[Faculty] Fwd: ASEE Conference date - Now 26-29 July 2021

[Allen Plotkin]

FYI.
Allen

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From: <mchatfield at alaska.edu>
Date: Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 4:41 PM
Subject: ASEE Conference date - Now 26-29 July 2021
To: <mchatfield at alaska.edu>


Hello All –



In case you haven’t yet seen, this year’s ASEE Annual Conference in Long
Beach has been postponed until 26-29 July 2021. (See highlighted text below
and ASEE Conference Website). A final decision as to whether the event will
be conducted physically or virtually will be made late May.



Coinciding with the event delay, our draft manuscripts have also been
delayed 1 month. The new dates for draft manuscripts to be submitted is *8
March**/**23:59 EST*.



Please see the website for additional dates and details.



Thanks!

Mike

2021 ASEE Aerospace Division Program Chair



Michael C. Hatfield

Assistant Professor,

  Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associate Director for Education,

  Alaska Center for UAS Integration (ACUASI)

University of Alaska Fairbanks

mchatfield at alaska.edu

C: 907.987.2610



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January 25, 2021

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Experts Say Electric Vehicles Nearing “Tipping Point” Of Mass Adoption

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(1/22, Carrington) reports experts are saying electric vehicles are nearing
a “tipping point” of widespread mass adoption due to plummeting battery
costs. Global electric vehicle sales “rose 43% in 2020, but even faster
growth is anticipated when continuing falls in battery prices bring the
price of electric cars dipping below that of equivalent petrol and diesel
models, even without subsidies.” Recent analyses predict that will occur
sometime between 2023 and 2025, though the tipping point “has already been
passed in Norway, where tax breaks mean electric cars are cheaper.”

        *Electric Delivery Vans Have A Market With Amazon, Others. *The Wall
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(1/22, Wilmot, Subscription Publication) reported that while people may
associate electric vehicles with Tesla, delivery vehicles for online orders
may be a more financially beneficial use of electric transport. Amazon
“ordered 100,000 electric vans from Rivian, the first of them due later
this year.” UPS, DHL, and FedEx also need electric trucks for deliveries to
meet their carbon-emission goals.

        *EVgo Set To Take Its EV Charging Business Public. *Reuters
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(1/22) reported that EVgo, the largest fast charging public network in the
country, announced Friday that “it has agreed to go public through a merger
with blank-check firm Climate Change Crisis Real Impact I Acquisition Corp”
with the deal putting EVgo’s value at $2.6 billion. EVgo operates “more
than 800 fast-charging locations across 34 U.S. states, catering to over
220,000 customers,” and works with automakers including GM, BMW, and
Nissan, and also ride-hailing company Uber.

        *Cobalt Prices Soar As EVs Continue To Proliferate. *The Wall
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(1/22, Jie, Subscription Publication) reports a 20% increase in the price
of cobalt since the beginning of 2021 shows how the rapid expansion of the
electric vehicle industry is putting stress on global supply chains. Cobalt
is needed for many types of batteries, including those in electric
vehicles, and its journey from mines in Africa to processing centers in
China to battery makers “has several choke points that make it vulnerable
to disruption.” As a result of rising prices, car and battery makers have
been looking to assert more control over their cobalt supplies and even
abandon the metal altogether.
Higher Education

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Colleges Begin To Reopen In-Person Amid Pandemic

USA Today
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(1/22, Quintana) reports that college campus leaders “hoped the lessons
from the fall would better position them for the spring semester.” That was
“before a post-holiday winter surge pushed the number of COVID-19 deaths in
America over 400,000.” Now, “returning student populations may be at even
greater risk than they were in the fall – not to mention their surrounding
communities, where research has suggested greater outbreaks in college
towns.” Despite those concerns, “colleges are pushing ahead.” The stakes
are high; “enrollment plummeted at most colleges last semester, and the
loss of income from in-person services like campus housing and dining could
be devastating to schools that depend on that money.” College towns “would
feel the economic pinch as well.” However, “when administrators talk about
the need for reopening, they focus on what went well in the fall – and the
advantages of the full university experience.”
Colleges Share What They Learned After Revamping Academic Calendar In
Response To COVID-19

