3/19/02

NATIONAL ENGINEERING LEADER TO DISCUSS REFORM ISSUES

AUBURN -- William A. Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering, will speak at Auburn University on reform issues in technology and engineering on Thursday (March 21).

Wulf will present the public lecture, "The Urgency of Engineering Education Reform," at 3:45 p.m. in the Auburn University Hotel and Dixon Conference Center auditorium.

He is on leave from the University of Virginia while serving as head of the National Academy of Engineering, which advises the federal government on issues involving science and technology.

At the University of Virginia, Wulf is a University Professor and AT&T Professor. Earlier in his career he was an assistant director of the National Science Foundation, served on the faculty at Carnegie Mellon University and founded Tartan Laboratories, a software company in Pennsylvania.

Wulf holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Virginia.

He is the 2002 Distinguished Lecturer of AU's Laboratory for Innovative Technology and Engineering Education.

LITEE is a collaborative program of the AU colleges of Business, Engineering and Education to introduce new technologies into college instructional programs. The program is headed by R.K. Raju in the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering and Chetan Sankar in the College of Business.

The presentation is sponsored by the LITEE program, the Samuel Ginn College of Engineering, the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the National Science Foundation.

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CONTACT: Raju, 334/844-3301; and Sankar, 334/844-6504.