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Thursday March 19, 2009   6:00pm dinner snack, 6:30pm presentation

Hosted At NC A & T State University in Smith Hall Room 2014, 444 N Laurel St.

Strategies for Weathering the Economic Downturn

by

Rich Scott, MSEM, Sr Sales Engineer for

Offshore Business Development at TechniGraphics

  • How large companies like Airbus and Audi are using ESO to relieve bottlenecks in the Engineering process.

  • How small companies use ESO to level - load their staff and maintain full employment rather than hiring binges -- followed by layoffs.

  • Companies of all sizes are leveraging Low Cost Country sources for non-core engineering functions.

  • Companies are getting more high-value design work of their best engineers in less time.

Ref - Fastest-Growing Private Companies in USA, tgstech.com www.inc.com/inc5000/2008/company-profile.html?id=200815290

Please Advise Professor Kornegay via email no later than Tues noon on Mar 17th if you will be attending so we can get enough pizza!   Senior Members $10 donation for food expense.

alkorneg@ncat.edu

 Alton L. Kornegay, Ph.D., C.S.I.T.

Assistant Professor & Graduate Coordinator

Mfg. Systems Dept.-School of Technology

President- Industry Division - NAIT

1601 East Market Street

North Carolina Agricultural & Technical (A & T) State University

Greensboro, NC 27411, (336) 334-7116 Fax (336) 334-7704

  For Smith Hall see web site: Map  campus Map Streets