Lecture Events Published in the NSF Engineering News

NSF Hosts E-Commerce Lecture

NSF Distinguished Lecturer Details Space Research in the Context of Managing Creativity.

The Art of Structural Engineering. Dr. David Billington, Professor of Engineering from Princeton University, Looks at the New Art of Structural Engineering in NSF's Final Distinguished Lecture Series of 1999

NSF Distinguished Lecturer Looks at the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect: Physics, Engineering and the Science of Electronic Materials. Nobel Laureate looks at the unity of physics and interdisciplinary research in the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect, in NSF's Seventh Distinguished Engineering Lecture.

Nobel Prize Winner, Tsui, will participate in Distinguished Lecture Series

NSF Distinguished Lecturer Looks at Shrinking Complexity and Expanding Markets in Wireless Communications. "Pioneer in Wireless Communications Andrew Viterbi looks at the future, in NSF's sixth Distinguished Engineering Lecture."

Lessons of Leadership and Space in NSF Distinguished Lecture
Former Air Force Secretary Sheila Widnall describes the challenges facing the Air Force and Engineering in NSF's fifth Distinguished Engineering Lecture.

Distinguished Lecturer to Speak in December.
Former Secretary Sheila Widnall to describe new directions in the Air Force in the fifth Distinguished Engineering Lecture.

Biomaterials are Transforming Medicine.
MIT scientist and engineer describes a new field in an NSF lecture

Biomaterials:
From Basic Science and Engineering to Clinical Practice. Langer to Speak at NSF Engineering's Distinguished Lecture Series

Future Challenges Facing American Higher Education.
American higher education has undergone difficult times in recent years, but has weathered these challenges. Dr. Tien will address NSF on December 15, 1997 as part of the Engineering Distinguished Lecture Series.

NSF Distinguished Lecturer Warns Higher Ed Must Adapt to World Forces of Change.
A former chancellor of the University of California-Berkeley told engineers and scientists at the National Science Foundation (NSF) that "time is running out"

Nobel Scientist Launches Distinguished Lecture Series.
On June 16, Nobel-Prize-winning physicist Dr. Heinrich Rohrer spoke to a capacity audience in NSF's largest conference room on "The Nanometer Age: Challenges and Changes."