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(1/23, McMurtrie) reported that “as the fall approached and colleges
considered what impact COVID-19 would have on their campuses, some of them
settled on a solution: an altered academic calendar.” Many made adjustments
“like delaying the start of the semester for a couple of weeks or moving
classes online after Thanksgiving to keep students at home.” A number of
small liberal-arts colleges “did something more radical: They cut their
semester into halves, on the idea that navigating two courses at a time –
albeit at a much quicker pace – would be logistically and intellectually
easier for students than juggling four at once.” Now, with one semester
“under their belts, these colleges are looking back on what they learned.”
The experiment “with the academic calendar came with its share of stress.”
As often happens “with innovations that emerge in response to a crisis, it
also sparked other changes – in this case, to central elements of course
design and teaching – that were less obviously connected to the logistics
of the class schedule.”
As Colleges Adjust 2021-2022 Tuition, Students Advocate For Refunds

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(1/21, Kerr) reported that “the steady drumbeat of annual tuition hikes
slowed in 2020 as colleges responded to the coronavirus pandemic and its
devastating financial effects on American families.” Looking ahead to
2021-2022 tuition rates, “families can expect much of the same as colleges
may take a similar approach by freezing tuition or applying only small
increases.” Though tuition rose “at a historically low rate in the
2020-2021 academic year, students at colleges across the country organized
petitions and strikes calling for refunds when classes were moved online
due to COVID-19, as well as significant cost reductions.” Willem Morris, a
senior at Columbia University in New York, “is one such student advocating
for reduced tuition for the current spring 2021 semester, along with
increased financial aid, and hoping a strike will lead to the long-term
upending of what he says are ‘unfair and extortive’ tuition practices.”
Faculty Criticizing University Of Florida For Requiring Return To
Classrooms While Students Can Learn Remotely

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(1/23, Beachum) reports faculty and staff at the University of Florida
“have been at odds with school leaders since the start of the year over
increasing its number of in-person classes to appease students who want
face-to-face learning.” According to the Post, “Instructors are troubled
that administrators could be more concerned about financial impacts than
science and health as denials for American Disabilities Act accommodations
rolled in against a backdrop of the campus’s safety app that now has a
feature allowing students to report an instructor for not showing up to
class and warnings against protesting.”
DOJ Mulling Amnesty Program For US Academics To Divulge Foreign Funding

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(1/22, Korn, Viswanatha, Subscription Publication) reported in an exclusive
that the Justice Department is mulling an amnesty program that would enable
US academics to divulge foreign funding and not have to worry about being
punished over their disclosures. Since 2019, federal prosecutors have
brought more than dozen criminal cases accusing academics of lying about
their ties to the Chinese government.
Colorado Bill Would Make College Test-Optional Policies Permanent

Higher Ed Dive
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(1/22) reported that “two Colorado state lawmakers plan to introduce a bill
removing a requirement that public colleges there use a national assessment
test score, such as from the ACT or SAT, as an admissions criteria,
according to the office of one of the bill’s sponsors.” The lawmakers “said
making the scores optional would improve access to higher education, while
critics felt it would eliminate an important college readiness standard,
Chalkbeat reported.” State institutions largely “support the measure, the
publication noted.” Many colleges “put a moratorium on their requirement
that applicants submit test scores in light of the pandemic.” However,
“bigger moves by key states stand to make a longer-lasting impact.”
More State Lawmakers Push For Legislation Requiring High School Seniors To
Complete Financial-Aid Applications

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(1/23, Korn, Subscription Publication) reports that lawmakers in at about
eight states are beginning to push for legislation that would require
high-school seniors to complete federal or state financial-aid applications
before they can graduate.
Opinion: Forgiving Student Loans Won’t Solve Higher Education Funding Crisis

