NTA 2018: The National Technical Association Inc. 2018 National Conference: NTA2018 Featuring Climate Equity Summit; Theme: Full STEAM Ahead Norfolk State University Norfolk, VA, United States, September 27-29, 2018 |
Conference website | http://ntahrc.org/ |
Submission deadline | July 15, 2018 |
Oral and Poster Presentation submission deadline | September 2, 2018 |
The National Technical Association, Inc. (NTA) was established in 1926. Its purpose was to create a medium for expressing minority professional concerns for the lack of minority participation in the mainstream of architectural and engineering activity in America.
Today this goal has not changed, but has expanded to include a major concern for the participation of minority youth in meeting the challenge of modern technology, NTA also encourages them to seek allied programs to suit their interest and needs.
The NTA’s membership volunteers its services nationally to assist public institutions in identifying potential minority technical talent. Public Institutions, where the service is encouraged, includes high schools, colleges and in the recent past, penal institutions. NTA has spent the ensuing years gaining national attention through its programs of encouragement to students and professionals alike. The organization has enlarged its goals beyond just gaining economic recognition to include making minority youth aware of the opportunities being made available to them.
Because we are a non-profit organization, IRS Code 501 (C) (3), our services to private industry and government are for a nominal registration fee or by contractual arrangements, based upon your specific requirements. When it is considered that our association’s membership consists of minorities in every science and technical discipline, including both graduate and post-graduate students, and that we are a national, viable organization in the minority communities, our position is quite unique.
Submission Guidelines
NTA2018 seeks abstract submissions in the following disciplines: STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Architecture and Mathematics), education, computer science, cyber-security, information science and geosciences. The Climate Equity Summit will include additional sessions with papers, oral presentations and posters on the following topics, climate change, climate justice, environmental justice, education, mitigation strategies, social justice, agriculture, infrastructure, technology, energy, modeling and simulation, extreme weather and preparedness.
All abstract submissions must (1) contain the title of the paper, author's name(s), affiliation(s), author's full postal address(es) and e-mail; (2) contain no more than 200 words; and (3) indicate the category to which the abstract is most relevant (multiple categories are acceptable).
Abstract Deadline: July 15, 2018
All papers and presentations must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
Please indicate any special media requirements at the time of abstract submission. Abstracts and full papers should be prepared as PC compatible MS Word files in Font-Times New Roman, 12 pt. size. Presentations, oral and poster, should be PowerPoint files. No PDF Files. All files should be delivered on ‘virus-free’ USB drives. The oral presentation time is 12 minutes.
All presenters must register for the NTA 2018 conference; for registration information, go to NTA Hampton Roads Chapter - Conference 2018 or http://ntahrc.org/
Committees
Program Committee
- Melvin Ferebee
- Julie Williams-Byrd
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Julie Williams-Byrd or Melvin J Ferebee