A Symposium on
New Directions in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Frist Campus Center
(previously the Palmer Physics Building)
Princeton University

April 20-21, 2001

To mark 50 years of Graduate Education in Aerospace Studies
and 100 Years  of Graduate Education at Princeton

Presentation Slides are available below!
(John Sponyoe, Rod Tabaczynski, Dan Goldin,
Edgar Choueiri, Zhigang Suo,
Irvin Glassman, Jeremy Kasdin, so far)



Friday, April 20th, 2001

Registration (Frist) and Buffet Breakfast (Tent, Frist Lawn), 8 a.m.


Session I: Friday, April 20th
9 a.m. Frist 302

Chair: David C. Hazen '48, *49, National Research Council (ret.)
 

    Welcome on behalf of the Graduate School by Dean John F. Wilson

    Welcome on behalf of the School of Engineering & Applied Science by Dean James Wei.

    Comments on the beginningWei.

    Comments on the beginnings of Aerospace Studies at Princeton by Courtland D. Perkins,
            Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

    Remarks on new directions in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering by Professor Alexander J. Smits,
            Chair, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 
1.  Seymour M. Bogdonoff, *48, Robert Porter Patterson Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
In the Beginning ...

2.Irvin Glassman, Robert H. Goddard Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

The Early Years ...


Break  (10:30-11:00 AM)

Chair: Richard B. Miles, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
 

3.  John V. Sponyoe, CEO, Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications
  Global Telecommunications in the Future
Luncheon 12 noon (Tent, Frist Lawn)

Poster Session: 12:45-1:30 PM
Research Directions of MAE Graduate Students

Session II: Friday, April 20th
1:30 p.m., Frist 302

Chair: C. K. Law, Robert H. Goddard Professor, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
 

4.  Rodney J. Tabaczynski, Director, Powertrain and Vehicle Research, Ford Fellow, Ford Motor Co.
The Future of the Automobile (text version, graphics version)


Break (2:15-2:45 PM)

Chair: Frederick L. Dryer *72, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
 

5.  Anthony G. Evans, Director of Princeton Materials Institute and Gordon Y.S. Wu Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Materials of the Future








6. Zhigang Suo, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 Mechanics of Nanoscale Devices

Symposium Banquet, Proctor Hall, the Graduate College, 7 p.m.

Convener: Ronald F. Probstein *52, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

Speaker: Renso L. Caporali *64, Chairman and CEO (ret.), Grumman Company

Tigertones


Saturday, April 21, 2001

Buffet Breakfast 8 a.m. (Tent, Frist Lawn)

Session III: Saturday, April 21st
9 a.m., Frist 302

Chair: Earll Murman '63; *67, Ford Professsor of Engineering, MIT
 

7. Allen C. Haggerty í58, Vice President and General Manager, Engineering, The Boeing Co.
 New Directions in the Aeronautical Industry


Break (9:45-10-15 AM)

Chair: Garry L. Brown, Robert Porter Patterson Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
 

8.  Antony Jameson, Thomas V. Jones Professor of Engineering, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University
 Design in the Era of Ultra High Speed Computers








9.  Robert M. Nerem, Pettit Professor and Director, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience, Georgia Institute of Technology

 The New Biology and Opportunities in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 

Luncheon 12 noon (Tent, Frist Lawn)

Poster Session: 12:45-1:30PM
Research Directions of MAE Graduate Students

Session IV: Saturday, April 21st
1:30 p.m., Frist 302

Chair: Robert G. Jahn '51; *55, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
 

10. Daniel S. Goldin, Administrator, NASA
Aeronautics and Education








11.  Edgar Y. Choueiri *91, chief scientist of Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory and Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

 Future Challenges for Space Propulsion


Break (3:00-3:30 PM)

Chair: Alexander J. Smits, Professor and Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
 

12. Louis J. Lanzerotti, Distinguished Member Technical Staff, Bell Labs/Lucent Past Head NRC Space Science Board
Robotics and Intelligent Systems in Space








13.  N. Jeremy Kasdin '85, Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Faster, Better, Smaller, and Lots of Them: The Future Trend Toward Small Satellite Constellations

Closure