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8/18/2019 The ATLAS International Transdisciplinary - Transnational - Transcultural (T3) Conference "Education / Technological Singularity / Technological Innovation"2016-ATLAS-

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WELCOME TO ATLAS 15th

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Dr. XI Youmin Executive President

Jiaotong-Liverpool University

WELCOME TO ATLAS 15th

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION


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2016 TheATLAS T3 International Conference will be held atXi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU). Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University is a pioneering international universitybased in the World Heritage city of Suzhou on China’s eastcoast. XJTLU takes a unique approach to international edu-cation that combines, encourages and develops the teach-ings of its two founding institutions, Xi’an Jiaotong University,China and the University of Liverpool, UK.

An old Chinese proverb praising the beauty and prosperityof Suzhou says, "In heaven there is paradise, on earth there

are Hangzhou and Suzhou." It has long been a heaven forscholars, artists, and skilled craftsmen, and it still is today.

The beautifully landscaped city of Suzhou is located in thecenter of the Yangtze Delta region, and is renowned for itsclassic gardens, traditional waterside architecture, and tradi-tional operas. Suzhou was a prosperous ancient state capital,built in 514 BC by He Lv, the King of Wu State. It grew in favorwith China's dynasties — a summer retreat of emperors, anda well-placed trade center.

Xi’an Jiaotong

Liverpool University

Suzhou, China

May 29 - June 2, 2016

Education

Technological Singularity Technological Innovation

FOCUS OF THE CONFERENCE

The T3 International Conference program will consist ofinvited and selected papers emphasizing transdisciplinary,transnational and transcultural global problems. Plenarysessions and keynote panels will be presented by prominentspeakers.

Educational programs face many difculties because of therapid change of technology in today’s environment. During thelast decade, the number of complex problems facing engineershas exploded, and the technical knowledge and understandingin science and engineering required to address and mitigatethese problems is rapidly evolving. The world is becomingincreasingly interconnected as new opportunities and highly

complex problems connect the world in ways we are onlybeginning to understand. When we do not solve these problemscorrectly and in a timely manner, they rapidly become crises.Problems, such as energy shortages, pollution, transportation,the environment, natural disasters, safety, health, hunger andthe global water crisis, threaten the very existence of the worldas we know it today. None of these complex problems can beunderstood from the sole perspective of a traditional discipline.

During this conference, multicultural researchers, practitioners,and educators will share their experiences and thoughtsconcerning the impact diverse cultural backgrounds have oneducation. More specically:

• global higher education revolution --- how world universitysystems can collaborate more efciently,

• transnationalization through information technology and

exportation of education as a commodity,

• the potential for educational programs based on thetransdisciplinary (TD) methodology and methods.

• transdisciplinary research approaches for complex globalissues.

• How to teach students innovation and collaborationskills, educating them broadly and preparing them for anincreasingly transdisciplinary, collaborative, and global job market.

• Transdisciplinary education and preparation for the length

of our life.• new methodology in engineering education that is

focused on teaching students transdisciplinary skillsthereby allowing them to become creative and innovativeengineers.

• Chalenges to shift from disciplinary thinking totransdisciplinary thinking.

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

Conference Chairman

Program Chairman

Program Vice-Chairmen

SPONSORED BY

• Xi’an Jiaotong University, China and the University ofLiverpool, UK

• The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning & Advanced Studies (TheATLAS)

• Ac ad em y of Tr an sd is ci pl in ar y St ud ie s (ATS) ,Mechanical Engineering Dept., Texas Tech University

• International Center for Transdisciplinary Research &Studies (CIRET), France

The main theme of this conference is to understand the com-plex issues related to eduacion and technological innovations.Two important workshops will be developed:

1. International workshop on education & training models for

the Fourth Industrial Revolution, and2. 3D printing in product design & develeopment.

James SmithTexas Tech UniversityLubbock, Texas, USA

Atila ErtasTexas Tech University

Texas, USA

Derrick TateXi’an Jiaotong

Liverpool Univ., China

Bingjian Liu

Xi’an JiaotongLiverpool Univ., China

Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer Texas Tech University

Lubbock, Texas, USA


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on advisory boards at schools throughout the country, spoketo student groups, worked for curricular innovation, spon-sored leadership conferences, and supported innovative fac-

ulty research through the family’s RGK Foundation.

Dr. Kozmetsky was a co-founder and former Executive VicePresident of Teledyne, Inc.—the rst major technology con-glomerate in the US with more than 100 companies. At TheUniversity of Texas at Austin, where Dr. Kozmetsky was deanfor sixteen years, he pioneered in educational technologyand education about technology, revolutionizing the curricu-lum and the manner in which it was taught. His vision, hisenergized drive, his ability to call on the resources of majorcorporations throughout America, his concept of educatingstudents by incorporating computers and technology in theclassroom, and his far-reaching motivational leadership en-abled him to lift the College and Graduate School of Businessinto the top rank in the nation. More than twenty thousandstudents graduated under his deanship. He also participatedin the founding of the Graduate School of Industrial Admin-

istration at Carnegie Mellon University, and was a foundingboard member of the ATLAS.

In 1977, Dr. George Kozmetsky (1917-2003) founded theIC² Institute at The University of Texas at Austin and beganhis long march of helping to make Austin the 4th technopolisin the US (the other three being Boston, Silicon Valley, andNorth Carolina’s research triangle) in half the time, i.e. about15 years.

With his special capability to “connect the dots”, he was the

key architect to facilitate a coordinated state, city, and aca-demia drive in achieving this dream which was realized inthe early 1990’s. Along the way, he created the Austin Tech-nology Incubator at The University of Texas at Austin, whichcombines economic development and business education;and the Texas Capital Network, which promotes innovativenancing for new ventures. His contributions have resultedin employment for tens of thousands of Americans and bil-lions of dollars of exports. He has been intimately involvedin facilitating technology transfer from the public, federal,and university sector, into private enterprise. Dr. Kozmetskyhas counseled, nurtured, and developed more than a hun-dred companies; he has helped to launch them, served on

their boards, assisted in identifying key personnel and nichemarkets, and on occasion helped nance them. His accom-plishments helped to bolster our nation's competitive positionin world markets. Dr. Kozmetsky was awarded the NationalMedal of Technology in 1993 as an acknowledgement of hisexceptional contributions in technology and education.

Mrs. Ronya Kozmetsky spent her life as a champion of chil-dren, women's issues and opportunities. She was instrumen-tal in the establishment and success of several organizations – both non-prot and for prot – including SafePlace women'sshelter and the First Women's Bank of California, a pioneer-ing institution to provide women banking services includingaccess to credit to enable them to start their own business. Additionally, she is a Co-Founder of Leadership Texas, Lead-ership California, and Leadership America – a network of ac-complished women, dedicated to advancing the leadershiprole women play in impacting business, social issues andpublic policy. Ronya was also involved in many organizationsincluding: the Center for Child Protection, The Austin Proj-ect, Covenant House, the Austin Symphony and SymphonySquare, and the CEDEN Family Resource Center. She wasa Visiting Committee Member at the School of Social Work atthe University of Washington, Advisory Committee Memberof the Women's Resource Center in Waco, Member of theGovernor's Task Force for Equal Opportunity in Employmentfor Women and Minorities, and on the Board of Directors ofthe Texas Foundation for Higher Education. She also servedon the City of Austin Child Care Council and the Texas StateTreasurer's Asset Management Advisory Committee.

GEORGE AND RONYA KOZMETSKY

MEMORIAL MEDAL AWARD

In 2011, The George & Ronya Kozmetsky (G&R K) Memo-rial lectures at The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learningand Advanced Studies (TheATLAS) have been establishedto honor the memory of their shared passion for innovation,service, and global prosperity.

The George and Ronya Kozmetsky Memorial Medal Awardwas established in 2011 as a special honor to the distin-

guished lecturer of the G&R K Memorial lecture.

George & Ronya Kozmetskywere partners in life, whoshared a passion for serviceto society through innova-tion and inspiring young

men and women to face thefuture with condence andto embrace leadership posi-tions in business and soci-ety. As an example of theirpartnership, they co-au-thored a popular book “Mak-ing It Together: A SurvivalManual for the ExecutiveFamily.” They also served

GEORGE AND RONYA KOZMETSKY

MEMORIAL LECTURES

His written works number more than 1,000 items, some ofwhich have appeared in English. In 1976 Mei-Ya Publish-ing Company in Taipei came out with the rst edition of hiscollected papers under the title The Experience of DynamicEconomic Growth on Taiwan (1959-1975) by Mei-Ya Publish-ers. A second publication of collected papers The EconomicTransformation of Taiwan (1976-1988), has published byShepheard-Walwyn Ltd. of the United Kingdom later in Oc-tober 1988. After retirement in 1990, he received the FirstCynthia and George Mitchell International Award in Biotech-nology in Houston, Texas, USA. Li holds distinguished Honor-ary Citizen of the State of Arizona, USA (1987) and Distin-guished Honorary Citizen of the State of Texas, USA (1990).He is an honorary member of the ATLAS and the recipient ofthe The ATLAS-Academy Gold Medal of Honor award.

