82nd Annual National Technical Association Conference
"Diversifying the Labor Force to Innovate 2020 Technical Solutions"
September 8 - 10, 2010
Howard University, Blackburn Student Center 400 Bryant Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20059
Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson - Honorary Conference Chair Congresswoman Johnson is a senior member of the House Science and Technology Committee and she established a subcommittee in the Black Caucus for Diversity in Science and Technology
Call for Abstracts - Technical Symposium Presentations
NTA invites you to submit and present technical presentations at their annual conference. All abstract submissions must indicate the category to which their abstract is most relevant (and second choice, if appropriate). The categories are: Architecture, Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Information Science, Mathematics, Science, and Technology. Be sure to indicate any special media requirements at the time of abstract submission. Student presenters must indicate whether they are (at the time of the Conference) undergraduate or graduate students. Presentations should be prepared as PC-compatible MS Word or PowerPoint files, and on floppy disk, compact disk (CD), or USB flash drive. Presentation time is 15 minutes. The deadline for abstract submission is July 1, 2010. No abstracts for Conference presentation will be accepted after August 1, 2010. Abstracts should be emailed to the editor. George R. Carruthers, Editor george.carruthers@nrl.navy.mil
Call for Abstracts: Student Technical Symposium
NTA invites you to present papers, through submission of abstracts for our September 2010 Conference
All abstract submissions must indicate the category to which their abstract is most
relevant (and second choice, if appropriate).The categories are: Science, mathematics, science and technology.Be sure to indicate any special media requirements at the time of abstract submission.Student presenters must indicate whether, or not they are (at the time of the conference) undergraduate or graduate students.Presentations should be prepared as PC compatible MS word or power point files, and on a floppy disk, compact disk (CD), or USB flash drive (as appropriate).Presentation time is 15 minutes.
The deadline for abstract submission, for consideration for consideration for acceptance and inclusion in the Symposium Compendium, is July 1, 2010.Abstracts should be sent to the editor.Presentation time allowed (except for the specially invited presenters) is 15 minutes.No abstracts for Conference presentation will be accepted after August 1, 2010.Funds to support student travel expenses will be awarded based on availability and first come first serve basis.For more information regarding this, contact Dr. Oliver at (202) 575-4NTA.
The first six months of the fiscal year have been very busy. The NTA transition to its new list serv was completedat the end of January and the number of people on the list serv has doubled.
The NTA sphere of influence is growing.Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson has agreed to serve the Honorary Chair of the 82nd Annual Conference.Staffers of Congresswomen Barbara Lee of California and Martha Fudge of Ohio have agreed to support NTA in its mission and look forward to NTAs help withtechnical issues.All three Congresswomen have seats on the House of Representatives Science and Technology.It is a win win situation for everyone.
Knox Tull, CEO, Jackson and Tull, CharteredEngineers and long time NTA member, invited the organization to move its headquarters to his office at 2705 Bladensburg Rd., NE, Washington, DC. Also, he is providing two of his staffers, Lauren Summers and Allison Stouffer part-time to assist NTA.This is not the first time that Tull has been so generous.In the early 1990s, NTA shared space in his Alexandria Office. he NTA website has had a facelift. Its has a smart new look and is becoming more interactive. Membership and Conference registration applications can be completed and paid online.You can leave comments, as we develop our new look.NTA has also joined facebook to provide up to the minute information about the organization and events.
Lauren Summers and Allison Stouffer hard at work on the NTA Annual Conference
Membership increased 34% and continues to grow. It has been several years since the last NTA Journal was published.Plans torestart publishingare underway. Volunteers are needed for the Journal Committee. Anyone interested in volunteering should contact the editor, Dr. George Carruthers at george.carruthers@nrl.navy.mil.
Also, volunteers and historic materials are needed to help research and write the NTA story.Oral histories and reminisces of NTA will begin at the NTA Conference at Howard University where several of the early Presidents were key leaders in the development of the Engineering and Architecture Department.
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Call for Presenters Workshop Focused on Water, Technology and Ethics
In connection with the upcoming 4th International Conference on Appropriate Technology to be held in Ghana in November 2010, John Tharakan and Charles Verharen are writing an NSF Workshop Grant Proposal.
The Workshop will be held immediately preceding the conference. If the proposal is funded, workshop participants will have their travel to and from Ghana covered, as well as lodging and meals during the time of the workshop.
The 3 primary themes are water, technology and ethics.
All those interested in participating in the pre-conference workshops in Ghana should submit (1) the area of expertise they will represent at the conference, (2) potential title of a worshop session, and (3) cv showing their qualifications to lead a workshop session in Ghana.
The focus of the workshop is Appropriate Technology for Water and Sanitation: An Engineering Ethics. The workshop sessions will address appropriate solutions from diverse perspectives on community technology needs. The workshop will emphasize engineering information technology solutions such as using locally sensed and remotely acquired environmental data to guide individual and community water resourcing and clean-up technology development and choices.
Appropriate technologies provide sustainable solutions to developing communities, addressing local quality-of-life problems with innovative, community-centered and appropriate technological choices. Appropriate Technology can be broadly characterized as providing value to communities using relevant devices, processes, organizational structures and software requiring only small investments but resulting in broader impacts for the community. The proposed workshop will bring together US faculty, researchers and students with faculty and researchers from Ghana, including the University of Ghana, Legon (UGL) in Accra, Ghana, and the Kwami Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana. The objective of the workshop is to provide the center and connection around which appropriate technology knowledge and technology transfer will take place.
At this stage of writing the NSF grant proposal, it is not necessary that potential participants commit themselves now to going to Ghana if the grant is awarded.
They need only declare their interest by responding to the three points listed above.
Statements of area of expertise, provisional panel title, and cv's should be sent to John Tharakan, Department of Chemical Engineering, Howard University, Washington, DC 20059 via these emails: jtharakan@gmail.com and jtharakan@howard.edu.
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