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(1/22, Shermer), Loyola University Chicago associate professor of history
Elizabeth Tandy Shermer wrote, “Senate Democrats asked for an executive
order forgiving $50,000 in debt, but instead the new president instructed
the Education Department to extend the ongoing, interest-free pause on
federal student loans.” However, Tandy writes, “Yet, neither that ongoing
deferment nor partial forgiveness will be enough. Until politicians at the
state and federal level rethink how we fund higher education, students and
parents will remain trapped in increasing amounts of debt, exacerbating
inequality, even as colleges and universities cut programs and even close.”
She concludes, “Massive forgiveness, while beneficial, would not solve the
bigger problem: the need for a fundamental restructuring of college
financing and government support for higher education. Without such a
change, college costs will continue to increase.”

*From ASEE*


*ASEE's Research Leadership Institute, Feb. 9, Mar. 9, Apr. 13, and May
11. FREE *Organized by the Engineering Research Council, this
event supports and enhances research in engineering, technology, computing,
and applied science in educational organizations. The February 9
session focuses on challenges facing research leadership. ERC Board members
share their experiences and participants will interact in breakout
groups. Register
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*ASEE Annual Conference Update*
The 2021 ASEE Annual Conference
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will be held in-person July 26-29, in Long Beach, CA.

We opted to move our signature event later in the summer from our normal
June date, hoping July offers reason to be optimistic, giving us another
month for the vaccine to be distributed. And of course, ASEE looks forward
to providing a venue to safely meet face-to-face. The opportunities to
network and to spend time with colleagues and friends is invaluable...and
greatly missed by us all!

ASEE will follow all CDC recommendations, including masks and social
distancing, and conference facilities will comply with state requirements
in terms of masks and sanitizing.

Obviously our plans may change depending on Covid circumstances. Should
California still be “closed” due to the pandemic this summer (such that its
restrictions make holding an in-person conference unfeasible), we will
revisit the conference at the end of May and determine if a virtual meeting
would be more appropriate.


Research and Development
SpaceX Launches 143 Satellites Atop Falcon 9 Rocket

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(1/24, Harwood) reports that on Sunday, SpaceX launched 143 small
satellites atop a Falcon 9 rocket as part of the Transporter 1 mission. The
mission, which launched at 10 a.m. EST from Cape Canaveral, was delayed a
day due to weather conditions. The “143 satellites atop the second stage
were the most ever launched by a single rocket, eclipsing the previous
104-satellite mark set by India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle in
February 2017.”

        Spaceflight Now
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(1/24, Clark) reports that the Falcon 9’s “reusable first stage booster –
flying for the fifth time – landed on SpaceX’s ‘Of Course I Still Love You’
drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean southeast of Miami nearly 10 minutes after
liftoff.” SpaceX “said it also retrieved the rocket’s payload fairing
halves after they parachuted back to Earth in the Atlantic.” Sunday’s
launch “carried payloads for Planet, Swarm Technologies, Kepler
Communications, Spire, Capella Space, ICEYE, NASA, and a host of other
customers from 11 countries. The payloads ranged in size from CubeSats to
microsatellites weighing several hundred pounds.” Reuters
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(1/24, Coster) reports that the mission also included 10 SpaceX Starlink
satellites.
University Of Louisiana-Lafayette Students Design Mini-Satellite To Detect
Radiation In Space

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(1/23) reported students at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
designed a miniature satellite containing a chip that detects radiation,
“with an eye to keeping astronauts safe.” Dr. Paul Darby, the university’s
project leader, said in a news release: “The detectors would provide liquid
crystal display readings so astronauts could constantly monitor how much
radiation they’re being exposed to.” The Louisiana-Lafayette students
“began receiving radio signals early Monday from the satellite, which
circles the world every 90 minutes, at 17,000 miles an hour.” According to
the AP, this is Louisiana-Lafayette’s “third satellite launched as part” of
the school’s STEM program: CAPE, for the Cajun Advanced Picosatellite
Experiment program.
UC San Diego Awarded NIH Grant $1.3M To Develop Facemask Sensor That
Detects Coronavirus

