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Table of Contents

1. The Center for Friction Stir Processing
- 1.1 CFSP Vision Statement
- 1.2 CFSP Mission Statement
- 1.3 CFSP Research Objectives
- 1.4 CFSP Policies Procedures and Practices (P3)
  - 1.4.1 Membership Policy
  - 1.4.2 Industrial Advisory Board Policy
  - 1.4.3 Selection of Research Projects Policy
  - 1.4.4 Project Investigators Policy
  - 1.4.5 Regular Reports Policy
  - 1.4.6 Publication Policy
  - 1.4.7 Patent Policy
  - 1.4.8 Termination of Research Policy
- 1.5 Center Structure
  - 1.5.1 Overall Center Structure
  - 1.5.2 University Partner Structure
  - 1.5.3 Other Participants: NSF and Industry
- 1.6 CFSP Partner Site Outside Research – The SDSMT AMP Center
- 1.7 Electronic Resources
  - 1.7.1 Websites
  - 1.7.2 Databases
  - 1.7.3 Document Management Systems
- 1.8 Budgets and MIPR

2. Constituting the Center
- 2.1 Establishing a Center Vision and Mission
  - 2.1.1 Identifying Technology Development Needs of the Sponsors
  - 2.1.2 Preparing a Long-Term Technology Development Roadmap
  - 2.1.3 Identifying the Focus Research Areas For Each University Site
  - 2.1.4 Identification and Selection of Multi-Year Projects
- 2.2 Bylaws
  - 2.2.1 Procedures for Acceptance of New University Sites
  - 2.2.2 Procedures For Acceptance Of New Industry Memberships
- 2.3 Membership Agreements
- 2.4 Intellectual Property Agreements
  - 2.4.1 Protection of Proprietary Information
  - 2.4.2 Protection of ITAR/EAR Restricted Information
  - 2.4.3 Nondisclosure Agreements

3. Center Operations
- 3.1 Development of an Interactive Website
- 3.2 Common Searchable Database of Test Results
- 3.3 CFSP Document Management and Standardized Forms
  - 3.3.1CFSP Standardized Letter and Memo Format
  - 3.3.2 Quarterly Project Reports
  - 3.3.3 CFSP Annual Members Report
  - 3.3.4 Annual NSF IUCRC and Independent Evaluators Report
  - 3.3.5 Semi-Annual LIFE Form Response Report and Action Items
  - 3.3.6 Project IAB Workshop Presentations – Technical Review
  - 3.3.7 Project IAB Meeting Presentations – Management Review
  - 3.3.8 New Project Proposals
  - 3.3.9 IAB Action Item Lists
  - 3.3.10 IAB Meeting State of the Center Report
- 3.4 IAB Meeting - Workshop Posters
  - 3.4.1 IAB Meeting and Workshop Attendance Request and Registration Forms
  - 3.4.2 CFSP Membership Point of Contacts List
  - 3.4.3 CFSP Membership Agreements
  - 3.4.4 CFSP Non-Disclosure Agreements
- 3.5 Building a Website Based Reference Library
- 3.6 University Specific Documents
- 3.7 Identification of Supplemental Research Opportunities
- 3.8 Papers and Publications Review and Approval
- 3.9 CFSP University Site Individual Project Management
  - 3.9.1 Paperless Data Management System [PaDMS]
  - 3.9.2 Creating Projects in PaDMS
  - 3.9.3 Creating Tasks and Subtasks in PaDMS
  - 3.9.4 Creating Task and Subtask Work Orders
- 3.10 Standardized Final Work Order Laboratory Report
- 3.11 Weekly Meetings and Reporting
- 3.12 Naming Conventions
- 3.13 Social Events

4. Meetings
- 4.1 Semi-Annual Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) Meetings
  - 4.1.1 IAB Meeting Participants
  - 4.1.2 Setting the IAB Meeting Agenda
  - 4.1.3 Pre-IAB Meeting Technical Workshops
- 4.2 Presentations at IAB Management Review Meetings
  - 4.2.1 Management Review Presentations
  - 4.2.2 Management Review Meeting – Project LIFE Form Evaluations
  - 4.2.3 State of the Center Presentation
  - 4.2.4 Posters
- 4.3 Follow-Up from the IAB Meetings
  - 4.3.1 Action Items
  - 4.3.2 Annual IAB Members Report
- 4.4 Quarterly Meetings
- 4.5 Weekly Meetings
- 4.6 Summary of Standardized Management Tools and Procedures

5. Center Assessments
- 5.1 Annual NSF report
- 5.2 Monitoring center performance against “best practices” metrics
- 5.3 Annual members reports
- 5.4 Center Evaluator’s Report

Appendix A CFSP MEMBERSHIP AGREEMENT

Appendix B CFSP CENTER BYLAWS

Appendix C SDSMT MUTUAL NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

Appendix D CFSP PERSONAL NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT

Appendix E STANDARDIZED IAB INVITATION LETTER FORMAT

Appendix F CFSP IAB MEMBERSHIP POC LIST

Appendix G CFSP WEBSITE BASED REFERENCE LIBRARY

Appendix H AMP PAPERLESS DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM – (PADMS)

Appendix I AMP STANDARD TEST PLAN FORMAT

Appendix J AMP STANDARD LABORATORY REPORT FORMAT

Appendix K CFSP IAB Meeting Agenda

Appendix L IAB Annual Members Report – Executive Template

Appendix M IAB Annual Members Report – Technical Template

Appendix N IUCRC INDEPENDENT EVALUATOR INDUSTRY QUESTIONAIRE

Appendix O CFSP NSF Annual Report Format and Example

Appendix P CFSP External Evaluator Report Example

Appendix Q Examples of outputs of NCSU Spreadsheet

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