ENGR 1 VIDEO LIST, from MIT SCHOOL of ENGINEERING

Between Human And Machine: Feedback, Control, And Computing Before Cybernetics — David A. Mindell, Frances and David Dibner Associate Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, MIT

Biomaterials and How They Will Change our Lives — Robert S. Langer, Kenneth J. Germeshausen Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, MIT

Fractals in Science, Engineering and Finance (Roughness and Beauty) Benoit B. Mandelbrot, Sterling Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Yale University, IBM Fellow (Emeritus)

 

Building a Community on Trust — David Baltimore, Nobel Laureate; President, California Institute of Technology

The Innovation Economy: How Technology Is Transforming Existing Industries and Creating New OnesTechnology Review's 2002 TR100 Symposium

The Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies: Taking Nanotechnology from the Laboratory to the Soldier — Edwin L. Thomas, Director, Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies and Morris Cohen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT

Living with Catastrophic Terrorism: Can Science and Technology Make the U.S. Safer? — Lewis M. Branscomb, Co-chair, Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism, National Research Council; Professor Emeritus, Harvard University.

National Missile Defense Or Offense? The True Role of the US Missile Defense System — Panelists: Randall Forsberg, Dingli Shen, and Lisbeth Gronlund; Moderator: Kosta Tsipis, Research Scientist, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

 

The Politically Correct Atomic Reactor — Andrew C. Kadak, Professor of the Practice of Nuclear Engineering, MIT

 

Technology and Humanity in the 21st Century — Michael Dertouzos, Director of the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, 1974-2001

Thoughts on the Evolution of Chemical Engineering: One MIT Perspective — Robert A. Brown, Provost, MIT; Warren K. Lewis Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, MIT

The Wallenberg Lecture on Sustainability and the Environment at MIT — Leif Johansson, President of AB Volvo and CEO of the Volvo Group

 

Why Robbie Can't Learn: The Difficulty of Learning in Autonomous Agents — Leslie Pack Kaelbling, Professor of Electrical Engineering; Associate Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

 

Why So Slow? The Advancement of Women — Virginia Valian, Professor of Psychology and Linguistics, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Engineering 1 Speakers/Shadow List                                                                  Fall 2004

 

 

David Korpi      MPC, UC Berkeley, EE/ME. Consulting. Formerly Sierra Instruments in

Monterey (gas&liquid flow measurers). R&D to manufacture cycle.

 

Kevin Gilman    MPC ’75, Cal Poly SLO, Mechanical Engineering; Chief Engineer Lansmont

Corporation -- container vibration/load testing equipment. field trip possible

http://www.lansmont.com/default.htm

 

Mark Chaffe     MPC grad, EE/oceanographic, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) Chief Engineer -- ROV, undersea data acquisition systems. field trip possible

 

Terry Kunysz    Software Publisher. Ins and outs of commercial software development.

 

L. J. Nickisch    EE/Signal Processing, Mission Research Corporation.  Radar detection of distant planes and ships, ballistic missile identification, subatomic physics (zero-point-field)

 

Linda Tripp       Civil Engineer, Environmental Consultant with Montgomery Watson. Water pipeline design, routing studies through construction, reservoirs and pump stations.

 

Michael Goodhue          Civil Engineer, Monterey City Hall Public Works Department

 

Robert Jenson   Industrial engineer, works at company that makes mufflers for Harley Davidson

motorcycles. Field trip possible.