5th Annual

IEEE / University of Texas at Austin

Engineering Management Conference

August 12-13, 2004

Austin Texas, USA

www.ieeeUTemc.org


THEME: "Managing the Future"


The IEEE/UT Engineering Management Conference features topics related to the broad theme of managing the future, which includes globalization, international project management, multi-cultural teams, product innovation, and R&D management. A powerhouse of case studies, best practices, and panel discussion from a full spectrum of industries, organizations, and reference points will be showcased. How can engineers best align their current work practices to better meet the demands of the future? This is the question that the conference hopes to address. 


TOPICS: Papers may include, but are not limited to: 


  • Corporate Entrepreneurship

  • Design for Environment

  • Globalization 

  • Intellectual Property

  • International Project Management 

  • Multi-cultural teams

  • Outsourcing

  • Product Innovation

  • Quality

  • R&D Management

  • Supply Chain Management

  • Technologies of the Future



Call For Interest in Standards on Broadband over Power Lines Meeting


7 June 2004

Denver, Colorado USA


The IEEE Standards Association in conjunction with the IEEE Power Engineering Society is holding a Call for Interest in Standards Development for Broadband over Power Lines (BPL). This meeting will focus on understanding how standardization of BPL technologies will accelerate development in this field and on determining what resources are available from industry and IEEE Societies (Power Engineering Society, Communications Society, EMC Society, and others) to drive these standards forward.


The objectives of this meeting are to:

  • Understand what application spaces are envisioned (home, neighborhood wires, long-distance power transmission lines)

  • Review the standards that exist already and are underway in different fora

  • Identify those additional standards that may be needed

  • Determine what are the specific problems that need to be solved

  • Identify all regulatory issues, particularly those relating to interference to licensed and unlicensed services that BPL implementations might desire

  • Identify which companies are interested in driving successful technology in this industry

  • Determine where potential new standards projects should be organized within the IEEE

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