MESC TECHNICAL MEETINGS

PREVIOUS ENGINEERS WEEK PRESENTATIONS

Year
Chair
Topic
Speaker(s)

2011

WK*

Update of Challenges faced in the Rebuilding of the WTC Transportation Hub

Quentin Brathwaite, Assistant Director of Construction:
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

2010

WK*

"You Can't Do That...Innovative Conceptual Design...And Why And How You Can!"

Charles J. Camarda, Ph.D. – NASA Space Shuttle Astronaut

2009

WK*

Projects in the New York District

Colonel Aniellio Tortora – Commander & District Engineer, New York District
United States Army Corp of Engineers

2008

WK*

Tall Buildings:Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow

Leslie E. Robertson, P.E., D.Eng. – Principal, Leslie E. Robertson Associaties, R.L.L.P.

2007

WK*

Preparing for New York City's Katrina

Dr. Malcolm J. Bowman, P.E., Professor – Stony Brook University
Douglas Hill, EngScD, P.E., Stony Brook Storm Surge Group

2006

WK*

Long Island Railroad East Side Access Project

DilipKumar Patel, P.E., Program Manager, MTA Capital Construction Co.

2005

WK*

Nano-Science and Technology - Past, Present and Future

Dr. James Yardley, Director of the Nano-Science Center, Columbia University

Photographs of Engineers Week 2005

2004


WK*

CWT's Thermal Process: Turning Organic Waste into Resources

Dr. Terry N. Adams, Chief Technology Officer, Changing World Technologies

Photographs of Engineers Week Banner in 2004

2003

WK*

Update on " The Reconstruction of the WTC Site"

Francis J. Lombardi, P.E., Chief Engineer, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
2002

WK*
The Three Gorges Dam Project in China

Edward S. Plotkin, P.E., Consulting Engineer

2001

WK*

A Historian looks at the Container Revolution and Contemporary Freight Transportation

Dr. Arthur Donovan, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy

2000

WK*

Visions: How Science will Revolutionize the 21st Century

Dr. Michio Kaku, Professor of Theoretical Physics, City University of New York

1999


WK*

John F. Kennedy International Airport Light Rail System: Next Stop - The Future

Francis J. Lombardi, P.E. Chief Engineer, The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

1998


WK*

New York City's Lifeline - The Water Supply System

Joel A. Miele, PE, Commissioner, New York City, Department of Environmental Protection

1997

WK*

Engineering the Impossible & Profiting from the Improbable

Dr. William Nirenberg, Director Emeritus, Scripps Oceanographic Institute

1996


WK*

The Role of the Engineer as a Leader in this Century and Beyond

Eugene J. Fasullo, P.E. Chief Engineer and Director of Engineering, Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

1995

 

 


JB*

Who are Engineers?
Metro Center Development
The Role of the New York Academy of Sciences
Co-Generation

David Chang, President, Brooklyn Polytechnic University
Dr. Rodney W. Nichols, CEO, The New York Academy of Sciences
Joseph Niemiec, Senior Business Development Manager - Brooklyn Union

1994

JB*
The Channel Tunnel: State of the Art Technology and Beyond

Claude Charmeil, General Director of Bridges and Tunnels of France

1993

JB*

First Principle: Electronic Toolboxes - Empowerment - Putting Knowledge to Work

William L. Livingston, Ebasco Services, Inc

1992


CD*

Modern Communications and Ancient Dreams

Dr. Robert W. Lucky, Communications Sciences Research Division, AT&T-Bell Laboratories
1991

CD*
The Civilized Engineer

Dr. Samuel C. Florman, Consultant and Author

1990

CD*

Can Engineers save the Cities? The (Scheldt) Delta Project

Tjebbe Visser, Chief Engineer, Netherlands Ministry of Public Works

1989


RC*

Can the US succeed with High Definition TV? A Washington Insider looks at Engineers and International Competition

Dr. Larry French, Corporate Vice President, North American Phillips Corp.
Dr. Martin Siegel, President, Siegel-Houston and Associates

1988


RC*

Superconductivity

Dr. Victor Wouk, Consultant, High Power Electronics and Electric Vehicles
Dr. John Rowell, Vice President, Bell Communications Research
Dr. William Gallegher, Director of Exploratory Cryogenics, IBM-Thomas J Watson Center
1987

RC*
Tribute to Metrotech

Dr. George Bugliarello, President, Polytechnic University

*Chairmen of MESC:
· RC-Robert Coco, P.E. 1988-1990
· CD -Casimir Drygas, P.E. 1991-1992
· JB - James Barbera, P.E. 1993-1994
· WK - Wasyl Kinach, P.E. 1995-Present