re : pserc industrial advisory board meeting invitation vince , i agree with alex on this issue . as an alternative for sponsorship . the ut electrical engineering dept . is interested in sponsorship for research activities such as the one i just completed or as martin performed when he was at ut ( just thought that i would mention this as a possible alternative ) . would you be interested in a presentation or a " brown bag lunch " on this subject ? lance alex huang 04 / 02 / 2001 08 : 55 am to : vince j kaminski / hou / ect @ ect cc : lance cunningham / na / enron @ enron subject : re : pserc industrial advisory board meeting invitation vince , i think it is important to keep a good relationship with pserc , but as of now , it is not worth two days of your time to attend the board meeting . besides , since we are not a sponsor yet , we have virtually no voice in the meeting and our presence sometimes is awkward . again , even if we are one of the thirty or so sponsors , our voice is rather limited , for most of the other sponsors have different concerns from ours . one way to remedy this is to individually sponsor some research projects , via sumer intern or invited talks . alex