Industry Link Formed

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New Industry Link Formed

MIT has announced a new venture in MIT-industry interaction called "A 
Day With an MIT Professor."

The program, carried out through MIT's Center for Advanced Engineering 
Study, will bring professionals from industry and government together at 
the Institute to spend a day with an MIT faculty member on specific 
topics of current and future interest.

The meetings will be held on campus on Saturdays in an informal 
atmosphere to encourage dialogue between the participants and the 
faculty member. Laboratory tours and demonstrations may be included.

Professor Shaoul Ezekiel, director of the Center for Advanced 
Engineering, said the concept would be tested on successive Saturdays 
this spring on April 28 and May 5. Thirty different topics have been 
scheduled for discussion, 15 on each day, he said.

The topics, which vary widely, include concurrent engineering, robotics, 
lasers, digital image processing, industrial innovation, smart machines 
and genetic technology. There will also be a special hands-on program in 
engineering design and manufacture.

The participants will be encouraged to bring questions and be prepared 
to take part in discussions. 
If there is a strong interest in the first two Saturday sessions, they 
will be run on a regular basis throughout the year and cover an even 
broader range of topics, Professor Ezekiel said.

The primary goal of the Center for Advanced Engineering Study is to 
improve and extend the capabilities and effectiveness of professionals 
in engineering and the sciences by providing critical learning 
opportunities on campus and at the workplace. Its programs also create 
links between industry professionals and the academic/research community 
at MIT, thus transferring important scientific and technological 
developments to industry.