Date:  Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Time:  1:00 pm
Location:  NIA headquarters, 100 Exploration Way, Room 137
Speaker:  Don P. Giddens, Ph.D. – Georgia Institute of Technology
Additional Info: Presentation

Subject:  “Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering”

Don P. Giddens is Dean of the College of Engineering, the Lawrence L. Gellerstedt, Jr. Chair in Bioengineering, and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dean Giddens received all three of his degrees (BAE 1963, MSAE 1965, and Ph.D. 1966) from Georgia Tech and joined the Tech faculty in 1968, after two years in the aerospace industry. In 1992 he left his position as the Chair of Aerospace Engineering to serve as the Dean of the Whiting School of Engineering and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The Johns Hopkins University until 1997. In 1997, Giddens rejoined Georgia Tech to establish the Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, a joint department between Georgia Tech’s College of Engineering and Emory University’s School of Medicine. He served as the founding Chair until July 2002, when he became the Dean of the College of Engineering.