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Summary The purpose of this panel was to allow data users, that is, consultants and engineers, who assess the life safety of structures and regulators who approve these assessments the opportunity to discuss the current state of egress analysis from their perspectives. In other words, what datasets do engineers/consultants consistently use to assess the life safety of structures? How useful are these data and what additional data should/could data collectors and model developers provide to them to improve the quality of their work in the field? From this panel discussion, an egress roadmap for future research could be developed that would aid researchers in the field of human behaviour in fire to collect data and produce models that better support data users' needs and requirements. The format of the panel session was a brief response by engineering consultants, a data collector and an evacuation modeller to a series of questions related to the current status of egress analysis, followed by a facilitated open floor discussion on issues arising. The panel session was audio taped and the summary that follows, although not a verbatim account, is a close reflection of the views expressed and issues raised. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

The Interactions website (interactions.acm.org) hosts a stable of bloggers who share insights and observations on HCI, often challenging current practices. Each issue we'll publish selected posts from some of the leading and emerging voices in the field.

Organized by Mike Flynn (University of Michigan) and moderated by John Khoury (Silicon Labs), the Tuesday evening "You're Hired" ISSCC conference panel session became the perfect setting for exploring the philosophical aspects of job searching and practical issues such as corporate interview styles and standard technical questions. The long-term down-turn in the global economy contributed to genuine interest in the panelists' jobhunting advice. The session brought to light a dozen typical interview questions that probe a candidate's technical level by digging down to the fundamentals of the electronic design profession. Oscillations in relatively simple circuits triggered particularly interesting discussions between the panelists and the audience.

Although there are standards for DFT, there are none for Design for Debug and Validation (DFD/DFV) of silicon in systems. Many semiconductor companies have standardized DFD/DFV architectures and features within their own products, however these are proprietary solutions. The panel will explore whether or not these solutions share common requirements and will debate whether the industry would benefit from any standardization, and what to standardize. Examples are standard debug infrastructure IP, bridges to software debug and support for EDA automation.

“Internet of Things” connects everything to provide new services. These new services confront severe requirements represented by the fact that systems handle the real world. Moreover, ubiquitous IoT devices generate a tremendous amount of data. This data concentration also makes it difficult to accomplish the requirements. Thus, future computing and communication systems have to face this difficulty. Now, computing and communication evolution is truly desired. This panel session discusses what kinds of computing and communication evolution are desired and expected and how to achieve them.

The need for trained Human Factors and Ergonomics (HF/E) professionals has increased remarkably over the last few years. The skill sets these professionals need to have vary by industry and changes over time. However, current employers of HF/E new-hires have repeatedly indicated that students are not getting sufficient training and preparation for their positions. This panel will present a case study of how a newly developed program integrated the needs of industry into the academic requirements of the program. Further, the question and discussion part of the panel session will focus on developing a guideline for other programs to utilize to integrate the needs of industry into their academic programs.

The eight pieces constituting this Meeting Report are summaries of presentations made during a panel session at the 2011 Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE) annual meeting held between March 3rd and 6th in Cincinnati. Lisa Newton organized the session and served as chair. The panel of eight consisted both of pioneers in the field and more recent arrivals. It covered a range of topics from how the field has developed to where it should be going, from identification of issues needing further study to problems of training the next generation of engineers and engineering-ethics scholars.

In this paper we report the proceedings of the final panel session at the international stability and systems engineering international IFAC conference held in Ireland in June 2012. This session brought together contributions from philosophy, critical studies and cybernetics to explore new avenues of research and practice for the IFAC technical committee for international stability (TC 9/5). The session arose from a special proposed session by Nicolae Bulz, member of TC 9/5 which emphasised a more multi-disciplinary approach to international stability issues for technologists, engineers and scientists. The following paper sets out the main contributions to the panel which was co-chaired by Larry Stapleton, TC 9/5 chairperson.

The paper presents a summary of a panel presentation by animal scientists and public health veterinarians on food safety methods to improve public health of the public consuming beef and poultry. Pre-harvest methods discussed include vaccination to decrease shedding of Esherichia coli O157:H7, direct-fed microbials (DFMs), calving methods, and responsible use of antimicrobials. Post-harvest methods discussed include increased sampling and use of hazard analysis and critical control point (HACCP) methods, test-and-hold of meat products prior to release for public consumption, development of attainment categories, the use of pulsed field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) for genotyping and serotyping, and an 11-step surveillance program. The public health concern and financial consequences of contamination with E. coli O157:H7 is discussed. A “carrot and stick” approach for both producers and processors to increase vaccination and product testing is recommended.

