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GE Aircraft Engines
University Strategic Alliance (USA)
Initiative

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Objective of the USA Program
Develop “Teaming” Relationships and Strong
Interaction with Key Universities to:
•• Concentrate
Concentrate academic
academic expertise
expertise on
on solving
solving issues
issues of
of
critical
critical technical
technical importance
importance to
to GEAE
GEAE business
business needs
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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Features of the USA Program
• Incorporates university research into GEAE’s
technology 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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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
• Builds critical-mass research teams for each vital
technology area
• Provides privileged access to university intellectual
capability
• Concentrates research at university COE’s
• Builds resource for global outsourcing
• Provides channel for employing top-quality students
• Enhances GE’s ability to attract government research
funds
• Allows technology advancement in downsized times

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Benefits for Universities
• Provides challenging, practical MS & PhD research
projects with student pipeline
• Provides long-term commitment, improved financial
base with protection of grad student’s 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

For USA Member Universities in Ohio

• Promotes synergy between Ohio’s universities and

Ohio’s largest air-transportation employer
- Keeps researchers employed in Ohio for tax base
- Improves Ohio’s technology base

• Can attract additional research grants to Ohio

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USA is Resource for Global Outsourcing

• 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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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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The Clash of the Titans

Huge Cultural Differences between

Industrial and University Objectives

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Areas of Tough Negotiation with Universities

Intellectual Property Rights

IP ownership, use & rights is single greatest

impediment to reaching contract agreement

- 1980 Bayh-Dole Act (P.L. 96-517)

- Lack of facing our competitive issues

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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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Areas of Tough Negotiation with Universities

Royalties & Licensing Fees

GEAE will not pay royalties *
• Won’t 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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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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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
- Can’t allow competitor to use
what we paid to create

* Clashes with new “$ gain” universities see

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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 if
program terminated
* Clashes with university “can’t restrict on …”
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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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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 PhD’s,
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 PhD’s 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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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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Color Code •Choose CFD Strategy
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GE CR&D Method (GEAE)

• Build/Inst. Rig Ohio State, Stanford
Stanford
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(GEAE/Clemson/Stanford) Validated Production Code
•Stationary Tests. - Includes XXXXXX
• Identify Needed Tests
(Stanford) - Updated XXXXXX
(GEAE/OSU/Stanford)
Full Scale Rotating (GEAE/CR&D/OSU/
• Resolve Instru.Issues
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(GEAE/Stanford/OSU)
• Validated
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•
Unsteady
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• XXXXXX Invest.
• CFD Validated • XXXXX Model

Film Cooling Method (Clemson/Stanford) (GEAE/CR&D/

(Clemson) • Unsteady Invest. Clemson/Stanford)
= Maturation (Clemson/OSU)
= Interim Milestone XXXXXX Validation

•Understand • Execute
• Choose CFD Strategy Validated Production
Database
• Identify Needed Tests Required Tests Method (GEAE/
(GEAE/CR&D
(GEAE/CR&D/Stanford) (Ohio State)
/Stanford) - stationary CR&D/Stanford)
- rotating
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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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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: 513-243-3254
Dial Com: 8-332-2905
dave.wisler@ae.ge.com

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