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April 9, 2008
Cal Tech president to deliver Leonards Lecture at Purdue
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - |
The Purdue Geotechnical Group in the School of Civil Engineering will host the 4:30 p.m. lecture, titled the "role of the university in education for sustainability." It will be in the Krannert Auditorium and is free and open to the public.
The event honors the memory of geotechnical engineer Gerald A. Leonards, a faculty member of the School of Civil Engineering for more than 45 years. He was a Purdue alumnus who received a master's degree in civil engineering in 1948 and a doctoral degree in 1952.
"Dr. Leonards left an indelible mark on the profession through his research and publications, his textbooks, his work on highly visible projects such as the stabilization of the tower of Pisa, and through the impact he had on his students and colleagues," said Marika Santagata, an associate professor of Civil Engineering.
Leonards was a Terzaghi lecturer, one of the highest honors in the geotechnical profession, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Among his colleagues was Chameau, who spent 11 years on the geotechnical faculty at Purdue before joining the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he was school head and later became dean of engineering and provost. He became Caltech's eighth president in September 2006.
The Leonards lecture will be preceded by the sixth Purdue Geotechnical Society Workshop in the East Faculty Lounge of the Purdue Memorial Union between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. April 18.
This year's workshop, built around the theme of "innovation and sustainability in geotechnics," will include keynote lectures by David Frost, professor of civil engineering at Georgia Tech, and David Radcliffe, Epistemology Professor of Engineering Education at Purdue, as well as 11 other presentations.
Writer: Emil Venere, (765) 494-4709, venere@purdue.edu
Source: Marika Santagata, associate professor of civil engineering, (765) 494-0697, mks@purdue.edu
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