Schedule
Monday, May 21, 2018 – Center for Infrastructure Renewal (CIR) – RELLIS Campus
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Workforce Development: How to Become Involved – Session #1 |
Room 1108 |
Commercialization Tutorial – Session #1 |
Room 1107 | |
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Workforce Development: How to Become Involved – Session #2 |
Room 1107 |
Commercialization Tutorial – Session #2 |
Room 1108 | |
5:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Bus Tour of RELLIS Campus – Run #1 | |
5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Bus Tour of RELLIS Campus – Run #2 | |
6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. | Reception | |
Welcoming remarks: Kelly Templin, Director of the RELLIS Campus, The Texas A&M University System Special Performance: Aggie Wranglers Elite |
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 – Memorial Student Center (MSC) – TAMU Campus
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Networking Breakfast | Room 2401 |
8:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Welcome & Opening Plenary | Gates Ballroom – Room 2400 |
8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m. | Opening Remarks: Cindy Lawley, Assistant Agency Director for Workforce Development and Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic & Outreach Programs, Texas A&M Engineering
Welcome from Texas A&M University |
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8:45 a.m. – 9 a.m. | Keynote Speaker: Stephen Rodriguez, Founder, One Defense | |
9 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Opening Plenary:
Moderated by Dimitris Lagoudas, Deputy Agency Director, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station |
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10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Networking Break | Room 2401 |
10:15 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Resource Room 2500 Come to Room 2500 with any questions you may have regarding Commercialization or Workforce Development. Staff will be available to help you find the best solutions to fit your needs. |
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10:30 a.m. – Noon | Thematic Workgroup Sessions: | |
Cybersecurity Co-Leaders: Paula DeWitte & Jim Wall Invited Guest: Ken Fowler, National Security Agency |
Room 2501 | |
Energy Co-Leaders: Taylor Harvey & Debalina Sengupta Invited Guest: Heidi Maupin, Director, Army National Laboratory-South |
Room 2406A | |
Healthcare Co-Leaders: Shannon Ydoyaga & Melissa Grunlan Invited Guest: Carolyn Carlson, Director of U.S. Health, Microsoft |
Room 2404 | |
Information Systems & Sensors Co-Leaders: Brent Donham & Swami Gopalswamy Invited Guest: Cynthia Hipwell, TEES Chair Professor, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station |
Room 2406B | |
Infrastructure Co-Leaders: Zachary Grasley & Lee Clapp Invited Guest: Michael Quinn, Organic Chemist, CNS Pantex |
Room 2502 | |
Materials & Manufacturing Co-Leaders: ZJ Pei & Amine Benzerga Invited Guest: John Vickers, Principal Technologist, NASA |
Room 2405 | |
Noon – 12:30 p.m. | Boxed Lunches Available for Pick Up | Room 2401 |
12:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. | Thematic Workgroup Working Lunch | |
2:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Pitch Preparation & Networking Break | |
3:15 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | “New Ventures-Style” Pitches for the Research Collaborations created in the Work Group Sessions | Gates Ballroom – Room 2400 |
4:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Judges Convene Door Prize Announcements Video Presentation: 2017 TARC Research Teams |
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4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | 2018 TARC Award Presentations | |
5:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
Speakers
Carolyn Carlson
Carolyn Carlson, director, technical sales, oversees the Microsoft Intelligent Cloud technical resources as they engage with healthcare providers, payors, and suppliers to improve the quality and efficiency of health services delivered around the United States. Carolyn’s career has been spent driving healthcare, public sector, and high-tech clients to transform their business through adoption of modern technology.Her experience spans provider, academic medical centers and government organizations with depth in enterprise analytics and cloud-enabled solutions to drive greater efficiency, quality and outcomes for more sustainable healthcare delivery. She has helped clients identify opportunities for innovative technology and entry points to get started, to achieve healthcare’s triple aim goals. Prior to Microsoft, Carolyn worked for two other enterprises that helped shaped the IT industry—Texas Instruments and IBM.