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(1/21, Robbins) reports the NIH “has awarded UC San Diego $1.3 million to
develop a small, wearable sensor that can tell whether a person has the
novel coronavirus or has been exposed to it by someone else.” According to
the article, “The lightweight sensor would be attached to facemasks to
monitor for the presence of coronavirus-related molecules that appear in a
person’s breath and saliva.” The test strip “could be ready for use later
this year.”
Workforce
Experts Explain How COVID-19 Has Changed Culture Of Science

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(1/25, Halford, Howes, Widener) interviewed “researchers and scientific
leaders about the good, the bad, and the uncertain ways that life has
changed because of the pandemic, in the lab and beyond.” For example, NIH
Director Dr. Francis Collins “points out that scientists...made impressive
strides in developing diagnostics, establishing testing capacity, and
expanding our fundamental understanding of the virus.” Collins said, “We
did science in ways that people did not think we could, driven by this
sense of urgency, which we all say that every day counts. ... This is a
pandemic that is taking lives and destroying economies, and there’s no
excuse for anybody arguing for delay.” NIAID Director Dr. Anthony Fauci,
meanwhile, “emerged as the steady source of advice in the US and overseas –
he also became a popular icon, with his image appearing on T-shirts, socks,
and coffee mugs.”

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(1/25), Lisa M. Jarvis examines “what the process taught us and how it
could affect science going forward.”
Industry News
Boeing Commits To Using 100% Sustainable Fuels By 2030

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(1/22, Johnsson) reported that The Boeing Company has “set a target of
designing and certifying its jetliners to fly on 100% sustainable fuels by
2030 amid rising pressure on planemakers to get serious about climate
change.” Boeing “said sustainable fuels can be made from inedible plants,
agricultural and forestry waste, nonrecyclable household waste and gases
released by industrial products. Boeing cited studies showing that
emissions could be cut by 80% over a sustainable fuel’s life cycle, with
the potential to some day reach 100%.” Regulators “currently allow a 50-50
blend of sustainable and conventional fuels, and Boeing said Friday it
would work with authorities to raise the limit.” Airbus “is considering
another tack: a futuristic lineup of hydrogen-powered aircraft that would
reach the skies by 2035.”

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(1/22, Polek).
Waymo Looks To Do No Harm With Self-Driving Tech

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(1/21, Rutherford) reported on the potential of autonomous vehicles for
those who are unable to drive, including “the blind, the disabled, the
mentally vulnerable,” and how this tech can impact both public health and
security while keeping in mind “whether AV technology actually makes roads
safer.” One company evolving to meet this challenge is Waymo, which
operates its commercial autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo One in the
Phoenix metro area, with the cars fully autonomous since late 2020, “an
exciting leap forward for the blind and other nondrivers.” Max Ashton, a
blind Phoenix resident, said AV services like Waymo are “life changing” and
offer a “step of independence.” Other companies working on self-driving car
tech include GM, Cruise, Zoox, and of course Tesla. Waymo COO Tekedra
Mawakana said, “Our goal is to responsibly test and deploy technology that
removes the common causes of human error, and through continuous
refinement, will increasingly improve safety.”
GE Wins $20 Million Federal Grant To Develop New Wind Turbine Generators

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(1/21, Rulison) reports, “The federal government is betting $20.3 million
that General Electric Co. can turn an MRI machine used in hospitals into a
renewable energy powerhouse.” The “Department of Energy’s Wind Technologies
Office recently awarded the grant to a team of engineers and scientists at
GE Research in Niskayuna in hopes that they can take superconducting magnet
technology from MRI machines and use it in the generators that create
electricity in large industrial wind turbines that GE makes.” The article
added, “GE is a major wind turbine manufacturer and has built the world’s
largest wind turbine called the Haliade-X, which can power a whole village
on its own. The company makes steam turbines and generators for traditional
power plants.”
Engineering and Public Policy
Biden: Student Loan Freeze Could Go Beyond September

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(1/22, Nasiripour) reports President Joe Biden, shortly after his
inauguration, asked the Education Department to “extend his predecessor’s
pandemic policy of waiving interest and to continue letting borrowers skip
monthly payments on government-owned student loans until at least the end
of September.” According to Forbes
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(1/22) contributor Adam Minsky, Biden said on Friday, “We may have to look
beyond” the Sept. 30 extension, depending on the state of the economy and
the pandemic. The Biden Administration also confirmed “that the extended
freeze will continue to qualify borrowers for key student loan forgiveness
programs, such as Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF), as well as
federal student loan rehabilitation programs for borrowers in default.”

