The Power Engineering track returns again this year to report on technologies and advances in the industry. Topics include fuel cell development, internet connectivity over power lines, transmission grid zonal vs. nodal congestion management, and wind power generation. This track also features an ethics training class designed to fulfill the Texas Professional Engineers' annual ethics education requirement.

The Biotechnologies track brings together biotechnologists, academe, and engineers to discuss the current biomedical industry issues and successes. This year's topics include the latest advances in biocompatible artificial nanostructures, ocular patient drug delivery systems, 3-D holography, bio-sensors, and processes for molecular-level data measurement and pancreatic islet cell transplantation.

The Emerging Technologies track, a continuing high-tech feature of MetroCon, returns again with even broader range of topics. This year's talks cover topics in wireless micro electro-mechanical sensor networks, noise models in vanishingly smaller circuits, the 'human' simulator, submarine-launched and recoverable unmanned air vehicles, and testing of object-oriented software systems.

Three exciting tracks and our lunchtime keynote address celebrity makes this year's MetroCon one that will be hard to forget. We hope to see you all there!

This year's MetroCon patrons:

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
TXU Energy
TechFortWorth
Medical Product Innovation