Media Advisory: Carnegie Mellon's Gary Fedder to Participate on an Innovation Panel about Exploring New Economic Growth Opportunities

September 24, 2010

Contact: Chriss Swaney
Carnegie Mellon University
412.268.5776

Event: Carnegie Mellon University's Gary Fedder will join more than 60 participants at Manufacture America, a conference designed to improve U.S. manufacturing performance and competitiveness.

Fedder, head of Carnegie Mellon’s Institute for Complex Engineered Systems (ICES) and a professor in electrical and computer engineering, will participate in a panel dubbed: "Finding New Growth Opportunities—Innovating to Develop New Products, Create Production Efficiencies and Achieve Cost Savings." He will represent the university’s important interface to industry and support for innovation.

Key conference attendees include Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale, assistant secretary of commerce; U.S. Sen. Robert P. Casey Jr., D-Pa.; Ron Bloom, senior counselor for manufacturing policy and Don Graves, deputy assistant secretary of the treasury. Conference participants will have the opportunity to meet with government representatives to share perspectives on challenges facing them and to discuss possible solutions. 

When: 7:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. (full event), Carnegie Mellon participation at 2:45 to 3:45 p.m., September 27.

Where: Regional Learning Alliance, 850 Cranberry Woods Drive, Cranberry Township, Pa. 16046.