Effective Community-University-Industry Collaboration Models for Smart and Connected Communities Research

1. EffectiveCommunity-University-Industry Collaboration Models for Smart and Connected Communities Research November 30 – December 1, 2017

2. Creating Successful Socio-Technical Research Collaborations Dr. Farrah G. Cambrice Prairie View A&M University

3. Research Collaborations • New Orleans ULTRA-Ex • Multi disciplinary/Representation from multiple universities • Funded jointly by National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service • SCC Planning : Smart and Connected Rural Communities • Multi disciplinary • Funded by the National Science Foundation

4. Literature on research collaborations • Bennet, L. Michelle, Howard Gadlin and Samantha Levine-Finley. 2010. Collaboration and Team Science: A Field Guide. • Bililign, Solomon. 2013. The Need for Interdisciplinary Research and Education for Sustainable Human Development to Deal with Global Challenges. • Reflecting on my collaborations . . .

5. 1. There was a clear understanding/appreciation of what a social scientist could bring to the table • Range of Methods • Field Research • Interviews/Focus Groups • Archival Research • Case Study Research • Interest in social inequality, community building and disaster

6. 2. There were opportunities for meaningful contributions throughout all phases of the project • Planning • Involvement and attendance in weekly meetings • Grant writing and submission • Execution • Data collection and analysis • Disseminating Findings • Publications • Conference presentations • Introducing the research to a wider audiences (e.g. interdisciplinary conferences, class talks, and workshops)

7. 3. Provided opportunities for additional collaborations and professional development • Opportunity to develop networks for future collaborations • Opportunity to learn new skills • Opportunity to develop information for courses and curriculum • Opportunity to expose students to research

8. SUSTAINABLE URBAN SYSTEMS – AN INTERDISCIPLINARY CHALLENGE Ulrike Passe, Associate Professor of Architecture, Director Center for Building Energy Research, Iowa State University Architecture Human Factors Community Engagement Social Sciences English Engineering Data Science Meteorology Agronomy Community and Regional Planning

9. . ‘…a passageway, which leads from the exact sciences to the arts and humanities. While both seek to explain the world with their own methods, they are turning their backs to each other.’ The shipping passage in the North of Canada connecting the Atlantic and the Pacific serves as a metaphor for the complex thought space linking, connecting and dividing these two explanations of the world. This metaphor is dealing with the connection of places, which seemingly are separate: rigidness and fantasy, myths and exactness, quantitative and qualitative knowledge. As the passage through the eternal ice, this path exist, but is constantly changing in time and space, its boundaries are volatile due to changing border conditions. LE PASSAGE DU NORD OUEST (Michel Serres, Paris 1980 ) Detail of 1765 de l'Isleglobe Minnesota Historical Society

10. DESIGN AS PassagesDATA – PERCEPTIONPERFORMANCENARRATIVE – POLICYSTORYTELLINGAtmosphere – typologySPATIAL PROPORTIONSTECHNOLOGY –BEHAVIOR

11. ABM Urban Energy Model Community / People Data INTEGRATION OF MODELS

12. Fostering Socio-Technical Collaborations in Academia VenkiUddameri, Ph.D., P.E. Department of Civil, Environmental and Construction Engineering TTU Water Resources Center Lubbock, TX 79409 Email: venki.uddameri@ttu.edu PANEL: Building Socio-Technical Collaborations in Academia

13. Background • Research Focus is on Water Resources in Arid and Semi-Arid Rural Areas • Heterogeneous Population Distribution • Competition for water is high between Food and Energy Sectors • Implications for Nation’s food security and Energy Independence • Water problems cannot be solved by either technical or social perspectives • Both have to be integrated • Concept of Adaptive Resilience Creating Interdisciplinary Teams to Solve Water Problems

14. Water For Food, Energy and Resources (WAFERs) • An Multidisciplinary Cluster at Texas Tech University focused on water issues • Spans across 4 colleges and several departments • College of Engineering – Civil, Computer Science, Electrical, Chemical • Arts and Sciences – Climate Science, Political Science, Sociology, Geosciences • Agriculture – Plant and Soil Science, Ag. Communication, Ag. Economics • Media and Communication – Marketing, Media Messaging • Every one studies water issues but through their own lens How do we move multidisciplinary effort to interdisciplinary efforts?

15. Challenges and Opportunities • Creating avenues for understanding each other disciplines • Seminar series, informal work groups • Start young – mentor and include Asst. professors and post-docs • Ask academics to think how to connect disparate disciplines • University-level seed funding • Require interdisciplinary teams with social scientists • Move from minimalist connections to facilitating proactive thinking • Is it enough if we collaborate with 1 group (where we are already collaborating) • Reduce qualitative vs Quantitative biases that exist in the academy • Social sciences should be easy because anyone can read and understand what is going on • Engineers and scintists are not interested in solving real-world complex challenges • Use community stakeholders to foster interdisciplinary collaborations • Smart-meters and sensors • City managers and leaders asking for help across discipliens

16. Thoughts for Discussion • Need for champions • Institutional support and commitment • Tenure and Promotion • Resources for interdisciplinary research • Are we giving away our resources • How can we create shared learning and collaborative platforms • Fight our own biases created through our silo-specific training • How to reduce this in training future generations of academics • Feedbacks from community to break the barriers