In 2012, The Kwoh-Ting Li (KTL) Memorial lectures at The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning and Advanced Stud-ies (TheATLAS) have been established to honor the memoryof Kwoh-Ting Li .

KWOH-TING LI

MEMORIAL LECTURES

K.T, Li was a Chinese economist andpolitician best known as the "Father ofTaiwan's Economic Miracle" for his workin transforming Taiwan's economy froman agrarian-based system into one of theworld's leading producers of informationand telecommunications technology. Hehad founded Hsinchu Science Park. In

recognition of Li’s contributions to theindustrialization ofhis country, he was awarded the RamonMagsaysay Award by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Founda-tion of the Philippines in August 1968 for government service.The Award was generally considered an Asian equivalentof the Nobel Prize. In July 1969, Li was offered the post ofMinister of Finance in a cabinet reshufe, which he acceptedwith some reluctance because of his greater interest in in-dustrial development. Nonetheless, Li carried out his dutiesas Finance Minister with remarkable success and dedication.Upon assuming his new post, Li immediately organized asmall team with legal advisors and started to search for waysto modernize the scal system. He developed several innova-

tions which improved the nation’s scal system tremendously.

KWOH-TING LI

MEMORIAL MEDAL AWARD

The Kwoh-Ting Li Memorial Medal Award was established in2012 as a special honor to the distinguished lecturer of the

Kwoh-Ting Li Memorial lecture.


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CONFERENCE

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Dr. Da Hsuan Feng

9:30 am - 10:00 am, Monday, May 30

CONFERENCE

OPENING ADDRESS

Dr. M. Katherine Banks

9:00 am- 9:30 am, Monday, May 30WELCOME

SPEECH

Dr. XI Youmin8:30 am- 9:00 am, Monday, May 30

Dr. M. Katherine Banks

Vice Chancellor andDean of Engineering

Texas A&M University

Member of the National Academy of Engineering

As vice chancellor, Banks oversees coordination and col-

laboration among the engineering, academic and researchprograms at seven universities throughout the A&M System,

as well as three state agencies: the Texas A&M Engineer -ing Experiment Station (TEES), the Texas A&M EngineeringExtension Service (TEEX) and the Texas A&M TransportationInstitute (TTI). Banks also is TEES director, overseeing re-search administration of more than 4,400 projects and $157Mmillion in sponsored research awards.

As dean of the Look College and holder of the Harold J.Haynes Dean's Chair in Engineering, Banks leads one of thelargest engineering schools in the country, with more than13,000 students and nearly 400 faculty. Recently, Dr. Banks

initiated the 25 by 25 program, which will increase the engi-neering enrollment at Texas A&M to 25,000 by 2025.

Banks was previously the Bowen Engineering Head for theSchool of Civil Engineering at Purdue University and the Jackand Kay Hockema Professor at Purdue. She received herB.S.E. from the University of Florida, M.S.E. from the Univer-sity of North Carolina, and Ph.D. in civil and environmentalengineering from Duke University.

Banks is a member of the National Academy of Engineeringand Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Shehas received numerous awards including the ASCE PetersenOutstanding Woman of the Year Award, ASCE Rudolph Her-ing Medal, Purdue Faculty Scholar Award, Sloan FoundationMentoring Fellowship and the American Association of Uni-versity Women Fellowship.

Professor XI Youmin was appointed Executive President ofXi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Pro-Vice-Chancellor ofUniversity of Liverpool in August 2008. As a visiting professor,he has conducted joint research projects and discourses inuniversities in Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.His research and teaching areas cover strategic managementand policy analysis, decision-making and decision supportsystem, leadership and organization behaviour, etc. He putforwarded a theory: Harmony Theory in 1987 and extended itto HeXie Management Theory. Professor Xi has successfullysupervised over 100 Master and PhD students and gainedmany important research funds from the National Natural Sci-ence Foundation of China (NSFC) and central and local gov-ernments as well as industrial sector. As author or co-author,he has published more than 300 academic papers and 20books. He has received over ten prizes at provincial or minis-terial or national levels and was awarded National Young andMiddle Age Experts with Distinguished Contributions, Prize ofScience and Technology for Chinese Youth as well as Prizefor Chinese Young Scientists. Professor Xi completed an MEin system engineering in 1984 and in 1987 he was the rstawarded PhD degree in the eld of management engineeringin mainland China. Currently, he is the PI of two key NSFC

research projects, indigenous leadership study and Chineseindigenous management theory study and also leads a teamto study “students and learning centred education” supportedby The Ford Foundation.

Dr. XI YouminExecutive President

Jiaotong-Liverpool University

Xi’an Jiaotong

Liverpool UniversitySuzhou, China

MONDAY MAY 30, 2016

Professor Feng Da Hsuan is the Director of the Global Af-fairs Ofce and Special Assistant to Rector at the University ofMacau. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and anexpert in nuclear and nuclear astrophysics, quantum optics,and mathematical physics, with a wide range of experiencesand outstanding achievements as a scholar, researcher, andleader of university comprehensive development.

From 1995-1998, Feng assumed the position as technicaladvisor to the Vice Chairperson of the United States Con-gressional Armed Services Committee, the honorable CurtWeldon. He was responsible for affairs in central Europe and Asia. Feng’s other activities include: Special advisor to Kore-an American Science and Technology Network, a member ofthe Computer Science/Engineering Evaluation Task Force ofthe University of South Carolina, a member of the US Depart-ment of Education Field Initiated Studies Technology Panel,and a member of the National Defense Industrial AssociationScience and Engineering Technology Executive Committee.

Professor Feng was M. Russell Wehr Chair Professor of Phys-ics at Drexel University, Director of the Division of TheoreticalPhysics of the United States National Science Foundation,Vice President for research and economic development at the

University of Texas at Dallas, Vice President of the Fortune500 Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC),and Senior Vice President of Tsing Hua University and ChengKung University in Taiwan.

Dr. Da Hsuan Feng

Director of the Global Affairsand Special Assistant to

Rector at the University ofMacau, China

Kwoh-Ting Li MemorialLecture on Education


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Dr. Basarab NicolescuMember of the

Romanian Academy,President, International

Center for TransdisciplinaryResearch and Studies (CIRET)

France

Theoretical physicist at the Centre National de la RechercheScientique (CNRS), Paris, France. Professor at the Babes-

Technological Singularity

Ethics And Techology

KEYNOTE PANEL - I

Ethics and TechnologyModerator: Dr. Henry Ching-Lin Chang

10:30 am- 12:00 pm, Monday, May 30

Dr. Juan M. Sanchez

Temple FoundationEndowed Professor

The University ofTexas at Austin, TX

Dr. Juan M. Sanchez is the past Vice President for Researchat The University of Texas at Austin and holder of the TempleFoundation Endowed Professorship #4 in the Department ofMechanical Engineering.

He obtained his B.S. in Physics at the University of Cordoba, Argentina, 1971; M.S. in Materials Science, 1974; and Ph.D.in Materials Science, 1977 at the University of California, Los

Many ethical implications of emerging technolo-gies from health care to government, from busi-ness to leadership, intersect with technologyand the many pressing ethical issues it raisesthat we must deal with now.

KEYNOTE PANEL - I

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

Dr. Henry Ching-Lin Chang

Professor Department of Physics,Tamkang University

Professor Henry Chang received his B.S. in Physics fromSoochow University (Taiwan) in 1979 and Ph. D., from NewYork University (Polytechnic School of Engineering) in 1988.He is currently Professor and former Chairman of Physicsdepartment at the Tamkang university in Taiwan.He is also anelected Member, of the Sigma Xi Scientic Research Societyand the Physical Society of R.O.C.

Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Member of theRomanian Academy. Professor Extraordinary at the Schoolof Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.Founding member of ISSR. President-Founder of the Interna-tional Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies (CI-RET), a non-prot organization (165 members from 26 coun-tries), which has a web site at : http://ciret-transdisciplinarity.org/index.php. Founder and Director of the TransdisciplinaritySeries, Rocher Editions, Monaco, of the Romanians in ParisSeries, Oxus Editions, Paris and of the Science and Reli-gion Series, Curtea Veche, Bucharest (in collaboration with

Magda Stavinschi). A specialist in the theory of elementaryparticles, Basarab Nicolescu is the author of 130 articles inleading international scientic journals, has made numerouscontributions to science anthologies and participated in sev-eral dozen French radio and foreign multimedia documenta-ries on science. Basarab Nicolescu is a major advocate ofthe transdisciplinary reconciliation between Science and theHumanities. He published many articles on the role of sci-ence in the contemporary culture in journals in USA, France,Romania, Italy, United Kingdom, Brazil, Argentina and Japan.His books include : From Modernity to Cosmodernity - Sci-ence, Culture, and Spirituality , State University of New York(SUNY) Press, New York, 2014, Manifesto of Transdiscipli-

narity , State University of New York (SUNY) Press, New York,2002; Nous, la particule et le monde, Rocher, Monaco, 2002(2nd edition) ; Science, Meaning and Evolution - The Cos-mology of Jacob Boehme, Parabola Books, New York, 1991.He edited Transdisciplinarity -Theory and Practice, HamptonPress, Cresskill, New Jersey, 2008. A complete biobibliog-raphy of Dr. Basarab Nicolescu can be found on the page:http://basarab-nicolescu.fr/.

