Technical Tours
***REGISTRATION LINK FOR TECHNICAL TOURS COMING SOON***
Registered conference participants will receive an email with the instructions to register, but for your planning purposes the times are below. Registration will be $50.00 for the tour and is limited to the first 28 people who sign up. Motor coach transportation is included in the registration fee.
The details of the visit to UT Dallas, Texas Instruments, and then downtown Dallas are below. The timetable is below. Depending on traffic you will arrive back in Ft. Worth at approximately 7:00 PM (19:00) on Thursday, August 25, 2016.
| Departure Time | Pick Up location | Drop off location |
| 10:00 AM | Worthington hotel 200 Main St Fort Worth TX 76102 | UT Dallas
800 W Campbell Road Richardson, TX 75080 |
| 1:10 PM | UT Dallas
800 W Campbell Road Richardson, TX 75080 |
Texas Instruments:
R Fab 300 W Renner Road, Richardson, TX 75080
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| 2:30 PM | Texas Instruments:
R Fab 300 W Renner Road, Richardson, TX 75080
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Sixth Floor Museum
411 Elm Street Dallas, TX 75202 |
| 6:00 PM | Sixth Floor Museum
411 Elm Street Dallas, TX 75202 |
Worthington hotel 200 Main St Fort Worth TX 76102 |
INDIVIDUAL TOUR DETAILS
UT DALLAS
UT Dallas has grown since its founding in 1969 to include 138 degree programs and 550 professors serving 25,000 students. The University continues its original commitment to providing some of the state’s most-lauded science and engineering programs and has also gained prominence for a breadth of educational paths, from criminology to biomedical engineering to arts and technology. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the university as a doctorate granting & a “Highest Research Activity” institution in the United States. This walking tour of the UT Dallas campus will include four of our newest research and teaching facilities related to Automation Science. The tour will cover about 1 mile of distance and take about 1.5 hours, concluding with lunch in our design studio / makerspace.
TEXAS INSTRUMENTS
The RFAB facility in Richardson, TX is the world’s only production facility to use 300-millimeter silicon wafers to manufacture analog chips, and is capable of manufacturing more than $1 billion worth of analog chips annually. From smartphones to netbooks, analog chips are the essential components in most of the electronics we use every day. RFAB will increase the volume of these energy-efficient chips, allowing TI to meet the needs of customers with a high demand for analog chips to make electronics more energy-efficient. TI’s RFAB is not only helping customers save energy, the facility itself is also playing a role in protecting the environment as the industry’s most environmentally responsible fab. The facility was the first semiconductor facility to achieve Gold certification with the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program.
DOWNTOWN DALLAS
A self-guided visit to the historic West End in Downtown Dallas. The district includes the Sixth Floor Museum, shopping for authentic Texas clothes and gifts, and a wide variety of restaurants to relax and enjoy.