Conference Schedule: January 23-26, 2008
Wednesday,
January
23, 2008
| 9:00 am 每 3:00 pm |
Executive Committee & Board Meeting
Location: Studio 3 |
| 10:00 am 每 7:00 pm |
Registration
Location: Lobby |
| 3:00 pm 每 5:00 pm |
New Members/ First Time Attendeaes Orientation
Location: Workroom 1 |
| 6:00 pm 每 11:00 pm |
President's Reception & Evening Entertainment
Location: Great Room |
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Thursday, January 24, 2008
| 7:00 am 每 5:00 pm |
Registration
Location: Lobby |
| 8:00 am 每 8:45 am |
Breakfast
Location: Great Room |
| 9:00 am 每 9:15 am |
Opening & Greeting : Dr. Tommy Stevenson, Chair of 2008 NAMEPA National Conference
Carolyn Vallas President of NAMEPA & Atlanta Offical
Location: Great Room |
| 9:15 am 每 10:30 am |
Keynote Address: Mr. Theodore Shaw Director 每 Counsel
and President of the NAACP Legal Defense
and Educational Fund
Location: Great Room |
| 10:35 am 每 11:30 am |
Concurrent Workshops
1.Studio 1 每 Mr. Michael Russell
Chief Executive Officer H. J. Russell & Company
2.Studio 2 每 Dr. Yvonne Spicer
Planting the Seeds of Change: K-12 Engineering Education
3.Great Room 3 每 Dr. Melvin Ray
Multiculturalism and Emerging Innovation Based Economies in the U.S. |
| 11:30 am 每 11:40 am |
Break Compliments Cornell University |
| 11:45 am 每 12:45 pm |
Concurrent Workshops
1.Studio 1 每
Paco Flores
Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF)＊s Marathon Oil Scholarship Program and other scholarship programs that target minority engineering students.
2.Studio 2 每 Dr. Karl Reid
Black Gold: Understanding How Racial Identity, Self-Efficacy, and Institutional Integration Influences Success for Black Males Attending Research Universities
3.Great Room 3 每 Dan Christie
Harnessing the Power of Teams: Brain-storming and Creativity Fundamentals for Program Advocates |
| 1:00 pm 每 2:30 pm |
Lunch
Keynote Address: Dr. Norman Fortenberry
Multicultural Engineering Education - The Research Base
Location: Great Room |
| 2:35 pm 每 3:35 pm |
Concurrent Workshops
1.Studio 1 每 Dr. Fred Bonner
STEMing the Tide of Underachievement: Improving the Success of African American Students in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
2.Studio 2 每 Tom Robinson
Striving for Success: Cultivating Healthy Resistance to Negative Racial or Ethnic Environments among Future African American and Mexican American Engineering Students
3.Great Room 3 每 Malcolm Pirnie
The MILLENIALS: A New Age of Workers(This presentation is limited to 20 participants. This presentation will run for two sessions.) |
| 3:40 pm 每 4:40 pm |
Plenary Workshop
1. Studio 1 每 Amy Freeman
Shopping for Diversity: Coping with the Domestic Shortage
2. Studio 2 - Kenneth Simonson
Strategies for Building the Pipeline through Pathway Programs and Enhancing Retention Efforts of Underrepresented Ethnic Engineering Students
3. Great Room 3 每 Presentation: Malcolm Pirnie
The MILLENIALS: A New Age of Workers(Part two) |
| 4:45 pm 每 5:00 pm |
Break Compliments of Arizona State University |
| 5:00 pm 每 6:00 pm |
NAMEPA Annual Business Meeting
Location: Great Room |
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| Your evening is free to enjoy all that Atlanta has to offer! We have guides available for you at the registration desk and the hotel concierge will be happy to assist. |
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Friday, January 25, 2008
| 7:00 am 每 5:00 pm |
Registration |
| 8:00 am 每 8:45 am |
Breakfast |
| 8:45 am 每 10:00 am |
Keynote Addresses: Lockheed Martin Executive
Location: Great Room |
| 10:05 am 每 11:05 am |
Concurrent Workshops
1. Studio 1 - Diversity Programs in Engineering at:
Cornell University 每 DiOnetta Jones & Sara Xayarath Hernandez,
University of Virginia 每 Carolyn Vallas,
New Jersey Institute of Technology 每 Laurence Howell
2.Studio 2 每 Brenda Hart & Dr. Veronica Hinton-Hudson
Low-Cost Programs For Women and Other Under-Represented Minorities in Engineering Expose and Enroll
3.Great Room 3 - Jonathan Schwartz
Dimensions of Success for First-year Students |
| 11:05 am 每 11:15 am |
Break Compliments of Mississippi State University |
| 11:20 am 每 12:20 pm |
Concurrent Workshops
1. Studio 1 每Michele Williams
SECME --※ Sealing the Leaks in the Engineering Workforce Pipeline"
2. Studio 2 每 James Dorsey, Erick Jones, Lucy Casale,Sheila Jones & Nikki Grantham
Community College STEM initiative
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| 12:30 pm 每 2:00 pm |
Lunch
Keynote Address: Dr. Calvin Mackie
Location: Great Room |
| 2:15 pm 每 3:15 pm |
Concurrent Workshops
1. Studio 1 每 Virginia Booth-Gleghorn
NAMEPA: Core Competency Metrics
2. Studio 2 每
Dr. David Martinez
The Manifestation of Social Capital Within The Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) Program
3. Great Room 3 每 Bruce Curry, Director, Regional Facilities Organization Global Pharmaceutical Supply Group-NA
A Unit of Ortho McNeil Pharmaceutical, Inc.
STEM Programs: Changing the FUTURE of Health Care
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| 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm |
Plenary Workshop
Presenter: Dr. Gary May
Location: Great Room |
| 6:00 pm - |
Awards Dinner/ Entertainment
Presenter: Dr. Wanda Ward
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Saturday,
January
26, 2008
| 8:00 am 每 9:00 am |
Breakfast
Location: Great Room |
| 9:05 am 每 10:00 am |
Regional Meetings
A- Studio 3
B- Workroom 1
C- Workroom 2
D- Workroom 3
E- Studio 4 |
| 10:05 am 每 11:05 am |
Closing/Wrap 每 Up
Location: Great Room |
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Thank you for attending the 2008 NAMEPA National Conference. We look forward to seeing you at the 2009 NAMEPA National Conference in.
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