115th Congress Events
2017 Events (click here to go below to 2018 Events)
Improving the Energy Productivity and Competitiveness of U.S. Manufacturers
(January 24, 2017)
Moderated by AMO Director, Dr. Mark Johnson
Representatives Tim Ryan (Ohio) and Tom Reed (NY), invited
Panelists:
- Larry Kavanagh, Steel Market Development Institute "High Performance Computing Applications in Steel"
- Bryan P. Rasmussen, Ph.D., P.E., Texas A&M "The US Dept. of Energy Industrial Assessment Center program”
- Richard Neff, Cincinnati, Inc. “AMO Helps 118 Year Old Machinery Company, Cincinnati Incorporated, Develop the Biggest and Best 3D Printer in the World, BAAM”
- Chris Kaffer, Ph.D., Mallinda “How the DOE and Cyclotron Road Advance US Hard Technology Development”
- Steven Betza, Lockheed Martin "The Business Value of Manufacturing USA"
What Should the Trump Administration’s Manufacturing Strategy Look Like?
(January 31, 2017)
- Congresman Tom Reed, Co-Chair, Manufacturing Caucus
- Congressman Tim Ryan, Co-Chair, Manufacturing Caucus
- Robert Atkinson, President, ITIF, "What Should the Trump Administration’s Manufacturing Strategy Look Like?"
- Kelly Marchese, Principal, Supply Chain Strategy, Deloitte, "Third Party Evaluation of Manufacturing USA"
- Sree Ramsawamy, Partner McKinsey Global Institute, "Manufacturing Trends in the United States"
- Cliff Waldman, Chief Economist, Manufacturers Alliance for Productivity and Innovation Foundation
Responding to Global Manufacturing Challenges: The Business Case for Manufacturing USA
(March 1, 2017)
Members Speaking Senator Chris Coons, Senator Dick Durbine, Representative Tim Ryan
Kelly Marchese, Principal, Deloitte, speaking about new report: “Manufacturing USA: A Third Party Evaluation of Program Design and Progress”
Panel:
- Moderator: Major General Nick Justice, Chair, Institute Directors Council and Executive Director, PowerAmerica, Raleigh, NC
- Caralynn Nowinski Collens, M.D., CEO, UI Labs, host of Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute, Chicago, IL
- Dr. Kelvin Lee, Director of Delaware Biotechnology Institute and Gore Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, DE
- Jorg Thommes, Senior Vice President at Visterra, formerly Senior Vice President at Biogen
- Raj Batra (invited), President of Siemens USA’s Digital Factory business
Engineering Technology Education in the United States
(March 9, 2017)
Introduction and Welcome Remarks
- Katharine Frase, NAE Committee Co-Chair and IBM Corp. (ret.)
- Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY), Co-Chair, House Manufacturing Caucus
- Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), Co-Chair, House Manufacturing Caucus
- Rep. Paul Tonko (D-NY)
Education and Employment Data
Key Findings and Recommendations
Industry Panel
- Werner Eikenbusch, NAE Committee and BMW
- Katharine Frase, NAE Committee Co-Chair and IBM Corp. (ret.)
Education Panel
- Jeffrey Ray, NAE Committee and Western Carolina State University
- Melvin Roberts, NAE Committee and Camden County College
Former Student Panel
A Congressional Roundtable Discussion with Members of the Manufacturing Caucus and the Forging Industry Association
(March 16, 2017)
Cybersecurity in Manufacturing
(April 12, 2017)
Panel
- Sridhar Kota – Exec. Director, MForesight: Alliance for Manufacturing Foresight
- Michael Russo, Chair of Executive Committee – MForesight; Corporate Lead – Govt. & Regulatory Affairs, Global Foundries
- Kevin Fu, Prof. of Electrical Eng. & Computer Science, University of Michigan;
- Kirk McConnell, Senate Armed Services Committee
‘Building America’s Skilled Technical Workforce’—A new report from the National Academies
(May 19, 2017)
Speakers:
- Prof. Harry Holzer, the John LaFarge Jr. Professor of Public Policy at Georgetown University
- Dr. Sujai Shivakumar, Director, Study on Supply Chain for Middle-Skill Jobs, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine
- https://www.nap.edu/catalog/23472/building-americas-skilled-technical-workforce
NIST Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP): Delivering Value to U.S. Manufacturers
(June 7, 2017)
Moderator: Karen Heins, Executive Director, Foundation for Manufactuuring Excellence
Invited Members of Congress:
- Senator Chris Coons (DE)
- Representatives Tom Reed (NY)
- Tim Ryan (OH)
- Robert Wittman (VA)
- Don Beyer (VA)
- Scott Taylor (VA)
- David Cicilline (RI)
- Robert Brady (PA)
Panelists:
- Randall Eberts, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research (economic impact of the MEP program)
- Christian Cowen, Director, Polaris MEP (Rhode Island); Chris Hogoboom, President, Goetz Composites, based in Bristol, RI (focus on workforce issues primarily)
- Joe Houldin, CEO, Pennsylvania MEP (DVIRC); Nick Hackett, President, New Way Air Bearings, based in Ashton, PA (focus on technology adoption)
- Bill Donohue, President, GENEDGE (Virginia); Gregory Glaros of Synexus, an advanced control technology business, based in northern Virginia; and Bart Heenan, owner of Morphix Technologies, based in Virginia Beach (focus on defense manufacturing and market diversification).
