technological
Innovation to the Division of Industrial Innovation Interface
(III) will better reflect its mission and goals.
According to Dr. Joseph Bordogna, the merger combines programs
that have the common objectives of enhancing the nation's
economic well-being and industrial competitiveness through
holistic paradigms to improve the quality of engineering
education and research.

The EEC seeks to improve quality engineering education to yield
leadership-oriented graduates best equipped to compete in a
global economy, and also supports university-based research
centers across a spectrum of technologies essential to U.S.
economic competitiveness.

The Engineering Research Centers (ERC) Program addresses
fundamental research issues, educates engineering students, and
provides for the long-term involvement of industry in planning,
research, and education.
The III Division continues its research and analysis programs
that affect U.S. industrial productivity. These programs aim to
improve the speed and efficiency by which the results of NSF
research and technology are introduced into the marketplace.

Conference on Engineering Education: Curriculum
Innovation and Integration

The proceedings of a major conference on engineering education
are now available. The conference brought together by invitation
almost a hundred engineering educators and professionals from
industry, academia and government. They discussed the changes
underway in engineering education today, as well as needs and
goals for the curriculum of tomorrow.

The conference, held earlier this year in Santa Barbara, CA, was
co-chaired by Dr. Win Aung, Senior Staff Associate, Division of
Engineering Education and Centers, and Dr. Shlomo Carmi,
Professor and Head, Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics
Department, Drexel University. Dr. Winfred M. Phillips, Dean,
College of Engineering, University of Florida, chaired the
Program Advisory Committee.
Included among the varied topics covered at the conference were
the high technology classroom, involvement by industry, the
teaching of design, faculty reward for participating in education
reform, the status of critical engineering programs such as
mining and mineral engineering, outreach to pre-college students,
recruitment and retention, and the teaching and application of
quality engineering management concepts.
Dr. Joseph Bordogna, NSF Assistant Director for Engineering,
speaking on the future of engineering education, urged the U.S.
to take a long view and focus on the development of
human resources. Universities have to change the way in
which they do intellectual business, he said, noting that
NSF is making serious and committed efforts to take a proactive
role in economic competitiveness. The genius for integration
must become valued in the university structure a goal yet to
be achieved.

Copies of the proceedings may be obtained by contacting the
Engineering Foundation, 345 East 47th Street, New York, N.Y.
10017 (212) 705-7835, or the American Society for Engineering
Education, 11 Dupont Circle, N.W., Washington, DC 20036
(202) 293-7080.

Former Soviet Union Grants Prioritized

The NSF gives immediate attention to requests for supplementary
grants to provide infrastructural support to science and
engineering colleagues in the former Soviet Union (FSU). The
action, announced by NSF Director Walter E. Massey, involves
supplements to existing NSF U.S.-FSU cooperative research grants
and comes in response to the critical situation for FSU science
and engineering.
The grant requests normally should not exceed $10,000 and may
include requests to provide FSU colleagues with:

Scientific supplies (spare parts, reagents,
instrumentation);

Office equipment (personal computers for e-mail,
high-quality error-correcting modems, FAX machines) and supplies
(FAX paper; computer paper; printer ribbons);

Subscriptions to scientific journals; and

Related shipping expenses (e.g., express mail
services).

In view of unresolved questions about the applicability of FSU
tax laws and payment of indirect costs to FSU research
institutions, all transactions must be channeled through the U.S.
grantees. NSF cannot approve direct transfer of any funds to the
FSU and, therefore, does not foresee payment of salaries to FSU
researchers. These supplements should not be used for travel
expenses.
U.S. universities involved in cooperative projects will be
expected to work out the details for transport of materials
purchased with the supplementary funds, and accountability for
their use, directly with participating counterpart FSU
institutions, in compliance with applicable export control laws
and regulations.
NSF considers these expenses to be Participant Support Costs and
thus not subject to indirect cost.
Supplementary grant requests should consist of a cover sheet
(form 1207), a signed summary proposal budget (form 1030), and a
brief justification.
NSF wishes to process requests expeditiously and requests that
two hard copies and an advance FAX copy be sent to the pertinent
NSF grant program officer, as well as to the FSU Task Force,
Division of International Programs, 1800 G Street, N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20550; FAX (202) 653-5929; telephone
(202) 653-5277; e-mail <<intfsu@note.nsf.gov>>.


