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2016 ERC

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Craig Merlic

Improving Laboratory Safety and the Culture of Safety in Academic Laboratories American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Research Council March 9, 2016 Craig MerlicEarly Laboratory ConditionsModern Laboratory ConditionsDecember 29, 2008 Sheharbano Sangji Accident AftermathRepercussions across• UCLA campus• University of California system• Chemistry departments and universities nationwide• Federal agencies• Professional societies A very tragic accident that truly changed academic safety practices and the academic culture of safety UCLA ResponseUCLA initiated a wide array of changes and activities in response to theaccident, Cal

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2016 ERC

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Joseph Mait

UNCLASSIFIED Accelerating Innovation and Discovery at ARL and Beyond Dr. Joseph Mait Chief Scientist U.S. Army Research LaboratoryUNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces UNCLASSIFIED U.S. Army Research Laboratory Vision The Nation’s Premier Laboratory for Land Forces. Mission DISCOVER, INNOVATE, and TRANSITION Science and Technology to ensure dominant strategic land power Making today’s Army and the next Army obsoleteUNCLASSIFIED The Nation’s Premier

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2016 ERC

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Douglas Friedman

Safe Science: Promoting a Culture of Safety in WATERAcademic Chemical SCIENCE AND Research TECHNOLOGY BOARD Douglas Friedman Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology Briefing to the ASEE National Meeting of Engineering Research Deans BOARD ON CHEMICAL SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY March 9, 2016 The Task at Hand• Examine laboratory safety in chemical research in non- industrial settings.• Compare practices and attitudes in these settings with knowledge about promoting safe practices from the

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2016 ERC

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Jagannathan Sankar

“Sustainable Infrastructure” Physical Infrastructure Human (Scientists) Infrastructure Intellectual InfrastructureNext Generation Workforce Development InfrastructureNSF-ERC for Revolutionizing Metallic Biomaterials A Foundation for Partnership and InnovationInterconnected Ecosystem • Pulsed Laser Deposition Facility 25,000sq.ft • • Coatings Synthesis Laboratory Bio/Polymer Laboratory Space • • Materials Processing and Sample Preparation Laboratory Microscopy and Surface Analysis Facility

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2016 ERC

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Andrew Szmerekovsky

. 1AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY (AFRL) The Air Force’s Corporate Research and Development Laboratory AFOSR Basic Research: Hypersonics Future Future Breakthrough Bio-Inspired Breakthrough HSSW Additive 3D Microstructure Manufacturing GOTCHA ANGELS AFOSR Flexible Hybrid

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2016 ERC

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Bill Drummer

IncidentsDecember 2008: Sheri Sangji lost January 2010: Two graduate April 2011: Michele Dufault lost herher life due to burns sustained students sustained injuries due to an life when her hair got caught in awhile working with t-butyl lithium. explosion in a chemistry laboratory at lathe at a chemistry lab machineHer PI has been indicted. Texas Tech University. shop at Yale.Root Cause: Lack of training, PPE, Root Cause: Lack of PPE, safety Root Cause: Lack of safeguardssafe operating procedure and procedures, pre-task analysis and on lathe and no safe operatingoversight oversight procedure

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2016 ERC

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Belinda Hurley

. … The publisher has agreements with certain funding agencies that may permit shorter embargo periods and/or different sharing guidelines. SHERPA/RoMEO: user-friendly site for embargo info http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/index.php 9Many plans will require authors to use an ORCiD during submission. Open Researcher and Contributor iD • provides a registry of unique researcher identifiers (numbers) and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers • non-profit, community based effort • individual researchers, universities, national laboratories, commercial research

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2016 ERC

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Lawrence Schuette

ONR Locations ONR ONR CHICAGO ONR SEATTLE BOSTON NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY HQ - D.C. PMR-51 HQ OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH HQNRL - MONTEREY

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2016 ERC

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Kei Koizumi

through innovation• Moves toward cleaner American energy• Takes action on climate change• Prepares students with STEM skillsInvesting in R&D• $72.4 billion for non-defense R&D.• $80.0 billion for defense R&D.• $72.8 billion for (basic and applied) research.• $8.0 billion for the National Science Foundation (NSF).• $5.7 billion for the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science.• $826 million for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) laboratories.• $19.0 billion for NASA.• $700 million for U.S. Department of Agriculture competitively- awarded extramural research grants in the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative. R&D in the President’s 2017 Budget(budget authority in FY 2015 Actual FY 2016 Enacted FY