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Topic of the speech: Challenges and Opportunities in Sustainable Development of China Textile Industry
 Academician Yao Mu is a renowned expert in textile materials. In 1930, he was born in Nantong City, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from the Department of Textile Engineering in Northwest University of Technology in 1952 and stayed in the university to become a lecturer. In 2001, he was elected by the Chinese Academy of Engineering. Currently, he is the honorary president, professor, doctoral advisor and director of academic committee in Xi’an Polytechnic University. He is also the Director and member of the Textile and Clothing Disciplinary Higher Educational Teaching Guidance Committee of the Ministry of Education. Prof. Yao was the President of Xi’an Polytechnic University (formerly known as Institute of Northwest Textile Engineering), a member of the Second and Third Review Panel of the State Council Academic Degrees Committee, Director of the China Textile Engineering Society, Honorary President of Shaanxi Provincial Textile Engineering Society, Honorary President of China Association for Standardization Fiber Subcommittee and Vice-chairman of Shaanxi Provincial Science Association.
Prof. Yao has always played a leading role in research and education. The book on "Textile Materials" edited by him has become a classic work in textile and clothing field in China Mainland. He was actively engaged in research of clothing comfort and made outstanding original contributions in fabric physical testing, physical testing of clothing microclimate environment and human psychological testing. He has led the research in the design theory and engineering technology for fabricating wool-like synthetic fibers, and made a number of breakthroughs in multi-differential and multi-composite deformation processing technology. He designed new generation of fabrics for military uniform and obtained the State First Prize Science and Technology Progress Award in 2001. Prof. Yao studied and developed a range of textile testing instruments and standards, and developed more than 20 state and/or military standards for textiles. He has published more than 180 papers and 8 research monographs and/or translated books. He has trained 18 PhD graduates and 43 MSc graduates.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keynote speakers: (The sequence is in alphabetic order of the surname) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Use of 3D Body Scanning in Apparel Research and the Apparel Industry
Professor Susan Ashdown is the Helen G. Canoyer Professor in the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design at Cornell University. She has taught at Cornell University for 28 years, and has been in the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design since 1991. The questions that inform her research and teaching focus on the interactions between apparel design and technology, and the changes that are occurring in the way that apparel is designed, produced, and distributed using new and developing technologies. The current focus of her work is on apparel sizing and fit and the design of functional apparel. Her research group, the Cornell Body Scan Research Group, was started in the year 2000 with the purchase of a Human Solutions Vitus body scanner. Dr. Ashdown currently uses three scanners in her research on the design, sizing, fit, and function of apparel, automated custom fit of apparel, apparel fit assessment in research and industry settings, virtual fit, and interactions of materials and design in both fashion and functional design.
The work of Dr. Ashdown and her group can be found in over fifty papers published in refereed journals, and in several book chapters. More than 100 seminars, posters, and presentations of the research have been made at national and international conferences and at universities around the world. The work of the Cornell Body Scan Research Group has consistently been at the forefront of 3D body scan research, with a concentration on studies of fit from comparative scans of clothed and unclothed bodies, changes in body measurements and clothing fit in active positions, and analysis methods using visualization of body scan data. Dr. Ashdown has edited a book titled Sizing in Clothing: Developing Effective Sizing Systems for Ready-To-Wear Clothing. She was the 2009 Distinguished Scholar at the International Textile and Apparel Association conference.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Novel Pseudo-Protein Biomaterials for Textile Bioengineering
Professor Chih-Chang Chu is the Rebecca Q. Morgan ’60 Professor of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, & Biomedical Engineering Program at Cornell University.