Structural Control Initiative Awards

NSF's cross-disciplinary Structural Control Research Initiative
enters its second year in FY 93 after funding a variety of
research projects. The five-year program in collaboration with
the Strategic Highway Research Program of the National Research
Council and three ENG Divisions Biological and Critical
Systems, Mechanical and Structural Systems, and Electrical and
Communications Systems seeks to develop and support research
and technology innovation in structural control, as well as to
establish a solid technological base for broad practical
applications for civil structures and systems.
During the first year of the initiative, NSF funded projects in
such areas as:

Safety and performance enhancement of structures;

Active structural control and structural health
monitoring;

Active control of structures using neural networks;

Hybrid seismic control using architectural cladding;

Earthquake and wind response control using active
members;

Passive smart cementitious composites for dynamic
structural control;

Active tuned liquid dampers;

Active control of lifeline issues for system
integration and implementation;

Control of occupant-induced floor motion;

Control for phase-related inputs;

Adaptive hybrid control techniques; and

Seismic structures control for building structures
using optical fiber sensors.

Proposals seeking FY 93 funding should be submitted by October
31, 1992, to NSF. For additional information call Dr. S.C. Liu or
Ms. Sherri Swann at (202) 357-9780 and request publication NSF
91-62.


Martin-Vega to Leave for  F.I.T.

Dr. Louis A. Martin-Vega, a Program Director in
ENG's Division of Design and Manufacturing Systems (DDM), is
leaving for the Florida Institute of Technology to serve as the
Lockheed Professor of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems. He
will complete his three-year IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel
Act) assignment with the NSF on October 1.

Martin-Vega is credited with developing two
important and well-received programs, the Engineering Faculty
Internship Initiative and the Intelligent Material Handling
Systems Initiative.

The Faculty Initiative was designed to address a
critical applied research and human resource development gap by
sponsoring academic faculty to work in an industrial internship.
As visualized by Martin-Vega, the initiative provides faculty in
the field of manufacturing education and research with practical
experience within manufacturing organizations.

The Intelligent Material Handling Systems
Initiative involved the integration of material handling through
advanced information systems and machine intelligence. This
initiative is testimony to Dr. Martin-Vega's ability to marshal
experts from disparate backgrounds, said DDM Director Thom
J. Hodgson.

Martin-Vega, who received the Director's Award
of Excellence last year, oversees DDM's programs in Production
Systems and in Engineering Design. He is acknowledged to have
proposed and implemented a number of effective measures to
improve proposal evaluation, panel selection, and general program
management. Additionally, he has established NSF contacts with
several universities that have a large Hispanic faculty and
student population.

Before coming to NSF, he was an associate
professor at the University of Florida, where he had earned a
doctorate in Industrial and Systems Engineering. He also
held the position as Director of the Center for Applied Research
in Electronics Manufacturing at the University.

Possible U.S.-China Earthquake Research

Plans for future joint earthquake research
between the United States and the People's Republic of China
(PRC), are being made following a U.S./PRC Earthquake Engineering
Workshop held in Guangzhou, China, April 25-27.
ENG's Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Program sponsored the meeting
through a grant to the National Academy of Sciences, which
organized U.S. participation. The U.S. delegation consisted of
eight persons and was co-chaired by Professors George Housner and
Wilfred Iwan of the California Institute of Technology. The
Chinese sponsors were the Ministry of Construction and the State
Seismological Bureau.
Preliminary findings of the workshop indicate a strong
possibility of joint research in such areas as

Active control of structures, of which the Chinese
have several candidates, such as high TV towers and long span
bridges, to offer as test beds for the innovative control
technologies under development; and

A comprehensive analysis of hazard mitigation,
strategy, and approach by which multiple hazards will be dealt
with in cities and urban centers of different population sizes,
and cultural and social backgrounds.
The plans for future research came under Annex III of the
U.S./PRC Protocol for Scientific and Technical Cooperative
Research Studies: Earthquake Engineering and Hazards Mitigation.

