VOLUME 13, NO. 3     June 2001

WPI faculty at Boston Museum of Science

Today’s engineers are making real what was once thought impossible. In January, Boston’s Museum of Science and WPI sponsored a three-part, free lecture series in the museum’s Cahners Theater. "Engineering the Future" featured three WPI experts who presented an inside look at the many facets of engineering in the 21st century. William W. Durgin, associate provost for academic affairs, served as moderator for the series, which was sponsored, in part, by the Lowell Institute. Topics and speakers were as follows:

-- "Discovery! Creativity! Innovation!: The Real Lives of Engineers," Richard D. Sisson Jr., mechanical engineering professor and director of WPI’s Materials Science and Engineering Program

-- "It IS Rocket Science: Preparing for the Space Age," Fred J. Looft, professor and associate head of Electrical and Computer Engineering and director of the WPI/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Projects Program

-- "Up Close and Personal With a Robot Named Gompei," Kenneth A. Stafford, manager of academic initiatives at WPI and visiting scholar at Massachusetts Academy of Mathematics and Science