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<b>2008 Morison Lecture and Prize in Science, Technology and
Society<br><br>
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<font size=5 color="#0000FF">“‘The New Epoch’ and the 21st Century
Imperative for Engineering History"<br><br>
</font><font size=5>David P. Billington<br>
</font><font size=4>Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Professor of
Civil and Environmental Engineering, <br>
and Director, Program of Architecture and Engineering, Princeton
University<br><br>
</font><font size=5>May 2, 2008<br><br>
</font><font size=4>2:00 pm, MIT, Bartos Theater (Building E15, lower
level)<br><br>
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On behalf of MIT’s Program in Science, Technology, and Society and the
School of Engineering, we are writing to invite you to the 2008 Morison
Lecture and Prize in Science, Technology and Society. The Morison
Lecture and Prize, established by the Morison family and the Hitchiner
Manufacturing Co., Inc., recognizes the technical and societal
accomplishments of several generations of Morison family members, and of
the engineers of the Hitchiner Co. as well as the contributions of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty members and graduates to
the growth and success of that company.<br>
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The Morison Lecture and Prize in Science, Technology and Society is
intended to honor individuals, selected internationally, who have
demonstrated commitment to, and effectiveness in, carrying out the ideals
of the Morison family. The Morison Prize recognizes the
accomplishments of an individual who has made major contributions at the
interface between science and technology on the one hand and matters of
societal concern on the other. <br>
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We are very pleased to announce that David P. Billington has been
selected as the recipient of the 2008 Morison Lecture and Prize in
Science, Technology, and Society. His talk, “‘The New Epoch’ and
the 21st Century Imperative for Engineering History,” will be held on
Friday, May 2nd, at 2:00 pm in MIT’s Bartos Theater (lower level of
building E15). We invite you to attend the lecture and a reception,
which will be held immediately following in the atrium area outside of
Bartos.<br>
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Billington is the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, Professor of
Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Director, Program of
Architecture and Engineering, at Princeton University. Professor
Billington is well known at Princeton for connecting engineering to other
disciplines within the University to the humanities, art, science and
politics. His courses in “Structures and the Urban Environment” and
“Engineering in the Modern World” combine the study of engineering with
an exploration of the aesthetic and social values intrinsic to it, an
association of ideas that have made them some of the most popular courses
among engineering and non-engineering students for decades.
Billington has taught perhaps 5,000 Princeton undergraduates since
joining the faculty in 1960. He specializes in structural analysis and
design with an emphasis on concrete structures, bridge design, thin shell
concrete structures, and the history and aesthetics of structures as an
art form.<br>
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Billington’s recent publications include <i>Power, Speed and Form –
Engineers and the Making of the Twentieth Century </i>(with David P.
Billington, Jr.) (Princeton University Press, 2006); <i>The Art of
Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy</i> (Yale University Press, 2003);
<i>Robert Maillart: Builder, Designer and Architect</i> (Cambridge
University Press, 1997); <i>The Innovators: The Engineering Pioneers Who
Made America Modern</i> (John Wiley & Sons, 1996); and <i>Robert
Maillart and the Art of Reinforced Concrete</i> (The MIT Press,
1990). In 1996, Princeton honored Billington with the
President's Distinguished Teaching Award in recognition of his sustained
record of excellence as a teacher at the graduate and undergraduate
levels. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a
Fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Sciences. In 1999
the <i>Engineering News Record</i> named Billington one of the five top
educators in the construction industry over the past 125 years. In 2003,
he received the Director's Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award from the
National Science Foundation. Recently, the National Academy of
Engineering selected Billington as its Walter Robb Engineering Education
Senior Fellow for 2005–2006. In 2006 he served as a Robert Noyce Visiting
Professor at Grinnell College. <br><br>
Please join us on May 2nd for Professor Billington's Morison Lecture and
Prize in Science, Technology and Society. </blockquote>
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