[Mitworld] New: David Billington on Engineering, Werner Sobek on High-Eco-Tech

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 57 | August 13, 2008
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["THE NEW EPOCH" AND THE 21ST CENTURY IMPERATIVE
 FOR ENGINEERING HISTORY]

Great civil engineers finds an aesthetic appropriate for their
building's material and structure, asserts David Billington, whose life
work has been the study of some of the world's most stunning engineering
feats.

SPEAKER:
David P. Billington
Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering Princeton University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/586/>

[QUOTE]
"Instead of stick diagrams and the occasional decorative picture thrown
into a textbook, they (engineering students) should really learn the
essence of engineering from the best work that's ever been done."
-- David P. Billington


EVENT HOST: Program in Science, Technology and Society
<http://web.mit.edu/sts/>

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[HIGH-ECO-TECH: BUILDING AVANT LA GARDE]

There's more than a little magic in Werner Sobek's constructions, which
balance aesthetics, architectural constraints and pathbreaking science
to, in his words, "go beyond" nature's own limits.

SPEAKER:
Werner Sobek
Engineer and Architect, Werner Sobek Ingenieure


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/585/>

[QUOTE]
"Complete know how in disciplines is one thing, but to work in terra
incognita, this is something we more or less have devoted our lives
to..."
-- Werner Sobek


EVENT HOST: Department of Architecture <http://architecture.mit.edu/>

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Engineering Systems Division presents

Clayton Christensen
Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School

The Innovator's Prescription:
A Disruptive Solution to the Healthcare Crisis

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