Carolyn received a B.S. in electrical engineering from Texas A&M University. She received an M.S. in electrical engineering and an MBA from Southern Methodist University. Her two passions are improving healthcare and education access and outcomes. In addition to serving on the Seeds to STEM board, she serves on the board of directors for The Concilio, a non-profit with the mission to build stronger communities by empowering parents to improve the education and health of their families.
Cynthia Hipwell
Dr. Cynthia Hipwell has been working in the area of technology development based upon nanoscale phenomena for over 20 years. She received her B.S.M.E. from Rice University and her M.S. and Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Upon graduation, she went to work at Seagate Technology’s Recording Head Division in Bloomington, Minnesota, to develop test equipment to characterize the interface between the head and the disk in hard disk drives. During her time at Seagate, Dr. Hipwell held various individual and leadership positions in the areas of reliability, product development and advanced mechanical and electrical technology development. In these various roles, she established new business processes and an organizational culture that focused on developing innovative solutions from root cause understanding, improved pace of learning and discipline in experimentation and configuration management. She was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering for her leadership in the development of technologies to enable areal density and reliability increases in hard disk drives. Dr. Hipwell is currently a Distinguished Research Professor at Texas A&M University, teaching classes on innovation and technology development as well as leading the INVENT Lab (INnoVation tools and Entrepreneurial New Technology).
Dimitris C. Lagoudas
Deputy Director, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
Senior Associate Dean for Research, College of Engineering
John and Bea Slattery Chair Professor
University Distinguished Professor
Dr. Dimitris C. Lagoudas received his diploma from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1982, and his Ph.D. from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1986. He did post doctoral studies from 1986 – 1988 at Cornell University and Max Planck Institute. He taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, from 1988 – 1992. Dr. Lagoudas moved to Texas A&M University in July 1992. Dr. Lagoudas currently serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Engineering Research and the Senior Associate Dean for Research for the College of Engineering. He is the inaugural recipient of the John and Bea Slattery Chair in Aerospace Engineering at Texas A&M University and previously served as the head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering. He has co-authored about 400 scientific publications (about half in archival journals). For his scientific work on multifunctional materials, he received two best paper awards from ASME. He is coauthor of a monograph on gauge theories of defects, and edited several special issues of journals and proceedings volumes in addition to a textbook on shape memory alloys co-authored with his graduate students. During the past two decades, he has published extensively on the subject of shape memory alloys with his students, postdoctoral associates and colleagues, and several of his journal papers are now considered classic papers in the field. The theoretical models that his research group developed have now been implemented and integrated into finite element analysis software, which have been used by many academic institutions around the world and also industry and government (Boeing, DoD and NASA).
He received the 2006 ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Prize in recognition of his contributions to modeling and characterization of shape memory alloys and their use in aerospace. Over the past two decades, his research has been supported by various government agencies including NSF, NASA, ONR, ARO, AFOSR, DARPA, DoE and the State of Texas. He has collaborated with many industrial partners such as Lockheed- Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Schlumberger, Tenaris and Intel. He has also worked with national labs, including DoD Labs and NASA centers, either directly or through cooperative research and development agreements. He has served as an Associate Editor for the two main journals on smart structures and has helped organize numerous conferences through professional societies. He is an alumnus of the prestigious Defense Science Study Group, and has served on NRC panels. He also served as the co-chair of NASA’s Roadmap panel for Nanotechnologies. He was the inaugural recipient of one of the two Ford Motor Company Professorships at Texas A&M, he is a TEES fellow, a Texas A&M Faculty Fellow and a Fellow of ASME. He was selected as an SES Fellow in 2009. In 2011, he received the Presidential Award of Excellence for Faculty Service to International Students from Texas A&M and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from SPIE. Dr. Lagoudas was named a University Distinguished Professor in 2013 and a 2014 AIAA Fellow. He served as an Associate Vice President for Research for Texas A&M from 2001-2004, and as the first chair of the Materials Science and Engineering Program at Texas A&M from 2001-2003.
