Summit Series on the National Academy of Engineering Grand Challenges

North Carolina State University/Duke University Student Activities March 3, 2010 GC Meeting March 4 – 5, 2010  Confirmed Speakers:

Senator and Engineer, Edward E. "Ted" Kaufman

Kaufman is the junior U.S. Senator from the state of Delaware appointed for two years to fill the term of former U.S. Senator Joe Biden, who resigned to become Vice President of the United States. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Duke University and a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School. Kaufman originally moved to Delaware in 1966 to work for DuPont as an engineer. In 1972 he joined Joe Biden’s U.S. Senate campaign on a volunteer basis. Afterwards, he took a one-year leave of absence from DuPont to organize and head Senator Biden’s Delaware Office and in 1976 he became Biden's Chief of Staff/Administrative Assistant and served until 1995. Since 1991, Ted has taught courses in the law school, business school and public policy program of his alma mater, Duke University. From 1995 to 1999 he was Co-Chair of the Duke Law School Center for the Study of the Congress.

John T. Chambers
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Cisco
John Chambers is Chairman and CEO of Cisco. He has helped grow the company from $70 million when he joined Cisco in January 1991, to $1.2 billion when he assumed the role of CEO, to its current run rate of $36 million. In November 2006, Chambers was named Chairman of the Board, in addition to his CEO role. Chambers has received numerous awards for his leadership over his past 13 years at the helm of Cisco, including: Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People,” one of Barron’s “World’s Most Respected CEOs,” the “Best Boss in America” by 20/20, one of BusinessWeek’s “Top 25 Executives Worldwide,” “CEO of the Year” by Chief Executive Magazine, the Business Council’s “Award for Corporate Leadership,” and “Best Investor Relations by a CEO” from Investor Relations Magazine three times. During his tenure as CEO, Cisco has been named to Fortune’s “America’s Most Admired Company” list seven times, BusinessWeek’s “Top 50 Performers” list six times, Forbes’ “Leading Companies in the World,” and is one of the top 10 places to work in the United States, China, Germany, France, India, UK, Australia, Singapore, and several other countries.

Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, GE

Kristina Johnson, Under Secretary for Energy, Department of Energy

Kristina M. Johnson is currently the Under Secretary for Energy at the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C.  Prior to her appointment as Under Secretary, Johnson was Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at The Johns Hopkins University. She received her B.S., M.S. (with distinction) and Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University. After a NATO post-doctoral fellowship at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, she joined the University of Colorado-Boulder’s faculty in 1985 as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to full Professor in 1994. From 1994 to 1999 Dr. Johnson directed the NSF/ERC for Optoelectronics Computing Systems Center at the University of Colorado and Colorado State University, and then served as Dean of the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University from 1999 to 2007. Johnson was named an NSF Presidential Young Investigator in 1985 and awarded a Fulbright fellowship in 1991. Her awards include the Dennis Gabor Prize for creativity and innovation in modern optics (1993); State of Colorado and North Carolina Technology Transfer Awards (1997, 2001); induction into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame (2003); the Society of Women Engineers Lifetime Achievement Award (2004); and in May of 2008, the John Fritz Medal, widely considered the highest award in the engineering profession. Previous recipients of the Fritz Medal include Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison and Orville Wright.

David Hill, Deputy Laboratory Director - Science & Technology

David J. Hill is deputy laboratory director for Science & Technology. An internationally acknowledged expert on nuclear reactor and fuel cycle issues, Dr. Hill has extensive experience in the area of international nuclear matters, working with the countries of both Western Europe and the former Soviet Union. He joined Idaho National Laboratory from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he was associate laboratory director, Energy and Engineering Sciences. Previously, Hill served at Argonne National Laboratory, where he was deputy associate laboratory director of Engineering Research, having held positions as director of the divisions of Reactor Analysis and Engineering, Reactor Engineering, and the International Nuclear Safety Center. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and a doctorate in mathematical physics from Imperial College, London University, and an MBA from the University of Chicago. 

Graham Allison, Professor, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Engineering

Graham Allison is Director of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. As "Founding Dean" of the modern Kennedy School, under his leadership, from 1977 to 1989, a small, undefined program grew twenty-fold to become a major professional school of public policy and government. Dr. Allison has served as Special Advisor to the Secretary of Defense under President Reagan. He has the sole distinction of having twice been awarded the Department of Defense's highest civilian award, the Distinguished Public Service Medal, first by Secretary Cap Weinberger and second by Secretary Bill Perry. He served as a member of the Defense Policy Board for Secretaries Weinberger, Carlucci, Cheney, Aspin, Perry and Cohen. Dr. Allison's first book, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971), was released in an updated and revised second edition (1999) andranks among the bestsellers in 20th century political science with more than 400,000 copies in print. His latest book, Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, is now in its third printing, and was selected by the New York Times as one of the "100 most notable books of 2004."

