Pizza and Outsourcing

Thursday April 12
2-4pm
Golisano 1400
(pizza will be served)

Dr. Ron Hira, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, will be participating in an audio discussion with David Kramer's Senior Seminar. (Dr. Hira is on leave for the academic year 2006-07 while he works as a Research Associate with the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, DC).

Dr. Hira will be discussing his book Outsourcing America and his current research on the policy implications of the off shoring of R&D, including his involvement with the Senate Subcommittee on Science and Technology.

Outsourcing America, published by the American Management Association, was a finalist in the best business book category for the Benjamin Franklin Awards presented each year by the Publishers Marketing Association. In 2006 Dr. Hira received the IEEE-USA President's Special Citation Award "for furthering public understanding of an economic trend that has profound implications for the engineering profession through his book."

An opportunity to find good photographs that describe distance communication and learning. Now that speakers don't have to be standing in front of an audience, what is the audience participation? How does the speaker engage the audience and acknowledge that he is talking to real, life, people in real time even though he's someplace else? What would be a good overall shot? Some interesting closer photographs that show people engaged in the issues?