Chu joined the Cornell faculty in 1978 after completing postdoctoral research on biomaterials at the Medical Center of the University of Alabama in Birmingham. He received his PhD in polymer science under the late Prof. Leo Mandelkern from the Dept. of Chemistry, Florida State University. He is the first recipient of the endowed Rebecca Q. Morgan ’60 chaired professor and the recipient of the State University of New York Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in May, 2009. He is also the guest professor of Chang-Chun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science in Chang-Chun, and DongHua University in Shanghai. Chu is also serving on the Biology/Medicine Panel of the Hong Kong Research Grant Council, and the editorial board of The Open Biomaterial Journal, The Open Material Science Journal, the J. of Bioengineering and Biomedical Sci. He has published more than 160 referred research papers, a recipient of 63 US and international patents and 43 pending, and an author and editor of the book “Wound Closure Biomaterials and Devices”.
Chu’s research includes the design and synthesis of new novel biodegradable polymers, and their engineering into hydrogels, microspheres, fibers and fabrics for tissue regeneration, vascular grafts, heart valves, artificial skins, bone regeneration, wound healing and infection control, wound closure, drug control/release, cancer treatment, DNA carriers for gene therapy, identification and forensic purposes. Some examples include the synthesis of new biodegradable polymers for immunotherapy of cancer patients, biomaterials for reducing restenosis of vascular stents, drug-eluting fibrous membranes for treating burn victims, novel substrates for bone, blood vessel and heart valve engineering and cell preservation, electrified sutures for wound infection control, biodegradable vascular grafts, functional wound closure biomaterials for eliminating wound infection during surgery and novel non-viral gene transfection agents. One of Dr. Chu’s new inventions 'Biodegradable, Bioactive, & Programmable Hydrogels' was chosen as a semifinalist for Discover Columbus Foundation Award competition. Chu also teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses, and develops a new course “Biomaterials and Medical Devices for Human Body Repair”.
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Topic of the speech: Sustainable Fashion Textiles Utopia: Through Technological Enhancement
Dr Joan Farrer joined the University of Brighton Faculty of Arts UK in 2010, engaging with Design & Materials Practice, Fashion & Textiles, and Physical & Biomedical science research programs. She is Director of the Design Research Initiative DR-i. Farrer has 30 years global fashion and textiles industry expertise in design and policy development with her SME (small to medium enterprise), then as a consultant for industrial retailers, NGO’s (non-governmental organizations), UK Government, EU and NZ institutions. Her acclaimed Royal College of Art PhD, in 2000, was a first in fashion textile global supply chain analysis, focusing on economic, social and environmental production (sustainability) analysing the journey of one wool fibre from cradle to cradle. Dr Joan Farrer's major collaborations include developing CSR (corporate social responsibility) for northern hemisphere retailers and their developing world partners, the establishment of EU Work wear sector ISO purchasing Standards for clean manufacturing supply chains, the development of barrier technologies for melanoma prevention and ‘Smart’ security textiles for military and wellbeing applications. Her previous academic posts additional to visiting lecturer, examiner and program moderator in the UK and overseas include acting director of MA Fashion at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Senior Research Fellow Textile Futures Innovation Centre at University of Arts London, Senior Research Tutor at the Royal College of Art London, Director of the Textile and Design Lab and Associate Professor Fashion Textiles in Auckland New Zealand. Farrer has been advisor, co author and co investigator for AHRC and EPSRC funded projects and reviews, and writes for various trade and academic publications. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Topic of the speech: Times of Changes - The Evolution of Textile and Fiber Research in the USA
Professor Ian R. Hardin is the Georgia Power Company Professor of Textile Science at the University of Georgia. He has spent 40 years teaching fiber, textile and polymer chemistry at Auburn University and the University of Georgia. He has over ninety five scientific and technical papers published in journals, several book chapters, and more than seventy research presentations. He has received extramural funding of more than $7 million for his research. His work focuses on the use of enzymes for fiber chemical processing, as well as unique surface treatments of fabrics. Dr. Hardin organized the Second International Conference on Biotechnology and Textiles, held in 2002 in Athens, and the fall meeting of the Fiber Society in 2009. Hardin is a Guest Professor at Donghua University. He was Head of the Department of Textiles at the University of Georgia from 1994-2004, and is currently Director of Academy of the Environment at UGA, and President of the Fiber Society. Dr. Hardin received the Olney Medal for achievement in textile chemistry from the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists this year.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Bleach Activators for Environmentally Efficient Bleaching of Textiles
Professor David Hinks is the Cone Mills Professor of Textile Chemistry in the Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry and Science and Director of the Forensic Sciences Institute at North Carolina State University. Dr. Hinks attended the University of Leeds where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Colour Chemistry in 1989 and a Ph.D. in Organic Dye Chemistry in 1993. He joined the faculty at NC State in 1998 after several years as a post doctoral research associate and two years as a Research and Development Chemist at Milliken & Company.
