[Sci-tech-public] Reminder: Morison Prize Lecture Events with David Billington, May 1 and 2

[Debbie Meinbresse]

Please join us for the following Morison Lecture 
and Prize events planned on May 1 and 2:

Thursday, May 1 4:00-5:30 pm            (MIT, E51-095)
Informal talk by David P. Billington.  This 
discussion with Professor Billington will 
primarily focus on "Engineering in the Modern World," a
course he teaches at Princeton.

Friday, May 
2           2:00-3:30               (MIT, Bartos 
Theater, E15-lower level)

>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
>
>
>The Morison Lecture and Prize, was established 
>by the Morison family and the Hitchiner 
>Manufacturing Co., Inc., to recognize 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.
>
>David P. Billington has been selected as the 
>recipient of the 2008 Morison Lecture and Prize 
>in Science, Technology, and Society.  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.
>
>A reception will immediately follow Professor Billington's lecture.


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