[Mitworld] New: Tech Day 2006 Woodie Flowers and Philip Gschwend

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[ON A LIBERAL EDUCATION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY]

Flowers shares his ideas on how an MIT education must change to meet the

evolving needs of students in the 21st century.

SPEAKER:
Woodie C. Flowers
Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering
MacVicar Faculty Fellow


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/373/>

[QUOTE]
"We can't rejoin a race that we defined 50 years ago that's now
populated by people who are very smart, hungry and going very fast and
expect to win that race. We have to change the game some."

--Woodie C. Flowers



EVENT HOST: Alumni Association
<http://alum.mit.edu/>

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 [ENGINEERING AND EARTH SYSTEMS: CAN WE EDUCATE A NEW BREED OF
ENGINEERS?]

Gschwend advocates changing the approach engineers and scientists take
when developing new products and processes, out of grave concern for
human and environmental health.

SPEAKER:
Philip M. Gschwend
Associate Department Head & Director of R. M. Parsons Lab Department of
Civil and Environmental Engineering


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/372/>

[QUOTE]
"We wouldn't take a drug the FDA didn't think fit within the metabolism
of the human body. Why do we think we could invent chemicals and put
them in the earth that don't fit the metabolism of the earth? That's a
mistake."

--Philip Gschwend


EVENT HOST: Alumni Association
<http://alum.mit.edu/>

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MIT World takes a brief hiatus until mid September. With the video
collection now at 355, including 88 new ones from this past academic
year, we pause to get ready for 2007, and give you time to catch up on a

few lectures that you missed.

We'll be back for the start of our 6th year with new videos from the
School of Science's short course, Fundamentals of Cancer Research, Sloan

School of Management's Back to the Classroom series, more from
Technology Day 2006, insights from the Technology & Policy Program's
30th Anniversary symposium, season two from the MIT Museum's Soap Box
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