2009 ANNUAL MEETINGArlington, Virginia

INDUSTRY / UNIVERSITY COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTERS PROGRAM

Closing Session:

Review & Open Forum

Eric Sundstrom, Facilitator

11:00 am - 12:00 noon Friday, January 9, 2009

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

PURPOSES OF THIS SESSION

• Identify valuable take-aways from the meeting:

- Technology applications & breakthroughs

- Innovations & best practices

- Ideas for networking & collaboration

- Tactics for managing in the recession…

• Hear reporters' reviews of concurrent sessions

• Take part in a stimulating, worthwhile dialogue

AGENDA

• Reporters' REVIEWS of concurrent sessions:

3 Take-aways + 1 Surprise, 1 slide, 3 minutes

• OPEN FORUM about

- Roundtable topics

- Points of interest

• Babu's parting words

• Ann Becker's closing announcements

• End at 12 noon - Leave Evaluation, get box lunch

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

• Research Planning & Decision-Making

• Meeting the Challenge of Self-Sufficiency

• Promoting I/UCRC Best Practices

• Operations Breakouts

• Evaluators' Breakouts

ROUNDTABLE TOPICS: TECHNOLOGY

• Advanced Electronics• Advanced Manufacturing • Advanced Materials• Biotechnology • Civil Infrastructure Systems• Information, Communication, and Computing• Energy & Environment• Fabrication & Processing • Health and Safety• System Design and Simulation

ROUNDTABLE TOPICS #2

• Multi-site Centers

• SBIR Membership / Mechanisms

• Recruiting: Surviving the Long Term

• International Ties and Supplemental Funding

• Surviving tough economic times

QUESTIONS FOR DIALOGUE

• What innovative Center practices have you

discovered at this year's meeting?

• What have you learned about tactics for

managing the economic recession at your

Center?

• What opportunities for your Center do you see

emerging in today's difficult economic times?

…Parting Words from Babu