At the 2007 International Conference on software engineering in Minneapolis, the author had the honor of participating in a panel session celebrating the 20th anniversary of the publication of Peopleware. The panel was conceived, organized, and moderated by Steve Fraser, who deserves great credit for putting it all together and keeping the panel from degenerating into pandemonium.

On August 14, 2003, a cascading outage of transmission and generation facilities in the North American Eastern Interconnection resulted in a blackout of most of New York state as well as parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Ontario, Canada. On September 23, 2003, nearly four million customers lost power in eastern Denmark and southern Sweden following a cascading outage that struck Scandinavia. Days later, a cascading outage between Italy and the rest of central Europe left most of Italy in darkness on September 28. These major blackouts are among the worst power system failures in the last few decades. The Power System Stability and Power System Stability Controls Subcommittees of the IEEE PES Power System Dynamic Performance Committee sponsored an all day panel session with experts from around the world. The experts described their recent work on the investigation of grid blackouts. The session offered a unique forum for discussion of possible root causes and necessary steps to reduce the risk of blackouts. This white paper presents the major conclusions drawn from the presentations and ensuing discussions during the all day session, focusing on the root causes of grid blackouts. This paper presents general conclusions drawn by this Committee together with recommendations based on lessons learned.

Organizers of INCOSE International Symposium 2004 posed six themes regarding the future of systems engineering. In response a panel, “Evolving to Intelligent Systems Engineering,” took a position on each theme based on ideas already being explored in the Intelligent Enterprises Working Group, IEWG. Four panelists supported, or not, 23 specific assertions regarding the six themes. During the ninety minute session vigorous interaction with the panel audience occurred. At the end, 67 attendees kindly completed a poll designed to gauge the degree of consensus with the 23 assertions. The poll results are reported and analyzed in this paper. Also included are responses to the same poll by a voluntary subset of 18 INCOSE Fellows prior to the panel session. These results highlight several possibilities regarding the future of systems engineering for consideration by SE practitioners and educators.

Welcome to the ninth annual Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Career Panel. The job market in our industry has changed significantly over the last year and the questions addressed by this year's panel speak to the issues that exist in a difficult job market. This year, the panel answered four questions to help readers prepare for a career in Human Factors and Ergonomics (HF/E), particularly in light of the current economic climate. During the HFES meeting panel session, the panel will focus on questions from the audience.

This panel session will focus on three strategies for using blogs to improve access to collections, understand information needs of those searching the collections, and build communities of practice with information professionals serving similar user groups. Three presenters will share their experiences, goals, methods, and results. A facilitated discussion with the audience will follow the presentations and allow attendees to brainstorm on possible uses of blogging outside the box to reach the goals of their current projects or initiatives that they are hoping to undertake in the near future.

This panel session will discuss the importance of mentoring as a means of growing the field of microwave engineering. Rudy Henning exemplified the ideal mentor and this panel, consisting of Professors Linda Katehi, Tom Brazil, and John Volakis, will discuss the ways in which mentoring can be used to encourage future generations of microwave engineers.

The authors of this article participated in a panel session at the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2012 with the objective to advance knowledge in areas related to the “dark side” of information technology (IT) use in organizations. We introduced new areas of exploration and disseminated new points of view on the potentially negative impacts of IT use. We drew upon our collective research and practice-related insights in five areas that characterize the dark side of IT use, namely―IT-usage-related stress, work overload, interruptions, addiction, and misuse. These are clearly important areas to examine, given that the ubiquitous and functionally pervasive nature of IT use in organizations is expected to expose users to ever greater levels of conditions that are potent for experiencing this dark side. We discussed the relevance and implications of the topic to the IS research and practice communities.

The RESER workshop provides a venue in which empirical software engineering researchers can discuss the theoretical foundations and methods of replication, as well as present the results of specific replicated studies. In 2011, the workshop co-located with the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM) in Banff, Alberta, Canada. In addition to several outstanding paper sessions, highlights of the 2011 workshop included a keynote address by Dr. Victor R. Basili, in which he addressed the question, "What's so hard about replication of software engineering experiments?" The workshop also featured a joint replication panel session discussing the first cooperative joint replication ever conducted in empirical software engineering research and a planning session for next year's joint replication project addressing Conway's Law.

