The Birth of Aerospace in Southern California: A Conversation About Engineering

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http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/32/event/893490

Friday, April 29, 2011 : 4:30pm

USC University Park Campus
Andrus Gerontology Center
Auditorium

Free

A remarkable panel discusses the issues and history of the U.S. aerospace industry, which for the last century has called SoCal home.

Aerospace influenced everything from art and architecture to pop culture. This panel will consider the impact on USC, the engineering profession, and Southern California itself.

Panelists

    * Ron Blackwelder, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, USC
    * Robert McEliece, Allen E. Puckett Professor of Electrical Engineering, CalTech
    * Ken Richardson, former president and COO, Hughes Aircraft Company
    * Laif Swanson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
    * Jason Weems, assistant professor of the History of Art, UC Riverside
    * Peter Westwick, assistant professor of History, USC

Organized by Bill Deverell of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West, and Urbashi Mitra of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering.