Charlotte Hosts Fourth Annual NSBE-AE Technical Professionals Conference.Business Editors ALEXANDRIA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2000 This March 21-26 Charlotte, North Carolina “Charlotte” redirects here. For other uses, see Charlotte (disambiguation). Charlotte is the largest city in the state of North Carolina and the 20th largest city in the United States. will host a gathering of thousands of African American engineers and technical professionals from across America for NSBE NSBE National Society of Black Engineers 2000: Reflect, Rejuvenate and Rise, The Fourth Annual NSBE Alumni Extension Technical Professionals Conference (NSBE-AE TPC (Transaction Processing Performance Council, San Francisco, CA, www.tpc.org) An organization devoted to benchmarking transaction processing systems. In order to derive the number of transactions that can be processed in a given time frame, TPC benchmarks measure the total performance of ). Events will be centered at the Charlotte Convention Center The Charlotte Convention Center opened in 1995 and attracts more than half a million visitors each year. It was designed by Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback & Associates (TVS). , located in the heart of the Queen City, and held in conjunction with The 26th Annual NSBE Convention. Conference Chair Marjorie Boursiquot has planned a memorable affair. Highlights include The NSBE AE Chairs' Golf and Tennis Classic on Tuesday, March 21, 2000, an address by the renowned Dr. Julian Earls of NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. on Wednesday, March, 22, an address by Essence Fashion Editor and author Harriette Cole on the morning of Friday, March 24, and The Third Annual Golden Torch Awards on the evening of Friday, March 24, a gala event celebrating the accomplishments of distinguished African Americans in engineering, science, and technology. TPC participants can enhance their skills with Certified Project Management Training and other courses. There will be several personal and professional workshop tracks, refereed technical papers presentations, and also corporate executive, environmental justice, workforce globalization, and telecommunications roundtables. The NSBE Convention Career Fair, featuring more than 300 companies, is the largest of its kind in the United States. The Career Engineer Networking Suites and several Corporate Hospitality Suites, sponsored by companies such as Dell Computer Corporation (company) Dell Computer Corporation - One of the biggest US manufacturers of IBM PC compatibles. "From notebooks to networks", their slogan says. http://us.dell.com. , Federal Express, General Electric, Hughes Network Systems Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HNS), is a provider of broadband satellite network products for businesses and consumers. HNS pioneered the development of high-speed satellite Internet access services and IP-based networks with its original DirecPC service but which it now markets , IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Merck, Microsoft, Motorola, Nike, Nortel, Raytheon, and Union Carbide, provide further opportunities for networking and interaction. The National Society of Black Engineers National Society of Black Engineers (commonly known as NSBE), founded in 1975 at Purdue University, is one of the largest student-run organizations in the US, centered on improving the recruitment and retention of African-American engineering students. , established at Purdue University in 1975, is a national 501, c3 non-profit organization with thousands of student, professional, and pre-college members in more than 300 chapters in the United States and abroad. NSBE annual programs include a national convention drawing more than 9000 attendees, career fairs, regional conferences, graduate school fairs, special pre-college conference and initiatives, over $250,000 in college scholarships, academic excellence and research competitions, and award-winning publications. The National Society of Black Engineers - Alumni Extension (NSBE-AE), the professional sector of NSBE, strives to be the premiere technical voice of the African American community. The NSBE-AE sector has been in existence for over 10 years and is a resource for the more than 200,000 African-American technical professionals in this country. To register for the Technical Professionals Conference or find out more about it, visit http://www.nsbe.org/convention or contact the NSBE National Office at 703-549-2207 x320. To find out more about the NSBE-AE or become a member, visit http://www.nsbe.org or call the NSBE Office of Technical Professional Services at 703-549-2207 x204. 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