From MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU Fri Jun 1 11:08:23 2007 From: MIT.WORLD at MIT.EDU (MIT.WORLD) Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2007 11:08:23 -0400 Subject: [Mitworld] New: Sheffi on Engineering Education, Primack on Global Warming Message-ID: <61118.ECYIMRMF@MIT.EDU> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 6 | Number 38 | June 1, 2007 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - - - View the latest additions to MIT World: - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [GEEKS AND CHIEFS: ENGINEERING EDUCATION AT MIT] Sheffi proposes radical change to the MIT Engineering curriculum. SPEAKER: Yossi Sheffi Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Engineering Systems Director, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "The MIT undergraduate education needs to have two basic missions: Educating world-class experts and educating world-class leaders." -- Yossi Sheffi EVENT HOST: Engineering Systems Division ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [GLOBAL WARMING, UP CLOSE AND LOCAL] Signs of global warming aren't turning up just at the polar ice caps. When daffodils bloom in January in New England, it's clear the climate is off kilter more generally. Primack explains a major research effort designed to document local signs of global warming. SPEAKER: Richard B. Primack Professor of Conservation Biology, Boston University PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Early flowering plants are very responsive to climate change, whereas late flowering ones like goldenrods are not very responsive. Highbush blueberry is flowering almost a month earlier than 150 years ago." -- Richard Primack EVENT HOST: MIT Museum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ authors at MIT presents William J. Mitchell Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences Director of the Smart Cities Research Group-MIT Media Lab Imagining MIT: Designing a Campus for the 21st Century ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Professional Institute [2007 SUMMER SHORT COURSES] Intensive programs from 1 to 5 days long: * led by renowned MIT faculty * taught on the MIT campus with MIT resources * geared for busy professionals * designed for in-depth learning * grant certificates and CEUs in biotechnology, chemical engineering, energy, data modeling and analysis, IT, lean fundamentals, mechanical engineering, nanotechnology, nuclear systems, lasers & optics, technology policy, system architecture and other topics of vital interest to today's engineers and scientists. For a complete listing of 2007 courses, visit the MIT Professional Institute ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. SPONSORS Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services IS&T - DCAD Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Education Programs 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-433 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Kennedy U.S. Senator, Massachusetts PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "The political leaders who founded this university embraced progress. They valued independent academic inquiry. They believed politics should be influenced and informed by science, not the other way around." -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy EVENT HOST: The Office of the President of MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [BIOLOGICAL LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION] Though Stephen Quake's research is confined to the smallest of scales, his achievements have already made a large impact on the study of biology. SPEAKER: Stephen Quake Professor of Bioengineering and Applied Physics Co-Chair, Department of Bioengineering Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Many limits, even physical ones, are somewhat arbitrary. ... If you expand your mind a little bit, you can find ways to go around them. The initial limit is a philosophical one: we'll ask the question, is it beyond the reach of physics to predict biology?" -- Stephen Quake EVENT HOST: Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT Communications Forum presents Media in Transition 5 (MIT5) Creativity, Ownership and Collaboration ion the Digital Age Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT ADVANCED STUDY PROGRAM Put MIT to Work For You Spend a Semester at MIT As an ASP fellow, you will * investigate the latest advances in your field * design a curriculum to meet individual and company goals * learn to harness the power of new technologies * access the full range of MIT courses and resources * build a lifelong network of colleagues Accepting applications for Fall 2007 Classes begin September 5 For more information, please visit the Advanced Study Program ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. SPONSORS Office of the Provost Office of the Vice President for Research School of Architecture and Planning School of Engineering School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences MIT Sloan School of Management School of Science MIT Alumni Association Industrial Liaison Program Office of the Vice President and Secretary of the Corporation PARTNERS Academic Media Production Services IS&T - DCAD Akamai Technologies RiverRun Media Send comments to: MIT World Massachusetts Institute of Technology Professional Education Programs 77 Massachusetts Avenue 35-433 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 MIT World: http://mitworld.mit.edu/ --- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Burnham Co-director, Center for