This paper reports on a panel session organised to discuss some new problems and potential research avenues in terms of management and control in the context of modern manufacturing organisations, such as the extended or virtual enterprise or the integration of the supply-chain management, and using an interdisciplinary approach.

This is an edited transcript of the Pioneer Day session that took place at the 1978 NCC Conference. It was a panel session, moderated by Harry Huskey, that included short talks by the people that built and used the SWAC computer. After Huskey's introduction, Harry T. Larson provided some of the engineering details of SWAC, R. Thorensen then told of some of the later developments that took place with the machine, Mike Melkanoff gave some idea of how this machine was used at UCLA, and finally Dick Lehmer said something about the applications that SWAC ran.

Under the right circumstances, collaboration can be the most efficient means for developing a new material. A leading motivation for collaboration is the expectation that development time can be dramatically shortened while the technical risk that the new material will meet or exceed the requirements of its intended application is reduced. This strategy increases the probability that investments in the new materials technology will pay off across the supply chain. The 10th International Symposium on Superalloys, held in September 2004, featured a panel session on developing materials as part of a team. This article provides a summary of that session.

Women of all colors are underrepresented in most technical disciplines. For example, electrical engineering college graduates have comprised only about ten percent women for many years, and computing graduates only about eighteen percent women, down from about thirty-five percent in the mid-1980s. Gender stereotypes and stereotypes about creators of technology contribute to this underrepresentation. Nevertheless, these prevailing conditions can be overcome to a substantial degree by actively recruiting diverse female students. This panel session will provide an introduction to the reasons for active recruiting, methods for successful active recruiting, examples of effective applications of the recommended methods, and resources to help participants as they attempt to actively recruit underrepresented students to their courses. The panel's focus will be on computing disciplines, but the information applies to other technical disciplines as well.

This short piece provides an introduction to a panel session that will take place at the RE'13 conference. The purpose of the panel will be to explore different possible future directions of the RE conference and its community. This piece outlines the arguments that will be made by each of the panelists to direct the conference and community towards different perspectives - both more academic - and practitioner-oriented.

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ mechanisms and robotics community has sponsored the dissemination of research results through the Design Engineering Technical Conferences for the 67-year history of the Design Engineering Division. Kenneth J. Waldron has been a tremendous contributor and leader in this field for over forty years. This paper presents a brief synopsis of the history of the mechanisms and robotics portion of this conference in honor of Prof. Waldron’s 70th birthday.

This paper summarizes the discussions of the panel session entitled "Coordination Between Short-Term Operation Scheduling and Annual Resource Allocations" which was held during the 1994 IEEE PES Winter Meeting at New York. The panel discussions focused on the need of coordinations, the conceptual framework to achieve effective coordinations, and electric utilities' experiences in coordinating resource (e.g. fuel, emission, hydro) allocation decisions and short-term operation scheduling decisions.

Is there any real industrial test problem that requires research collaboration, or is there no such thing? We will hear from both industrial and research folks about their experiences, both successful and otherwise. How do we get past statements like these and move on to genuine and effective collaboration? █ Industry: You have to make it truly work for us … █ Research: You have to fund my students first … and give us your designs █ Industry: bye !! … █ Research: So we still have no industrial test bench, … and funding : Following this panel session, there will be an invited poster session from both industry and research demonstrating their problems, technologies and their willingness to look for cooperation. Visit these posters and tell them either you solved their problem 10 years ago, or ask for a check to solve them.…

On November 17 2011, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of Geneva announced the availability of an “IPCC Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation” A fact sheet on the report is available at: http://www.ipcc.ch/news_and_events/docs/srex/SREX_fact_sheet.pdf and the full report will be available in March 2012 — see: http://www.ipcc-wg2.gov/SREX/. Following is an extract from the Press Release on the Report

The Handbook for Gas Insulated Substations (GIS) and Transmission Lines (GIL) will be discussed in a panel session at the General Meeting (GM) of PES in San Diego in July 2012. The original idea for a handbook on GIS and GIL came out of the experiences made with the IEEE tutorials on the same subject which were given more than 20 times around U.S., Asia, and South America. During these tutorials, it was seen that only a short section of the total knowledge could be offered even in a full day program. The interest was large in the audience for additional topics. Hence, each year new modules have been invented to complete the scope and cover all possible aspects. The handbook is seen as conclusion of the tutorials and shall cover the main technical aspects of GIS and GIL from importance for the GIS and GIL users, and the planning, the project, and the operation engineers. At the GM in San Diego, the plan is to discuss different the aspects of the handbook and look for a feedback to see if all important required aspects have been taken into account.