Angeles. Dr. Sanchez is the author and co-author of over 140technical publications on a wide range of topics in materialsscience and engineering. His current research interests arein the electronic, thermodynamic and structural properties ofmaterials including intermetallic compounds, magnetic andnon-magnetic alloys, thin lms and magnetic multilayers. Pri-mary interest is the development and application of rst prin-ciples computational methods for the construction of phasediagrams of multicomponent material systems. Other re-search interests include the development of laser-controlledselective chemical vapor deposition processes for metals, al-

loys and ceramics.

Dr. Sanchez serves on the Council of Federal Relations of the Association of American Universities; the Board of Trusteeof the Southwestern Universities Research Association; theNational Scientic and Policy Advisory Council for the HoggFoundation for Mental Health; the International AdvisoryBoard of the University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico; and the Ex-ternal Evaluation Committee of the Instituto Potosino de In-vestigacion Cientica y Technologica, Mexico. Dr. Sanchezis a past member of the Board of Visitors of the US Army WarCollege; the Committee on Science, Engineering, and PublicPolicy of the American Association for the Advancement of

Science; and the Board of Directors of the Oak Ridge Associ-ated Universities.

Dr. Darryl James

Vice Provost for

Institutional Effectiveness

Texas Tech University

Technological Consciousness

Dr. Darryl James currently serves as Vice Provost for Institu-tional Effectiveness with responsibility to oversee institutionaleffectiveness for the university. He acts as the institutionalliaison with SACSCOC, supervises the institutional effective-ness team made up of the Ofce of Planning and Assessmentand Institutional Research. He also supports the institutionscompliance with THECB, SACSCOC and discipline-basedaccreditor academic standards. He supports the develop-ment of new graduate programs.

Dr. James’ area of expertise is thermal-uid sciences. His re-search includes both computational and experimental workin thermal-uids. Among his research topics are thermal-uidengineered systems such as solar thermochemical heat en-


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GEORGE AND RONYA

KOZMETSKY MEMORIAL

LECTURES Dr. Patricia Easton

2:00 pm- 2:30 pm, Monday, May 30

Dr. Patricia Easton is Professor of Philosophy, Vice Presi-dent of Student and Enrollment Services, and Co-Director ofthe Transdisciplinary Studies Program at Claremont Gradu-ate University in California, USA. She specializes in the histo-ry of modern philosophy, particularly the philosophy of ReneDescartes and the Cartesians of the seventeenth century.Her interests include the philosophy of mind, the history ofscience particularly medicine, and the development of meth-ods and academic disciplines.

Dr. Patricia Easton

Co-Director, TransdisciplinaryStudies Program

Vice President of Student andEnrollment Services

Claremont Graduate UniversityCalifornia

Lessons Learned in TransdisciplinaryGraduate Education: Claremont Graduate

University’s Decade-long Experiment

CONFERENCE LUNCHEON

SPEAKER

Dr. Raymond T. Yeh

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, Monday, May 30

Dr. Raymond T. Yeh

TheATLASHonorary Board member

Potential Impact of IndustrialRevolution 4.0 on Education and Culture

Raymond Yeh taught at several universities for more than20 years and helped two Computer Science departments totop ten national rankings as chairman of department. He was

also the CDC distinguished chair Professor at the Universityof Minnesota. He holds honorary professorship at ve univer -sities. Dr. Yeh is the founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Transac-tions on Software Engineering and was on the editorial boardof various journals. He also founded the Technical Commit-tee on Software Engineering and International Conferenceon Software Engineering (ICSE) within the IEEE ComputerSociety.

Dr. Yeh co-founded two successful software companies andtwo professional societies. He has been a consultant to manynations including United Nations, United States, China, Ja-pan, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan, and works with execu-

tives of many leading edge global companies as well as withfounders of start-up companies. He has published 10 techni-cal books and coauthored two business books. Dr. Yeh is anIEEE Centennial Medal laureate, and a recipient of the Pio-

gine development and analysis, heat transfer characteristicsof pulsed, combined-pulsed, and dynamic radial jet nozzles,dynamic behavior of gas surface adsorption on thin polymerlms deposited on surface acoustic wave devices, physicalsimulation of tornado-like vortices, thermal necrosis in spinalrevision surgery, experimental determination of mass trans-port due to buoyant forces in horizontal enclosures, selectiveentrainment of immiscible uids, and preferential ion trans-port in nanochannels. He is director of VorTECH, the US’slargest tornado simulator.

neer in Information Technology Award from the governmentof Taiwan, among others. He is a fellow of Institute of Electri-cal and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the Society for Designand Process Science (SDPS), and a senior research fellowat IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Yehhad been a long term volunteer at the City of Ten ThousandBuddhas, a Buddhist monastery located in northern Californiasince 2003.

Dr. Mark A. Sheridan

Vice Provost forGraduate Affairs and

Dean of the Graduate School Professor of Biology


Dr. Mark Sheridan joined Texas Tech University (TTU) asVice Provost for Graduate Affairs and Dean of the Graduateon March 15, 2014. In this role he provides overall leadershipto the Graduate School as well as supervision of interdisci-plinary graduate programs and coordination of graduate andpostdoctoral education with the research and other academicactivities of TTU. Prior to joining TTU he served as AssociateDean of the College of Graduate and Interdisciplinary Studiesat North Dakota State University (NDSU).

Dr. Sheridan’s research in the areas of comparative physiol-ogy/endocrinology (regulation of growth, development, andmetabolism of animals and disruption of such processes byenvironmental contaminants) is nationally and internationallyrecognized. He has received over $26 million in grants fordirect research support and research infrastructure enhance-ment from several funding agencies, including NIH, NSF, andUSDA. He has presented and published the results of thiswork widely, with more than 40 invited/plenary lectures andover 130 publications. He has served as a visiting profes-sor at several universities around the world, including Brazil,China, Japan, Sweden, and Taiwan. He also serves as editor/

associate editor for four international journals in his discipline:Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology, Frontiers in En-docrinology, General and Comparative Endocrinology, andInternational Journal of Endocrinology.

PLENARY TALK-1

Dr. Mark A. Sheridan1:30 pm- 2:00 pm, Monday, May 30

Dr. Sheridan has served in numerous leadership capacitiesand is recognized for his teaching and research activities. Heis the immediate past chair of the Division of ComparativeEndocrinology in the Society for Integrative and ComparativeBiology (SICB) and a current council member for the Interna-tional Federation of Comparative Endocrinology. He was aFellow of the Brazil Programa de Intercãmbio Internacionalem Pesquisa e Pós-Graduação and the Japan Society for thePromotion of Science. He has served as a grant panelist fornumerous research agencies, including DoEd, NSF, USDA,

and was on the Committee of Visitors for NSF’s Directoratefor Biology and a member of the National Academy of Sci-ences/National Research Council, US National Committeefor the International Union of Biological Sciences. As a fac-ulty member at NDSU he received citations for excellencein teaching and research, held two endowed professorships,and received the universities highest honor, the Faculty Lec-tureship.


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WORKSHOP - I

3D Printing in Product

Design & Development

2:30 pm- 5:30 pm, Monday, May 30

What Role will 3D Printing Play in theFourth Industrial Revolution?

Moderator: Dr. Derrick Tate

“Today, we are at the beginning of a Fourth Indus-

trial Revolution. Developments in genetics, articial

intelligence, robotics, nanotechnology, 3D printingand biotechnology, to name just a few, are all build-

ing on and amplifying one another. This will lay the

foundation for a revolution more comprehensiveand all-encompassing than anything we have ever

seen. Smart systems—homes, factories, farms,

grids or cities—will help tackle problems rangingfrom supply chain management to climate change.

The rise of the sharing economy will allow peopleto monetize everything from their empty house to

their car,” (World Economic Forum, Global Chal-

lenges Insight Report, 2016)

Workshop DescriptionGrowth in China is re-dening patterns of consumption, pro-duction, and cultural appropriation domestically and globally.China-based companies are shifting to a designed-in-Chinastrategy and international companies are seeking to design

for the Chinese market. In this context, there is a great needfor expertise in advanced manufacturing and 3D printing andfor knowledge transfer between universities and industry.

This workshop will address means to move companies inChina beyond the Twentieth Century paradigms of “massproduction” and “mass customization” into a new paradigm of“mass innovation.” This mass innovation shift wi ll expand anddiffuse design, engineering, and product development activitythrough connecting inventors, entrepreneurs, and enterpriseswith the engineering and design tools and services needed torealize, test, and validate novel design concepts.