- Gregory Glagros, CEO, Synexus
- Bart Heenan, CEO and Chairman, Morphix Tech
Fighting for a High Wage America: Reinvesting in Innovation and the Industrial Heartland
(June 13, 2017)
Opening Remarks:
Speakers:
- Jeff Madrick, acclaimed author and economist, Director of TCF’s Bernard L. Schwartz Rediscovering Government Initiative
- Tom Croft, Executive Director of the Steel Valley Authority, Managing Director, Heartland Capital Strategies (HCS)
Panel Discussion:
- Amy Goldstein, award-winning journalist, the Washington Post, and author of “Janesville: An American Story”
- Fred Block, Professor of Sociology, University of California Davis
- Madeline Janis, Executive Director, Jobs to Move America
- Andrew Stettner, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation
Intellectual Property, Invention and Entrepreneurship: Driving Job Growth in America through Innovation
(June 15, 2017)
- Moderator: Dana Robert Colarulli, Director, Office of Government Affairs, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Department of Commerce
- Panel Discussion:
Ensuring American Manufacturing Leadership Through Next Generation Supply Chains
(July 18, 2017)
Report Overview: Mike Russo, Director, GLOBALFOUNDRIES
Panel Discussion:
- Susan Helper (Author) – Carlton Professor of Economics, Case Western Reserve University
- Thomas Mahoney (Author) – Associate Director, MForesight
- Bill Donohue – Director, Genedge (Virginia MEP)
- Scott Paul – President, Alliance for American Manufacturing
DOD’s Manufacturing Engineering Education Grant Program
(July 25, 2017)
Opening Remarks: (Invited)
- Senator Lindsey Graham, Senate Manufacturing Caucus, Majority (SC)
- Senator Jerry Moran, Senate Competitiveness Caucus, Majority (KS)
- Congressman Tom Reed, House Manufacturing Caucus, Majority (NY)
- Senator Debbie Stabenow, Senate Manufacturing Caucus, Minority (MI)
- Senator Chris Coons, Senate Competitiveness Caucus, Minority (DE)
- Congressman Tim Ryan, House Manufacturing Caucus, Minority (OH)
Welcome: Said Jahanmir, ASME President-nominee
Moderator: Tom Kurfess, ASME Manufacturing Public Policy Task Force. Co-Chair; Professor and HUSCO/Ramirez Distinguished Chair in Fluid Power and Motion Control, Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Tech; Former Assistant Director for Advanced Manufacturing at the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President of the United States of America
- Brennan Grignon, Program Director, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy, Department of Defense (DOD)
- Stephen Ezell, Director of Global Innovation Policy, ITIF (Information Technology and Innovation Foundation)
- Laurie Leshin, President, WPI (Worcester Polytechnic Institute)
- Laine Mears, Professor & BMW SmartState Chair of Automotive Manufacturing Clemson University
- Denise Peppard, Corporate Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer Northrop Grumman Corporation
Cybersecurity for Manufacturers: Securing the Digital and Connected Factory
(September 22, 2017)
ReportLaunchAnnouncement_Cybersecurity.pdf
Jim Davis, Vice Provost for Information Technology & Chief Academic Technology Officer, UCLA
David Vasko, Director of Advanced Technology, Rockwell Automation
Mike McGrath, Principal Consultant, McGrath Analytics LLC
Carol Hawk, Program Manager of Cyber Security for Energy Delivery Systems, Department of Energy
Donna Dodson, Chief Cybersecurity Advisor, NIST
Critical Role of Water for Manufacturing
(September 28, 2017)
Members invited
Rep. Tom Reed (NY), Rep. Tim Ryan (OH), Rep. Elizabeth Esty (CT), Rep. Tom O'Halleran (AZ),
Rep. Paul Gosar (AZ), Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ), Rep. Raul Grijalva (AZ), and Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (AZ)
Introductions
Andrew Bicos, Senior Legislative Fellow, Office of U.S. Congressman Reed
Congressman Tom O'Halleran (AZ-01)
Panelists
Moderator: Chuck Podolak, Professional Staff, U.S. Senator Flake (AZ)
Tim Finley, Global Water\Waste Water Technology Leader at Dow Chemical
Jon Freedman, Vice President - Global Partnerships & Policy at GE Water & Process Technologies
Steve Harper, Global Director, Environment, Energy and Sustainability Policy
Valri Lightner, Program Manager for R&D Consortia, Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Office
John Sabo, Professor and Director of Director of Future H2O at Arizona State University
Machine Learning and Making Things: How Artificial Intelligence Can Spur Growth in US Manufacturing and Enhance Workforce Development
(October 3, 2017)
Welcoming Remarks
Congressman Tom Reed, Co-Chair, House Manufacturing Caucus
