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Event Schedule
| Friday, March 30, 2007 |
| Time |
Description (Location) |
| 12:00 noon |
Registration and Coffee (Dabney
Garden) |
| 1:15 p.m. |
Opening remarks: Tom Tyson and Chris
Brennen (Ramo Auditorium) |
| 1:30-2:30 p.m. |
Undergraduate activities: ME72 Competition/Demo
with Erik
AntonSson; DARPA Grand Challenge
with Richard Murray (Ramo Auditorium) |
| 1:30-5:30 p.m. |
Student poster display; Undergraduate SURF projects; Graduate Research
posters and refreshments (Dabney Hall) |
| 2:30-3:30 p.m. |
Graduate Student presentations (Ramo
Auditorium) |
| 3:30-4:00 p.m. |
Coffee and Refreshments (Dabney
Garden) |
| 4:00-5:30 p.m. |
Faculty presentations: Melany Hunt, Joel
Burdick, Nadia
Lapusta, and Dave Goodwin (Ramo Auditorium) |
| 6:30 p.m. |
Reception and banquet. MC Tom
Tyson.
Speakers Jean-Lou
Chameau, Caltech President, and Bill Gross, CEO
of Idealab!. (The
Athenaeum) |
| Saturday, March
31, 2007 |
| Time |
Description (Location) |
| 8:00 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast (Dabney Garden) |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Opening remarks: Paul Jennings,
Caltech Provost. (Ramo Auditorium) |
| 9:10 a.m. |
History of ME at Caltech: Erik AntonSson (Ramo Auditorium) |
Invited
Alumni Special Lectures
(All Events take place in
Ramo Auditorium unless otherwise indicated.) |
| 9:30 a.m. |
James J. Duderstadt (PhD '68)
The Future of Engineering Practice, Research, and Education; a 21st
Century Flexner Report |
| 10:10 a.m. |
Coffee and Refreshments (Dabney
Garden) |
| 10:30 a.m. |
James E. Hall (BS '57) The
Development of the Chaparral Racing Car |
| 11:10 a.m. |
Lon E. Bell (PhD '68) The
Electric Car |
| 11:50 a.m. |
Imran Kizilbash (BS '89) The
Future of Oil and Gas Exploration and Recovery |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Lunch (Dabney Garden) |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Ann R. Karagozian (PhD '82) Fundamental
Research and the Future of Energy and Propulsion Systems |
| 2:10 p.m. |
Joseph Katz (PhD '82) Digital
Holography and Fluid Flow |
| 2:50 p.m. |
Prashant K. Purohit (PhD '01) Nanomechanics
of Biological Structures—DNA, Membranes, and Viruses |
| 3:30 p.m. |
Coffee and Refreshments (Dabney
Garden) |
| 3:50 p.m. |
Garrett E. Reisman (PhD '97), Robert
I. Behnken (PhD '97), and Philip
L. Engelauf (BS '78) On
Manned Space Exploration |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Peter C. Theisinger (BS '67) The
2003 Mars Exploration Rover Project: A Major Engineering Challenge |
| 5:10 p.m. |
Adjourn |
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