Dr. Hinks has published more than 100 peer-reviewed and conference papers. His research group focuses on color perception and modeling; development of environmentally benign textile wet processing methods, and improved methods in forensic textile analysis.
In 2002 he became a member of the NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers, and in 2011 was inducted into the NCSU Academy of Outstanding Faculty Engaged in Extension. Since 1999 he has been Academic Editor of Coloration Techn, ology, the Journal of the Socie, , , , ty of Dyers and Colourists. In 2010, he was awarded the Society of Dyers and Colourists’ Silver Medal.
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Topic of the speech: The Value-Based Approach to the Japanese Street Fashion
Professor Kanji Kajiwara joined Shinshu University as a Special Project Professor for the High-Function Fiber Nanotechnology Innovation Center and is a Specially Appointed Professor at the Research Institute for Textile Science at Kyoto Institute of Technology. He had started his carrier as a polymer physicist, speci ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Functional Nanofibers for Wound Healing Applications
Professor Frank K. Ko is Director of the Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory and Canada Research Chair Professor of Advanced Fibrous Materials in the Department of Materials Engineering at the University of British Columbia. He received his Ph.D. degree in Textile Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a SAMPE Fellow and recipient of the American Society for Composites award and the Fiber Society Award for Distinguished Achievement, Professor Ko has co-authored three books and contributed to 34 book chapters. He has presented and published over 450 papers in the engineering design and analysis of fibrous structures for medical, industrial and advanced composite applications. He is serving on the editorial board of several Journals including the area editor of nanofiber technology for the Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics. He served on the Roadmap team for the Aerospace Industry Association and as a member of the advisory committee on soldier protection for the Army Board of Sciences of the National Research Council. He is a guest professor at the Dnnghua University and the Zhejiang Sci-Tech University and currently serving as a member of the advisory committee for CANMET of Natural Resource Canada.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Textiles for Global Change
Marian G. McCord Ph.D. is an Associate Professor with appointments in the Department of Textile Engineering, Chemistry, and Science at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA, the Joint UNC/NCSU Department of Biomedical Engineering in Raleigh and Chapel Hill, NC, USA, and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. McCord is the Director of Global Health Initiatives for NCSU. She received her Sc.B. in Biomedical Engineering at Brown University, and an M.S. in Bioengineering and Ph.D. in Textiles and Polymer Science at Clemson University. Dr. McCord has 16 years experience in development and characterization of protective and medical textiles, and has been active in consulting for the medical device industry. Recently, she spent one year working in research and development of hemostatic wound dressings with a small business in RTP (Entegrion, Inc.), and completed her first book (Gad and McCord, Safety Evaluation in the Development of Medical Devices and Combination Products, Informa, 2008). Dr. McCord sees her research field as "textiles as interventions" - i.e., textiles that prevent or tre, at disease, or improve human health and well-being. Some of her global health related projects include non-chemical insecticidal bednets and low cost hemostatic bandages. She is a scientific advisor to Sustainable Health Enterprises, a social venture dedicated to meeting the needs for safe and affordable sanitary products for women in the developing world. Dr. McCord has been the co-Director of the Atmospheric Plasma Laboratory at the College of Textiles at NCSU for 10 years, and is a co-founder of Katharos, Inc., a company that with license technology developed to provide phosphate filtration solutions for end-stage renal disease patients.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Biodegredable Electrospun Material for Tissue Engineering
Professor Budimir Mijovic currently holding the position of Vice dean for science and working as a full professor and researcher at the Department of basic natural and technical sciences at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Textile Technology, Croatia. He finished his Ph.D. degree in the field of biomaterials and bioengineering at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Zagreb. After his Ph.D. his research was focused on the mechanics of blood vessels and biorheology.
