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IEEE Twin Cities Engineering Management Society
Presents:
Topic: The Role of Innovation, Emerging and Pivotal Technologies in Shaping
Business
Speaker: Dr. Massoud Amin
Honeywell/H. W. Sweatt Chair in Technological Leadership Director, Center
for the Development of Technological Leadership
(CDTL)
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
When: Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Agenda:
6:00 Food & Networking
6:30 Meeting and Introductions
7:30 Q&A
Cost: FREE. Pizza and pop will be provided.
Hosted by: Center for Development of Technological Leadership (CDTL),
University Of Minnesota
About the subject:
In this seminar we focus on selected technologies, including energy,
security and nanotechnology, expected to play pivotal roles in future
industrial and business development. Current state-of the-art status for
each technology, together with barriers and opportunities for
commercialization will be addressed.
We build upon strategic technology assessment, technology foresight and
forecasting, energy systems, sensor networks, critical infrastructure,
systems?
vulnerability assessment, asset and risk management, along with judicious
analyses of pertinent technologies coupled with potential for market impact,
and their contribution to strategically enhance our security and quality of
life.
About the speaker:
Dr. Amin holds the Honeywell/Harold W. Sweatt Chair in Technological
Leadership, is the Director of the Center for the Development of
Technological Leadership (CDTL), and is Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities. In addition to
his administrative responsibilities, he serves as the director of graduate
studies for the management of technology program and teaches several courses
including Science and Technology Policy, Emerging and Pivotal Technologies,
Global Management of Technology, Intellectual Property Valuation and
Strategy, and Critical Infrastructure Security and Protection.
Prior to joining the University of Minnesota in March 2003, Dr. Amin held
positions of increased responsibility including Area Manager of
Infrastructure Security, Grid Operations/Planning, Markets, Risk and Policy
Assessment at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo Alto,
California. In the aftermath of tragic events of 9/11 he directed all
security-related research and development at EPRI. Prior to October 2001, he
served as manager of mathematics and information science at EPRI, where he
led strategic R&D in modeling, simulation, optimization, and control of
national infrastructures for energy, telecommunication, transportation, and
finance. Dr. Amin developed the foundations and coined the term
?self-healing grid? and led the development of more than 24 advanced
technologies transferred to the industry.
He is a member several boards including the Board on Infrastructure and the
Constructed Environment (BICE) at the U.S. National Academy of Engineering,
Board on Mathematical Sciences and Applications (BMSA) at the National
Academy of Sciences, Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, a senior member of
IEEE, AAAS, AIAA, ASME, NY Academy of Sciences, SIAM, and Informs. Dr. Amin
holds B.S. (cum laude) and M.S. degrees in electrical and computer
engineering from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and M.S. and D.Sc.
degrees in systems science and mathematics from Washington University in St.
Louis, Missouri.
For further information, please see http://umn.edu/~amin
Location:
Center for Development of Technological Leadership (CDTL) University of
Minnesota 1300 South Second Street, Suite 150 Minneapolis, MN 55454
612-626-8183
http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/WBOB/index.html
Note: This is the glass-exterior building located near the north-west
junction of Washington Ave and 35W, also known as the West Bank Office
Building (WBOB).
Parking:
Park in the upper level of the ramp - to do so, you'll need to pull a
ticket, but you will not be charged for parking if you exit after 7PM.
Registration: Please pre-register before noon on Tuesday, May 20th 2008 by
email to
meetingregistraton@tc-ieee-ems.org
For more information about the meeting, call Kaustubh Patil ("KP") at
612.865.1367 or email krpatilATieeeDOTorg
For further information about the Twin Cities IEEE Engineering Management
Society Chapter, see our web site at
http://www.tc-ieee-ems.org
Thanks,
Dave Hendrickson
PMO Project Manager
Past Chair, IEEE Twin Cities Section
Chair, IEEE TC Engineering Management Society
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