PICMET 12 announcement

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PICMET’12 will be held on July 28 – August 2 in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Vancouver, BC – Canada. The venue will be the Sheraton Wall Centre Hotel right in the middle of the city.

The theme of PICMET’12 is “Technology Management for Emerging Technologies”. Managing emerging information technologies, bio technologies and nano technologies in manufacturing and services including but not being limited to  health, energy, government, education and sustainability will be discussed.

The critical deadlines are as follows:

Sunday, November 13, 2011: Title and up to 200 word-abstract are due.
Sunday, December 18, 2011: Notification of the review results of the abstracts.
Sunday, January 15, 2012: The full papers are due.
Sunday, March 11, 2012 : Notification to the authors with the results of the review of their papers
Sunday, April 15, 2012: Final papers with modifications in accordance with the review reports are due.

We hope to receive your submissions by November 15, and to see you at PICMET’12 in Vancouver, Canada on July 29 – August 2, 2012.

Proposed Alliance Could Create International Engineering “Meta-University.”

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The Chronicle of Higher Education (7/10, Labi) reported, “If ambitious plans outlined” at a recent conference at Columbia University is realized, “several of the world’s leading universities could soon be collaborating on engineering-design projects and research activities, exchanging students and professors, and pooling their expertise to work more closely with industry.” During the conference, “deans and other leading faculty members from Ivy League engineering schools and their counterparts from elite institutions in Brazil, China, and India gathered to discuss the formation of a new alliance called CIBI.”

STEM Jobs Paying More, Growing Faster.

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USA Today (7/14, Davidson) reports, “Jobs in science, technology, engineering and math fields pay an average 26% more than other occupations and grew three times faster the past decade, according to a Commerce Department study to be released today.” The Obama Administration “is citing the report partly to put numbers behind its push to invest more to increase jobs in so-called STEM fields.”

“The Start Up of You” from NY Times Opinion

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employers are increasingly picky:

“They are all looking for the same kind of people — people who not only have the critical thinking skills to do the value-adding jobs that technology can’t, but also people who can invent, adapt and reinvent their jobs every day, in a market that changes faster than ever.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/13/opinion/13friedman.html?_r=2