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By Tom Watkins Governor-elect Rick Snyder,


congratulations on your vic- tory! Welcome to the storm!


For the better part of the


last/lost decade, Michigan has reacted to change. It is now time to lead it.


A favorite saying of Chair-


man Mao, someone who led change in China during turbu- lent times, engendered both hope, fear and suffering: “The tree may prefer calm, but the wind will not subside.”


Clearly we do not want the


totalitarian tyranny of madness and misery Mao unleashed upon the people of China here in Michigan, but we do need revolutionary change in how government is organized and services are delivered. As can- didate Snyder proclaimed: “We need to reinvent Michigan.”


As an outsider with busi-


ness skills, Snyder is just what Michigan needs to chal- lenge the status quo and enact sensible reforms. Michigan can no longer afford to be the “pogo stick state,” jumping up and down without going any- where. As we have witnessed, lofty, whispering rhetoric does not create jobs.


The constant


winds of change Change has been blowing


over Michigan and will contin- ue to do so. Gov. Snyder and the newly elected legislature will soon be certain of what they clearly already know: the day of reckoning and avoiding change is here.


The new crop of legislators


must first address a budget hole of at least $1.6 billion dollars (I suspect it is sub- stantially higher) due to the current elected leaders’ use of budget gimmicks and one- time federal stimulus money. Rather than doing the heavy lifting that might have ad- dressed the longstanding structural budget mess, their failure will instead be their collective legacy.


THE MICHIGAN CHRONICLE Governor Snyder, lead change!


first and lost decade of the 21st century.


Together we are better


As the great Chinese phi-


losopher Lao Tsu once said, “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”


But fixing a broken state is Tom Watkins Gov. Snyder, don’t look to


the past to blame, instead look to the future and lead — and do so boldly.


Today the factory floor and


Main Street, which used to be right around the corner, now circles the globe. As governor, you need to tap these global and technology changes and make them work for our state.


The people of Michigan


need a government that works, lives within its means, and is ready to adopt the 3 R’s at all levels of government. They do not expect to be taxed out of the problems that previous elected leaders helped create.


Citizens are looking for


hope, vision, a plan, action and results.


Michigan’s new reality


Michigan was the place


that put the world on wheels, a place where one could leave high school with or without a diploma, and enter the factory gate to a middle-class life.


That was then. This is now.


Those days gone, never to return.


Let’s face Michigan’s new


reality. Without a solid educa- tion and skills, far too many will face a life without a decent paying job in a scarce job envi- ronment.


It is going to take years — if


not decades — to replace the nearly a million high-paying jobs that were lost during the


a long journey that our new governor cannot make alone. We all need to pull together for the common good with everyone rallying around our new governor, putting aside partisan barbs, and working to make him successful. If he fails, so too does our state and our collective futures.


Gov. Synder must build


upon his shared vision and common agenda that he began during his campaign and con- tinue during the transition. His inaugural address must call for sacrifice and change. Not simply dropping anchor in a safe harbor of the past, but setting sail for a reinvented and better Michigan — a new vision followed by action and results.


The winds will not subside


To paraphrase Mao, while


we may prefer calm, great leaders understand that the winds will not subside and we must set sail, in the midst of the storm, to reach our shared destination with all safely aboard.


It is time to pull up anchor


and lead change. We desper- ately need a leader who will deliver change and results.


Gov. Snyder, be bold and


lead! Tom Watkins is a business


and education consultant in the U.S. And China. He served as Michigan’s state super- intendent of schools, 2001- 2005, and was president and CEO of the Economic Council of Palm Beach County, Fla., 1996-2001. He can be reached at tdwatkins@aol.com.


NSF funds WSU researcher’s educational e-learning project for sustainable design and manufacturing


Kyoung-Yun Kim, PhD, as-


sistant professor in Wayne State University’s Department of Industrial and Manufactur- ing Engineering in the College of Engineering, has received a $250,000 Cyberinfrastruc- ture Training, Education, Ad- vancement and Mentoring (CI- TEAM) grant from the National Science Foundation. Kim will develop a collaborative e- learning platform to promote a more diverse, cyberinfrastruc- ture-savvy engineering work- force.


