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Engineering Exhibits, October 18 - 20 Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is hosting "A Selection of Notable Books in the Development of Engineering Science" through the month of October. The exhibit features first or early edition works of such seminal figures as Archimedes, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, and Josiah Willard Gibbs dating from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries. (Located on the north side of the mezzanine level. Hours, Monday - Friday 8:30 - 5; Saturday 10 - 5; closed Sunday.) Sterling Memorial Library is displaying several late 19th- and early 20th-century bachelor's theses from the Sheffield Scientific School that are noteworthy for their draftsmanship. Some biographical material on the authors is also included. (Located in the case to the left of the circulation desk, directly outside the Privileges Office. Hours, Friday 8:30 - 5; Saturday 10 - 5; Sunday 1 pm - midnight.) An exhibit in the Engineering and Applied Science Library (Becton Center) highlights the career of Jerry Woodall, C. Baldwin Sawyer Professor of Electrical Engineering and a 2001 recipient of the National Medal of Technology. Professor Woodall is a pioneer in the research and development of compound semiconductor materials and devices and was honored "for the invention and development of technologically and commercially important compound semiconductor heterojunction materials, processes, and related devices, such as light-emitting diodes, lasers, ultra-fast transistors, and solar cells." (Hours, Friday 8:30 - 5; Saturday 1 - 5; Sunday 2 - 10.)
"Capitalism, Espionage and Engineering
- How High Tech Products Destroyed the Iron Curtain" by Jonathan
Lewis, Portfolio Manager, OFFITBANK, Business Executives for National
Security. SSS Room 114.
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