Early Career Faculty Forum: Professional Development Travel Grants

1. Early Career Faculty Forum November 28, 2018 Turner Room • Professional Development Travel Grants • For Early Career Faculty

2. Professional Development Travel Grants Reports Activities Grant Recipient • Top Paper presentation in the Argumentation and Forensic division • Presented on research, theories, and future publication • Day-to-day presentations and relationship building • Spoke on forensic panel with coaches from across the country • Possible publication in Pi Kappa Delta Kendrea James Lecturer Arts, Language & Philosophy Proposal Outcomes • Milwaukee, WI Hilton City Center April 3rd -7th , 2018 • Airfare $292 Hotel $229 Parking (airport) $112 Conference Registration/Fees $175 Travel to and from the airport $80 Per diem $112 • I chose this trip for multiple reasons, one being the opportunity to present my research and the value that it has in the discipline. • Awarded top paper and spoke on panels describing my experience • Future research projects and publication opportunities discussed with academic journals • Learned new techniques and practices for inside the classroom to benefit students • Became a reader for future panel discussions • Made connections for future knowledge and growth in the field

3. Xianbiao (XB) Hu Assistant Professor Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering • 2017 CAFE Professional Development Report

4. Transportation Research Board (TRB) 97th Annual Meeting • Dates: January 7-11, 2018 • Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C. • The largest and most well-known event in transportation engineering field • 13,000 transportation professionals including policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions • More than 5,000 presentations in over 800 sessions and workshops • Conference Xianbiao Hu

5. Presented three research papers • Multi-Cycle Optimal Taxi Routing with E-hailing • Reconstructing Vehicle Trajectories to Support Travel Time Estimation • Will Information and Incentive Affect Traveler’s Day-to-Day Departure Time Decisions? – An Empirical Study of Decision Making Evolution Process • Attend Committee meeting • Attend journal of IJTST board meeting • Met with DOE, AAA research foundation, potential collaborators for a MoDOT RFP opportunity, and a lot of other people • Objectives and Activities Xianbiao Hu

6. Flight: $203 • Hotel: $650 • Registration: $350 • Meals, Transit, and miscellaneous costs: $400 • Total cost: $1,600 ($1,000 from CAFE and $600 match) • Cost Xianbiao Hu

7. Identify and industry partner and won MoDOT project “Missouri DOT Leader-Follower TMA System” • Won a DOE project “Electric Vehicle Charging Station (EVSE) Innovation: Streetlight Charging in City Right-fo-Way” (not sure if related or not) • Submitted a proposal to AAA research foundation, pending. • Networking opportunity to maintain existing connections and build new ones • Outcomes Xianbiao Hu

8. Professional Development Travel Grants Reports Activities Grant Recipient • Gave an invited talk entitled “development and characterization of nanostructured steels for nuclear applications” • Organized and chaired a symposium “atom probe tomography for advanced characterization of metals, minerals and materials” • Attended meetings of four committee : ACTS, NMC, MBMC, NMBC • Networked with colleagues and collaborators from other universities and national labs Dr. Haiming Wen Assistant Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering Department of Mining and Nuclear Engineering Proposal Outcomes • The Minerals, Metals and Materials (TMS) Society 2018 Annual Conference, March 11-15, Phoenix, Arizona • Registration $750, airfare $500, hotel $750, meals $300, ground transportation $200, total $2,500; requested for $1,000 from CAFE • TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition is one of the largest and most important conferences in materials science and engineering, with >4,000 people attending • Enhanced visibility of my research program • More engagement in activities at professional societies • New opportunities for research collaborations • New opportunities for joint research proposals • New collaborative research proposals to be submitted to DOE and NSF

9. Professional Development Travel Grants Reports Activities Grant Recipient • What did you do? • Attended the Annual Manufacturing Engineering Division Meeting • Presented the Quality & Reliability Technical Committee Annual Report • Met with a few collaborators • Who did you meet with or network with? • Dr. Chenhui Shao, ME Department, UIUC • Other Technical Committee Chairs Dr. Zeyi Sun Assistant Professor Engineering Management and Systems Engineering Proposal Outcomes • Dates/location of the meeting • 19, 20 June, TAMU, College Station, TX • Itemized budget request • $1000 • Why did you choose this trip, meeting, etc.? • Typical conference in my field • Anticipated benefits of the trip. • Finalized a potential collaborative proposal writing schedule • Expected follow-on activities. • Submitted a proposal to the program of Cybermanufacturing by August 15.

10. Professional Development Travel Grant Recipient Dr. Amardeep Kaur Assistant Teaching Professor Electrical & Computer Engineering Past-Chair of Midwest Section of ASEE Intent and Objectives • 125th ASEE Annual Conference • Helpful Resources: Technical Paper Sessions, Workshops (education and NSF), Educational tools & resources Expo • Networking: Division Mixers (ECE, ERM), KEEN Cohort meet-up, ASEE officers • Policy & Membership Decisions: Leadership meetings (Sections, Zones, National)

11. Activities at the Conference • Attended Technical Sessions in ECE/ERM divisions • Primary objective was to know the levels of presentations and expectation of data • Moderated a Technical Session on Curricular Innovations • Attended NSF Education workshop (Education related grants and mock proposal review) • Attended Zone III and Council of Sections business meeting with National Leadership • ECE Division networking dinner • Met with faculty from Colorado Tech, MIT, Univ. of Central Florida Outcomes • Found about NETI workshops (attended NETI-I in August,2018) • Ideas for presentations at future ASEE conferences • Established contacts for possible NSF Education proposals • Discovered new tools that can be incorporated in coursework at S&T • Met with cohort from KEEN workshop and exchanged progress on Circuits coursework developments • Found about possible involvement at ASEE zone and division level leadership

12. Thank you!