The workshop targets growing trends in the development and

use of advanced manufacturing and 3D printing in major in-dustries. Topics include the fundamental limitations—such aslayer-by-layer fabrication, weak material properties, low func-tional strength, etc.—and the development of new processes

Dr. Derrick Tate

Founding Head of Industrial Design Department

Xi’an JiaotongLiverpool University

Suzhou, China

Dr. Ellen Yi-Luen Do

Professor Georgia Institute of Technology

& Co-Director,Keio-NUS CUTE Center

Interactive and Digital MediaInstitute National University of

Singapore

Dr. Derrick Tate is an Associate Professor and FoundingHead of the Department of Industrial Design at Xi’an Jiao-tong-Liverpool University. He aims to impact society throughbringing design thinking to areas of strategic importance: as-

sessing the innovative potential of design ideas, developingsustainable approaches for building systems, transportation,and manufacturing; and broadening participation in innova-tion. Dr. Tate has carried out his research activities at the twoends of the research spectrum where they will have the great-est impact: fundamental research that provides a sciencebase for the future of entrepreneurial engineering design aswell as the application of design theories and tools to technol-ogy innovation. His recent projects include working with WestTexas entrepreneurs on the development of innovative and

sustainable designs and a US-Tanzania Workshop: Advanc-ing the Structural Use of Earth-based Bricks, funded by NSF.He received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering degree fromRice University. His S.M and Ph.D. degrees in MechanicalEngineering are from MIT in the areas of manufacturing anddesign, respectively.

Impact of 3D Printing Technology onEducation

Dr. Ellen Yi-Luen Do is a professor in the School of Indus-trial Design and the School of Interactive Computing, in theCollege of Architecture, and the College of Computing, atGeorgia Institute of Technology. Before joining Georgia Tech,Ellen was on the faculty in the computational design programat Carnegie Mellon University, where she co-directed theComputational Design Laboratory CoDe Lab (Sep 04-Dec

05), and an afliate faculty at the Human Computer Interac-

tion Institute - HCII and the Institute for Complex EngineeredSystems - ICES at Carnegie Mellon University. Before CMU,she was a faculty at University of Washington (99-04) whereshe co-directed the Design Machine Group - DMG, served asfaculty director for the MS program in Design Computing andtaught for the Honors Program. Prior to UW, Ellen worked atUniversity of Colorado at Boulder (94-99) as a researcher andinstructor for the Sundance Lab for Computing in Design andPlanning. She joined Georgia Tech's faculty in January 2006.

Ellen received a Bachelor degree of architecture (Honors)from National Cheng-Kung University - NCKU in Taiwan, witha minor in Urban Planning, a Master of Design Studies from

the Harvard Graduate School of Design - GSD, and a Ph.D.in design computing from Georgia Tech, with a minor in cog-nitive science & computer science. Currently Prof. Do is onleave from Georgia Tech to serve as the co-director of theKeio-NUS CUTE Center (Connective Ubiquitous Technologyfor Embodiments) at the National University of Singapore.

WORKSHOP-I KEYNOTE PANEL

DISTINGUISHED SPEAKERS

and functional materials.

This workshop provides an overview of several topics of in-terest such as bio-printing; food printing; antique restoration;integration between CAD construction and CAE analysis; ap-plication of special materials, like soft tissues, shape-memorymaterials; and design and optimization for sustainable energypower conversion using 3D printing technologies.

Enchanted Ready-to-Wear:Transforming Fashion with 3D Printing

COFFEE BREAKS

Every day 10:00 am - 10:30 amand

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm


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CONFERENCE DINNER DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF

Professor C. V. Ramamoorthy 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm, Monday, May 30, 2016

Suzhou Jinling Guanyuan International Hotel

Presenter: Dr. Atila Ertas

WELCOME RECEPTION

7:00-8:30 pm, Sunday, May 29, 2016

Suzhou Jinling GuanyuanInternational Hotel

Dr. J.Y.H Fuh

ProfessorDepartment of Mechanical

Engineering,National University of

Singapore (NUS)Singapore

Dr. J.Y.H. Fuh received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical en-gineering from the University of California at Los Angeles(UCLA) in 1992, MS degree in manufacturing engineeringfrom UCLA in 1985, MBA degree from the National TaiwanUniversity in 1982 and BS degree in mechanical engineer-ing from the National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan in 1980.He is currently a Professor at the Department of Mechani-

cal Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). Heworked in the aerospace, disk drive and CAD/CAM industryin California, USA for ve years before joined NUS in 1993.His research interests include collaborative design and man-ufacture and micro/bio rapid prototyping. He is a Fellow of

ASME and SME, a certied manufacturing engineer (CMfgE)from CASA/SME and a registered Professional Engineer(PE) in manufacturing engineering from California. He servesas the Associate Editor in IEEE Transaction on AutomationScience and Engineering (2004-2007) and Computers inIndustry (since 2004), the Guest Editor in Computer-AidedDesign (2003), International Journal of Agile Manufacturing(2004), Computers in Industry (2006) and Robotics & CIM

(2008), and the Editorial Board Member in another four in-ternational journals. He has published more than 180 journalpapers (with more than 1,800 cross citations listed in Sco-pus), 140 conference papers, authored three monographs,six book chapters, and owns six patents. He supervised morethan 82 postgraduate students including 33 PhD, 44 MEngand 5 MSc research students.

Additive Manufacturing Technologies:Current and Future Perspectives onProduct Design and Development

It is with great regret and sorrow that we announce the passing of our friendand mentor Professor C. V. Ramamoorthy on March 9, 2016 peacefully in SanDiego. He was a great man, brilliant engineer, teacher and a pioneer in building

Transdisciplinary Science & Engineering concept through ATLAS.

Chittoor V. Ramamoorthy was an outstanding scholar anda superb mentor for all his students and numerous othercolleagues. He was a native of Burma where he was bornin 1926 and subsequently received his undergraduate andgraduate degrees in India and the U.S, respectively. In par-ticular, he received six earned degrees, including an un-dergraduate degree in physics and also an undergraduatedegree in textile technology from the University of Madrasin India. Subsequently, he received two graduate degreesin Mechanical Engineering from the University of Californiaat Berkeley and later two graduate degrees from Harvard in Applied Mathematics and Electrical Engineering and Com-puter Science, including his Ph.D. Degree in 1964. While atHarvard, he also worked with Honeywell's Computer Divisionin Waltham, MA, from 1956 to 1967, where he was later aSenior Staff Scientist. He designed read/write heads for tape

drives, worked on the rst Honeywell digital inertial guidancesystem, and later was amongst the three engineers underDr. Eachus who was the American collaborator of Alan Turingon the design of the Enigma that broke the German secret

code. He then joined the University of Texas, Austin, as aProfessor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.He also served as the Chair of the UT Austin Computer Sci-ence Department and then in 1972 he joined UC Berkeley asa Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.Professor Ramamoorthy has supervised 73 Ph.D. studentsand he has greatly mentored each of his students. This isreected in the fact that his students include a Vice Chancel-lor, 3 University Presidents, and several Deans, DepartmentChairs, Chair Professors, CEO's, and also a President of theIEEE Computer Society.

Professor Ramamoorthy’s research accomplishments spanseveral important areas of Computer Science, including syn-thesis of parallel programs, optimal organization and sched-uling of parallel programs, recovery and roll-back techniquesfor enhancing the dependability of distributed systems, auto-mated simulation and testing of safety-critical systems, andother innovative research projects. His research contributionshave had signicant impact on enhancing the dependability


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TUESDAY May 31, 2016

Dr. Paul GibbsDirector of

Education ResearchUniversity of Middlesex

London, UK

Transdisciplinary Thinking:A Pedagogy for Complexity

Professor Paul Gibbs is Director of Education Researchat the University of Middlesex. His rst degree in Psychol-ogy was awarded by the University of Wales, his Mastersin Education (Education and Trust) is from Cambridge Uni-versity, and his three doctoral awards were received fromSouthampton University (Ph.D.) and Middlesex University(Doctor of Professional Studies (Transdisciplinary Studies)

and D.Litt. (Higher Education)). He is a professor of the Uni-versity, founder of the Centre for Education Research andScholarship and an Honorary Research Fellow at the OpenUniversity in Hong Kong and the University of Cyprus. He isan educator and researcher having taught notions of trans-disciplinarity alongside social realism and Heideggerianhermeneutics, and has over 30 successful transdisciplinaryprofessional doctorate students. He has published 20 bookson topics ranging from the marketing of higher education tovocationalism and higher education, and has published morethan 80 academic articles. His particular approach to trans-disciplinarity that informs his work is through the works of Hei-degger, neo-Confucian thought and the insights of Basarab

Nicolescu. He is currently completing two books: one onTransdisciplinary Higher Education and one on Happiness.He is also Series Editor of SpringerBriefs on Key Thinkersin Education and Debating Higher Education: Philosophical

PLENARY TALK-2Dr. Paul Gibbs

8:30 am- 9:00 am, Tuesday, May 31

of safety-critical distributed real-time embedded systems. Forexample, in the late 1960’s, professor Ramamoorthy and hisstudents developed an automated test generation and evalu-ation system which discovered several programming errors inthe U.S. Army’s Safeguard Missile Defense System. Updatedversions of these tools were used in 1971 at NASA’s SpaceShuttle Structural Test Facility in Huntsville, AL, to rigorouslytest the Space Shuttle System. Earlier, he was responsiblefor the development of the entire microcode for instructionsequencing and control of the rst transistorized system of

Honeywell, the H-290 in 1961. The H-290 was a general pur-pose, stored-program digital computer designed for processmonitoring and control. Later, he did research on functions,features, and control in the service industries and he showedthe close and enduring relationships between software en-gineering and service engineering. Over the years, Profes-sor Ramamoorthy published numerous papers in prestigious journals and conferences and also wrote several booksbased on his research. He also obtained patents in computerarchitecture, software engineering, computer testing and di-agnosis, and databases.