There is an increasing interest in demand-side management (DSM) by utilities and regulators throughout the USA. With this interest, there is an increasing need for DSM evaluation. Regulators expect utility engineers to use least cost planning and integrated resource planning approaches to adjust their generation capacity plans to reflect DSM. Increasingly, utilities are considering DSM to affect their T&D capacity plans. However, major utility DSM programs are less than a decade old. This leaves many utility engineers uneasy. How do they know that DSM will be there when they really need it? To verify and improve the contribution of DSM programs, utility analysts have developed a set of methodologies and procedures for evaluating DSM. The purpose of this panel session was to review these state of the art evaluations and the lessons learned from them so far. The authors explore the differences inherent in evaluating DSM at the T&D level versus the generation level, and review DSM's persistence and reliability in the residential, commercial, and industrial sectors. >

This report is a progress report by the Generator Subcommittee of the Electrical Machinery Committee of the IEEE Power and Energy Society, Working Group No. 8 (“IEEE C50.13 Review & Compare”). The working group is comparing the 2005 revision of the IEEE C50.13 standard for large round rotor synchronous generators with recent revisions of comparable International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) 60034 standards. In this paper the working group reports progress made since starting in 2007, summarizes completed results, and outlines plans for next steps. Included are highlights of an incrementally improved C50.13 that is to be submitted for balloting in 2013 and highlights of future improvements that will be pursued after 2013. Also included is a synopsis of suggestions provided to the IEC for harmonization of IEC 60034 with IEEE C50.13. Finally, the paper includes an overview of a 2012 PES panel session to discuss grid code impacts on electric machine design and performance.

Summary form only given, as follows. A record of the panel discussion was not made available for publication as part of the conference proceedings. There has been substantial progress in software cybernetics, and at this workshop many new results will be presented. In this panel, the focus will be on identifying research directions which may achieve major breakthrough in software cybernetics. Each panelist will present his point of view on this topic and then we open the discussion to the floor.

This paper provides a summary of one of the presentations planned under the Panel Session on “Dynamic Reactive Compensation” sponsored by the DC and FACTS Subcommittee. A brief description of the operating characteristics and control applications of different Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) Controllers is presented in this paper.

Smart systems require intefacing more of the world in an integrated solution (Camera, gyroscope, compass, temp, direction, ….). This is imposed by social evolution and enabled by new integration technologies. So far, many products featuring a variety of hardware and software have been developed and many more seems to be coming in a fast growing market. The panel will present the most promising products and solutions and discuss the innovations enabling future smart systems.

International audience; This paper presents a brief overview of semiconductor manufacturing followed by the results of a panel session held at the Fourth International Conference on Modeling and Analysis of Semiconductor Manufacturing (MASM) in Miami, December 10, 2008 on the role of modelling and analysis in semiconductor manufacturing in a shrinking world. Three participants are from Asia, two from Europe, and two from the USA in addition to the two panel organisers (Fowler and Mönch). At least one panellist from each continent is from industry and one from academia. The statements of the panellists from industry relate to modelling and analysis problems found in their own companies. Those of the academic panellists describe the role that modelling and analysis has played and is expected to play in their semiconductor manufacturing research. Their views on the challenges and successes of modelling and analysis in a globalised world are also included. Finally, we identify some future research challenges for semiconductor manufacturing.

This paper summarizes a panel‐session presentation on professional issues in coastal engineering conducted during the ASCE‐sponsored conference, Coastal Engineering Practice '92, held in Long Beach, Calif., on March 8–11, 1992. Topics presented at the session included risk and innovation, insurance, public perception, contractor perspectives, and professional registration. The panel session was composed of representatives of their respective industry who have to address these professional issues frequently. The panel presentation and audience discussion were directed toward issues related to coastal engineering specifically, although the issues share a commonality with other fields of engineering. A key goal of the panel session (and of this summary paper) was to stimulate thought and discussion about professional issues facing coastal engineering, rather than to establish a unified position on a particular issue.