At the moment he is the Head of the Laboratory of Nanotechnology at the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Textile Technology, Croatia. His main area of interest is electrospinning processes, nanofiber biomaterials and nanocomposite materials. His work in the past years is under the scope of electrospun fibrous structures development, for the purpose of accelerated wound healing in collaboration with the Medical Department of high level burns treatment. Design of dermal electrospun nanofibre fabrics (replacements) and multifunctional dermal electrospun scaffolds is also part of his research area, furthermore, investigation of new types of matrices for 3D – culture growth (e.g. PCL, polyurethane membrane, fibroin membrane, silicone-collagane membrane and HA (hyaluronic acid) membranes). His broader interest concerns the CEA (cultured epithelial auto/allografts) and skin equivalent growth with an epidermal and dermal component.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Textile Structural Green Composites
 Professor Yiping Qiu received his B.S. degree in Textile Engineering at Zhejiang Science and Technology University in 1982 M.S. degree in Textile Science at Auburn University in 1988, and Ph.D. degree in Fiber Science at Cornell University in 1992. He then did his post doctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Prof. Stanley Backer from 1992 – 1994. Afterwards, he worked as a Principal Materials Scientist in the Timberland Company, and an Assistant Professor at Kansas State University and North Carolina State University. In 2003 he joined College of Textiles at Donghua University as a University Titled Professor. He is currently the Dean of the College of Textiles, and the Director of the National Key Discipline of Textile Materials Science and Product Design. He is also serving as the Vice Chairman of SAMPE Shanghai Chapter, was an adjunct professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at North Carolina State University, and the Chairman of the Textile Engineering Division, American Society for Mechanical Engineers. His research interests include 3D textile structural composites, fiber matrix interfacial analysis, plasma surface modification of polymeric materials, and nanofiber films.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Textile Colours: Appearance, Impression and Buying Motivation
 Professor Tetsuya Sato is a professor in Division of Design Engineering and Management at Kyoto Institute of Technology (KIT), and the Head of Textile Design Strategy Group at the Center of Fiber and Textile Science of KIT. He is also a visiting professor at the Department of Color Science at University of Leeds in UK and Dept of Imaging and Printing Technology at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.
He graduated from KIT with a master degree in Color Chemistry post-graduate course, and obtained his Ph.D from Otsuma Women’s University with his research on colorimetric method for assessing color fastness of textiles. He is interested in Color science, Psychology, Human interface, Brain science, Optics, Material technology, Environmental technology, Fashion business and so on. Therefore, he is extending his research in Color culture, Color psychology and Color business. Now he is trying to bridge the gap between research on physical properties and human sensations in color and textile fields. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topic of the speech: Individualized Pattern Making of Basic Garments Using 3D Body Scan
 Professor Takatera Masayuki studied textile engineering at the Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, graduated 1981, and gained his Eng. Dr. from Shinshu University, 1995. He is serving on Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University; Department of Textile Engineering, 1982-1988, Department of Functional Machinery, 1988-1995, Department of Kansei Engineering 1995-, Associate Professor 1997-2004, Professor 2004-. He is a member of Sen'i Gakkai(Society of Fiber Science and Technology, Japan), Sen'i Kikai Gakkai(Japan Society of Textile Machinery), JSME(Japan Society of Mechanical Engineering), Nihon Sanshi Gakkai(Japanese Society of Sericultural Science), JSKE ( Japan Society of KANSEI Engineering), etc. He is also the director and vice-president of JSKE, editor of Sen'i Gakkai-Shi and JSKE, former editor of the Journal of Textile Engineering.
