Polytechnic leaders to gather in Marietta, Ga., for annual summit hosted by Southern Polytechnic State University
MARIETTA, Ga., May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The fourth annual Polytechnic Summit taking place at Southern Polytechnic State University June 6-8 will bring together students and professors from 18 polytechnic colleges and universities across the United States—and beyond (Bahrain, Germany, Mexico and China)—to report on innovations and advancements in technology and polytechnic education. As part of the conference, recent projects at SPSU will be presented, including a new robotic arm, a rubble house humanitarian project for Haiti, and an oil-well cap solution.
Featured speakers include George L. Mehaffy, vice president for Academic Leadership and Change at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, and Nick Gillian, a post-doctoral fellow and Fulbright scholar working with the Responsive Environments group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab. Mehaffy will be giving a lecture titled "The Changing Context for Higher Education," while Gillian will discuss his research on the design and development of algorithms and tools that can be used for real-time gesture recognition for musician-computer interaction.
Conference planning partners include the University of Wisconsin-Stout, the University of South Florida Polytechnic, and Wentworth Institute of Technology (which will host the 2013 Polytechnic Summit). Reflecting the conference's tie-ins with industry, representatives will be attending from five companies and agencies: Micro-Simulation Technology; Festo Corporation, Mexico; Festo Didactic gmbH, Germany; Parsons Water & Infrastructure; and the Northwest Wisconsin Manufacturing Outreach Center.
For more information about the Polytechnic Summit, visit http://www.polytechnicsummit.org/.
Contact: Sylvia Carson, 678-915-7222, [email protected]
SOURCE Southern Polytechnic State University
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