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Human Factors and Ergonomics Society
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What's New?

September 2008 POC Dinner Meeting to Feature Mary Lozano
Our next Potomac Chapter HFES meeting will be on Thursday, September 18, at Positano in Bethesda: Dr. Mary Lozano will talk about "Interfacing Systems Engineering and Human Performance Modeling Tools" -- a topic central to the work that many of us do. (This is the talk that was postponed from June.) Click here for meeting details. Please RSVP to Derek Schultz (mediadesign@att.net; 301-656-1897) by Wednesday, September 17, so we'll know how many people to expect.

Looking ahead, the October meeting will be held on Wednesday, October 8 -- Dr. Jenny Preece will be our guest speaker.

International Symposium on Aviation Psychology to be held in Dayton, Ohio in April 27-30, 2009 -- Call for Papers -- submissions due October 15, 2008; (Call for Papers and Flyer available in PDF format.)

HFES 52nd Annual Meeting
New York City - September 22-26, 2008

The Office Ergonomics Research Committee (OERC), a research consortium interested in advancing the field of knowledge regarding office ergonomics, has established a number of research priorities. For details contact director@oerc.org.

NEW FEATURE -- Copies of speaker presentations at past meeting. If you missed a meeting, you can still view the speaker's presentation.

Global competition is creating an urgent need to motivate and attract some of the best and brightest students into science and technology careers. In the U.S. Congress, K-12 education is receiving renewed bipartisan support in both the House and Senate. The Washington Academy of Sciences (W.A.S.) (of which the POC is a member) is expanding its "STARS" (Science and Technology Aptitude Recognition for Schools) youth-in-science outreach program. In recent years, the program has included not only active participation in several Senior High School Science Fairs, but also science events at Elementary and Middle Schools, a robotics competition involving 20 Middle Schools, and judging of over 80 outstanding mentored student projects for the Montgomery Blair Magnet Research Convention. Both the AAAS and the IEEE have supported our efforts by grants to the "STARS" program. Program details are available.

We've received new job openings -- Program Director for Human Factors (FAA), Closing Date: August 22, 2008; Applications must be received by the closing date; Human Factors Engineer (Northrop Grumman IT); Accessibility Analyst (SSB BART Group [SSB]); check Job Openings
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Ergonomics in Design is inviting submissions relevant to practice-oriented human factors and ergonomics professionals

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