Professor Takatera Masayuki was awarded the best paper award from Society of Fibre Science and Technology, Japan (2000), technical award from Japan Society of Textile Machinery (2001), prize from the Society of Fibre Science and Technology, Japan(2005), technical award from Japan Society of Kansei Engineering (2003, 2009), Outstanding Paper Award from Emerald Literati Network (2006). His research interests are structural mechanics of fibres and fibre assemblies (fabrics generally); clothing engineering; Kansei engineering for both apparel and textile field.
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Topic of the speech: Strategic Planning and Implementation of the Croatian Anthropometric System
 Professor Darko Ujević earned a Ph. D. degree in 1998 at the Faculty of Textile Technology of the University of Zagreb. He started his teaching activities at the technical high school in 1988, and since 1996 he has been a technical associate at the Technical Faculty of the University of Bihać. Since 1990 he has been employed at the Faculty of Textile Technology of the University of Zagreb. He has been the Dean of the Faculty of Textile Technology since October 1, 2006, for the second time around. He was and is the main researcher and manager of the several scientific projects and of the compound technological project “Croatian Anthropometric System”. He is the project coordinator in Croatia for the two bilateral projects with Austria and Hungary regarding to the anthropometric measurements and 3D modeling of human body. He develops a professional and scientific collaboration with the Institute of Textile Technology and Process Engineering in Dekendorf, Technical University of Łódź, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Technical Faculty of the University of Bihać.
He published 11 scientific papers in CC journals, 14 scientific papers, 24 papers in other journals and 13 other papers. In Books of Conference Proceedings he published 82 papers, 45 other papers and 21 abstracts. Also he published eight university textbooks, four historical sports books, two manuals for anthropometric measurements, one book of proceedings, one scientific professional book and seven technical books. For the needs of the textile and clothing industry he completed more than 100 studies and information projects. He has one innovation, one technical improvement and three patent applications.
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Topic of the speech: Recent Developments in Nanofibre Nonwoven and Nanofibre Yarn Technologies in Australia  Professor Xun-Gai Wang is the Director of Centre for Material and Fibre Innovation (CMFI) at Deakin University (www.deakin.edu.au/cmfi). The Centre i, s Deakin’s largest multidisciplinar, y research group working on a range of materials. In the 2011 national report on the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), the Centre’s research is ranked in the highest rating band of 5.
Professor Xungai Wang holds a first degree in Mechanical Engineering from Xian Polytechnic University, a PhD in Fibre Science and Technology and a Graduate Diploma in Higher Education from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Before joining Deakin University in 1998, he was a Lecturer in the School of Fibre Science and Technology and then a Senior Lecturer in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at UNSW. Professor Wang's research interests are primarily in fibre science and technology, as well as in the application of new materials and technologies to fibres and textiles.
He is the 2005 recipient of Fiber Society (based in US) Distinguished Achievement Award, the only researcher in Australia to have received this award to date.
In 2006, he was named the Alfred Deakin Professor, the highest Honour that Deakin University can bestow on a member of staff, in recognition of his outstanding and sustained contribution to research at Deakin University.
Between 2008 and 2010, Professor Wang was a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts.
He is currently a member of the Governing Council of the Fiber Society, and serves on the editorial advisory committee of 4 international research journals.
In 2010, Deakin was granted a $37 million grant under the federal, government’s Education Investment Fund (EIF), to establish the Australian Future Fibres Research and Innovation Centre (AFFRIC), in collaboration with CSIRO MSE and Victorian Centre for Advanced Materials Manufacturing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Topic of the speech: Recent Research and Development in Protective Clothing in Korea.
Professor Kee Jong Yoon studied Fiber & Polymer Science Program at North Carolina State University and gained his Ph.D. in 1989. After working at US Department of Agriculture, Northern Regional Research Center in USA he became a professor of the department of textile engineering, at Dankook University in 1990. He was appointed as director of Center for Innovative Engineering Education from 2006 to 2009 and director of Personal Protective Equipment Center from 2005 to 2011. He organized the 1st Asian Protective Clothing Conference on June, 2010.
