2007 ASEE-EED business meeting minutes.

2007 ASEE-EED BUSINESS MEETING MINUTES Present: John H. Ristroph U. of LA at Lafayette Bob Dryden Portland State U. Kate Abel Stevens Inst. of Tech. Kevin Dahm Rowan U. Don Merino Stevens Inst. of Tech. Don Remer Harvey Mudd Coll. Jerry Thuesen Georgia Tech. Jane M. Fraser Colorado State U.--Pueblo Robert Lundquist Ohio State U. Jeanette Russ Union University Hector Carrasco Colorado State U.--Pueblo Bill Peterson Arizona State U. Present: John H. Ristroph ristroph@louisiana.edu Bob Dryden drydenr@cecs.pdx.edu Kate Abel kathryn.abel@stevens.edu Kevin Dahm dahm@rowan.edu Don Merino dmerino@stevens.edu Don Remer remer@hmc.edu Jerry Thuesen gthuesen@isye.gatech.edu Jane M. Fraser jane.fraser@colostate-pueblo.edu Robert Lundquist lundquist.1@osu.edu Jeanette Russ jruss@uu.edu Hector Carrasco hector.carrasco@colostate-pueblo.edu Bill Peterson wrp@asu.edu

John Lamancusa attended a portion of the meeting, representing PIC-I.

1. Called to order at 12:35 pm by Chair John Ristroph on June 25, 2007, in Honolulu, Hawaii, at the American Society of Engineering Education Annual Conference and Exposition.

2. Division Best Paper Award. Don Newnan has donated $30,000 for the purpose of creating an annual $1,000 Best Conference Paper award for the EE division. Bob Lundquist prepared a proposal to create an endowed award through ASEE. The proposal was declined at this week's ASEE Board of Directors meeting because the board wanted an endowment of $40,000. Bob Lunquist, Kevin Dahm, and John Ristroph will continue a dialog with ASEE about a mechanism for establishing the award and will also examine options for endowing the award outside ASEE.

3. Programming. EE division had three technical sessions this year. There was overlap with IE and EMD sessions. John Lamancusa did not recall ASEE's changing any sessions from what was requested by the divisions. It was proposed that to avoid conflicts between EE, IE and EMD sessions at future conferences will jointly prepare a single spreadsheet showing all of their sessions, in addition to their normal requests made through ASEE software.

ASEE is considering a general poster session for future conferences.

This year's meeting had record attendance: ~3,200 attendees, 1,739 papers submitted, 1,629 published, ~2,700 abstracted submitted, ~2,400 abstracts accepted. Upcoming ASEE meetings: Pittsburgh 2008, Austin 2009, Louisville 2010, Vancouver 2011, and San Antonio 2012.

4. 2006 EED Business Meeting Minutes were approved.

5. Chair's report: The division currently has 157 members. In the past year, bylaws were revised and the revisions approved in February. Bylaws and other division records are housed on the division website at www.engrecon.org.

The division officers are committed to finding a way to implement Newnan's gift and create a Best Conference Paper award by next year.

6. 2007 Program Chair's Report: Division received 22 abstracts, 15 abstracts were accepted, and 9 papers were accepted. Three technical sessions were held, including a special panel discussion on past and future of engineering economy. The Best Conference Paper award went to Sarah Ryan (speaker), John Jackman, Rahul Marathe, Pavlo Antonenko, Piyamart Kumsaikaew, Dale Niederhauser, and Craig Ogilvie from Iowa State U, for a paper entitled "Student Selection of Information Relevant to Solving Ill-Structured Engineering Economic Decision Problems."

7. Treasurer's Report: BASS account currently has $6,407. Total $1,053.79 expended this year, most of which went to support grant award.

Unspent operating funds support ASEE Best Teacher Award per policy passed last year.

8. 2008 Program Chair's Report: The 2008 Call for Papers is ready and will be distributed through ASEE and via the division newsletter. The 2008 meeting will be held in Pittsburgh.

9. Newsletter Editor's Report: Newsletters went out in August 2006 and May 2007. The primary purpose of the first newsletter was to report on the previous ASEE conference, and the second was to promote division's activities at the 2007 conference.

10. Eugene L. Grant Award: The 2007 winners are Pameet Singh and Peter Sandborn, for their paper entitled "Obsolescence Driven Design Refresh Planning for Sustainment-Dominated Systems."

The grant award corpus is currently over $25,000. The Engineering Economy division will pay for the grant award out of the BASS account for one more year as per previous division resolution, after which the grant endowment will resume responsibility for funding the award.

11. Engineering Economist Report: The journal is currently accepting submissions for two special editions, on financial engineering and energy economics.

Acceptance rate for the journal is holding around 35%. The journal will be changing to an on-line process for submissions and reviewing before the end of the summer.

12. New Business

John Ristroph moved that the division's Best Conference Paper Award is to be named the Don Newnan Award at earliest appropriate time. Approved unanimously after short discussion. The division voted to form a committee of Robert Lundquist (outgoing Treasurer), John Ristroph (Outgoing Division Chair), and Kevin Dahm (Incoming Treasurer) to explore options on how to administer this award and they will place a recommendation before the membership of the division.

The following were elected unanimously:

Division Newsletter Editor: Bob Dryden

Eugene L. Grant Award Committee: Jane Fraser, Kevin Dahm, Paul Kauffman

Engineering Economist Board: Bill Peterson

13. Announcements

Robert Lundquist: Brochures about Eugene L. Grant and Donald Newnan will be placed on website.

Joint dinner with EMD and IE to be held at Dave & Buster's.

These preliminary minutes will be formally reviewed and submitted for approval at the 2008 ASEE Annual Conference. Please notify Kevin Dahm with any corrections or additions.