Congressman Tim Ryan, Co-Chair, House Manufacturing Caucus
Introduction of Panel
James Garrett, Dean of Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Emerging Frontiers – Bringing Machine Learning to the Factory Floor
Stephen Biller, Chief Manufacturing Scientist, General Electric
Greg Mullholland, CEO, Citrine Informatics
Ensuring Continued US Leadership in Manufacturing Innovation
Elizabeth Holm, Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
Machine Learning and the Future of Manufacturing Skill Development
Erica Fuchs, Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, founding Faculty Director of Carnegie Mellon University’s Manufacturing Futures Initiative, Carnegie Mellon University
Chris Hoyt, Founder, Chief Financial Officer, Upskill
Advanced Gas Turbine Technologies – Ensuring America’s Strategic and Economic Competitiveness
(October 18, 2017)
Oct 18, 2017 Advanced Gas Turbines Invite.pdf
Welcome and Introduction
Said Jahanmir, ASME President-nominee
Overview of U.S. Leadership in Gas Turbine Technologies
Moderater: Mike Aller, Executive Director, Consortium for Advanced Production and Engineering of Gas Turbines and Rotating Machinery (CAPE) / Energy Florida
Guy DeLeonardo, Executive Product Manager, GE Power & Water and Chairman, Gas Turbine Association
Thomas Prete, Vice President, Engineering, Military Engines, Pratt & Whitney
Doug Rawlins, Manager, Technology Strategy, Solar Turbines
Dr. Timothy Lieuwen, Director, Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Institute
Dr. Karen Thole, Distinguished Professor and Department Head, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, Pennsylvania State University
Putting America to Work: Rail Manufacturing in the U. S.
(October 24, 2017)
Video of Panelist Presentations
Senate Competitiveness Caucus Co-Founder Senator Chris Coons (D-DE).
Moderator: Anne Canby, Director, OneRail; Speakers:
Robin Arthur Stimson, Vice President, Business Development, Passenger Rail Systems Mobility Division, Siemens;
Scott Sherin, Vice President, Marketing & Strategy, Alstom North America;
Charmin Tillman, Chief Marketing Officer, GE Transportation;
James A. Shirvinski, Senior Vice President of Engineering, Progress Rail
Supplying Ingenuity II: U.S. Suppliers of Key Clean Fuel-Efficient Vehicle Technologies
(November 2, 2017)
110217 DC Manuf Briefing vFINAL.pdf
Video of Panelist Presentations
Introductions by Andrew Bicos, ASME Legislative Fellow, Office of U.S. Congressman Reed.
Panelists:
• Moderator: Zoe Lipman, Director, Vehicles and Advanced Transportation Program, BlueGreen Alliance
• Laurie Holmes, Senior Director, Environmental Policy, Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association
• Josh Nassar, Legislative Director, United Auto Workers (UAW)
• John Thomas, Director, Global Marketing – Automotive, Arconic
• Luis Canales, Executive Director, Global Corporate Affairs, Nexteer
• Dan Boone, President, United Steelworkers (USW) Local 979
• Jack Hefner, President, USW Local 2
• Chris Miller, Executive Director, Advanced Engine Systems Institute (AESI)
Foreign-Trade Zones: An Effective Tool to Boost U.S. Manufacturing, Exports and Jobs
(November 14, 2017)
11-14-17 NAFTZ - House Manufacturing Caucus Briefing.pdf
Briefers:
Rebecca Williams – Chair of the NAFTZ Board of Directors and Managing Director of FTZ Services, Rockefeller Group Development Corp.
Erik Autor – NAFTZ President
Gail Morin – Director of Trade Compliance, Stanley Black & Decker
Shane Williams - Manager, FTZ & Economic Development, Port Houston
Trade, Technology and the Future of U.S. Manufacturing
(December 1, 2017)
Panel One: Past Trends, Current Conditions, and the Future of U.S. Manufacturing
Panel Two: Can Technology Revive U.S. Manufacturing?
2018 Events
How Manufacturing Incubators and Accelerators Are Powering Economic Growth Across The U.S.
(April 27, 2018)
Video of Panelists Presentations
MForesight: Grand Challenges in U.S. Manufacturing
(May 24, 2018)
Congressional Briefing and Report Release:
MANUFACTURING PROSPERITY
A comprehensive, long-term strategy for global leadership
REVITALIZING U.S. MANUFACTURING - The Reshoring Initiative
(June 8, 2018)
Bioengineering: A New Frontier in American Manufacturing
(June 14, 2018)
Manufacturing Communities: What is the Role of Local Governments in Attracting and Retaining a Community’s Manufacturing Investment and Jobs?
(June 19, 2018)
Is Our American Workforce Ready for 3D Print Manufacturing?
(July 12, 2018)
Video of Panelists' Discussion
Next Generation Materials for Manufacturing Competitiveness
(October 3, 2018)
Video of Panelists' Discussion
Revitalizing US Manufacturing
(December 11, 2018)
