KWiSE Southeastern Chapter
3rd Annual Conference

Hyatt Place in Duluth/Gwinnett Mall

April 20, 2013

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Organizing Committee: President: Dr. Cathy Lee
Vice-President: Dr. Sunyoung Cho
Secretary: Dr. Sung-sil Moon

Keynote Address: Prof. Chong Hyun Shin
(Assistant Professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta)

Topic: Hepatopancreatic Programming/Reprogramming in a Zebrafish Model System

Scientific Research Presentation in Science

Speaker 1: Dr. Mikyong Shin
(Epidemiologist at CDC, Atlanta)
Topic: Prevalence and Survival among Children with Down syndrome in 10 Regions of the United States

Speaker 2: Dr. Jeong-ha Oh
(Assistant Professor at Georgia State University, Atlanta)
Topic: Quicker and Sicker? Length of Stay, Readmission Risk, and the Role of Health IT

Scientific Research Presentation in Engineering

Speaker 1: Ms, Hyunju Jeong
(PhD. Candidate at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta)
Topic: Comparison of Low-Impact Development (LID) Technologies for Eleven Residential Community Types

Speaker 2: Dr. Yoon Duk Kim
(Assistant Professor at Georgia Perimeter College, Atlanta)
Topic: Analytical Assessment of the Strength of Steel Truss Bridge Gusset Plates

Speaker 3: Dr. Christy Mihyeon Jeon
(Transportation Engineer at Parsons, Atlanta)
Topic: Sustainability Assessment at the Transportation Planning Level: Performance Measures and Indexes

Positive Outcome:

• 5 new KWiSE member registration

• New agenda for 2013 Fall Conference

• Possible enrollment of new KWiSE members in 2013 (By the attendee’s confirmation of sharing their experiences of participating in the successes of 2012 2nd Annual Conference. Mainly sharing of the opportunities of research interests and networking and mentoring by the postdoctors, junior and senior scientists or professors)

• Recommend candidates for new administration of the period of July 2014 – June 2015.