The Chairman's Message

Another successful year is well underway!

Once again, the “Call for Presentations” has sparked the submittal of over 450 abstracts for our upcoming conference.  By the looks of the content, the Papers/Presentations committee will have another challenging few months ahead of them deciding which abstracts will get accepted for Workshop and Short Course presentations.

This year’s conference will once again be held at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center on Lake Grapevine, just outside of Dallas, Texas.  For those of you who attended our 2004 event, you will remember that the Gaylord Texan was a brand new facility at that time, and I am confident that their Texas hospitality will once again shine for our Emerson Exchange members! 

As an aside for those of you who lean towards the ‘techno-geek’ side like myself, if you search Google Maps for “Gaylord Texan” and check the ‘hybrid’ view, you can see that the satellite imagery still does not show the facility…It is still that new!

Our conference is a little earlier this year, from Sept 10^th – 14^th, so mark your calendars early as on-line registration will open on June 1^st at www.EmersonExchange.org.

As engineers, we are at a great moment in time where our engineering career decisions have really started to pay off.  From my own experience and from conversations with others, the phones are ringing off the hook from headhunters and the on-line job search engines are overflowing with careers in the engineering fields. 

This is our time, and our 2007 conference theme is very fitting…

Engineering Revolution…Are you ready?