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Date:

August 13-14, 2007  [3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.]

The purpose of the industrial panel is summarily stated as follows.

This panel serves the goal of finding ways to increase industrial participation in the SMC Transaction journals. Only through industrial collaboration can the SMC society maintain financial solvency and an influx of industrial and academic minds into its constituent fields. It is our hope that the industrial panel will provide vision and direction with these ends in mind.

Invitees to the panel currently serve or have served as a CEO, president, vice-president, or other ranking executive of a corporation or federal agency that has a vested interest in transitioning research; or, as a dean (any subrank), provost, president, or grant agent of an accredited North American Research University that has experience in marketing patents, or other research products such as software, etc.

Several distinguished university professors have also been invited. They have special insight into technology transition, and have a track record of bringing in funding, as appropriate, publication (not necessarily extensive, which helps us to bolster our IEEE Transaction journals as one of the subjects of our planned deliberations).

The panel will address, as its primary focus, how to increase the market share of our IEEE SMC Transactions (especially Part C), while maintaining or improving their quality, maintaining or improving their financial solvency, and publishing research that industry and government need done and can share in an open forum. We want to impulse people from all over the world to work on problems that need to be solved as opposed to publishing for the sake of publishing, which may unfortunately become the defacto standard with the proliferation of conferences and "sub-prime" journals.

Panelists: 

 Title:

Knowledge Management and Reuse in Industrial Approaches: Know-how Reuse and Transfer

Date:

August 14, 2007  [1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.]

Abstract:

Knowledge Management and Reuse in technological application has gone through an evolutionary process to involve people as workforce, processes and technology as infrastructure solution to retain, analyze, organize, improve, and share expertise and data bases. Comprehensive technological topics and distributed projects employed nowadays need a conscious strategy of getting the right knowledge to the right people at the right time and helping people share and put information into action in ways that strive to improve industrial-organizational performance. For example reuse and management of IT and know-how, and their research activities towards nano-scale phenomena with applications in fuel and biologically inspired materials have already given new impetus to the birth of new expertise and to the improvement of existing products. It is also following the value-added chain from raw material, basic material, and work material to components or systems. In addition to the core areas of mining, metallurgy, and materials, the knowledge-oriented composite-organization provides research competence in scientific and technical fundamentals, in environmental engineering and industrial management in iron and steel industry and alike.

Madjid Fathi, [Panel Chair] University of Siegen, Germany

Lotfi A. Zadeh, Professor, BISC, UC Berkeley, USA

Gerald Silverberg, Professor, Stanford University, USA

Ralf Montino, Semicondutor (ELMOS), Germany

Hassan Reza, Professor, NDU, USA

Hamid Garmestani, Professor, GA Tech, USA