A Conversation with David Hata - The Godfather of SAME-TEC [6:04] - a podcast by Gordon F Snyder Jr and Michael Qaissaunee

Earlier this month I wrote about how the National Center for Telecommunications Technologies
(NCTT,
focusing on information and communications technologies) collaborated
with sister NSF Advanced Technology Education Centers of Excellence Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC, focusing on semi-conductor, automated manufacturing and electronics) and OP-TEC (focusing on optics and photonics) to sponsor the SAME-TEC 2008 Conference in Austin, Texas.

SAME-TEC has a long history, starting in 1994 with the vision of David Hata at Portland Community College and continuing to grow and evolve under the leadership and direction of Mike Lesiecki and his team at MATEC. This year the conference had over 350 attendees.

At
the conference we did a number of video interviews and John Reynolds,
our multimedia specialist, has been hard at work editing them. We've
now got another one posted - an interview with David Hata - the
Godfather of SAME-TEC.
David discusses the original grant he wrote to the National Science
Foundation to launch SAME-TEC and the evolution of the conference.

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