[Mitworld] New: Sheffi on Engineering Education, Primack on Global Warming

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[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: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/449/>

[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 <http://esd.mit.edu/>

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[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: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/450/>

[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 <http://web.mit.edu/museum/>

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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
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