Come join the first Section Signature talk in 2010! The speaker is Gordon Day, IEEE-USA 2009 president.
Abstract:
If innovation is the key to American
competitiveness and
prosperity in the 21st century, then engineering brain power is the
essential ingredient. Engineers create
jobs, perhaps more than any other profession.
Through the development of their ideas, existing companies grow and new
companies are born. This talk will
explore the public policy aspects of maintaining a vibrant engineering
workforce by examining five important questions: Who thinks we need
more (or fewer) engineers? What are the trends? Is the flat world a
threat, an opportunity,
or a strategy? If we need more
engineers, should we grow them or import them?
How do we show our children that engineers change the world?
Speaker Bio:
Gordon Day was the 2009 President of IEEE-USA, the unit of
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) that supports the career and public policy interests of 210,000
IEEE
members in the U.S. He is also a past president of the IEEE
Photonics Society, and a candidate for IEEE President-elect in the 2010
election. Day spent 33 years in research
and management at the National Institute of Standards and Technology,
Boulder, Colorado,
Laboratories, where he contributed to some of NIST’s best known research
in
optoelectronics. In 1994, he founded the
NIST Optoelectronics Division and guided it to an international
reputation for
measurements and standards. Since
retiring in 2003, he has served as a science advisor to Sen. Jay
Rockefeller
and as Director of Government Relations for the Optoelectronics Industry
Development Association. He is a Fellow
of the IEEE, the AAAS, the Optical Society of America, and the Institute
of
Physics (UK). He received a Ph.D. in
electrical engineering from the University
of Illinois.
Date:
2/18/2010, 5:30pm - 8:00pm.
Location:
Q-Auditorium Bldg Q, Qualcomm 6455 Lusk Blvd, San Diego, CA 92121.
Agenda:
5:30pm - 6:00pm Networking 6:00pm - 7:30pm Presentation and Q&A
Cost:
Free for IEEE member, $5 for non-IEEE member
RSVP:
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