{"id":557,"date":"2012-08-28T07:10:12","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T07:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/?p=557"},"modified":"2012-08-28T07:11:34","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T07:11:34","slug":"aua-faculty-receive-accolades-at-2011-armtech-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/aua-faculty-receive-accolades-at-2011-armtech-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"AUA Faculty Receive Accolades at 2011 ArmTech Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11 October 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 4th annual\u00a0<strong>ArmTech\u201911 Congress<\/strong>was held October 10-11, 2011 under the patronage of the Prime Minister of Armenia.\u00a0 The Congress aims to attract high-tech industry professionals and interested parties to gather together to boost communication and cooperation among Armenian high-tech executives worldwide. \u00a0Two AUA leaders were invited to speak at this year\u2019s Congress.\u00a0 President Bruce Boghosian\u2019s presentation about the future of AUA was given by Dean of the College of Engineering, Dr. Aram Hajian.\u00a0 In addition, Dr. Ken Touryan presented the concept behind Armenia\u2019s renewal energy roadmap.\u00a0 At the closing Gala Dinner of the Congress, two longtime AUA leaders were bestowed medals for their contribution to the university as well as for their participation in all four ArmTech Congresses to date.\u00a0 Dr. Touryan, who recently retired from the positions of VP of Research &amp; Development and Director of the Engineering Research Center (ERC), and Dr. Artak Hambarian, Associate Director of the ERC, were awarded the ArmTech Medal and are pictured below.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-559\" title=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><br \/> From left to right: Rich Goldman (Synopsys), Ken Touryan (AUA), Tigran Davtyan (Minister of Economy, RoA), Tony Moroyan (Viasphere Technopark).<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-560\" title=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><br \/> From left to right: Rich Goldman (Synopsys), Artak Hambarian (AUA), Tigran Davtyan (Minister of Economy, RoA), Tony Moroyan (Viasphere Technopark).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Ken Touryan, former Vice President of Research and Development, and Dr. Artak Hambarian, Associate Director of the Engineering Research Center, were awarded medals for their contributions to the university and the field of engineering at the 4th annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armtechcongress.com\/\">ArmTech\u201911 Congress<\/a> held on October 10-11, 2011, under the auspices of Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. The annual ArmTech Congress attracts industry professionals as well as others to boost communication and cooperation among Armenian high-tech executives worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebulletin.aua.am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}