Partner Event: Green Transportation Seminar

Dear CARES members & friends,

CARES is pleased to announce an upcoming seminar on May 18, 2010 (Tuesday) featuring one of the subtopics of Green Transportation: High Speed Rail (HSR). 

Two talks will be presented, first an overview of High Speed Rail technologies including current high speed rail in Japan, China, France, and Germany given by Dr. William Kao. The other talk will focus on High Speed Rail plans for California presented by Dr. Lester H. Lee.

Please join us and learn more about this fascinating and relevant topic.  The seminar will also provide an environment for proactive dialogue on this subject and an opportunity to exchange views among participants and a chance of networking.  See you there!!

Best Regards
Chinese American Renewable Energy Society-a CleanTech Group of Chinese Institute of Engineers CIE/USA-SF)
www.carescleantech.org

 5/18/2010 (Tuesday) 6:30pm~ 9:30pm  Green Transportation Seminar

 "High Speed Rail: An Overview" Dr. William Kao
Talk Abstract:
In this talk Dr. Kao will give  an overview of what is High Speed Rail(HSR) , its benefits (cost, safety, productivity, reliability, clean emissions) , HSR technologies: electromagnetic suspension (EMS), and electrodynamic suspension (EDS); and high speed rail around the world: Japan (Shinkansen), France (TGV), Germany(Siemens) ,China(Transrapid) ,etc.

Speaker Bio: Dr. William Kao
Dr. William Kao received his BSEE, MSEE and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has worked in the Semiconductor and Electronic Design Automation industries for 30 years holding senior and  executive (Director, VP) engineering management positions at Texas Instruments, Xerox Corporation, and Cadence Design Systems.

Dr. Kao has authored more than 40 technical papers and holds several software and IC patents. He was an  Adjunct Professor at UCLA Electrical Engineering Department where he taught courses in computer aided circuit design.Dr. Kao is a Senior Member of IEEE, and was one of the founding members of IEEE-Circuits and Systems - Silicon Valley Chapter, where he was Chapter Chair in 2005 and 2006.

Dr. Kao currently teaches Renewable Energy and Clean Technology courses at UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Extension, and at the Silicon Valley Technical Institute in San Jose. He is also on the Technical Advisory Board for Sigma Quest on the topics of Energy and Environment, and Quality Control, and is a consultant for several Clean Tech companies. Dr. Kao is currently President and Founder of CARES (Chinese American Renewable Energy Society), now The Clean Technology Group  of the Chinese Institute of  Engineers (CIE) USA-SF, where he is also a Board Member.

"California High Speed Rail" Dr. Lester H. Lee  (李心培博士)
Talk Abstract:
California High Speed Rail is a major infrastructure project for improving passenger rail travel within the State of California. Its current plan calls for a budget of $45 billion with only a quarter of this amount secured. Rest of the funding is still up on the air. People are wondering if this project will ever get off the ground.

With over $200 million already spent over the past 15 years for design and planning, but not much to show for progress, it is about time that we should look into why our State and this country is falling way behind China and other developed countries on the race for high speed rail.

Perhaps we need to look at this project more from the business angle and narrow down the focus to a more sensible and profitable model. Hopefully our gathering will motivate some constructive discussions and identify areas where we can make some positive inputs.

Speaker Bio: Dr. Lester H. Lee
Dr. Lester H. Lee is one of the old timers in Silicon Valley.  He came to America 50 years ago after finishing high school in China.  He is a graduate of Univ. of Illinois and settled in Silicon Valley after getting his Ph. D. from Stanford.

He is currently president of Recortec, Inc. a company he started 30 years ago.  Recortec is now the oldest Chinese owned hi-tech company.

Dr. Lee is the founder and past president of a number of prominent Chinese hi-tech organizations such as CIE, Chinese Institute of Engineers, AAMA, Asian American Manufacturers Association, and MJ, Monte-Jade Technology Association.

He has also been extremely active in the Chinese community.  He and his wife Helen have been major supporters of all Chinese political candidates in America.  He himself is the first ever Chinese appointed to the Board of Regents, the governing body of the 10 campus University of California.

Back in year 2000, he also founded and served as the first chairperson of Northern California Chinese for Peaceful Unification (CPU-NC).  He and his wife Helen resides in Saratoga, Ca. 

李心培博士是資深矽谷企業家, 祖籍湖南, 四八年中學畢業後來美, 先在伊利諾大學專修機械工程, 六五年在史丹佛大學拿博士學位, 在舊金山矽谷居住將近 五十年, 他在七零年成立的錄高特公司, 目前是華人在矽谷最早成立的高科技公司.

李博士工餘亦多參與社區活 動, 八零年代與科技界同仁創立中國工程師協會, 亞美製造商協會, 玉山科技協會, 擔任創會理事及理事長職務, 九三年當任首位加州大學華裔校董, 2000年出任北加 州和平統一促進會創會會長。