A New Millennium Colloquium on the Future of Civil and Environmental Engineering
From March 19 to 21, 2000, the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering hosted a New Millennium Colloquium of Civil and Environmental Engineering. Speakers included leading engineers from the worlds of academia, industry, and government. Together we explored the future of our profession at the dawn of a new millennium. Printed and video records of the Colloquium are available by clicking the appropriate item below. Publication of a formal written Proceedings is under consideration, but is not available at this time.
Speakers' Presentations (text form)
Program
Sunday, March 19, 2000 | |
| 2:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. | Registration, University Park Hotel |
| 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. | Cocktail Reception, University Park Hotel No Formal Dinner |
Monday, March 20, 2000 | |
| Registration | |
| 7:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | Registration, Tang Center, MIT |
| Opening Remarks | |
| 8:30 a.m. - 8:45 a.m. | Welcome by Professor Rafael L. Bras, MIT |
| 8:45 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. | Remarks by Professor Robert A. Brown, Provost, MIT |
| Keynote Presentations | |
| Presiding: | Professor Emeritus Frank E. Perkins, MIT |
| 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | Dr. G. Wayne Clough, P.E., President, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Dr. Robert Corell, Senior Fellow, American Meteorological Society |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Mr. Travis Engen, Chief Executive, ITT Industries, Inc. |
| 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. | Lunch |
| Theme Session: Information and Related Technologies | |
| 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | |
| Presiding: | Professor Jerome J. Connor, MIT |
| Speaker: | Mr. William J. Mitchell, Dean, School of Architecture & Planning, MIT |
| Panelists: | Professor Hans Bjornsson, Stanford University Dr. Gavin Finn, Prescient Technologies Professor John Williams, MIT |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. | Break |
| Theme Session: The Natural and Built Environment | |
| 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | |
| Presiding: | Professor Phillip M. Gschwend, MIT |
| Speaker: | Dr. Jared L. Cohon, President, Carnegie Mellon University |
| Panelists: | Mr. John DeVillars, Executive V.P., Brownfield Recovery Corp. Professor David H. Marks, MIT Mr. Jekabs Vittands, Sr. V.P., Aqua-Alliance |
| 6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. | Reception/Dinner at Hotel Remarks by Professor Thomas L. Magnanti, Dean of Engineering, MIT |
Tuesday, March 21, 2000 | |
| Theme Session: Industry/Academic Relations | |
| 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. | |
| Presiding: | Professor John B. Miller, MIT |
| Speaker: | Dr. James M. Becker, President, Beacon Skanska Construction Co. |
| Panelists: | Mr. Christopher Gordon, Mass. Port Authority Mr. Garret P. Westerhoff, Malcolm Pirnie, Inc. Mr. Frederick P. Salvucci, MIT |
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| Theme Session: Promotion of Innovation and Entrepreneurship | |
| 10:30 - Noon | |
| Presiding: | Professor Sarah Slaughter, MIT |
| Speaker: | Mr. Harvey Bernstein, President, Civil Engineering Research Foundation |
| Panelists: | Dr. Neil Shifrin, Gradient Inc. Dr. Charles Thornton, Thornton Tomasetti Mr. Carlos Riva, InterGen Energy, Inc. |
| Noon - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch MIT Faculty Club, Building E52, 6th Floor |
| Theme Session: Education for the 21st Century | |
| 1:30 - 4:00 p.m. | |
| Presiding: | Professor R.L. Bras, MIT |
| Speakers: | Dr. Delon Hampton, President, Delon Hampton & Associates and President of the American Society of Civil Engineers Mr. Ralph Gareth Gray, Architect and Structural Engineer Professor David E. Newland, Head, Department of Engineering, Cambridge University |
| Panelists: | Professor David E. Daniel, University of Illinois, UC Professor Adib Kanafani, University of California, Berkeley Professor Jeffrey R. Koseff, Stanford University Professor John M. Niedzwecki, Texas A&M University |
| Concluding Remarks | |
Partial financial support of the colloquium was provided by the National Science Foundation.