2005 National Meeting Symposium: Gilbreth Lectures (Print This)
A distinguished group of young engineers from the Academy’s Frontiers of Engineering program explored leading-edge developments in several fields of engineering. For more information, contact Karen Spaulding at <kspaulding@nae.edu>.
Lillian M. Gilbreth Lectures for Young Engineers
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies
100 Academy Drive
Irvine, Calif.
Thursday, February 10
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| 1:00 p.m. | Welcome and Introduction
Wm. A. Wulf, President
National Academy of Engineering
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| 1:05 p.m. | The Challenges of Landing on Mars
Tommaso Rivellini, Lead Mechanical Engineer, Mars Science Laboratory Entry, Descent, and Landing Program
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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| 1:50 p.m. | The Role of Modeling and Simulation in Extreme Engineering Projects
Jon Berkoe, Senior Principal Engineer and Manager, Advanced Simulation and Analysis
Bechtel National, Inc.
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| 2:35 p.m. | Break
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| 3:00 p.m. | Progress and Prospects of Enabling Optoelectronic Devices for Broadband Communications
Connie Chang-Hasnain, Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
University of California, Berkeley
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| 3:45 p.m. | Capturing and Simulating Physically Accurate Illumination in Computer Graphics
Paul Debevec, Executive Producer, Graphics Research, and Research Assistant Professor
Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California
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| 4:30 p.m. | Reception |
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