1. Welcome to the CIMM Symposium
Michael Khonsari
Louisiana EPSCoR Project Director
Associate Commissioner for Sponsored Programs Research & Development, Louisiana Board of Regents

2. NSF RII Award 2015-2020 Statewide research focus
Partnering Institutions:

3. Enterprise Participants 155 Total participants 38 Faculty 6
Support Staff 5
Post Docs 41
Graduate Students 35
Undergraduate Students 21
REU 9
RET
155 Total participants

4. CIMM Proceedings
48 papers
Available on CIMM Hub

5. External Review Board Jian Cao Perla Balbuena John Hutchinson
Assistant Vice President for Research & Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and Environmental Engineering
Northwestern University
Perla Balbuena
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering
Texas A&M University
John Hutchinson
Abbott and James Lawrence Research Professor of Engineering & Gordon McKay Research Professor of Applied Mechanics
Harvard University
Harold Silverman
Retired
State University of New York System
Susan Sinnott
Department Head and Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Pennsylvania State University

6. Diversity Advisory Council
Stephanie G. Adams
Dean of Frank Batten College of Engineering & Technology
Old Dominion University
Jenna P. Carpenter
Dean, School of Engineering
Campbell University
Sheila Edwards Lange
President
Seattle Central College
Sara Xayarath Hernández
Associate Dean for Inclusion and Student Engagement
Graduate School
Cornell University
DiOnetta Jones Crayton
Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education & Director of the Office of Minority Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gloria Thomas
Executive Director of Research, Education and Mentoring Programs
Louisiana State University
Michael Cunningham
Associate Provost, Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies,
Tulane University

7. Industry Industrial Advisory Board Chair
Rick Neff Cincinnati, Inc. (BAAM)
Industrial Advisory Board Chair
Art Kracke AAK Consulting, LLC
Tim Caffrey Seventh Son LLC
R. Scott Hyde Timken Company

8. Save The Date
October 19, 2017
Lod Cook Hotel

9. Agenda AM PM 8:00 9:50 Research overview CUF status
CIMM Hub and ICME efforts
CIMM WFDD efforts
Break
Graduate Student Retreat report
External evaluation report
Panel Discussion: Implicit Bias (DAC)
Lunch
12:00
Poster Session
STT1 Research Presentations
STT2 Research Presentations
Break and Boards Deliberations
Feedback from Board
Reception and discussion on Retention recruiting/retention strategies
1:30
2:30
3:18
10:30
4:15
4:45
5:00
Closing remarks
11:30