{"id":58214,"date":"2017-03-31T16:27:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-01T02:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=58214"},"modified":"2020-08-07T14:45:15","modified_gmt":"2020-08-08T00:45:15","slug":"elele-college-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/03\/31\/elele-college-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"$170M in convention business generated by College of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 3<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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From left, Debbie Zimmerman, ʻElele Program director, Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Tourism Authority; Ron Riggs, interim dean, UH<\/abbr> Mānoa College of Engineering; David Lassner, president, University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>; Wayne Shiroma, professor, College of Engineering; Magdy Iskander, professor, UH<\/abbr> Mānoa College of Engineering; Kalani Kaʻanaʻana, director of Hawaiian cultural affairs, Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Tourism Authority (Photo: Keith Uehara Photography)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Convention Center<\/a> opened in 1998, the College of Engineering<\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa has helped secure meetings and conventions business worth more than $170 million in visitor spending. In March, in recognition of these accomplishments, the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Tourism Authority<\/a> and Meet Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> (a collaboration of the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Visitors and Convention Bureau<\/a> and the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Convention Center) named the college the ʻElele Organization of the Year.<\/p>\n

College of Engineering Interim Dean Ron Riggs<\/strong> said, “The College of Engineering is grateful to be recognized for the contributions we make to Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>’s economy via the visitor industry. Engineering is, of course, critical to our technology-based economy, and it has been recognized by the governor as a driver of innovation, but this award shows the importance of a side benefit of the work we do to bring international researchers to Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> for technical meetings.”<\/p>\n

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