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ITI Philosophy and Objectives:

To increase the standard of living and quality of life for all in a safe and secure environment without the need for anyone exploiting anyone else:

ITI promotes the efficient use of humanity's three major resources.

Natural resources, the precious limited gifts of Earth.
Human resources, in addition to the ability to work, the inexhaustible wealth of the human mind and its ability to create and to decide.
Human - generated resources, the collective knowledge, tools and techniques of mankind, his technology, with capital as a strategic planning tool.

In wealth creation for society all three resources are necessary with strategic capital acting as a catalyst in the creation process. ITI accentuates the positive role of technology and technology transfer in economics. ITI recognizes the need to protect our world to assure a higher quality of life for all.

Engineers, Scientists, and Technologists (ESTs) and related enterprises and organizations not only use existing resources to create new wealth for society, they create new resources for the purposes of increasing standard of living and quality of life.

For the above reasons, ESTs should be recognized by society. ITI acts as secretatriat for two ways of recognition.

HOFEST: Hall of Fame for Engineering,Science, and Technology.

IRTS: Internationally Registered Technology Specialists.

ITI is an International Technical Society

HOFEST is a global honors system which accomodates all existing honor systems in a unified fashion while maintaining their independence .

IRTS provides recognition for practicing specialists in any field ranked by their demonstrated level of competence on a unified global scale for increased economic benefit through significant global exposure.

Named medals for HOFEST:

The Rockwell Medal for Excellence in Technology.

The Zable Medal, for Excellence in Technology

Several signicant ITI activities in line for reactivation:

ICTTE, International Congress of Technology and Technology Exchange

CHHST, Center for Health and Human Services Technologies

In Memorium/ Dr. I.S. Tuba/ 1932-2008

Dr. Istvan Stephen Tuba, Founder of ITI, died recently in San Diego of natural causes.

He was born in a rural area of Hungary, near a chemical complex where his father became technical chief. In his youth Istvan competed in sports, notably the Modern Pentathlon in which he excelled, and he also edited the sport section of the region's newspaper.

Parallel activities became routine for Istvan over the rest of his life. While studying engineering at the Technical University of Budapest he also acted as technical chief of several trade schools in Budapest.

In the early 1950's he became obsessed with the concepts of wealth creation for society as initiated by studies in poliitcal economics. In 1956 he was a research engineer with the Csepel Automobile Factory.

After the 1956 Hungarian Revoution was crushed, Istvan and his wife Erzsebet (later Elizabeth) escaped to Austria from which they were sent as political refugees to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey.

By January of 1957 Istvan worked for Westinghouse Electric, East Pittsburgh. Pennsylvania. By 1960 he received the MSME degree from Carnegie Institute of Technology and in 1964 his Ph.D. in engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.

By this time he was working at the world famous Westinghouse R&D Center Mechanics Department. He produced numerous publications and lectured at Carnegie Mellon University and served as adjunct professor at University of Pittsburgh.

During 1970 he started his first engineering company in Pittsburgh, whose success was followed by the establishment of other companies there and in Los Angeles.