[Mitworld] Vest on Engineering Education, Hikosaka on the Brain and Reward

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 9, Number 1 |  September 9, 2009

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Grand Challenges and Engineering Systems: Inspiring and Educating the Next Generation
June 15, 2009

In the opening keynote of the Second International Engineering Systems Symposium,
Charles Vest warns that the U.S. lags dangerously far behind other nations in graduating 
engineers. Redesigning college-level engineering programs won’t be enough to meet the 
“grand challenges” posed by our times, if more children can’t be inspired to study engineering.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/696

Speakers:
Daniel Roos '61, SM '63, PhD '66
Japan Steel Industry Professor of Engineering Systems and Civil and Environmental Engineering

Dr. Susan Hockfield
MIT President
Professor of Neuroscience

Charles Vest HM
President, National Academy of Engineering
President Emeritus, MIT


Event Host:
Engineering Systems Division

"What’s important in engineering education? Making universities and engineering schools exciting, 
creative, adventurous, rigorous, demanding and empowering environments is more important than 
specifying curricular details -- that’s what I learned at MIT."
-Charles Vest

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How the Brain Encodes Reward
May 7, 2009

Hikosaka has deepened and broadened his work on the basal ganglia, and brings a McGovern audience up to date on his latest discoveries.


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/701

Speaker:
Okihide Hikosaka
Senior Investigator, Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research

National Eye Institute

National Institute of Health 
 


Event Host:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT

"We know there are many brain areas that project to dopamine neuron areas, but which are 
critical for providing dopamine neurons with reward or motivation value signals?
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-Okihide Hikosaka

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In The Pipeline:

Neural Basis of Drug Addiction

Presented By:
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
 The Basal Ganglia in Health and Disease

Speaker:
Barry Everitt
Professor of Behavioural Neuroscience
Department of Experimental Psychology
University of Cambridge

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MIT Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Addressing Complexity in Healthcare, Energy, Space, and the Environment<BR><BR>October 22-23, 2009 at MIT						

http://sdm.mit.edu/conf09

Sponsored by the MIT System Design and Management Program 

Register now to join MIT faculty and industry leaders who will discuss best practices for applying systems 
thinking to some of the most complex challenges facing today's world. 

Hear Lawrence Willey, Wind Conceptual Design, GE Infrastructure, discuss 
<i>Gigawatt Wind Power: Supporting U.S. 20 Percent Wind Generation by 2030</i>. 
The presentation will show how technical, managerial and social issues are 
considered at all levels of power system design.


http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/Default.aspx?eventid=742938

http://sdm.mit.edu/conf09

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