Based on his outstanding educational and research accomplish-

ments, Professor Ramamoorthy has received multiple prestigiousawards, including the IEEE Golden Core recognition award in

1966, IEEE Computer Society Honor Roll Award in 1974, IEEE

Computer Society Special Education Award in 1978, IEEE Centen-

nial Medal Award in 1984, IEEE Taylor L. Booth Education Award

in 1989, IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award in

1991, IEEE Richard E. Merwin Distinguished Service Award in

1993, Distinguished Scholar Award from the Society for Design

\& Process Science in 1995, IEEE Third Millennium Medal, IEEE

Tsutomu Kanai Award in 2000, Control Data Distinguished Profes-

sorship at the University of Minnesota, Grace Hopper Chair at the

U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, CA, Senior Research

Fellow at the ICC Institute of UT Austin, Academy Gold Medal

of Honor Award from the Academy of Transdisciplinary Learningand Advanced Studies(TheATLAS) in 2002 and other such pres-

tigious awards and recognitions. In addition to education and re-

search, Professor Ramamoorthy has contributed enormously to the

professional society. He was a Life Fellow of the IEEE, honorary

member and a fellow of ATLAS and Fellow of the Society of De-

sign and Process Science. He also served as the rst elected V.P. of

the IEEE Computer Society and was its rst V.P. of Education as

well as the Education Chair of the American Federation of Informa-

tion Processing Societies (AFIPS). He also served as the Editor in

Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and was

the founding Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Knowl-

edge and Data Engineering. Professor Ramamoorthy was also the

Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Software Engineering

and Articial Intelligence and the founding Co-Editor in Chief of

the International Journal of Systems Integration and the Journal of

the Society of Design and Process Science. He was also involved in

numerous conferences including serving as the Co-General Chair of

the 2nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)

in 1976. He also served on many advisory committees, including

those of the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Navy, Los Alamos Labs,

Lockheed Research, and IBM.

Perspectives for Springer Academic Press and Series Editorof Praxis in Education with Bloomsbury Press. He remainsactive in transdisciplinary educational research leading across-cultural research group studying happiness and trust inhigher education, funded by Charles Lam.

PLENARY TALK-3

Dr. Juan M. Sanchez

9:00 am- 9:30 am, Tuesday May 31

Dr. Juan M. Sanchez

Temple FoundationEndowed Professor

The University ofTexas at Austin, TX

Transdisciplinarity in Higher Education:Accomplishments and Remaining

Challenges

Dr. Orhan GuvenenDirector of Institute of World

Systems, Economies andStrategic Research

Member of European Academyof Sciences and Arts

PLENARY TALK-4

Dr. Orhan Guvenen


Transdisciplinary Science Methodologyas a Necessary Condition in Research

and Education

Professor Orhan Güvenen is an expert in the elds of Stra-tegic Decision Systems, Information Systems, Econometricsand International Economy. He holds a B.Sc. in Econometricsfrom İstanbul Üniversitesi, and his M.Sc., in Econometrics,


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Dr. Atila Ertas, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, re-ceived his masters and Ph.D. from Texas A&M University. Heis a Senior Research Fellow of the IC2 Institute at the Uni-versity of Texas Austin, a Fellow of American Society of Me-chanical Engineers (ASME), a Fellow of Society of Designand Process Science (SDPS), and a Fellow and honorarymember of The Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning & Ad-vanced Studies (TheATLAS). He is also an honorary mem-ber of International Center for Transdisciplinary Research(CIRET), France. Dr. Ertas has earned both national and in-ternational reputation in engineering design. Dr. Ertas is the

Dr. Ata AkinDeanMedical Engineering

Acibadem UniversityIstanbul, Turkey

PLENARY TALK-5

Dr. Ata Akin


PLENARY TALK-6

Dr. Atila Ertas


Transdisciplinary CurriculumDevelopment for Medical Engineering

Dr. Ata Akin received his Ph.D. on Biomedical Engineeringfrom Drexel University in 1998, his MS on Biomedical Engi-neering and BS on Electronics and Telecommunication Engi-neering both from Istanbul Technical University in 1995 and

1993, respectively. He joined the School of Biomedical Engi-neering in Drexel University as a Research Assistant Profes-sor in 1999 and worked there till 2002. He received grantsfrom NIH-SBIR, ONR and DARPA on the use of functional

Dr. Atila Ertas

Professor and Director of Academy of Transdisciplinary

Studies.Department of Mechanical

Engineering Texas Tech University

Trans-Sector Integration inTransdisciplinary Education:

Convergence

PLENARY TALK-7

Dr. Wickson Fern


Dr. Wickson Fern

Scientist and Co-ordinator ofthe Society, Ecology and EthicsDepartment (SEED) at GenØk

Centre for Biosafety in Tromsø,

Norway

The Value of TransdisciplinaryCollaboration & Education for

Addressing Ethical Aspects of EmergingTechnologies

near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) system for noninvasivetissue perfusion monitoring. He joined the Institute of Bio-medical Engineering faculty in 2002 as an Assistant profes-sor, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008. Hefounded the Neuro-Optical Imaging Laboratory during thesame time. In 2013 he moved to Istanbul Bilgi University asthe Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences.In 2015 he joined the Department of Medical Engineering at

Acıbadem University and serves as the Dean of Faculty ofEngineering. Dr. Akin’s research interests are in the elds of

neuroimaging and systems biology. In the eld of functionalneuroimaging, he designs and develops customized fNIRSsystems to monitor the brain and muscle oxygenation activityduring health and disease. In the eld of systems biology, hedevelops algorithms in extracting and classifying the signalsand images obtained from the body, mathematical models ofneurobiological systems, metabolic diseases, cancer biologyand muscle metabolism.

author of a number of books, and technical papers that covermany engineering technical elds. Dr. Ertas’ contributionsto teaching and research have been recognized by numer-ous honors and awards. He has been PI or Co-PI on over 40funded research projects. Under his supervision 194 MS andPh.D. graduate students have received degrees.

Dr. Fern Wickson is a senior scientist and program coordi-nator of the Society, Ecology and Ethics Department (SEED)at GenØk Centre for Biosafety in Tromsø, Norway. Originallytrained in both ecology and political science, Fern undertookan interdisciplinary PhD across the Arts and Science facul-

ties at the University of Wollongong in Australia. Her researchinterests include: the theory and practice of transdisciplinaryresearch, the concept and enactment of responsible innova-tion, ecophilosophy and environmental ethics, and the gover-nance of new and emerging technologies. She currently hasresearch projects on developing systems-based approachesto sustainable and ethical agricultures, integrating differentmodels biodiversity conservation, advancing responsibleforms of science and innovation, and improving the environ-mental governance of bio- and nano-technologies. As part ofher work at GenØk, Fern has also been involved in severalcapacity building courses held around the world on holistic

approaches to biosafety assessment and is regularly soughtafter to give guest lectures and plenary talks on issues suchas ethical aspects of science and technology and the man-agement of risks and uncertainties in decision-making on

from the Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), France. Hewas awarded his Ph.D. in Econometrics and InternationalEconomy, also from La Sorbonne, in 1975. From 1979-1988,Prof. Güvenen was Research Director and Professor of Ap-plied Econometrics at the Université Paris, during which timehe also worked with the Organisation for Economic Co-oper-ation and Development (OECD), Paris.

Prof. Güvenen joined Bilkent University in 1988, as Professorof Strategic Decision Systems, Econometrics and Interna-tional Economics, and as founding director of the Institute of

World Systems, Economies and Strategic Research (DSEE).He has been Chair of the Department of Accounting Informa-tion Systems since August 2000, and is also a member of theexecutive board of the UNAM National Nanotechnology Re-search Center, as well as chairman of the Advisory Commit-tee on Strategy, Economy and Industry at Bilkent. From 1997 – 2009, he worked closely with the Prime Ministry of Turkeyand held various administrative roles for UNESCO. He is cur-rently the president of the Applied Econometrics Association.Prof. Güvenen has published numerous books and papersinternationally and in Turkey, and holds many awards andhonors. As well as being a native Turkish speaker, he alsospeaks uent English, French and Italian.


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Dr. H. Greenhalgh-Spencer

College of EducationTexas Tech University

Dr. Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer is an assistant profes-sor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at TexasTech University. Her research emerges at the intersectionof Educational Technology, Diversity and Equity Issues, and

PLENARY TALK- I-1

Dr. Heather Greenhalgh-Spencer

1:30 pm- 2:00 pm, Tuesday, May 31

Transdisciplinary Engineering EducationPilot Study: Implementation & Evaluation

PLENARY SESSION - I

Transdisciplinary Eduaction


Research Team: Atila Ertas, Hather Geenhalgh-Spencer,

Turgut Batuhan Baturalp, Utku Gulbulak and Kelli Ferias

Bob StroudSenior Engineering Fellow

RaytheonDallas, Texas

Is Transdisciplinary EducationEngaging the 21st Century

Engineering Student?