Cindy Lawley
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic and Outreach Programs, Texas A&M Engineering
Dr. Cindy Lawley serves as assistant vice chancellor of academic and outreach programs for Texas A&M Engineering and assistant agency director of workforce development for the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. In this position, Dr. Lawley is responsible for Spark!, the PK-12 Engineering Education Outreach Program; the Engineering Academies Program; the Regional Divisions Program; and the TEES EDGE Professional and Continuing Education Program. She has a Ph.D. in higher education administration from Purdue University, an M.A. in education from the University of Alabama, and a B.S. in computer information systems from Mississippi University for Women.
Prior to this position, Dr. Lawley was the executive director of academic initiatives and the director of strategic initiatives for the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. Before moving to Texas A&M in August 2014, she was the director of external relations for the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University. In that role, Dr. Lawley worked directly with industry to place students in internship/co-op positions, recruited students to Civil Engineering, and managed marketing and communication efforts for the school. Dr. Lawley has taught courses in technical communications for engineers and law and ethics at Purdue University.
Heidi Maupin
U.S. Army Research Laboratory South
Ms. Heidi Maupin serves as Regional Director of U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) South. ARL South’s mission is to meet future Army requirements through research and development partnerships and collaborative activities with regional universities, start-ups, and established companies. Maupin cultivates partnerships to achieve cutting edge research results in the areas that will fill technical gaps leading to technical dominance and ensure National security.
Ms. Maupin’s 30+ years of experience include 24 years with the federal government along with research activities with private industry and as an independent consultant. Her fortes cover a wide band width including materials research, environmental health/engineering, public policy, and engineering management. Her leadership skills led to worldwide attention of first-ever technical breakthroughs that continue to be exploited in Army’s on-going and successful bulk, thermally-stable nanostructured alloys program. While supporting the Office of the Secretary of Defense, her outreach activities with White House-led interagency working groups established methods for DoD and other government agencies to openly communicate risks associated with environmental concerns.
A licensed professional engineer, Maupin earned a bachelor of science in metallurgical engineering and a master’s in materials science and engineering, both from the University of Utah.
Michael Quinn
CNS for Y12
Dr. Michael Quinn is a research chemist at the Y12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. His principal duties include nuclear safety research and serving as developmental principal investigator. Dr. Quinn earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Tennessee Knoxville under the supervision of Dr. George Kabalka in 2010. He served as a postdoctoral fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) with Dr. Linda Lewis from 2010–2015. While at ORNL he worked on the synthesis of NIR fluorescent dyes, as well as conductive thin film coatings using graphene and superomniphobic formulations. As a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, Dr. Quinn instructed undergraduate students in general and organic chemistry laboratory classes and assisted in lectures. Dr. Quinn has experience using NMR, LC-MS, HPLC, UV-vis, GC-MS, Raman, XRD and fluorimetry. Dr. Quinn is the author or co-author of seven peer reviewed publications and one pending patent. Contributions include directing scientific work at Y12, providing guidance on selecting U compounds to synthesize at UMC and technical expertise in Raman spectroscopy.
Stephen P. Rodriguez
One Defense
Stephen P. Rodriguez is the founder of One Defense, an agile network of market-leading, non-traditional technology companies, venture capital firms and research universities dedicated to scouting advanced software and hardware applications and enabling their transition into the national security enterprise. Concurrently, he has served as a venture partner supporting the above-market venture portfolio performance of SineWave Ventures, Scout Ventures and Abundance Partners.
Mr. Rodriguez began his career at Booz Allen Hamilton shortly before 9/11, supporting their national security practice. In his capacity as an expert on game theoretic applications, he supported the United States Intelligence Community and DoD as the lead architect for the Thor’s Hammer, Schriever II/III and Cyber Storm wargames. He subsequently was a vice president at a venture-backed, artificial intelligence company (Sentia Group) and served as chief marketing officer for a international defense corporation (NCL Holdings).
