The voting ERC representative of the member institution is determined by the dean or chief academic officer of the College of Engineering. D.C. The ERC holds an annual Business Meeting at the site of the ASEE Annual Meeting, and all ERC representatives are encouraged to attend. The ERC annually organizes a number of meetings to meet the needs of ASEE members for timely information on research and research administration. The ERC annually organizes an ERC Forum for presentation of information on research funding opportunities with federal agencies, industrial consortia and foundations. All participating ERC members are invited to attend or send other participants from their organization.
Attendance is open to the research community.
The ERC annually organizes an ERC Workshop for presentation of information on the administration of research. The ERC selectively schedules an ERC Summit in conjunction with the ERC Forum and Workshop to explore the strategic direction of the ERC and to gather input as appropriate from the ERC membership on activities which can best support their aspirations. The ERC plans and implements session at the ASEE Annual Meeting, usually held early in the summer, with a focus on research or research administration. Typical speakers in ERC sessions include program officers from federal agencies, technical and program managers from industry and program officers from foundations which support engineering research. The ERC webmaster maintains a webpage with information on past and planned activities of the ERC and includes links to agencies and foundations which support engineering and applied science research.