A topic of much debate in gallium arsenide IC manufacturing currently is the challenge to HBTs from new Enhancement-mode pHEMT transistors for power amplifiers in low-volt-age, portable wireless handsets. This was reflected in panel session at 22 nd IEEE GaAs IC Symposium in Seatlle last November (”E-mode pHEMTs are killing HBTs“) and, more recently, by the first E-pHEMT product launches by leading GaAs RFIC manufacturers.

Welcome to CICC 2011, our 33rd annual Custom Integrated Circuits Conference - the Showcase for Circuit Design in the Heart of Silicon Valley. This year, our Technical Program Committee of over 80 experts has delivered all you have come to expect from CICC, and more. In addition to papers which address a broad spectrum of State-of-the-Art developments in the Technical Sessions, we continue our strong tradition of education with six Educational Sessions, and as introduced in 2009, we offer a pair of Forum Sessions that provide attendees with access to experts on topics at the forefront of our industry; we also continue the Panel Session tradition of discussion and debate focused on a topic of current interest in our industry.

This is a submission to a panel session at the 2010 IEEE PES General Meeting. It discusses effective collaboration between academia and industry.

This paper describes research in progress for a panel session presentation on how phasor measurement unit (PMU) values can be used to improve power system operations beyond their use in state estimation.

Founded in 1999, the ACM SLIP Workshop is now in its 12th year. The 2010 SLIP Panel session will highlight perspectives from three individuals who have had great influence on the course of SLIP, and provide an opportunity for lively discussion by workshop attendees of prospects for the next 10 years of SLIP. This panel summary records preliminary thoughts of the panelists on two starting questions.

Dual-use technologies include those products, principles, and techniques that have application in both military and civilian sectors. Participating in two-way dual-use technology transfer benefits both sectors; it promotes more rapid research and development innovations and can stimulate the nation's economy. During this special panel session, representatives from nonmilitary agencies will discuss their modeling and simulation dual-use capabilities and gaps. The aim of this panel is to engender an open discussion among military and nonmilitary M&S specialists, with the ultimate goal of promoting enhanced collaborations among these agencies.

This panel session proposal describes an introduction of the technical activities carried out by some of the Telefionica University Chairs along Spain in a whole view of activities inside the social working of Telefonica and their associated chairs.

This panel session will address the post-CMOS research great challenges and opportunities corresponding to the More Than Moore and Beyond CMOS domains. The opening talk of the panel will set the ground for discussion with some key examples placed at the intersection of the two domains. Especially the role of functional diversification and of new research and application drivers, different from scaling, will be critically discussed by a team of high-level experts in the field. Moreover, the impact of post-CMOS era on the way the academic research and the education of engineering are conceived today and should be adapted in the future will be the center of the debate.

This paper will focus on showing the projected effects of PHEVs on residential loads in the Northeast and Southwest U.S. The Southwest studies, based in New Mexico, include consideration of central air conditioning (A/C) as a major load. The Northeast studies, based in Massachusetts, examine winter as well as summer load profiles with approximately the same PHEV charging requirements. Since truly commercial PHEVS are not expected to be available until late 2010, we have studied the literature and projections from manufacturers and others working in the PHEV to estimate battery capacities and charging power requirements. We have assumed 9–10 kWh per charge over periods of 5 hours. If a 7.0 kW PV system (ac rating) is employed in NM, this energy resource will provide most of the energy required for home use as well as charging two PHEVs. Additional information will be provided in the presentation.

As the complexity of SoC design and manufacturing continues to grow, would it be better to have specialised companies optimising their corresponding segments of the SoC development ecosystem or we rather have vertically integrated companies that include all necessary specialties under a single roof.

Multicore solution is a need imposed by both technology and market constraints to replace a large part of FPGA and ASIC products for the embedded system market. So far, many solutions featuring a variety of ad-hoc hardware and software multicore architectures have been developed mainly by startups. No clear winning solution has emerged so far to conquer a significant part of this fast growing market. The panel will present the most promising products and solutions and discuss the winning strategy to market.

HLS tools are becoming fashionable again. Is this second wave of HLS the one industry will surf on? There are a lot of technical, strategic and human related questions behind this HLS comeback. In this session the panellists from System, S/C, EDA companies and Universities will look into the following questions: have designs become so complex that they cannot avoid higher level of abstraction? Have HLS tools become so much better? Can HLS yield entitlement gate count? Is HLS a new market? What are the practical issues with HLS production flows? Does HLS improve design predictability and efficiency? What are the next challenges?