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.
Billingtons 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 20052006. 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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