Research Committee

Purpose: The Research Committee is a standing committee in the SEM organization, responsible to the Executive Board through the Technical Activities Council. The primary responsibility of the Committee is to provide a forum for research level work (or work in progress) as well as novel topics not covered by other committees but beneficial to the SEM as a whole and presented at SEM National Meetings.

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RESEARCH COMMITTEE - Updated May 2011

Minutes from Research Committee Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 6/7/10

 Meeting called to order with opening comments by Ioannis Chasiotis:

• Goal is a committee that is not a constrained/focused as the TDs and can look at new areas, increase the efforts of the society to support junior SEM members and work to coordinate the overlap between TDs.
• 2009 Minutes approved (Hugh Bruck-first, Eric Brown-second).
• Ioannis needs to follow up with Peter regarding “mandatory” attendance of research meeting my TD chairs.
• In SEM 2010 the Research Committee organized an Industry and Lab Early Career panel.
• Student poster competition: Need to clarify path forward on who judges student posters.  (Propose poster winners: 1^st a handbook + $100, 2^nd a handbook + $50 and 3^rd a handbook)

Discussion Items

• Conference theme “Experimental Mechanics in the Age of Modeling and Simulation”
• Thermal methods track for 2011 (Richard Greene).
• Possible overlap cosponsor for electronic packaging, MEMs, and optical methods
• Possible cosponsor with Dynamic-Pyrometry, etc.
• Dynamic Properties track.  ASC keynote.
• Symposia for 2011: MEMs and Time-Dependent Materials
• For 2011, the Research Committee will organize again the early career panel for University Careers (Ioannis). Suggestions to add Katie Toohey and/or Jeff Helms to give the perspective of teaching institutions, keep the panel at the stage of tenure track faculty.
• Possible new areas:
• Multifunctional/hybrid materials (emerge and grow from the Composites TD) for 2012 Track
• Micro-robotics micro-components, micro-sensing, micro-air-vehicles, for possible 2012 Track
• (National and Homeland) Security and Blast Mitigation??

Move to adjourn Hugh Bruck, second Eric Brown

Attendees:

Helena Jin, hjin@sandia.gov

Peter Ifju, ifju@ufl.edu

Gavin Horn, ghorn@illinois.edu

Vijaya Chalivendra, vchalivendra@umassd.edu

Bo Song, bsong@sandia,gov

Michael Keller, mwkeller@utulsa.edu

Richard John Greene, richard.greene@strainsolutions.com

Sharlotte Kramer, sbkramer@illinois.edu

Hugh Bruck, bruck@umd.edu

Ioannis Chasiotis, chasioti@uiuc.edu

Eric Brown, en_brown@lanl.gov

Matt Cavalli, matthew.cavalli@und.edu