Friday, February 02, 2007

TAMEST Leading Charge for Better STEM Education

A few weeks ago, here in Austin, thought leaders in Texas in the areas of medicine, science and engineering came together for the annual conference of The Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Science of Texas (TAMEST)...

...the cause they're working for is more than worthy of a VI Road Show visit and the cross-disciplined nature of the team actually kind of reflects virtual instrumentation too?.....yes, it took me a few coffees to come up with that one....

[BONUS FEATURE INCLUDED: Dr T. in a suit!]



View the full video here


Some Definitions...

TAMEST - Academic and Industry Leader working together to bring awareness to the research being done at the many of the state's research institutions (UT Austin, Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, MD Anderson).

Rising Above the Gathering Storm (RAGS) - National Academies report detailing the crisis our country's leaders see coming in the future with science and engineering competitiveness in America and the need for improvements in STEM education link


Links to People...

Kay Bailey Hutchison - Texas Senator to the US Senate, TAMEST co-founder

Norm Augustine - Chair of the National Academies Committee (responsible for the RAGS report)

Dr. Arden Bement - Director of the National Science Foundation

Dr. Mary Ann Rankin - Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at UT Austin

Dr. James Truchard - President and Co-founder of National Instruments and visionary co-founder of virtual instrumentation

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