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PICMET to draw 650 for international conference
PICMET conference makes Portland a hub for engineering and technology management
The international technology community will converge in Portland July 20-24, 2003, for the fifth Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET). The conference, sponsored by Portland State University's Engineering & Technology Management (ETM) program, is expected to draw more than 600 persons from 50 countries to downtown Portland's Hilton Hotel.
The conference is an incubator for technology management which Dundar Kocaoglu calls the new international language. As PICMET's founder, president and CEO, Kocaoglu is a maverick in the field of engineering and technology management. He breathed life into the idea of the first conference in 1991.
Twelve years later, PICMET has doubled in size, while holding steadfast to its guiding principal: To be a forum for the transfer of knowledge between education and industry about engineering and technology management.
"What continues to motivate us is the influence PICMET is making around the world," says Kocaoglu. And, indeed, companies and educational institutions from Germany to Japan, Turkey and Korea, have publicly acknowledged PICMET as being the catalyst for their R&D and technology management efforts.
"The global centers of power in today's society are being defined by the development and management of technologies," Kocaoglu says. "Those who are able to develop new ideas and harness technologies are leading the way for the rest of the world."
This year's conference keynote speakers include Dr. Kwan Rim, Chairman of Samsung Advanced Institute of technology, Dr. Seiichi Watanabe, Executive Vice President of Sony Corp., Dr. Rosalie Zobel, European Commission, Dr. Nejat Veziroglu, Director of Hydrogen Energy Research at University of Miami, Dr. Youngrak Choi, President of STEPI, Korea, and Steve Luczo, CEO of Segate Corp. Panels, tutorials, paper sessions, plenaries and workshops will focus on topics such as innovation, entrepreneurship, emerging technologies, technology transfer, technology roadmapping, new product development, knowledge mining, and measuring business value of a technology.
Another aspect to the conference is the added benefit and visibility it affords graduate students in PSU's ETM program. In addition to attending the conference, students are heavily involved in the planning process of selecting workshop topics and speakers and reviewing submitted academic papers.
PICMET continues to evolve in response to the needs of its attendees. In addition to a weeklong conference, it plans to expand into a year-round international center for engineering technology management to represent the industry with the latest research, publications, trends and legislation.
Story from oregonengineer.org.
The international technology community will converge in Portland July 20-24, 2003, for the fifth Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET). The conference, sponsored by Portland State University's Engineering & Technology Management (ETM) program, is expected to draw more than 600 persons from 50 countries to downtown Portland's Hilton Hotel.
The conference is an incubator for technology management which Dundar Kocaoglu calls the new international language. As PICMET's founder, president and CEO, Kocaoglu is a maverick in the field of engineering and technology management. He breathed life into the idea of the first conference in 1991.
Twelve years later, PICMET has doubled in size, while holding steadfast to its guiding principal: To be a forum for the transfer of knowledge between education and industry about engineering and technology management.
"What continues to motivate us is the influence PICMET is making around the world," says Kocaoglu. And, indeed, companies and educational institutions from Germany to Japan, Turkey and Korea, have publicly acknowledged PICMET as being the catalyst for their R&D and technology management efforts.
"The global centers of power in today's society are being defined by the development and management of technologies," Kocaoglu says. "Those who are able to develop new ideas and harness technologies are leading the way for the rest of the world."
This year's conference keynote speakers include Dr. Kwan Rim, Chairman of Samsung Advanced Institute of technology, Dr. Seiichi Watanabe, Executive Vice President of Sony Corp., Dr. Rosalie Zobel, European Commission, Dr. Nejat Veziroglu, Director of Hydrogen Energy Research at University of Miami, Dr. Youngrak Choi, President of STEPI, Korea, and Steve Luczo, CEO of Segate Corp. Panels, tutorials, paper sessions, plenaries and workshops will focus on topics such as innovation, entrepreneurship, emerging technologies, technology transfer, technology roadmapping, new product development, knowledge mining, and measuring business value of a technology.
Another aspect to the conference is the added benefit and visibility it affords graduate students in PSU's ETM program. In addition to attending the conference, students are heavily involved in the planning process of selecting workshop topics and speakers and reviewing submitted academic papers.
PICMET continues to evolve in response to the needs of its attendees. In addition to a weeklong conference, it plans to expand into a year-round international center for engineering technology management to represent the industry with the latest research, publications, trends and legislation.
Story from oregonengineer.org.
