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Date: October 24, 1997Former Chancellor of UC-Berkeley to Address Engineering in a Modern University
Princeton, N.J. -- Engineering in a modern university will be the lecture topic when Chang-Lin Tien, the former Chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, visits the Princeton campus on Wednesday, November 12, 1997. Tien will speak at 4:30 p.m. in Room 104 of the Computer Science Building on Olden Street in Princeton. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Tien, the NEC Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Berkeley, is a world-renowned expert in the field of thermal science and engineering. He received his doctorate from Princeton in 1959.
"This is a time of unprecedented change as powerful forces are reshaping the world around us," Tien said. "Universities and colleges are confronted with breathtaking new challenges and opportunities. Engineering programs are among the most affected ones in this rapid transformation."
Tien said he expects academic competition to become increasingly fierce. The most successful schools of engineering will be those that re-examine their educational mission and are not afraid to reform and fine-tune their programs.
"This lecture discusses and re-examines the role of engineering in a modern university, the programmatic balance between specialized engineering education and broad liberal arts learning, the interaction between undergraduate and graduate programs, the relationship between academia and industry, and the impact of globalization and instructional technology on engineering teaching," Tien said.
Tien has a distinguished record as a scientist and teacher. Internationally recognized for his research in the field of heat transfer, he has received many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Max Jakob Memorial Award, the highest honor in the field of heat transfer. He has been a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 1976 and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991. In 1962, at the age of 26, Tien became the youngest professor ever to win UC-Berkeley's prestigious Distinguished Teaching Award. He holds 10 honorary doctorates from universities in the United States and abroad.
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