NASA and North Carolina: Building Stronger Partnerships

Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Engineering Graduate Research Center Auditorium (Room 136)
Centennial Campus, North Carolina State University

8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Welcome
  Dr. Charles Moreland, Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies, North Carolina State University
Dr. Russ Lea, Vice President for Research and Sponsored Programs, University of North Carolina
9:15 am Partnerships with NASA
  Introduction(111KB)
General Sam Armstrong, Sr. Advisor to the NASA Administrator
Dr. Chris Brown
, Director, NC Space Initiative
Biological and Physical Research(278KB)
Dr. Gerald Pitalo, Enterprise Scientist, NASA HQ, OBPR
Human Exploration and Development of Space(1.00MB)
Dr. Gary Martin, Director of Advanced Projects, NASA HQ
Aerospace Technology
Dr. Murray Hirschbein, Deputy Chief Technologist, NASA HQ
Earth Science(5.79MB)
Dr. Ron Birk, Sr. Advisor for Applications and Systems, NASA HQ
Space Science
Dr. Jeff Rosendhal, Asst. Assoc. Administrator, NASA HQ

Educational Initiatives(2.54MB)
Dr. Sam Massenberg
, Director of the Office of Education, NASA Langley Research Center
Gen. Sam Armstrong, Sr. Advisor to the NASA Administrator

12:15 pm Lunch (box lunch provided)
1:00 pm Programs and Potentials in North Carolina
NCSU(225KB)
Dr. Charles Moreland
NCA&T(255KB)
Dr. Earnestine Psalmonds, Vice Chancellor for Research
UNC-CH(301KB)
Dr. Robert Lowman, Associate Vice Chancellor for Research
Duke(1.03MB)
Dr. Ken Hall, Chair, Mechanical Engineering
MCNC(80KB)
Dr. Dan Stevenson, Director of Advanced Network Research
Research Triangle Institute
Dr. Dan Winfield, Director of Technology Applications
UNC
Dr. Russ Lea
3:00 pm Breakout sessions (along strategic enterprise lines)
4:00 pm Reconvene for closing remarks and adjourn


Sponsored by the North Carolina Space Initiative
A program of the Kenan Institute for Engineering, Technology & Science at NC State University