[Mitworld] Kent Kresa on an Engineering Career, Sanjay Sarma on Energy and Vehicle Emissions Logging

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 10, Number 27 |  February 2, 2011

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An Engineering Career - 50 Years Out
December 1, 2010

Kent Kresa describes how an MIT education helped shape his professional path, leading to a topflight 
career in the aviation and defense industry. 

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/866

Speaker:
Kent Kresa '59, SM '61, EAA '66
Chairman Emeritus, Northrop Grumman Corporation


Event Host:
MIT School of Engineering

"As the 21st century unfolds, engineering will become central and influential in society. We have 
tremendous technological needs in infrastructure renewal, cyber security, energy sourcing, environmental 
sustainability. The people who think through what is needed and ... are going to be important in 
making the solutions happen. That is mostly the engineering and science population."
-Kent Kresa

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Energy and Emissions Logging in Road Vehicles
November 30, 2010

Sanjay Sarma has been investigating ways to take advantage of the on board diagnostic (OBD) module 
that records and conveys information about the vehicle’s components and systems. Sarma hopes to make 
the OBD increasingly useful and essential to consumers concerned about their fuel consumption and 
carbon footprint.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/867

Speaker:
Sanjay Sarma
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT



Event Host:
Transportation at MIT

"When we think of roads, we think in terms of distances, but cars don’t know distance, cars know fuel 
consumption. On bad days,with bad traffic, the road kind of warps. It becomes much longer than on a 
good day. It’s changing on you, like in Star Wars. The distance is greater in terms of 
energy consumed."
-Sanjay Sarma

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In The Pipeline:

Gaza in Crisis

Presented By:
Center for International Studies

Speaker:
Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor, Professor of Linguistics Emeritus, MIT
Nancy Murray
Co-founder and President, Gaza Mental Health Foundation

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