Univers Condensed Bold Oblique 30 Points

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GEAEs USA Program
GE Aircraft Engines University Strategic Alliance
(USA) Initiative
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Objective of the USA Program
GEAEs USA Program
Develop Teaming Relationships and Strong
Interaction with Key Universities to

• Concentrate academic expertise on solving issues
  of critical technical importance to GEAE business
  needs

• Develop Resource for Global (PTC) Outsourcing
• Advance GEAE State-of-the-Art
• Promote technology transition
• Provide channel for employing top-quality
  students
• Promote scholarship Enhance Engineering
  Education

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GEAEs USA Program
Features of the USA Program

• Incorporates university research into
  GEAEstechnology roadmaps (i.e. business
  strategy)
• Focuses on a few key universities
• Provides long-term, formal, rolling, five-year
  commitment protection for graduate students
• Provides sufficient funding to have critical
  mass at university
• Provides reasonable (but some restriction to)
• Academic freedom
• Protection of intellectual property rights
• Publication opportunity

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GEAEs USA Program
Criteria for Selecting Universities

• Critical mass of professional staff students
• Well-connected with industry
• Interested in our problems
• Expertise
• Renowned leadership in technical area of interest
• Produced (demonstrated) results

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Benefits for GEAE
GEAEs USA Program

• Builds critical-mass research teams for each
  vital technology area
• Provides privileged access to university
  intellectual capability
• Concentrates research at university COEs
• Builds resource for global outsourcing
• Provides channel for employing top-quality
  students
• Enhances GEs ability to attract government
  research funds
• Allows technology advancement in downsized times

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Benefits for Universities
GEAEs USA Program

• Provides challenging, practical MS PhD
  research projects with student pipeline
• Provides long-term commitment, improved
  financial base with protection of grad
  students tenure
• Allows access to GEAE technology base
• Enhances ability to attract/retain faculty and
  students
• Provides opportunity for close working
  relationship with GEAE technologists
• Enhances ability to attract more research funds
• Provides opportunity for sabbaticals at GEAE

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Benefits for the State of Ohio
GEAEs USA Program
For USA Member Universities in Ohio

• Promotes synergy between Ohios universities and
  Ohios largest air-transportation employer
• Keeps researchers employed in Ohio for tax base
• Improves Ohios technology base
• Can attract additional research grants to Ohio

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USA is Resource for Global Outsourcing
GEAEs USA Program

• Highly educated talent
• Already familiar with GEAE issues
• Existing high-quality experimental and/or
  computational capacity for working select issues
• Cost-effective Centers of Excellence

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GEAEs USA Program
Areas of Tough Negotiation with Universities

• Intellectual Property Rights
• Publication Rights
• Royalties Licensing Fees
• Proprietary Information
• Patents
• Selection of Student Participants

Possible Barriers to Success

• Insufficient funding
• Lack of buy-in to new process
• Impatience with time needed to create synergy

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GEAEs USA Program
The Clash of the Titans
Huge Cultural Differences between Industrial and
University Objectives
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GEAEs USA Program
Areas of Tough Negotiation with Universities
Intellectual Property Rights
IP ownership, use rights is single
greatestimpediment to reaching contract
agreement - 1980 Bayh-Dole Act (P.L.
96-517) - Lack of facing our competitive
issues
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GEAEs USA Program
Areas of Tough Negotiation with Universities
Publication Rights
GEAE encourages publication PROVIDED

• Proprietary Information (PI) is protected
  (our PI or the PI findings of program)
  - Removal - Sanitized - Defer
  till patent filing
• We have review rights

Clashes with Unfettered concept
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GEAEs USA Program
Areas of Tough Negotiation with Universities
Royalties Licensing Fees

• GEAE will not pay royalties
• Wont pay to use something we paid to create
  and patent
• Too complex to sort out contribution percentage
• Requires disclosure of GEAE financial PI

• GEAE will consider license fee
• Computer Programs developed at universities

Clashes with new gain universities see
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GEAEs USA Program
Areas of Tough Negotiation with Universities
Proprietary Information (PI)

• PI MUST BE PROTECTED - Case Closed
• Type of storage specified
• Length of time to be protected specified -
  5 to 10 years (long cycle-time business)
• Option to return PI before specified time
  - does not diminish obligation to protect

Clashes with university open research idea
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GEAEs USA Program
Areas of Tough Negotiation with Universities
Patents