The Sustainable Product


Development Collaboratory will teach sustainability prin- ciples of product architectural design, manufacturing, as- sembly and supply chain de- cisions across a spectrum of active learners, including high school students, university students and practitioners.


“To date, there has been


a significant level of grass- roots activities for sustainable design and manufacturing,” said Kim. “However, engineer- ing programs and manufac- turing companies continue to struggle with methods to educate engineers in holistic product and process develop- ment with a view of life cycle


costs and environmental ef- fects.”


Existing educational meth-


ods do not capture the interde- pendencies between product design architecture and life cycle process requirements of product development. The pri- mary goal of this project is to overcome these limitations by incorporating scalable tools as well as flexible, represen- tative models and algorithms in a user-friendly, license-free Web-based tool.


Secondary and post-sec-


ondary educational materials will complement the collabo- ratory’s online tool by provid- ing users with a hands-on ap- proach to learning. The project will also consist of evaluation tools to calculate the educa- tional impacts of the collabo- ratory in educating students about cyberinfrastructure.


Kim seeks to engage high


school and underrepresent- ed college students to foster diversity in the science and engineering workforce. The use of tangible examples, like three-ring binders and their ef- fects on the environment and supply chain costs, are ex- pected to advance high school students’ multi-step problem-


solving skills. “This project will help to


develop, at a modest cost, new pedagogy for academic institu- tions to integrate sustainabil- ity into engineering curricula, and prepare a skilled work- force that meets the needs of modern industry for sustain- able product development,” Kim said.


Other researchers involved


in the project are Leslie Mon- plaisir, Ph., associate profes- sor of industrial and manufac- turing engineering in WSU’s College of Engineering; Ratna Chinnam, PhD, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering in WSU’s College of Engineering; Alper Murat, PhD, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at WSU’s College of Engineering; Karl Haapala, PhD, assistant professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Oregon State University; and Gul Kremer, PhD, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering at Pennsylvania State University.


For more information about


research at Wayne State Uni- versity, visit http://www.re- search.wayne.edu.


Our apartment homes aren’t the only things that look good from every angle.


November 10-16, 2010 AARP:


Helping to Fight Hunger in Our Community


By Karen Kafantaris AARP believes that no one,


of any age, should go hungry. Yet in Michigan, four million households live at risk of hunger.


According to a national


hunger study by Feeding Amer- ica, the number of individual emergency food recipients who receive food each week in Southeast Michigan grew from 56,700 recipients in 2006 to 101,200 in 2010 – a 78% in- crease.


The struggling economy cou-


pled with significant job loss has resulted in a growing number of families left to wonder where their next meal will come from.


A major consequence of the


increase is a dramatic rise in the number of individuals and families visiting food banks each week – and the ensuing stress on food banks to meet the new demand.


In an effort to address the


growing problem of hunger in our community, AARP Michigan has proudly partnered with Wayne State University and For- gotten Harvest for a community- wide Thanksgiving Food Drive, Nov. 8-18.


Help us fight hunger in our


community by making a food donation at any of the drop- off sites listed at www.wayne. edu/fooddrive or organizing a food drive of your own in your workplace, church, community, school or social group.


For an easy, step-by-step food drive toolkit, visit www.Crea- teTheGood.org/hunger. Food items you collect can also be brought to Wayne State Univer- sity’s Adams Field, 1401 Edsel Ford, Detroit, on Nov. 18 be- tween 7 a.m. and 6 p.m.


Our goal this year is to col-


lect enough food to feed 300 households (families of four) for the Thanksgiving week.


Together, with your help, we


can reach this goal and feed the many Southeast Michigan house- holds at risk of hunger.


To learn more about the AARP


Michigan Thanksgiving Food Drive or to volunteer, call 1-866- 227-7448 or visit www.wayne. edu/fooddrive.


Karen Kafantaris is the asso-


ciate state director of Livable Communities and Community Service for AARP Michigan.


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