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<div><font color="#000000">We are pleased to invite you to a special
seminar sponsored by the Laboratory for Energy and the Environment and
the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering.</font></div>
<div> <b>(Please rsvp to kgibson@mit.edu</b>)</div>
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<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>"Engineering for the
21st Century: Managing Humanity's</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>Relationship with the
Environment"</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>Brad
Allenby</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>and Professor of
Law</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>Arizona State
University</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b><br></b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>Monday, November
8</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>12:00 - 1:30
p.m.</b></font></div>
<div align="center"><font color="#000000"><b>E40-496</b></font></div>
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</x-tab>A major result of the Industrial Revolution and the associated
changes in human demographics, cultures, and technological and
economic systems is the evolution of a planet where the dynamics of
major natural systems are increasingly affected by human activity.
Examples might include the climate system; regional complexes such as
the Everglades, the Baltic, and the Aral Sea; and bioengineering and
commoditization of genetic information. These impacts will
undoubtedly grow as a result of dramatically accelerating
technological evolution, especially given the NBIC convergence
(nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and communication
technology, and cognitive sciences). </font><br>
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</x-tab>These circumstances require the development of new,
non-traditional capabilities in engineering. At the Arizona
State University's Ira A. Fulton School Of Engineering, we are
responding by investigating new areas including engineering
macroethics (who's responsible for the ethical implications of the
Internet? Of nanotechnology?), and earth systems engineering and
management (how does one "engineer" the Everglades?). We are
also using Phoenix as a testbed for new visualization technologies,
and creating "clusters" and "themes" that provide a framework
for students and professors to work with more realistic and complex
problems. But providing today's engineering students with the
intellectual tools and frameworks to enable them to not only function
in an unpredictable, complex and rapidly changing technological
environment, but to help create a socially just and environmentally
desirable future, remains a fundamental challenge. </font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Brad Allenby is Professor of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, and Professor of Law, at Arizona State
University in Tempe, Arizona, and a Batten Fellow at the University of
Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business. Previously, he was
at AT&T for over twenty years, serving as senior environmental
counsel, research vice president for technology and environment, and
most recently as environment, health and safety vice
president.</font><br>
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<div><b>Please rsvp to kgibson@mit.edu if you plan to attend.
Pizza and drinks will be provided.</b></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">Karen L. Gibson</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Program Assistant</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">MIT Laboratory For Energy and the
Environment</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">77 Massachusetts Avenue,
E40-469</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">(1 Amherst St., E40-469 - for DHL and
FedEx)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Cambridge, MA 02139 USA</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Tel: 1 (617) 258-6368; Fax: 1
(617) 258-6590</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">http://lfee.mit.edu</font></div>
<div><font
color="#000000">http://globalsustainability.org</font></div>
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