[Sci-tech-public] David Billington delivers 2008 Morison Lecture and Prize in Science, Technology, and Society, May 2nd at MIT at 2:00 pm

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>2008 Morison Lecture and Prize in Science, Technology and Society
>
>  “‘The New Epoch’ and the 21st Century Imperative for Engineering History"
>
>David P. Billington
>Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Engineering, 
>Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering,
>and Director, Program of Architecture and Engineering, Princeton University
>
>May 2, 2008
>
>2:00 pm, MIT, Bartos Theater (Building E15, lower level)
>
>On behalf of MIT’s Program in Science, 
>Technology, and Society and the School of 
>Engineering, we are writing to invite you to the 
>2008 Morison Lecture and Prize in Science, 
>Technology and Society.  The Morison Lecture and 
>Prize, established by the Morison family and the 
>Hitchiner Manufacturing Co., Inc., recognizes 
>the technical and societal accomplishments of 
>several generations of Morison family members, 
>and of the engineers of the Hitchiner Co. as 
>well as the contributions of Massachusetts 
>Institute of Technology faculty members and 
>graduates to the growth and success of that company.
>
>The Morison Lecture and Prize in Science, 
>Technology and Society is intended to honor 
>individuals, selected internationally, who have 
>demonstrated commitment to, and effectiveness 
>in, carrying out the ideals of the Morison 
>family.  The Morison Prize recognizes the 
>accomplishments of an individual who has made 
>major contributions at the interface between 
>science and technology on the one hand and 
>matters of societal concern on the other.
>
>We are very pleased to announce that David P. 
>Billington has been selected as the recipient of 
>the 2008 Morison Lecture and Prize in Science, 
>Technology, and Society.  His talk, “‘The New 
>Epoch’ and the 21st Century Imperative for 
>Engineering History,” will be held on Friday, 
>May 2nd, at 2:00 pm in MIT’s Bartos Theater 
>(lower level of building E15).  We invite you to 
>attend the lecture and a reception, which will 
>be held immediately following in the atrium area outside of Bartos.
>
>Billington is the Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of 
>Engineering, Professor of Civil and 
>Environmental Engineering, and Director, Program 
>of Architecture and Engineering, at Princeton 
>University.  Professor Billington is well known 
>at Princeton for connecting engineering to other 
>disciplines within the University ­ to the 
>humanities, art, science and politics. His 
>courses in “Structures and the Urban 
>Environment” and “Engineering in the Modern 
>World” combine the study of engineering with an 
>exploration of the aesthetic and social values 
>intrinsic to it, an association of ideas that 
>have made them some of the most popular courses 
>among engineering and non-engineering students 
>for decades.  Billington has taught perhaps 
>5,000 Princeton undergraduates since joining the 
>faculty in 1960. He specializes in structural 
>analysis and design with an emphasis on concrete 
>structures, bridge design, thin shell concrete 
>structures, and the history and aesthetics of structures as an art form.
>
>Billington’s recent publications include Power, 
>Speed and Form – Engineers and the Making of the 
>Twentieth Century (with David P. Billington, 
>Jr.) (Princeton University Press, 2006); The Art 
>of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy (Yale 
>University Press, 2003); Robert Maillart: 
>Builder, Designer and Architect (Cambridge 
>University Press, 1997); The Innovators: The 
>Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern 
>(John Wiley & Sons, 1996); and Robert Maillart 
>and the Art of Reinforced Concrete (The MIT 
>Press, 1990).  In 1996, Princeton 
>honored  Billington with the President's 
>Distinguished Teaching Award in recognition of 
>his sustained record of excellence as a teacher 
>at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He is 
>a member of the National Academy of Engineering 
>and a Fellow of the American Academy of the Arts 
>and Sciences.  In 1999 the Engineering News 
>Record named Billington one of the five top 
>educators in the construction industry over the 
>past 125 years. In 2003, he received the 
>Director's Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award 
>from the National Science Foundation. Recently, 
>the National Academy of Engineering selected 
>Billington as its Walter Robb Engineering 
>Education Senior Fellow for 2005–2006. In 2006 
>he served as a Robert Noyce Visiting Professor at Grinnell College.
>
>Please join us on May 2nd for Professor 
>Billington's Morison Lecture and Prize in Science, Technology and Society.


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