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(1/21) also provided coverage.
Federal Student Loan Relief May Take A While

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(1/23, Nova) reports President Joe Biden said at a press conference in late
November that student loan borrowers are “in real trouble” and they have to
choose “between paying their student loan and paying the rent, those kinds
of decisions.” But there is no mention of cancelling any student debt in
his Administration’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package unveiled this month.
Higher education expert Mark Kantrowitz “said Biden’s Covid relief plan
focuses on the most pressing issues of the public health crisis, and that
debt cancellation will likely come later,” perhaps by late summer.
Considering the tight margin in the Senate, passing such legislation “may
be difficult,” so some Democrats are pressing Biden to immediately forgive
$50,00 per borrower. Biden, however, said he’d be “unlikely” to cancel
$50,000 for student loan debt for all borrowers on his own.

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(1/22) opinion piece, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Sen.
Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) write call on the Biden Administration “to
immediately cancel up to $50,000 in federal student loan debt.” They argue
student loan debt “affects more older Americans than you might think.”
According to the AARP, “in 2004 adults aged 50 and older accounted for $47
billion of student loan debt, but by 2018, that figure had skyrocketed to
$289.5 billion.” Warren and Schumer conclude, “No older person should have
to make life-altering decisions between paying their student loan payment,
putting food on the table, or keeping themselves and their families safe
and healthy, especially during this public health crisis.”
Manufacturing Recovery Causing Delays In Supply Chain

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(1/24, Tita, Subscription Publication) reports that with things like
vacations and dinners out curtailed, consumers have been spending on
appliances, home improvements, and cars. As a result of the
faster-than-anticipated recovery in manufacturing, the demand for
commodities used in such products has increased and is resulting in
disruptions in manufacturers’ supply chains.
Shift In Spending During Pandemic Disrupted Global Supply Chain

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(1/24, Lynch) reports that a year after “the coronavirus pandemic first
disrupted global supply chains by closing Chinese factories, fresh shipping
headaches are delaying U.S. farm exports, crimping domestic manufacturing
and threatening higher prices for American consumers.” According to the
Freightos Baltic Index, “the cost of shipping a container of goods has
risen by 80 percent since early November and has nearly tripled over the
past year.” The increase “reflects dramatic shifts in consumption during
the pandemic, as consumers redirect money they once spent at restaurants or
movie theaters to the purchase of record amounts of imported clothing,
computers, furniture and other goods.” The “unprecedented spending shift
has upended long-standing trade patterns, causing bottlenecks from the
gates of Chinese factories to the doorsteps of U.S. homes.”
Also in the News
Rejoining The Paris Agreement Helps Vulnerable Communities

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(1/22, Bazilian, Niemeier, Carr, Ebi, Meier), five scholars discuss what
the US rejoining the Paris Agreement “means for the nation and the rest of
the world, and for food security, safety and the future warming of the
planet.” Deb Niemeier, a professor of civil and environmental engineering
at University of Maryland, said the “future of humanity has always been
intertwined with that of the natural world. Today, however, people have an
outsize influence that comes in part from years of burning fossil fuels and
other activities that influence the climate.” As a result of climate
change, coastal communities face “more frequent flooding” and Western
wildfire seasons last longer. In addition, the National Climate Assessment
has shown “how extreme storms and health- and crop-harming heat waves will
become more common as global temperatures rise.” To Niemeier, the Paris
Agreement “motivates countries to start the hard work of reducing
greenhouse gas emissions to lower the underlying risk.”
Friday's Lead Stories

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