• Joint ownership where joint invention
• Some type of one-time payment to
  inventor or university
• Exclusivity wrt to gas turbine business
  - Cant allow competitor to use what we
  paid to create

Clashes with new gain universities see
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GEAEs USA Program
Areas of Tough Negotiation with Universities
Selection of Student Participants

• GEAE / University mutually agree
• on students assigned to USA Program
• Only USA citizens or Green Cards
• No competitors
• No dummies

USA program students guaranteed full financial
support until graduation even ifprogram
terminated
Clashes with university cant restrict on
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GEAEs USA Program
Resulting Effects of these Issues

• Difficult to achieve Win-Win situation
• Forcing us to go overseas

Quality extent of USA participation inversely
proportional to how much we must give up
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Benchmarking from GB Project
GEAEs USA Program
Types of University Research Programs by Funding
Level

• 25K program - run a computer program, short
  test, say thanks
• 50K program - one PhD, very little faculty help,
  no equipment, one deliverable at end of program.
• 125K - 200K program - minimum-level good
  program, two PhDs, one faculty (part time).
  Produces a major finding with good interaction
  between students, faculty and sponsor.
• 400 -500K program - optimum-level program for
  critical mass - Two post-docs,
• Three to four senior PhDs and
• Two to three faculty (part-time)
• Generates leverage for negotiating department
  space and resources,
• Uses mature students, creates a pipeline of
  students and causes the faculty to be constantly
  thinking about the program.
• Larger than 500K programs - need ramp up time
  for staff, can cause inefficiencies if not
  managed well.

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GEAEs USA Program

• USA Programs now Underway

• Turbine Cooling and Heat Transfer CFD
• Ohio State
• Stanford
• Clemson (Significant Link to GEPS / Greenville)
• Aeromechanics
• Ohio State
• Duke
• Design for Six Sigma (Quality Initiatives)
• Stanford
• Compressors and CFD- Aachen University, Germany
  - (Link to GENP and U. Florence)
• Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH (In
  Progress)

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Sanitized Technology Roadmap Illustrating a New
Teaming Relationship
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XXXXXXXXX Program Strategy, Definition and
Tracking
Color Code GEAE GE CRD Stanford OSU Clemson

• Choose CFD Strategy
• (GEAE/CRD/Stanford, Clemson,OSU)
• Build/Inst. Rig Ohio State, Stanford

Validated Production Method (GEAE)
XXXXXXX Test Prediction
XXXXXXXX B.C.s

• Implement CFD Strategy
• (GEAE/Clemson/Stanford)
• Identify Needed Tests
• (GEAE/OSU/Stanford)
• Resolve Instru.Issues
• (GEAE/Stanford/OSU)

Validated Production Code - Includes XXXXXX -
Updated XXXXXX (GEAE/CRD/OSU/ Clemson/Stanford)

• Stationary Tests.
• (Stanford)
• Full Scale Rotating
• Ohio State

• Validated
• Unsteady
• XXX Model

XXXXX CFD Methodology

• XXXXXX Invest.
• (Clemson/Stanford)
• Unsteady Invest.
• (Clemson/OSU)

• XXXXX Model
• (GEAE/CRD/
• Clemson/Stanford)

• CFD Validated
• Film Cooling Method
• (Clemson)

Maturation Interim Milestone
XXXXXX Validation

• Understand
• Database
• (GEAE/CRD/Stanford)

• Execute Required Tests (Ohio State)
• - stationary
• - rotating

• Choose CFD Strategy
• Identify Needed Tests
• (GEAE/CRD/Stanford)

Validated Production Method (GEAE/ CRD/Stanford)
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GEAEs USA Program
For Your Consideration in Engineering Education

• Integrity
• Probabilistic vs Deterministic Thinking -
  reduce variation about the mean
• Globalization of Engineering -
  Multicultural thinking coordination -
  Outsourcing
• Knowledge management - One click away
  - Use of design analysis tools
• e-business

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GEAEs USA Program

• Contact Person for
• GEAE University Strategic Alliance (USA)
• Initiative

Dr. David C. Wisler, Manager University
Programs GE Aircraft Engines Mail Drop A411 One
Neumann Way Cincinnati OH. 45215 Phone
513-243-2905 Fax [phone] Dial Com
8-332-2905 dave.wisler_at_ae.ge.com