October 1-4, 2003
The Alliance met at the 2003 BMES Annual Fall Meeting held October 1-4, 2003 at the Renaissance Nashville Hotel, Nashville, TN.
October 1 – Full-day Working Group meeting (see agenda below)
October 2 – John Abele speaking on “Innovation, Design & Entrepreneurship” at the plenary session
October 2 – Presentation on the Working Group initiatives at an education session.
Working Group Meeting Agenda
7.30–8.00 Continental Breakfast
8.00–8.15 Welcome, Meeting Goals and Overview (Paul King & Paul Yock)
8.15–10.15 Program Snapshots
| University | Speaker | Slides? | Audio? |
| University of Alabama, Birmingham | Alan Eberhardt | slides | audio |
| Binghamton University | Kenneth J. McLeod | slides | audio |
| Boston University | Kenneth R. Lutchen | slides | audio |
| Bucknell University | Daniel P. Cavanagh | slides | audio |
| University of California, Irvine | Andrew Putnam | slides | |
| University of California, San Diego | Shu Chien | slides | audio |
| Carnegie Mellon University | James Antaki | slides | audio |
| Duke University | Larry Bohs | slides | audio |
| Illinois Institute of Technology | Viji Balasubramanian | slides | audio |
| Johns Hopkins University | Robert Allen | slides | audio |
| Lehigh University | Svetlana Tatic-Lucic | slides | audio |
| North Carolina State University | Frank Abrams | slides | audio |
| Purdue University | Ann Rundell | slides | audio |
| Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology | Rick Stamper | slides | audio |
| Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | Prabhas Moghe | slides | audio |
| Texas A&M University | William Hyman | slides | audio |
| Tulane University | Richard Hart | slides | audio |
| University of Miami | Peter Tarjan | slides | audio |
| University of Iowa | Krishnan B. Chandran | slides | audio |
| University of Pittsburgh | Harvey S. Borovetz | slides | audio |
| Washington University, St. Louis | Joseph W. Klaesner | slides | audio |
| Western New England College | Steven Schreiner | slides | audio |
10.15–10.30 Break
10.30–12.00 Breakout planning sessions
- BME national design contest (Jay Goldberg, Phil Weilerstein)
- BME design portal (Paul Yock, Christine Kurihara)
12.00–1.15 Lunch
1.30–3.00 Panel: New approaches for industry interface in teaching of BME innovation, design & entrepreneurship(Jack Linehan, John Abele, Dawn Applegate, Arthur Coury
3.00–3.30 Report out and discussion: BME national design contest
3.30–3.45 Break
3:45–4.15 Report out and discussion: BME design portal
4.15–5.00 Wrap-up discussion: strategies for moving forward
5.15 Reception