Initial Publication Date: May 30, 2017

NSF Minority Faculty Development Workshop presents the 2017 Symposium:

Engineering A World of Difference: Academic-Industry Connections

Preliminary Agenda

September 20th -23rd, 2017

Houston, Texas

Download the 2017 Agenda (Acrobat (PDF) 402kB Sep18 17)

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Houston, Texas

Arrival Day

Thursday, September 21, 2017

University of Houston, Texas

7:30 am - 8:15 am

Breakfast at Eric's Hilton Hotel

8:30 am - 9:15 am

Welcome, Symposium Overview, and Introductions

Gilda A. Barabino, Berg Professor & Dean of The Grove School of Engineering
The City College of New York

Stephanie G. Adams, Dean of Frank Batten College of Engineering & Technology
Old Dominion University

9:15 am - 10:15 am

Plenary Session

10:15 am - 10:30 pm

Break

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Senior Administrators Panel

Moderated By Gilda Barabino, Berg Professor & Dean of The Grove School of Engineering at The City College of New York

12:15 pm - 1:30 pm

Working Lunch

Affinity Group Discussions

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Workshop I

PANEL: A Career Worthy of the NAE

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm

Break

4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Concurrent Sessions I

Friday, September 22, 2017

University of Houston, Texas

8:00 am - 8:30 am

Breakfast at Eric's Hilton Hotel

8:30 am - 10:00 am

Workshop II

IP and Tech Transfer

10:00 am - 10:30 am

Break

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Workshop III

Building Research Relationships with Industry

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Working Lunch

Affinity Group Discussions

2:15 pm - 3:45 pm

Un-Conference Session I

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm

Break

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Un-Conference Session II

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Dinner

Keynote: Karan L. Watson, PhD, Former Provost of Texas A&M University

Saturday, September 23, 2017

University of Houston, Texas

7:30 am - 8:30 am

Breakfast at Eric's Hilton Hotel

8:30 am - 10:30 am

Concurrent Session II

10:30 am - 11:45 am

Break

11:00 am - 12:30 pm

Un-Conference Session III

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

Keynote Lunch

Reginald DesRoches, PhD, F ASCE, F SEI
Dean, George Brown School of Engineering
Rice University

2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Closing Remarks & Wrap-Up