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Nunes Offering Green SMTAI Keynote
March 18, 2008 |Estimated reading time: 1 minute
MINNEAPOLIS The SMTA Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony at SMTA International (SMTAI), August 20, 2008, in Orlando, Fla., will feature a keynote presentation by Sharon Nunes, Ph.D., VP, Big Green Innovations, IBM Systems & Technology Group (STG). In her talk, Nunes will discuss IBM's approach to environmental challenges globally, and highlight ways that IBM is helping to tackle some of these important issues.
Big Green Innovations is an IBM program commissioned by the chairman at the end of 2006. Its mission is to use information technology to address critical environmental problems around the world. Big Green Innovations is focused on water management, carbon management, and alternative energy such as photovoltaics.
Nunes received her Ph.D. in materials science in 1983 from the University of Connecticut. She has held numerous academic advisory board positions, and is currently a member of the Look College Engineering Advisory Council at Texas A&M University, a member of the College of Engineering Advisory Committee at the University of Connecticut, and a member of the Board of Directors for the University of Connecticut Foundation. Nunes was a National Academy of Engineering "Frontiers of Engineering" fellow in 2000 and has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering "Engineer of 2020" advisory board. In 2006, she was inducted into the University of Connecticut Academy of Engineering for distinguished engineers.
For more information, contact SMTA executive administrator JoAnn Stromberg, joann@smta.org.