PFF Fellows Named

The White House named 15 engineers and 15
scientists as the first recipients of the Presidential Faculty
Fellow (PFF) awards, given to provide recognition and support for
young faculty members who demonstrate excellence and promise in
research and teaching. Each award carries a grant from the NSF of
$100,000 per year for five years. The engineering faculty
awardees are: Morton Barlaz, North Carolina State University, for
work on the anaerobic decomposition of refuse in sanitary
landfills; Gary H. Bernstein, University of Notre Dame, Indiana,
for work on ultrasmall electronic devices; Shira Lynn Broschat,
Washington State University, for work on rough surface scattering
and use of ultrasound for breast tumor detection; David E.
Culler, University of California, Berkeley, for work in computer
architecture; Erich Carr Everbach, Swarthmore College, for work
on nonlinear dynamics of the fluid/solid interface, of
microbubbles, and of strain waves propagating within a solid;
Peyman Givi, State University of New York, Buffalo, for work on
investigation of turbulence and its role on combustion processes;
Louis J. Guido, Yale University, for work on optical and
electronic properties of compound semiconductors; Chris J.
Jacobsen, State University of New York, Stony Brook, for work in
x-ray optics and bioengineering; Mark E. Law, University of
Florida, for work in microelectronic processing systems; Mary L.
Lowe, University of Maryland, for work on quantitative
measurements of fluid flows in curved tubes and branched vessels
at high and low Reynolds numbers; Emir J. Macari, University of
Puerto Rico, for work on prediction of boundary value problems
based on nonlinear elasto-plastic finite element analyses;
Theodore S. Rappaport, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University, for work in networking and communications research;
Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum, University of Texas at Austin,
for work in applications of optical spectroscopy in
bioengineering; David T. Yue, Johns Hopkins University, for work
in biomedical engineering; David A. Zumbrunnen, Clemson
University, for work on analyses to establish relationships
between processing parameters, microstructure, and mechanical
properties.

NSF Outreach Programs Continue

Buoyed by recent successes, NSF will continue
its outreach activities to Washington, D.C., area high school
students. Most recently, nine Engineering Directorate engineers
traveled to the Howard B. Owens Science Center in Greenbelt, MD,
where they held a series of presentations.

After opening remarks to all students by Dr.
Joseph Bordogna, Assistant Director for Engineering, Dr. M.
Christina Gabriel spoke on What Do Engineers Do?  The
students then interacted in smaller groups with other NSF
Engineering staff who gave presentations, including: Dr. Dov
Jaron, Engineering the Artificial Heart; Mr. Norman
Caplan, The Robots Are Coming; Dr. Henry McGee,
Laser Beams What They Can Do; Dr. Jay Lee,
Technology and Mail Processing; Dr. Bruce Kramer,
How Real Things Are Manufactured; Dr. Jorn
Larsen-Basse, Friction; and Dr. Peter Sauer, The
Joy of Engineering.

Other areas of NSF are giving similar
presentations in local schools to project to students that
engineering and science careers are interesting and creative.

Staff Update

Dr. Devendra P. Garg, a professor at the
School of Engineering, Duke University, has joined ENG's Division
of Mechanical and Structural Systems as a Visiting Engineer and
Director of the Dynamic Systems and Control Program.

Garg, who has published extensively in the field
of dynamic systems and control, is an ASME Fellow and holds
offices or is actively involved in the U.S. Committee on
International Standardization Organization, International
Symposium on Man Under Vibration, IEEE International Conference
on Control Applications, International Journal of Intelligent
Automation, and the International Conference on Fuzzy Theory and
Technology. Garg can be reached at (202) 357-9542.

Dr. Sara Nerlove is a new program manager in the
Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. Associated
with various divisions of the NSF since 1980, she oversees SBIR
education and human resources proposals. She holds a Ph.D. in
cultural anthropology from Stanford University. Nerlove can be
reached at (202) 653-5336.

Dr. Krishnaswamy Srinivasan will become Program
Director, Manufacturing Machines and Equipment in the Division of
Design and Manufacturing Systems (DDM) on September 1.
Srinivasan, who earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at
Purdue University, will oversee the program that supports
research leading to new generations of machines and equipment. He
replaces Dr. Suren B. Rao who returns to Michigan. Srinivasan,
who prefers to be called Cheena, can be reached at
(202) 357-7676.

