SYMPOSIUM TO HIGHLIGHT PRESIDENT’S FY’05 REQUEST FOR ENGINEERING R&D

IEEE-USA has joined with a coalition of professional engineering societies in offering the 2d annual Engineering R&D Symposium, which will be held on March 8-9 at the Holiday Inn on Capitol Hill in Washington. Designed to highlight the President’s FY 2005 budget request for engineering R&D, the session will include panels on the industry and state outlooks and an over-the-horizon presentation by the National Science Foundation on future R&D initiatives by the National Science Foundation. Presidential science advisor John Marburger is slated to kick off the program, with Rensellear president Shirley Ann Jackson invited to give the luncheon keynote. A half day session the next morning will include remarks by House Science Committee chair Sherwood Boehlert and budget briefings by the various federal agencies.

Mark your calendars for 8-9 March, and keep an eye on http://engineeringpolicy.org/ for more information.

From the IEEE-USA's Eye on Washington, January 16,2004.