His research areas are protective clothing, synthesis & characterization of polyester copolymers such as poly(ether-ester) copolymers with poly(butylene 2,6- naphthalate) hard segments for breathable film, modification of fibers with micro-nano sized inorganic particles, starch based super absorbents and natural dyeing. Currently he is expanding the research on protective clothing to military end uses, especially flame resistant army combat uniform and soft/hard armor.
He founded the Personal Protective Equipment Center (PPEC) in 2005, and is in charge of the multi organization government project on development of protective textile materials and protective clothing. PPEC has various flame related testing equipment and a flash fire testing mannequin system which is one of the 12 or so facility in the world and one of three in Asia. PPEC is the liason organization for ISO TC94 SC14 in Korea. He serves as the Korean delegate for ISO TC94 SC13 and ISO TC94 SC14.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Structure/Property Relationship in Nanofibres
Professor Robert J. Young FREng studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and gained his PhD in 1973. After working at Queen Mary College in London he became Professor of Polymer Science and Technology in Manchester in 1986. From 1992 to 1997 he was the Royal Society Wolfson Research Professor of Material Science. Professor Young also chaired the Metallurgy and Materials panels for the UK Research Assessment Exercises in 1996 and 2001. In 2004 he was appointed Head of the School of Materials in the newly-formed University of Manchester and elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2006. He is currently also a Visiting Chair Professor in the Institute of Textiles and Clothing at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Professor Young’s main research interest is the relationships between structure and properties in polymers and composites, publishing over 300 papers and a number of books, including a major textbook ‘Introduction to Polymers’, the third edition of which will be published in 2011. He an editor of the Journal of Materials Science and is listed in the ISI HighlyCited.com for his publications in Materials Science. He has undertaken extensive research upon structure/property relationships in polymers and composites. His interests have extended recently into the field nanotechnology, working closely with the 2010 Physics Nobel Prize winner Kostya Novoselov on the development of graphene-based composites.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topic of the speech: Investigation of new protocol for development of anthropometric mannequin of teenage girls through body scanning
Dr. Rong Zheng is the Professor in the School of Fashion Art & Engineering at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (BIFT). She studied textile & apparel technology at the
Dr. Zheng specializes in apparel ergonomics and clothing construction. Her current research is in the field of anthropometric technology & body shape identification, technical apparel design with a concentration on sizing & fit, and developing innovative apparel product based on ergonomics design concept. She has published some influential publications & national standards on her research area. The paper based on her PhD study related to development of a new Chinese bra sizing system was awarded as the Best Viewpoint in "the Best Inventions of the Year 2007" by Time Magazine. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop: Testing and Evalua, tion, Topic of the speech: Testing and Evaluation of Performance Fabrics and Apparel
Mr. Robert K. Lattie is presently the Director, Product Management, for SDL Atlas LLC, a global manufacturer of textile testing instruments. He has worked for SDL Atlas and their previous parent Atlas Material Testing Technology since 1966. During that time, a significant part of his responsibilities have been working with and in standards development organizations. Although, professionally he started his career as an Electrical Engineer from Case Western Reserve University, he has spent the last 28 years involved in the textile industry.
Mr. Lattie is a Past President of the American Association of Textile Chemists and Colorists (AATCC), is currently the chair of the AATCC International Test Methods Committee, and had led the development of AATCC International Training Courses. He is active in the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) and is the chair of ASTM subcommittee D13.99 Textiles, Coordination Committee for ISO & Foreign Textile Standards and the chair of ASTM subcommittee F23.96 Personal Protective Clothing and Equipment- International Standards Coordination. He chairs the USA Technical Advisory Group to ISO TC 38, Textiles and ISO TC94 Subcommittee 13 on Protective Clothing and Subcommittee 14 on Fire Fighter Personal Protective Equipment and is frequently the USA Head of Delegation for these international meetings. He is an assigned expert member of numerous working groups (WG) with these committees
In ISO, Mr. Lattie is the Chairman of ISO TC 38 SC01 on Tests for colored textiles and colorants and serves as the ISO Liaison Officer to CEN TC 248, Textiles.