Dr. Mahendra Pol Singh, Professor at VPI's
Engineering Science and Mechanics Department, will begin a
two-year appointment as a Visiting Engineer on August 15. He will
serve as Program Director of Architectural and Mechanical Systems
in the Earthquake Hazard Mitigation Program. Singh, who earned a
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois, can be
reached at (202) 357-9500.

Dr. Linton Salmon is the new Program Director
for the Microelectromechanical subactivity, Solid State and
Microstructures Program, Division of Electrical and
Communications Systems (ECS). Before coming to NSF, Salmon was an
Associate Professor and Head of the Integrated Microelectronics
Laboratory, Brigham Young University. He earned a Ph.D. in
Applied and Engineering Physics at Cornell University. He can be
reached at (202) 357-9618.

Dr. Arthur R. Bergen is the new Program Director
for the Power Systems subactivity, Engineering Systems Program,
Division of Electrical and Communications Systems (ECS). He was
Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley, before
coming to NSF. He can be reached at (202) 357-9618.

Director's Awards to ENG Employees

Four ENG employees won the Director's Awards for
Excellence this year. They are Paul Herer, Senior Advisor for
Planning and Technology Evaluation, Office of the Assistant
Director, for Program Officer Excellence; Saundra E.
Woodard, Administrative Officer and Center Manager, Division of
Chemical and Thermal Systems, for Management
Excellence; Hope Duckett, Administrative Officer and Center
Manager, Division of Mechanical and Structural Systems, for
Administrative Excellence; and Sherri Swann, Program
Assistant, Division of Biological and Critical Systems, for
Support Staff Excellence.

III Deputy's Advice: Stick With It

When Stay-in-Schooler Mr.Calvin Soard, who
works in the NSF mail room, decided to delay his education, he
didn't count on dealing with a verbal arm-twisting
mentor.

Dr. Richard T. Schoen, Deputy Director, Division
of Industrial Innovation Interface (III), encouraged the youth to
stick it out, persistently explaining why he had to complete his
education. This Soard did, and was graduated this spring from
Howard University. He then landed a senior computer manager's
position in the private sector, with a salary well above that of
most recent graduates.

The people at III are as proud of Soard as they
are of Schoen.


Calendar of Events
(Listed events involves ENG sponsorship or
participation)
Sept. 14-17    American Society of Civil
Engineers Annual Meeting, New York, NY (MSS, BCS, ENG)

Sept. 18-19    Advisory Meeting for the CSU &
TX Tech U. Cooperative Program on Wind Engineering, Fort
Collins, CO (BCS)

Sept. 29-Oct. 1     Workshop on Riser
Mechanics, University of Michigan,  Ann Arbor, MI (ECS)

Oct.     Neuroengineering Workshop, University of
Maryland,(to be announced) College Park, MD

Oct. 8-9  Forum on NSF Supported Research in
Subsurface Systems,  Washington, D.C. (BCS)

Oct. 13-16     Visualization in Biomedical
Computing at the U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (BCS)

Oct. 14-18     1st International Conference
on Fuzzy Theory & Technology, Durham, NC (MSS)

Oct. 16-18     Biomedical Engineering Society
at the U. of Utah, UT (BCS)

Oct. 16-18     Workshop on Hierarchical
Control for Real-Time Control and Scheduling of
Manufacturing Systems, Meredith, OH (ECS)

Oct. 17  Computational Neuroscience Symposium at
Indiana U./Purdue (BCS)

Oct. 22-23     Engineering Advisory Committee
meeting,  Washington, D.C. (ENG)

Oct. 27-29     National SBIR Conference, Federal R&D
Opportunities for Technology Intensive Firms,
Crystal City, VA.  For info. call (407) 274-4005. (III)

Nov. 8-13 American Society of Mechanical
Engineers Winter Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA (MSS)

Nov. 17-19     National SBIR Conference,
Federal R&D Opportunities for Technology Intensive Firms,
Phoenix, AZ. For info. call (407) 274-4005. (III)

Jan. 6-8, 1993 Annual Division of Design and
Manufacturing Systems (DDM) Grantees Conference,
University of N. Carolina, Charlotte, NC (DDM)