PLENARY TALK- I-2

Bob Stroud2:00 pm- 2:30 pm, Tuesday, May 31

Mr. Stroud graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Electri-cal Engineering from Texas A&M in College Station, Texas, in1978 and accepted a job with E-Systems in Garland, Texas.While at E-Systems, he obtained a Master of Science in Elec-trical Engineering from Southern Methodist University (SMU)

in Dallas in 1981. E-Systems was acquired by Raytheon inthe 1990s and he remained with the new company follow-ing the acquisition. He worked on increasingly complex sys-tems over his time with Raytheon and is now a Senior Engi-neering Fellow. As part of his duties, he teaches courses inPrinciples of Systems Engineering (PoSE), the Departmentof Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF), and the Sys-tems Engineering Technical Development Program (SEtdp).His responsibilities likewise became more diverse and at thepresent time he is supporting the acquisition of new businessby the company.

PLENARY TALK- I-3

Dr. Sukanta Ganguly


Room: ??

Semantic WEB, Internet of Things andBig Data: Pathways in

Transdisciplinary Education

Dr. Sukanta Ganguly Chief Technology Ofcer &

Head of Products Orbiion Inc.San Jose, CA

innovation. She is an expert member of the Norwegian Bio-technology Advisory Board and a past President of the inter-national Society for the Study of New and Emerging Tech-nologies (S.Net). She has also served on the board of theEuropean Network of Scientists for Social and EnvironmentalResponsibility (ENSSER) and was recently appointed to aworking group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Biodiver-sity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) examining the diverseconceptualization of values in nature. Dr Wickson is deeplycommitted to the importance of inter- and transdisciplinary re-

search and not only regularly publishes her work for both so-cial and natural science audiences, but also creates popularscience articles, blog posts and short lms to communicatewith wider audiences. More information about her work canbe found on her website (http://genok.no/ansatt/fern-wick-son/), her research project blog (www.agriculturesproject.org)

and through her Twitter account (@FernWickson).

Dr. Ganguly is an entrepreneur and a technocrat with 23

years of industry experience building and shipping greattechnology and products around the world. Dr. Gangulyhas worked in three different continents and seven differentcountries. He is well published with over 14 papers, four pat-ents and co-authored three books in distributed systems. Hestarted his career developing network protocol stacks withinOperating Systems and developing Distributed File Systemsand Network Security platforms. Midway in his career hisconcentration was refocused towards large distributed datasystems and the application of information gathering basedon the data items across multiple application domains likedata access pattern recognition in real time, predicting poten-tial riskiness to information exposure, predictive analytics and

modeling’s forming conclusive responses that is actionableby the organization. Most of the data analytics and predictivemodeling were operating within a loosely distributed environ-ment where consistency is not necessarily immediate, yet ac-curacies needs were quite high. Over the last eight years Dr.Ganguly worked on building a fraud analytics platform for avery large environment operating tens of terabytes of datastorage, preforming predictive analytics to forecast real-timefraud detection, preforming in-ow verication to eradicatefalse positives within the system. Dr. Ganguly in last venturebuild an Internet Of Things platform with a sensor having in-terfaces over Wi (802.11 a/b/g), Low Energy Bluetooth 4.1,100 Gigabit Ethernet (802.3). Dr. Ganguly is currently work-ing with a business where he has been building MachineLearning system with data mining for relevant content detec-tion and analyzing them for business application.

Global Studies. She is particularly interested in the ways thatembodiment, materiality, and global forces shape the wayswe think about, use, and learn with digital technologies. Shealso explores diversity and equity issues and the STEMpipeline. Dr. Greenhalgh-Spencer has published in multipleinternational journals of education. She teaches courses one-learning, diversity ideologies and policies, and educationalphilosophy.


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WORKSHOP - I

The Role of Education in the

Fourth Industrial Revolution

3:30 pm- 5:30 pm, Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Transforming Educational

Landscape in theFourth Industrial Revolution

Organizers: Dr. E. E. Anderson, Dr. A. Ertas, Dr. R. T. Yeh

Moderator: Dr. Edward E. Anderson

Workshop Description

WORKSHOP

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Dr. Edward E. Anderson

Traditional education has been around many decades andcontributed signicantly to the current levels of industrial evo-lution and technological advancement. However, to educatefuture generation with the appropriate set of skills and knowl-edge, an important question has to be asked concerning how

higher education institutes would be inuenced by the FourthIndustrial Revolution and how the method of education will betransformed. Fourth Industrial Revolution that will profoundlychange the way we think, work and live in the coming de-cades. The aim of this workshop is to explore how to createa real paradigm shift in education to cope and master theFourth Industrial Revolution.

Dr. Edward E. Anderson

Ray Butler DistinguishedEducator Chair

Department of MechanicalEngineering


Early in his career, Dr. Anderson was the rst to experimen-tally verify conduction-radiation interaction in high-tempera-

Engineering Education:

a Discipline in Transition

Co-Facilitators: Dr. Raymond T. Yeh and

Jean Nettleton

Dr. Raymond T. Yeh


Dr. Raymond T. Yeh


Jean Nettleton

Wilmington, Delaware Jean Nettleton works in the banking industry with a careerspanning 30 years, in which she has held various roles in-

WEDNESDAY June 1, 2016

Dr. Edward E. Anderson will be honored for 50 years ofdedication to education. Dr. Anderson’s dedication and com-mitment to education have been non-stop for over 50 years.His distinguished achievement will be recognized by the Academy for Transdisciplinary Learning & Advanced Studies(ATLAS) and the conference participants on Tuesday, May

31 at the Suzhou Jinling Guanyuan International Hotel.

DIALOGUE ON THE CONVERGENCE

OF SCIENCE & BUDDHISM

What is Reality?8:30 pm- 10:00 am, Wednesday, June 1

Description:

This dialogue is intended to be a deeper inquiry about theconvergence of science and spirituality. In selecting the topicof “what is reality?”, the intention is to engage the audienceinto the inquiry of what lies beyond the accepted notion of

reality—much like the shock of classical scientists rst en-countered the quantum phenomenon or that a Buddhist culti-vator experienced, for the rst time, the oneness of all duringa deep meditation. To prepare the audience for the occasion,

each speaker will give a 15 min introduction of “what is real-ity?” from the point of view of science and that of Buddhism,before the dialogue begins.

ATLAS SPECIAL EVENT

RECEPTION

Celebrating Dr. Edward E. Anderson’s

50 Years of Teaching and HisContributions to Education

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Suzhou Jinling Guanyuan

International Hotel

Don’t miss this special event !Lots of fun and surprises !

ture solids. During the 1970’s energy crisis, he conductedresearch on volume solar energy collectors, energy storage,and unique Fresnel solar concentrators. This research result-ed in a solar thermal energy conversion book. Subsequently,he served as an Assistant Dean of Engineering, Director of anEngineering Research Center, Departmental Chairman, andDirector of a university-wide teaching and learning center.While an administrator, he continued his solar energy and

laser-induced uid interactions research. The latter of whichresulted in a laser-driven nano-uid (ink) droplet generator.During this time, he also authored a textbook dedicated toengineering thermodynamics. After leaving administration,he directed his research attention to learning patterns usedby students as they solve problems. This research was em-bedded in one of the rst interactive engineering e-books andcontinues to be incorporated into various electronic course-ware packages developed by him under NSF and industrialsupport. He is an ASME Fellow, has received a number ofawards for teaching and innovations in educational software,and currently holds the Ray Butler Distinguished EducatorChair.


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Dr. Henry Ching-Lin Chang

Professor Department of Physics,

Tamkang University

Distinguished Participants

Dr. Basarab Nicolescu

Member of theRomanian Academy,

President, International Center for Transdisciplinary

Research and Studies (CIRET)

France

DM Heng ChuanHeng Chuan is an ordained Buddhist monk under the vener-able master Hsuan Hua at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas(CTTB) in the United States for 25 years.

PLENARY SESSION - II

30 Years of Software

Engineering in China

10:30 am- 12:00 pm, Wednesday, June 1

PLENARY TALK- II-1

Dr. Bosheng Zhou

10:30 am- 11:00 am, Wednesday, June 1

In 1984, the Chinese Commission on Science & Technology(now Ministry of Science & Technology) decided to upgradethe SE capability in China and created a program involving13 universities. The program consisted of a central techni-cal planning/development group from various universities aswell as training programs housed in Beijing U and Fudan Uin Shanghai. The Central group is charged with developinga SE Environment, among other tasks, as a foundation forfuture software industry in China. The three speakers of thissession were the core members of the technical planninggroup. They will review some aspects the state of softwareindustry in China after 30 years.

Description:

Professor Henry Chang received his B.S. in Physics fromSoochow University (Taiwan) in 1979 and Ph. D., from NewYork University (Polytechnic School of Engineering) in 1988.He is currently Professor and former Chairman of Physicsdepartment at the Tamkang university in Taiwan.He is also anelected Member, of the Sigma Xi Scientic Research Societyand the Physical Society of R.O.C.

Commentator of the Session

cluding Organizational Development, designing and facilitat-ing training programs, performance consulting, and projectand people management. She currently lives in Wilmington,Delaware (USA).

