Research Subcommittee Chair’s Breakfast Meeting Tampa, Summer

Research Subcommittee Chair’s Breakfast Meeting Tampa, Summer 2023 Omar Abdelaziz Chair, Research Administration Committee TAMPA

RAC Activity 0 Research Topic Acceptance Requests (RTAR) 6 Work Statements 1 Accepted with comments 5 Returned 4 Contractor Selections for 4 Projects

RAC Membership for SY 22-23 Leadership Chair: Omar Abdelaziz** Vice-Chair: William Murphy RPS Chair: Jin Wen RAS Chair: Natascha Milesi-Ferretti Liaisons Section 1: Ahmed Kashef** Section 6: Stefan Elbel Section 2: William Hutzel** Section 7: James Bogart Section 3: Chee Sheng Ow** Section 8: Carl Huber Section 4: Dennis Landsberg Section 9: Roland Charneux Section 5: Douglas Scott Section 10: Lorenzo Cremaschi**

New RAC Members RAC Welcomes new RLs: Dr Chris M Gray Dr Srinivas Katipamula Mr Matthew E Mullen Mr WenBin Ng Dr Zheng O'Neill

Awards RAC administers five awards and grants: Grant in Aid New Investigator Award Homer Addams Award Service to ASHRAE Research - "WE NEED NOMINATIONS" Innovative Research Grant

Grant In Aid Purpose: To acknowledge graduate students researching ASHRAE related technology, and welcome them into the society Up to 10,000 plus additional 1500 for paper presentation Received 43 applications and selected top 20 candidates during spring meeting 2023 Recipients Ahn Jounghwan Justin Berquist Erin Blackley Amirhossein Eisapour William Hobson Jinglin Jiang Yidan Cui Hashani De Silva Guowen Li Jiacheng Ma Andre Markus Saba Shahvari Seongjun Park Satya Sundar Patra Elias Pergantis Mostafa Saad Brett Stinson Casey Troxler Shenbo Zhang Xi Zhao

Recent Budget Impacts Total Annual RAC expenditures by society year SY 2019-20 SY 2020-21 SY 2021-22 SY 2022-23 5.0M 4.9 M 5.0.M 5.5 M We now feel comfortable removing budget restrictions from the research expenditures. RAC funding approval limit has been increased from 250K to 350k due to inflation pressures post-CoVID19.

Budget- Why 350k? 2 yearExperimental Project Professional Salaries ( Fringes Benefits) (1 month per year) Student Research Assistant ( Fringes Benefits Tuitions) (12 months per year, 20 hours per week) duration 3 year-duration 30-50k 45-75k 100-140k 150-200k Modifications and Upgrades Facility 12k 12k Material, Supplies, Consumables 15k 22k Travel & Communications 6k 9k Total Direct Costs 200k 295k Indirect Costs and Overheads 100k 150k TOTAL 250 - 330k 350 - 450k

Salary Increase Mechanical Engineer - Base Annual Salary Mechanical Engineers 102,000 100,000 98,000 96,000 94,000 92,000 90,000 88,000 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 YEAR 2021 2022 2023 2024

New Investigator Award Purpose: To enhance careers of new ( 5y) faculty members and promote research related to ASHRAEs goals Highly competitive award based on teaching and research accomplishments and plans Award up to 125k over 3 years to support research 10 applications reviewed during winter meeting. 2023 New Investigator Award: Dr. Davide Ziviani Purdue University Novel electrochemical heat pumping concepts

Service to ASHRAE Research Recognizes individual for excellence in volunteer service to Society Research Nominated by TC/TG Chairs Key dates: - Submission deadline is September 1, 2023 - RAC reviews and selects awardee during the Fall - Winner announced during winter meeting

Training Project Monitoring Subcommittee (PMS) Training required for all new PMS members Next session will be held in July/August – stay tuned

Funded Publications - Background Research funds to support special publications that increase the effectiveness of ASHRAE research - Approximately 10% of the research budget Design guides and manuals that support ASHRAE’s goals - Efforts considered where commercial need exists and too much effort for volunteers May be used for new publications of updates to existing ones

Funded Publications - Process RAC has funded this type of effort in the past using existing processes, but we are launching a new process to address a growing need RAC is structured to administer projects such as this, but Publications Committee has the expertise needed to ensure value to the society We are launching a new process better suited to this type of project

Publication Topic Acceptance Request (PTAR) Similar to the RTAR for research projects, but addresses issues relevant to publication efforts Key differences: PTAR Publication Need Target Audience Why funded effort vs. volunteer RTAR Research Need Project Objectives Approach Relevance and Benefit to ASHRAE TC will fill out and submit PTAR form to MORTS

PTAR Process TC submits PTAR to MORTS Publications Committee confirms that it will be supported by ASHRAE and that audience is appropriate Publications committee forwards the PTAR and their conformation to RAC Unlike the RTAR stage, we cannot skip the PTAR since it will be used to coordinate efforts between RAC and Publications Committee PTAR reviewed by the Publications Committee to assess: - Background - Publication Need - Why this should be a paid effort

Work Statement for Publications (WSP) If Publications Committee approves and RAC concurs, the TC may prepare a Work Statement for Publications (WSP) Key difference between WSP and WS WSP WS Proposed Table of Contents Scope/Technical Approach WSPs will be reviewed by RAC to ensure that the publication project is biddable and that appropriate evaluation criteria is in place to use when comparing bids Current status –may accept more this way. If interested talk to liaison

ASHRAE’s Research Strategic Plan Identifies key research needs to develop standards, guidelines, best practices, and educational material - Guides TCs while developing research projects - Used by RAC to justify using ASHRAE funds Update Research Strategic Plan - Alignment with new ASHRAE Strategic Plan - Modern technical challenges

Thank You! RAC Members Research Subcommittee Chairs PES and PMS members Michael Vaughn Donna Daniel