Mr. Rodriguez serves on the boards of CENSA, DMGS, GraySpace, HighSide, ODL Services, Omelas, Public Spend Forum, Training Leaders International, Uniken, and WarOnTheRocks. He is also a visiting professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, a Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation and serves on the Term Member Advisory Council at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Rodriguez received his B.B.A from Texas A&M University and an M.A. degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. He is published in Foreign Policy, WarOnTheRocks, National Review, RealClearDefense, and Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Notably, his graduate thesis on conflict resolution in the Caucasus resulted in an invitation to join incoming Secretary of Defense Robert Gates transition team in late 2006.
Mr. Rodriguez resides in Washington D.C. with his wife, Laura, a venture capitalist with Bulldog Innovation Group and their children, Fletcher and Violet.
Kelly Templin
RELLIS Campus
The Texas A&M University System
Kelly Templin assumed the post of RELLIS Director on April 2, 2018, following the retirement of John Barton. Prior to working for the A&M System, Mr. Templin served as the College Station City Manager. In that capacity he directed over 1,000 employees and oversaw a $370 million annual budget. For more than two decades, he has worked in municipal governments in Texas, Alabama and Ohio. He holds a bachelor’s degree in environmental design and a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from Texas A&M. Mr. Templin is married to Lisette and has three children, “Trey,” Tory and Trinity.
John Vickers
Space Technology Mission Directorate
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
John Vickers serves as the principal technologist in the area of advanced materials and manufacturing within the Space Technology Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. He also serves as the associate director of the Materials and Processes Laboratory at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and as the manager of NASA’s National Center for Advanced Manufacturing with operations in Huntsville, Alabama, and New Orleans, Louisiana. He has over 30 years of experience in materials and manufacturing—research and development, engineering, and production operations for propulsion, spacecraft, and scientific space systems. As principal technologist, he leads the nationwide NASA team to develop advanced manufacturing technology strategies to achieve the goals of NASA’s missions. He is the agency representative to the National Science and Technology Council, the Subcommittee on Advanced Manufacturing, and the Subcommittee on Critical and Strategic Mineral Supply Chains. He is a founding member of the Manufacturing USA – National Network for Manufacturing Innovation program and the Interagency Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office. His many awards include NASA’s Exceptional Achievement Medal, NASA’s Outstanding Leadership Medal and the AIAA Holger Toftoy award. He is a fellow of SME. He holds a bachelor of science in engineering from the University of Alabama in Huntsville.
Tutorial Sessions
Technology Commercialization: Strategies, Tactics, and Programs Aimed at Research Translation & Commercialization at TEES
Dr. Balakrishna Haridas, Executive Director, Office of Commercialization & Entrepreneurship, TEES
This session will cover the genesis of the TEES commercialization office, its strategic mission, and the operational tactics implemented to establish a comprehensive model for commercialization of TEES research-derived intellectual property. There will also be a presentation about the three pillars of our mission: intellectual property management and licensing, new ventures, and industry collaborations. Finally, an open Q&A session will allow for discussion around the issues and the approaches to be considered in the context of establishing a commercialization ecosystem at regional divisions.
Workforce Development for Research and Emerging Technologies
Dr. Cindy Lawley, Assistant Agency Director for Workforce Development, TEES
Dr. Melissa Walden, Director, TEES EDGE
The TEES EDGE team will provide an introduction to workforce development and how it relates to research and emerging technologies at the regional divisions. The session will answer important questions:
- What is workforce development and why should it matter to me?
- Do you have an idea for a workshop or short course? Learn how to make transition that idea into reality.
- How can TEES EDGE help with logistics, market research, budgeting, and other financial concerns?
The TEES EDGE (ED-GE for educating generations) team works with TEES staff and faculty to develop and deploy workshops, short courses, webinars, and symposiums that transfer knowledge related to emerging technologies and other research. The TEES EDGE web-based participant management system can support the registration, fiscal, and communication aspects of implementing workforce development. Although the team is located at TEES Headquarters in College Station, they are available to work with all regional divisions. Come and see how you can get involved in workforce development.