Dr. Bosheng Zhou

Founder & Honorary DeanBeijing University of Aeronautics and

Astrophysics

Dr. Bosheng Zhou is the founder and honorary Dean ofSoftware Engineering Institute of Beijing University of Aero-nautics and Astrophysics (BUAA). He was the Chief scientistand project manager of China’s rst national software projecton Integrated Software Engineering Environment, which pio-neered China’s software industry. He was also the rst ChiefCMMI instructor in China. He is Chairman and founder ofCyber Keji Park Inc. in USA and Beijing Cyber Science andTechnology Inc. in China—a partnership with Software En-gineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University (CMU/SEI)to provide the process improvement services in China. Prof.Zhou has received numerous awards including First Class Awards in Science and Technology in China as well as Distin-guished Contribution Award from Beijing Science and Tech-nology Committee. He has published more than 100 papers

and translated more than 20 books on a variety of topics insoftware engineering and management.

Dr. Dehua Ju

Software Engineering andBusiness School

East China University ofScience & Technology

PLENARY TALK- II-2

Dr. Dehua Ju

11:00 am- 11:30 am, Wednesday, June 1

Dr. Dehua Ju, Professor in Software Engineering and Busi-ness School at East China University of Science & Technol-ogy and Research Scientist of Software Institute at Chinese Academy of Science. He earned the State Science & Tech-

nology Achievements Award 1992, the rst prize of ShanghaiS&T Achievements Award, the State Distinguished Expert Award, and the Government Special Subsidy from the StateCouncil. He served as the (Industrial) Advisory Board mem-ber of IEEE Software for ten years (1996-2006). As a chairof organization Committee, he successfully hosted the ICSE2006 and also the 5th World Congress on Software Quality(5WCSQ 2011) at Shanghai. He is the Emeritus VP of ChinaSystem & SPI Association. As a Champion, he was assignedas the Chief Advisory of The Shanghai Forum on SoftwareTrade (Former Global IT Outsourcing Summi) at Shanghai – A key annual event on Outsourcing in China since 2003.

Dr. Guozhong DaiChief researcher

Intelligence Engineering

Laboratory,Institute of Software,

Chinese Academy of Sciences.

PLENARY TALK- II-3

Dr. Guozhong Dai

11:30 am- 12:00 pm, Wednesday, June 1


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Bob Block

Founder and the First Chairmanof the United States Sports

Academy andFounder and Managing

Partner of LiTricity

Block is a Founder and a Managing Partner of LiTricity, a

shareholder and Board member of USCL and the Co-Chair ofthe Advanced Technology Policy Committee of the NationalEnergy Marketers Association. Mr. Block has extensive expe-rience in the computer software, communication, energy and

The Many Ways of Thinking:Transdisciplinary Skill

PLENARY TALK-8

Bob Block

1:30 pm- 2:00 pm, Wednesday, June 1

Professor Guozhong Dai is Chief researcher and Ph.D. su-pervisor of Intelligence Engineering Laboratory, Instituteof Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He graduatedfrom University of Science and Technology of China and wasa visiting professor of Department of Computer Science inUniversity of Maryland (1982-1985). Prof. Dai is the honor-ary Chairman of ACM SIGCHI CHINA Chapter, director of theChina Computer Federation Technical Committee on HumanComputer Interaction. He was an expert in the CIMS group ofNational High-tech R&D Program (863 Program), an expertconsultant of National Program on Key Basic Research Proj-ect (973 Program), and the leading expert of CIMS projectof Beijing Scientic Committee. Prof. Guozhong Dai has ledand participated in many key projects sponsored by NationalNatural Science Foundation of China, 863 and 973 Program.His major research interests are software engineering andhuman-computer interaction. He has published and co-au-thored two books and more than one hundred papers in thedomestic and international academic journals and confer-ences. He was awarded the prize of National Science andTechnology Progress three times, won Science and Technol-ogy Progress Awards of CAS and other Ministries. He also re-ceived the Contribution Award from Chinagraph and Lifetime

Achievement Award from Joint Conference on HarmoniousHuman Machine Environment.

Sam DenardHewlett-Packard

Enterprise Security organizationHouston, Texas

PLENARY TALK-10 Sam Denard

2:30 pm- 3:00 pm, Wednesday, June1

The Technology Infrastructure Project:A Data and Expectation

Transfer Service

Con KenneyOrganization Development and

Knowledge ManagementGraduate Program

George Mason University

PLENARY TALK-9

Con Kenney


Technology Design, Organizations, andCultures: Frameworks for Understanding,

Experimentation, and Action

Con Kenney is currently serving as Adjunct Professor in theOrganization Development and Knowledge ManagementGraduate Program at the George Mason University Schoolof Public Policy, Government, and International Affairs andrecently retired as Senior Research Fellow at the NationalDefense University iCollege. His teaching and researchinterests include: enterprise architecture, portfolio manage-ment, systems and software architecture, IT economics, pro-cess improvement, and organizational change leadership. Healso acts as member of the advisory board of the Enterprise Architecture Book of Knowledge (EABOK) Consortium.

entertainment industries including pioneering roles in com-mercial and pay television and cellular telephone operatingcompanies. He has also contributed signicantly to the cre-ation and development of entertainment and communicationtechnologies used worldwide. Block is widely known for hispioneering work in communications, information and man-agement technologies. He is the inventor and patent ownerof more than 150 issued US and International patents, in-cluding patents relating to: Enterprise Management Systems,Information Labeling, Signal Control, Terrestrial and SatelliteDistribution Systems, Real-Time Subscriber Billing Systems,Pay-Per-View, Parental Control and English Language Edu-cation. Block has multiple patent applications pending, in-cluding patents relating to interoperability of non-compatibleradios, power metering and solar energy systems. Block’sinventions are licensed to most of the major consumer elec-tronics manufacturers and have inuenced entertainment,sports, and information and education services worldwide.

From 2003 to 2009 he was the Chief Enterprise Architect atthe Federal Aviation Administration where he helped delivera comprehensive architecture for the agency. He workedclosely with the FAA’s lines of business to strengthen IT gover-nance and to create programs that add value and comply withthe FAA’s enterprise architecture. Before joining the FAA, Mr.Kenney was the Chief Technology Ofcer of Zerotime Labs,an early stage company incubator and software vendor. He

dened the product direction and made technology decisionsfor the company, which offered high-end simulation tools for

modeling cash ows and implementing business processes.Prior to joining Zerotime Labs, he was Senior Director forReengineering and Technology Integration in Fannie Mae’sOperations Division. He led strategic planning, product de-velopment, and organizational development projects. Earlier,as Senior Director for Advanced Technology, he dened Fan -nie Mae’s technology strategy and IT architecture.

Before joining Fannie Mae, Mr. Kenney founded the StrategicClient Practice at Sybase, the relational data base manage-ment systems vendor. This practice delivered business andtechnology strategy and IT architecture services to Fortune100 clients including JP Morgan, Martin Marietta, and State

Street Bank. At the management consulting rm of Booz, Allen & Hamilton, he led business and technology strategyand implementation assignments for nancial services clientsand civilian Federal agencies. He holds a bachelor’s degreein economics from the Wharton School of Finance at the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in interdisci-plinary studies from George Mason University.


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Dr. Louise Hecker

Assistant Professor ofMedicine, University of Arizona &

Research Investigator

Southern ArizonaVA Health Care Sysytems

A Transdisciplinary Approach to DrugDiscovery in Academia

PLENARY TALK- III-1

Dr. Louise Hecker3:30 pm- 4:00 pm, Wednesday, June 1

PLENARY SESSION - III

Contributing to Human Health:

Positive Societal Impact

Plenary Session Developer:

Dr. Louise Hecker


Dr. Hecker ’s broad research background and training hasbeen rooted in regenerative biology, with experience in de-velopment, tissue engineering, and mechanisms of injury-re-pair. Her resaerch team previously identied a novel role forNADPH oxidase-4 (Nox4), an oxidant-generating enzyme, in

mediating myobroblast functions and scar tissue formation(brosis), published in Nature Medicine. Since this discov-ery, her research interests have expanded to include under-standing the role of aging/senescence in lung injury-repairresponses. Dr. Hecker’s current research interests also en-compass translational aspects, including drug discovery for

Sam Denard is a mechanical engineer who currently works inHewlett-Packard's Enterprise Security organization where heperforms dynamic and static security analyses of customersoftware. Before this, he spent most of his working life asan independent consultant developing complex software for awide variety of customers and industries. And before that, heworked for NASA and General Electric. He was also an as-sistant professor in the Texas Southern University computerscience department. He is a graduate of Stanford Universityand MIT.

Nox4 and the development of preclinical animal models ofacute lung injury and brosis.

