NEWS DESK “Both of SWE’s recent studies on gender and racial bias


and culture within the workplace confi rm many of the insights we already know—women and people of color struggle to gain distinction within the engineering space which is very much still dominated by men,” Karen Horting, CEO and executive director at SWE, said in the statement. “What we hope to achieve with this research is to encourage more dia- log on the topic of implicit bias and inspire and drive change in the engineering profession.”


HOUSTEX Kicks Off AMT-SME Co-Branded Trade Shows


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OUSTEX (Feb. 28–March 2, 2017; Houston) kicks off a partnership between between the Association For Manufacturing Technology (AMT; McLean, VA) and SME (Dearborn, MI) covering co-branded trade shows. The partnership was announced in September at IMTS 2016. Also part of the partnership are the EASTEC (May


16–18, 2017; West Springfi eld, MA), WESTEC (Sept. 12–14, 2017; Los Angeles) SOUTH-TEC (Oct. 24–26, 2017; Green- ville, SC) and Mfg4 (May 8–10, 2018; Hartford, CT) events. The shows will feature a blend of education, applications and technology innovation in the areas of digital manufactur- ing, automation, MTConnect and the Industrial IoT. Each event will include a mix of topics and technologies that are of specifi c interest to that region.


SME CEO Jeff Krause


AMT’s Douglas K. Woods


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