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Conferences

The WPI campus is frequently chosen to host academic conferences, often major gatherings of colleagues from around the world. WPI also sponsors and co-sponsors conferences at other locations. Below is a list of upcoming and previous conferences, sponsored and/or hosted by WPI.

2007

• BEI Symposium Series (February - October)

Previous Conferences

2006

• Linking Lean Thinking to Education (October 16-18, 2006)
• Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Summit at WPI (June 5)
• Metals Conservation Summer Institute (May 27-June 7)
• Metal Processing Institute Spring Symposium: Innovation in the Metal Processing World (May 25)
• Third Annual U.S.-Africa Business Conference (May 22-23)
• Fifth Annual Central Massachusetts Undergraduate Shakespeare Conference (April 23, 2006)
• 20th New England Statistics Symposium (NESS) (April 22, 2006)
• 2006 New England ASEE Conference: Engineering Education & Practice for the Global Community (March 17-18, 2006)

2005

• Teachers Teaching with Technology (T³) (October 14-15, 2005)
• Second IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (November 7-10, 2005, Washington, D.C.)
• New Trends in Material Design of Complex Systems in Space and Time (November 17-19, 2005)
• Association of Student Advancement Programs District 1 Conference (April 8-10, 2005)

2004

• Hydrogen Fuel Cell Summit (October 20, 2004)
• International Conference on Semi Solid Processing of Alloys and Composites (Limassol, Cyprus, September 21-23, 2004)
• Massachusetts Telecommunications Symposium (July 26, 2004)
• International Business and Education Conference: A Focus on Water Management in Africa (June 16, 2004)
• International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS '04) (June 17-19, 2004)
• New Frontiers in Chemical Engineering: Impact of Undergraduate Curriculum (May 7, 2004)
• SWE New England Region F 2004 Conference: Creating Complete Careers (April 3-4, 2004)
• New England Archivists Conference (March 26-27, 2004)
• International Business Forum 2004 - Meeting the China Challenge: Networking for Success (February 3-4, 2004)

2003

• Teachers Teaching with Technology (T³) (October 17-18, 2003)
• College Admissions Collaborative Highlighting Engineering and Technology (CACHET) Conference (October 1-2, 2003, Long Beach, CA)
• 2003 International Conference of the System Dynamics Society (New York, July 20-24, 2003)
• SWE New England Region F 2003 Conference: Empowered for Success (March 15-16, 2003)

2002

• Manufacturing Our Future Summit (December 2, 2002)
• Frontiers in Education 2002 National Conference (November 7-9, 2002)
• Crossroads: Where Engineering, Science & Technology Meet Life - NCSSSMST Student Conference 2002 (October 24-26, 2002)
• Envisioning Worcester's Future: A Workshop on Incorporating Principles of Sustainable Development Into Local Planning Practice (September 26, 2002)
• Mathematics in Industry Institute for High School Teachers (June 24-28, 2002)
• Library Futures Institute (June 26 & 27, 2002)
• International Association of Fire Safety Science (June 17-21, 2002)
• New England-Africa Business Conference (May 21, 2002)
• CEO East: A Premier East Coast Student Entrepreneurship Conference (April 6, 2002)
• 2nd WPI International Corporate / Academic Roundtable on Emerging Technologies: Molecular Engineering - The Next 5 Years (March 19 & 20, 2002)

2001

• Third IEEE Workshop on Wireless LANs (Sept. 27-28, 2001)
• The WPI International Corporate Leaders Roundtable: The Impact of Evolving Technologies on the Future of Business (Barcelona, Spain - April 20, 2001)
• Spring 2001 Meeting of the North East Section of the American Society of Plant Physiology: "From Genome to Physiology" (May 4-5, 2001)
• National Consortium of Specialized Secondary Schools of Math, Science & Technology (NCSSSMST) National Conference (March 29-31, 2001)
• Engineering the Future: The 2001 Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Museum of Science Lecture Series (January 2001)

2000

• AID2000: The 6th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Design (June 26-29, 2000)
• SIAM Mathematics in Industry Workshop for Highschool Teachers (June 26-30, 2000)
• Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) (August 17-18, 2000)

1999

• Fourth International Conference on "Multi Purpose High-Rise Towers for Tall Buildings (ICTB '99) (October 20-22, 1999 - PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India)
• Second Conference on Fire Safety Design in the 21st Century (June 9-11, 1999)
• Workshop on Cryptographic Hardware and Embedded Systems (CHES) (August 12-13, 1999)

1996-1998

• Manufacturing Our Future (October 6-8, 1998)
• The Ninth IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC'98) (September 8-11, 1998)
• Industry-University-Government Roundtable for Enhancing Engineering Education (May 29-30, 1998)
• SIAM Mathematics in Industry Workshop (May 18-20, 1998)
• Preparing for a Changing Civilization: Careers Merging Liberal Arts and Technology (May 1-2, 1998)
• Elizabeth Bishop Conference & Poetry Festival (October 6-12, 1997)
• Fire & Water '97 (August 7-8 1997)
• The Second IEEE Workshop on: Wireless LANs (October 24-25, 1996)