Ned Sauthoff, Director of U.S. Contributions to ITER Project, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Dr. Ned Sauthoff is a plasma physicist and project manager of the U.S. Contributions to ITER Project, the U.S. portion of an international partnership aimed at demonstrating the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion energy using magnetic confinement of plasmas. ITER is a large toroidal magnetic confinement device of the tokamak configuration that is being built by China, the European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, the Russian Federation, and the United States. It will be sited in Cadarache, France. Prior to establishment of the U.S. ITER Project Office, Sauthoff was head of the Off-Site Research Department at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), where he managed research on leading facilities around the United States and the world to address key fusion physics and technology questions. Sauthoff received his bachelor's degree in physics and master's degree in nuclear engineering from MIT in 1972 and his Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University in 1975. He developed x-ray instrumentation and performed research on tokamak plasmas at PPPL from 1975 to 1980. He managed design of the control and data system for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) until 1985 and headed the PPPL Computer Division until 1988, the Princeton Beta Experiment until 1990, the Experimental Projects Department until 1992, the Physics Department until 1994, and the Plasma Science and Technology Department until 1997. Dr. Sauthoff was the president of IEEE-USA in 2001 and was IEEE-USA's Vice-President for Technology Policy from 1998 to 1999. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).

Edward Moses, Principal Associate Director NIF & Photon Science

Edward Moses has 18 years of experience developing Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) laser systems and 30 years of experience developing and managing complex laser systems and high-technology projects. As associate director (AD) for the National Ignition Facility (NIF) Program from 2005 to 2007 and now as principal associate director for the NIF & Photon Science Directorate, he is responsible for completing construction and bringing into full operation the world's largest optical instrument for achieving ignition in the laboratory and for studying inertial fusion energy. He has been instrumental in sustaining the program's current strong performance. Moses joined Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in 1980, becoming program leader for isotope separation and material processing and deputy AD for Lasers. From 1990 to 1995, he was a founding partner of Advanced Technology Applications, Inc., which advised clients on proposing and designing high-technology projects. He returned to LLNL in 1995 as assistant AD for program development, physics and space technology. Moses received his bachelor's degree and doctorate from Cornell University in New York. He has won numerous awards, including the 2003 NNSA Award of Excellence for Significant Contribution to Stockpile Stewardship, the 2004 DOE Award of Excellence for the first joint LLNL/Los Alamos National Laboratory experiments on NIF, and the D.S. Rozhdestvensky Medal for Outstanding Contributions to Lasers and Optical Sciences. He holds seven patents in laser technology and computational physics.

Invited Speakers:

• Senator Sam Nunn (Ret.) – Nuclear Threat Initiative

More Information:

For more information, please contact April Brown, Senior Associate Dean for Research, Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University at 919-660-5498 or abrown@ee.duke.edu; or John Gilligan, Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Director, US DOE Nuclear Energy University Programs, North Carolina State University at 919-513-7199 or john_gilligan@ncsu.edu.

Tentative Agenda: Wednesday, March 3, 2009  2:00 p.m. afternoon/evening  Student Activities DayThursday, March 4, 2009 8:30 – 9:00 a.m.Welcome Dean Tom Katsouleas (Duke) and Louis Martin-Vega (NC State) 9:00 – 9:30 a.m.Keynote Address 9:30 – 10:00 a.m.
Lead Speaker for panel 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.Panel “Prevent Nuclear Terror” 
11:00 – 11:30 a.m.
Break 
11:30 – 12:00 p.m.
Student Contest and Award 
12:00 – 1:15 p.m.
Lunch 
1:15 – 1:45 p.m.
Lead Speaker for panel 
1:45 – 2:45 p.m.
Panel “Grand Challenges High Level” 
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.
Break
3:00 – 3:30 p.m.
Lead Speaker for panel 
3:30 – 4:30 p.m.
Panel “Engineer Better Medicines” 
6:30 – 9:00 p.m.
Reception/Dinner/Student Movie, etc. 
Friday, March 5, 2009  8:00 – 8:15 a.m.
Welcome and Housekeeping Comments  8:15 – 8:45 a.m.
Keynote Address 
8:45 – 9:45 a.m.
Panel “American Innovation and Competitiveness” 
9:45 – 10:15 a.m.
Break 
10:15 – 10:45 a.m.
Lead Speaker for panel 
10:45 11:45 p.m.
Panel “Nuclear Fusion” 
11:45 – 12:45 p.m.
Student Leader Panel