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<b>Please join us for the following Morison Lecture and Prize events
planned on May 1 and 2: <br>
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Thursday, May 1<x-tab> </x-tab>4:00-5:30 pm
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E51-095)<br>
Informal talk by David P. Billington. This discussion with
Professor Billington will primarily focus on "Engineering in the
Modern World," a<br>
course he teaches at Princeton.<br><br>
Friday, May
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Theater, E15-lower
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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><div align="center"><font size=4>
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>
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The Morison Lecture and Prize, was established by the Morison family and
the Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc., to recognize 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>
<br>
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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David P. Billington has been selected as the recipient of the 2008
Morison Lecture and Prize in Science, Technology, and Society.
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. <br>
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>
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<b>A reception will immediately follow Professor Billington's
lecture.</b></blockquote>
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