Contributor: Turbomachinery Laboratory

The 48^th Turbomachinery and 35^th International Pump Users Symposia (TPS 2019) is just one week away. Registration remains open online and will be open onsite.

TPS will be held in Houston, Texas at the George R. Brown Convention Center Tuesday-Thursday, Sept. 10-12, 2019. Short courses will be held in conjunction with the symposia on Monday, Sept. 9. 

New to TPS 2019

Women of TPS Luncheon

The Women of TPS luncheon is a forum for women of TPS to share experiences and challenges in the industry. It is also an avenue in which those experiences and challenges can be heard and understood by others, including upper management.

Both women and men are encouraged to attend. The luncheon is open to all individuals affiliated with the symposium, from technical engineers, to sales and marketing staff, to administrative professionals

• Wednesday, Sept. 11, noon-1:30 p.m.
• $50 – Add the luncheon when you register online, or register onsite. Only 8 seats are left!
• What’s included?

o    Discussion and Q&A with four female panelists representing the wide breadth of TPS and the turbomachinery and pump communities

o    Bag bingo (take home a designer purse or bag!)

o    Plated meal

35^th Anniversary of the Pump Symposium

This year marks the 35^th Anniversary of the Pump Symposium. Celebrate by joining us for cake in the front of the exhibit hall at 4:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 10. Stop by the TPS Social Media booth #2022 to hit a hole-in-one on our mini putting green, and take a commemorative anniversary golf ball back to the office with you. Golf balls are limited in supply—come and putt early.

Built on a history of success, the annual TPS promotes professional development, technology transfer, peer networking and information exchange among industry professionals. TPS 2018 attracted 4,750 delegates from 45 countries and 365 exhibiting companies.

“TPS offers everything one would hope to expect with the cost of shows: networking, current and potential customer contact, technical and learning sessions, trend observation, helpful staff, and most importantly, targeted exposure to the industry resulting in quality leads,” said Maeve McGoff, sales and marketing coordinator with Cincinnati Gearing Systems. “The Turbomachinery Show continues to be one [of our] most successful and beneficial platforms for industry exposure…TPS is relevant, and the best show in the turbomachinery industry.”

Technical Program

The technical program includes short courses, lectures, tutorials, case studies and discussion groups led by experts in their fields. The full program schedule is posted online here, and the entire event program can be viewed here. All proceedings from previous programs are available online, for free, at turbolab.tamu.edu/proceedings.

In preparation for next year’s program, the TPS 2020 call for papers is now open. Abstracts, one to three pages, are due Friday, Oct. 25, 2019. For more details on submission requirements as well as solicited areas of interest, visit tps.tamu.edu/program/submissions. TPS 2020 will be held Sept. 15-17, with short courses on Sept. 14. 

Exhibition

The exhibition will feature booths from more than 350 companies from the oil and gas, petrochemical, power, pump and turbomachinery industries. Companies will display full-size equipment, cutting-edge technology and emerging industry trends. During a portion of the symposia, exhibit hall entry will be free to the public.

To view the floorplan and list of exhibiting companies, visit tps.tamu.edu/exhibition.

Details

Registration for the symposia remains open online and will be available onsite. For more information on TPS 2019, including the full technical program, event schedule, exhibiting company list, registration procedures and more, visit tps.tamu.edu.