Upcoming Event: Educating the Next Generation with MIT Professor Ian Waitz

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Straight from the Source with Ian A. Waitz

"Educating the Next Generation"

Thursday, October 24, 2013

12 p.m. Eastern Time

Management Information Center 2
Volpe, The National Transportation Systems Center
55 Broadway, Kendall Square
Cambridge, Massachusetts  

Join us in person or via webinar

Many of the world's greatest challenges will only be addressed by bringing together talented people in a challenging and rewarding environment to collaborate, advance our understanding, create solutions and educate the next generation of engineering leaders. Today's students need to be able to work, operate and lead change in many different cultures and time zones, and companies. 

Join Professor Ian A. Waitz from MIT and become part of tomorrow’s transportation enterprise.

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Ian Waitz

Ian A. Waitz is Dean of the School of Engineering, the Jerome C. Hunsaker Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and a MacVicar Faculty Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  

Waitz has made advances in gas turbine engines, fluid mechanics, combustion, and acoustics. The principal focus of his current work is on the modeling and evaluation of climate, the air-quality and noise impacts of aviation, and the assessment of technological, operational, and policy options for mitigating these impacts. 

Featuring today's thought leaders in transportation, Straight from the Source is an engaging speaker series that enables a stimulating information exchange on emerging and future transportation issues. The transportation community is invited to join the conversation.

To learn more, please contact Ellen Bell, director of strategic initiatives for research and innovation.