Mr. Lattie is also a committee member of the British Standards Institute (BSI) committee TCI/24, Physical Testing of Textiles and committee TCI/066/0-/08, Burning Behaviour of Textiles.
As a strong believer in the value of harmonized international standards for the consumer and industry, he has lectured in the Americas, Europe, and Asia on the development and use of textile quality testing standards.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop: LCMT and EMP for Textile & Apparel Industry
Topic of the Speech: Sustainability in Textile Industry
Mr. Pat-Nie Woo is the Director of Central Textiles (Hong Kong) Ltd, an innovation leader in the textile field, with a number of proprietary patented technologies, and is also one of the first Asian (ex-Japan) mills to exhibit at top global fabric shows such as Premiere Vision and Expofil in Paris.
Under Mr. Woo’s leadership, Central Textiles actively promotes sustainable development in the textile and apparel industry; Central Textiles is the first Asian manufacturer in the textile and apparel industry to issue a sustainability report under the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) guidelines and one of the first vertical denim fabric mills to receive certification from Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) and Global Recycling Standard (GRS). The sustainability report has not only gathered interests from the industry, but has received praise from NGOs such as WWF Hong Kong and Oxfam.
Mr. Woo also serves as Chairman of the Sustainable Fashion Business Consortium (SFBC) in Hong Kong. Mr. Woo shows his passion in promoting the adoption of sustainable practices to industry across the fashion supply chain, from raw material suppliers to spinners and all the way to garment manufacturers, retailers and designers. Mr. Woo is determined to see SFBC become an agent of change, making the industry more conscious on environmental and social issues.
Through Central Textiles and SFBC, Mr. Woo has started an industry-wide initiative to introduce a more sustainable business model into the fashion supply chain. This initiative is the first of its kind in the textile and apparel industry and has received global recognition. Mr. Woo often speaks at major conferences in Hong Kong as well as in Europe and the US. The industry has been pleasantly surprised by the proactive approach that Asian manufacturers are taking in leading the industry into the second decade of the 21st Century and for his efforts, he was awarded the Young Industrialist of the Year award from the Federation of Hong Kong Industries (FHKI) in 2009.
Other posts that Mr. Woo holds include Chairman of the Hong Kong Cotton Spinners Association, General Committee member of the FHKI, Board member of the Textile and Clothing Training Board of the Vocational Training Council and Board member of the Hong Kong Research Institute of Textiles & Apparel.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forum 1: Topic of the speech: Making an Impact
Mr. Sixuan Zhong served as Chief Representative, China, for Engineering Information (Ei) from 1998 through 2009. He is the author of Scientific Writing and Publishing in English, Tianjin University Press, 2004.
Brief introduction of the presentation:
Having made enormous progress in higher education in recent years with pool of talent and substantial funding, more and more Chinese scientists and researchers are now communicating science globally. In order to produce world-class scientists and to have its research output to reflecting countless research projects being invested by the central government it is essential to write science. China produced close to 600,000 scientific papers from 1999-2008 according to ISI. Yet a great deal of published papers failed to make impacts. Some of these papers produced no new information. Some had new ideas with important experimental data but the authors were unable to present clearly and concisely in order to persuade their readers with original discovery.
There is a strong need to improve writing skills and presentation techniques. Graduate schools and research institutes should be responsible to educate young scientists to communicate science. Authors need to learn to convey their research findings timely and effectively. They need to be persuasive with unambiguous language showing conclusive evidence.
This talk, titled Making an Impact, puts emphasis on
By demonstrating examples to effectively use bibliographical databases such as Ei’s Engineering Village, the audience will learn how to obtain meaningful data to improve scientific writing skill and to increase chance of acceptance of their papers.
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