Refugee and Disaster Response, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Our findings show that deaths among civilians have risen to very serious proportions. The nature of the violence is changing -- car bombs are increasing -- but gunfire remains the major cause of death. The deterioration of the health system and environment may now be starting to result in increased mortality." -- Gilbert M. Burnham EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [THE PERFECT LENS: RESOLUTION BEYOND THE LIMITS OF WAVELENGTH] Pendry provides insights into the physics of light and the surprising concept of "negative refraction." SPEAKER: John Pendry Chair, Theoretical Solid State Physics Faculty, Department of Physics, Imperial College London PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "This wavelength limit [to resolving lines on a microchip] is now becoming quite serious. We have this huge object 'the photon' which is blundering around, and can't see anything smaller than 500 nanometers, interacting with electrons, which are confined to wires a few tens of nanometers across." -- Sir John Pendry EVENT HOST: Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Center for International Studies Emile Bustani Seminar Series presents Kenneth Pollack Director of Research, Saban Center for Middle East Policy and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies/Brookings Institution Iran: War or Peace? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Learning International Networks Consortium The Fourth Annual LINC International Conference Technology-Enabled Education: A Catalyst for Positive Change The 2007 LINC conference in Jordan aims to bring together international experts involved in the delivery of technology-enabled learning and 'e-learning' to emerging regions of the world, especially to underserved communities. Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan is patron of the conference, and speakers will include regional ministers of education, university rectors from both within and without the Middle East, and a wide array of international experts and innovators in the field of distance and e-learning technologies. There will be three major focuses at the conference this year: cross-border collaboration in e-Learning; open source educational content; and technology-enabled education as a catalyst for positive educational change. MIT LINC is a consortium of educators from around the world who are interested in using these new technologies to help their countries increase access to quality education for a larger percentage of the population. Register by July 11, 2007 to save $50.00 Call for Papers Deadline: July 15, 2007 October 28-30, 2007 - Amman, Jordan King Hussein Bin Talal Convention Center On the Dead Sea October 31 and November 1, 2007 Executive Session in Dubai, U.A.E. Email: lincinquiries at mit.edu See previous LINC presentations on MIT World: Opening Opportunities: The Role of Distance Education The OpenCourseWare Initiative: A New Model for Sharing ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World is a project of the School of Engineering's Professional Education Programs. 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SPEAKER: Theodore (Ted) Landsmark President and CEO, Boston Architectural College PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "Architecture is almost certainly the worst profession in the U.S. for having made any kind of change over last 40 years. I go to many events in the Boston area put on by my colleagues, and invariably I'm the only person of color there even today." -- Theodore Landsmark EVENT HOST: Department of Architecture ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [DIVERSE APPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY] In part 3 of this 4 part series, panelist provide a multidimensional picture of the uses of nuclear technology. MODERATOR: David Kaiser Associate Professor, Program in Science, Technology and Society Lecturer, Department of Physics PANELISTS: Ian Hutchinson Professor and Head, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Dwight Williams Martin Luther King Visiting Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering Principal Nuclear Physicist, Science and Technology Brain Trust, Department of Defense Jeffrey Coderre Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering Alan Jasanoff Associate Member, McGovern Institute for Brain Research Assistant Professor, Departments of Nuclear Engineering, Brain & Cognitive Sciences, and Biological Engineering Division Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation Scholar PLAY NOW: [QUOTE] "There are so few reminders in the public sphere of the happy face of the atom." -- David Kaiser EVENT HOST: Technology and Culture Forum ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ MIT World on iTunes U A small sampling of MIT World videos are now available for download at Apple's iTunes site. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [SPONSORED LINK] MIT Professional Institute [2007 SUMMER SHORT COURSES] Intensive programs from 1 to 5 days long: * led by renowned MIT faculty * taught on the MIT campus with MIT resources * geared for busy professionals * designed for in-depth learning * grant certificates and CEUs in biotechnology, chemical engineering, energy, data modeling and analysis, IT, lean fundamentals, mechanical engineering, nanotechnology, nuclear systems, lasers & optics, technology policy, system architecture and other topics of vital interest to today's engineers and scientists. 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