Texas Tech University will host a conference on “U.S Infrastructure: Challenges and Directions for the 21st Century” on September 8th and 9th.

The topic of discussion at the conference will be infrastructure challenges facing the country in the 21st Century. Speakers at the conference include;

Rosabeth M. Kanter, Ph.D. - Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business at Harvard Business School at Harvard University

Burcu Akinci, Ph.D. - Paul Christiano Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University

C. Michael Walton, Ph.D. - Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin

Ian Savage, Ph.D. - Professor of Economics and Director of the Transportation and Logistics Program at Northwestern University

Martin Wachs, Ph.D. - Distinguished Emeritus Professor of  Civil & Environ­mental Engineering and of City & Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley

Jacqueline M. Klopp, Ph.D. - Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University


 

The conference will be at the Overton Hotel & Conference Center located at 2322 Mac Davis Lane. The deadline to register for the conference is August 31st.

To register for the conference, click here

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