Dr. Esin O. isik

Assistant Professor Bogazici University

Istanbul, Turkey

Multinuclear Magnetic ResonanceSpectroscopic Imaging of Human Brain

Disorders

PLENARY TALK- III-2

Dr. Esin O. Isik


Dr. Esin Öztürk Işık, Ph.D. completed her Bachelor's stud-ies in the Computer Engineering department of the MiddleEast Technical University in 1999. She received her Master'sdegree from UAB in 2002 in Biomedical Engineering. There-

after, Dr. Öztürk Işık was admitted to the joint Bioengineer -ing program between the University of California at Berkeleyand the University of California at San Francisco. She joinedthe Margaret Hart Surbeck Laboratory of Advanced Imagingto work with Sarah J. Nelson, Ph.D. The goal of her thesisresearch was to implement several fast MRI and magneticresonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) data acquisitionand reconstruction techniques for faster and more accurate

spectral quantication of brain tumors using the clinical 3TMR scanners. Dr. Öztürk Işık completed her Ph.D. studiesin 2007 and continued her research as a postdoctoral fellowin the Radiology and Biomedical Imaging department at Uni-versity of California at San Francisco. Her postdoctoral re-search studies included the implementation and optimizationof higher resolution and sensitivity MRSI techniques on thewhole body high eld 7T MRI scanners. Dr. Öztürk Işık hasbeen working as an assistant professor at the Biomedical En-gineering Institute of the Bogaziçi University since Fall 2014.The main aim of her projects has been developing novel mo-lecular magnetic resonance imaging techniques to allow for a

better understanding of underlying biochemistry of diseasesin order to improve patient health.

Dr. Lin Yang

Assistant Professor ofEpidemiology

Division of EpidemiologyMedical University of Vienna

PLENARY TALK- III-3

Dr. Lin Yang


Lin Yang received her PhD degree in Epidemiology from theUniversity of Cambridge (UK) in 2012. Between 2013 and2015, she undertook postdoctoral training at Washington Uni-

versity School of Medicine (St. Louis, USA) in the Transdis-ciplinary Research on Energetics and Cancer (TREC) centerfunded by National Cancer Institute, investigating the role ofphysical activity and obesity in cancer survivorship, in orderto improve clinical practice.

Her training background includes kinesiology, statistics andepidemiology. She worked with population based cohortstudy in the UK (the European Prospective Investigation intoCancer-Norfolk study) and large data base in the US (Nation-al Health and Nutrition Examination Survey). She has beenactively involved in one of the rst large scale quasi-experi-ments in the UK, investigating the impact of major transport

infrastructural intervention on health outcomes (Commutingand Health in Cambridge study). She also designed andconducted focus group qualitative study and a pilot random-ized controlled trial study aiming to promote physical activityamong African American prostate cancer survivors post radi-cal prostatectomy in St. Louis, USA.

In January 2016, she joined the Department of Epidemiologyat the Medical University of Vienna. Currently her researchincludes identifying the impact of physical activity on bonehealth in overweight/obese postmenopausal breast cancersurvivors using bone turnover markers and bone mineraldensity scores; rening methods in patient-reported measurefor prostate cancer survivors post-radical prostatectomy. Heroverall research interest is to design interventions targetingenergy balance with scaling up potential to reduce the dis-ease burden in the population.

Energy Balance and Cancer, the Case forTransdisciplinary Health Research


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Turgut B. BaturalpDoctoral Candidate

Mechanical Engineering Dept.Texas Tech University

PLENARY TALK- III-4

Turgut B. Baturalp


Mimicking Human Systemic Circulationfor Development of Left Ventricular

Turgut Batuhan Baturalp received his B.S. and M.S. degreein Mechanical Engineering from Yeditepe University, Turkeyin 2009. Since September 2010, he is a Ph.D. student in theDepartment of Mechanical Engineering at Texas Tech Uni-versity, Lubbock. His current research investigates design ofa novel systemic mock human circulatory system for testingcardiovascular devices and training medical students. Hehas research interest and experience in health care designincluding anthropomorphic bipedal walking robots, articialmuscles, and mimicking & dynamic modeling of biologicalsystems. He has extensive research experience in simula-

tion, modeling and design of robotic, biomedical, transdisci-plinary and biomechatronic systems.

Turgut Batuhan Baturalp, Atila Ertas and Utku Gulbulak

CONFERENCE LUNCHEON

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, Monday, May 30

Room: L011

RESOURCES

VANISHING

The wor ld o f nature isincreasingly dominated byour behavior. Humanity musttake no more from nature thannature can provide. Futuregenerations should not beaffected by our present actions.

Global and shared resourcessuch as atmosphere, oceansand shared ecosystemsmust be protected by all ofus. All nations stand to gainfrom global sustainabilityand are threatened if we failto attain it. Developing andunderdeveloped countries

must be helped to developsustainably and protect notonly their environments butalso ours.


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TECHNICAL PAPER

PUBLICATION

The Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Sci-ence is dedicated to honor Professor John Wareld by recognizing responsibilties for a culture of peaceand transdisciplinary knowledge.

Professor Wareld (1925-2009) received the Bachelorof Arts in 1948, Bachelor of Science in Electrical En-

gineering in 1948, and Master of Science in ElectricalEngineering in 1949 from the University of Missouri,Columbia, Missouri. He received the Doctor of Philos-ophy degree from Purdue University, West Lafayette,Indiana in 1952. John Wareld is widely recognizedas the father of systems science. He has been an edu-cator, a research scientist in complex systems and or-ganizational dynamics, and a leader in integrating anextensive body of research into an organized hierarchyof systems sciences. Dr. Wareld and his colleaguesanalyzed complexity and human cognition for over fortyyears and developed the founding relationships for the

still-emerging systems science discipline that under-pins signicant portions of modern systems engineer -ing. His rich body of work embodies analytical methods

JOURNAL AIMS & SCOPE

All technical papers will be reviewed by the ProgramTechnical Committee. All accepted papers will be pub-lished in the conference proceedings. Competitivelyselected papers will be rst published in the Trans-disciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science by ISSNnumber: 1949-0569, then every year will be includedin a book published by TheATLAS with an ISBNnumber. For more information see www.theatlas.org

Transdisciplinary Journal of Engineering & Science

(TJES) is a transdisciplinary international journal whichbridges the gap between science, engineering, art, cul-ture, spirituality and society. It is a peer-reviewed an-nually published online journal covering research ontranscultural, transreligious, transpolitic, and transna-tional global unstructured problems such as health,disasters, poverty, water and food crises, environmen-tal crises, violence, terrorism, humanitarian assistanceand needs, well-being, transportation, security, inter-national development, global economy (knowledgeeconomy), sustainable development, energy issues,social policy and globalization, green engineering and

science, art and design, complexity, research on con-temporary issues, demographic changes, theology,and international ethics.

and frameworks, behavioral science and philosophiesthat formalize our understanding of complexity in ourworld. He holds IEEE Centennial Medal. In 2006 JohnN. Wareld was awarded the Joseph G. Wohl Award forCareer Achievement and in 2007 he received INCOSEPioneer Award and was also awarded the IEEE ThirdMillennium Medal.

Professor Wareld(1925-2009)

Researchers are also encouraged to sub-

mit manuscripts related to:

• Development of integrated analysis, synthesis, anddesign from a wide range of knowledge.

• Development of unied transdisciplinary modelingframework—developing computer based modelingsystems that permit cooperation and collaborationamong diverse groups that are globally dispersedin order to drive complex research efforts to an in-novative solution.

• Designing and development of communicationinfrastructure and shared resources to facilitatecomputational and transdisciplinary thinking withinexisting organizations.

• Transdisciplinary education. Accepted papers will be rst published by ISSN numberthen every year will be included in a book published byTheATLAS with an ISBN number.

Source: Atila Ertas, “Transdisciplinary Process & Sustainable Devel-

opment,” Module-2, Atlas Publications, 2014.


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ATLAS GOLD MEDAL OF HONOR AWARD RECIPIENTS AND

ATLAS HONORARY MEMBERS RECOGNIZED SINCE 2000

Dr. Herbert A. Simon

Nobel LaureateCarnegie Mellon University

Date of TheATLAS Board decision forthe Honor : January, 2001

Dr. George KozmetskyIC2 Institute, University of

Texas at AustinDate of TheATLAS Board decision for

the Honor : January, 2001

Dr. Steadman UphamPresident, Claremont Graduate

University, CADate of TheATLAS Board decision for

the Honor : January, 2001

Honorable K. T. LiChanging Taiwan from an economy

reliant on light industry tohigh technology

Date of TheATLAS Board decision forthe Honor : January, 2001

Dr. Michael Anthony ArbibFletcher Jones Professor of

Computer ScienceUniversity of Southern California

Date of TheATLAS Board decision forthe Honor : May, 2002

Dr. C.V. RamamoorthyEmeritus Professor

University of California, Berkeley Date of TheATLAS Board decision for

the Honor : May, 2002

Dr. Raymond T. YehIC2 Institute Senior Research Fellow,

University of Texas at AustinDate of TheATLAS Board decision for

the Honor : November, 2003

Dr. Lu Yyong XiangProf. Dr.-Ing. Mult.hon.Dr. Eng.

President, Chinese Academy of SciencesVice-Chairman of the Standing

Committee, NPC Date of TheATLAS Board decision for

the Honor: June 2005

Professor Nam P. SuhThe Ralph E. & Eloise F. Cross Professor

Director, The Park Center forComplex Systems

MIT, Cambridge, MADate of TheATLAS Board decision for

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