Alexander Graham Christie Lecture

 

Alexander Graham Christie was the longtime head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Johns Hopkins University in the first half of the twentieth century. He also served as the President of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in 1939, and was the first Chairman of the Maryland Board of Registration for Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. The JHU Student Section and the Baltimore Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers honor Professor Christie’s many contributions to the engineering profession through this lecture series, now in its twenty-first year. For more information on Dr. Christie, an article on his career.

The Johns Hopkins 24th Annual Alexander Graham Christie Lecture
March 22, 2007, 4-5pm

This year’s speaker is Dr. Michael Pao, CEO of Floating Windfarms LLC.  The title of his lecture is “Beyond Fossil Fuels: Floating Windfarms at Sea”. In his lecture he will discuss the economics of wind farms and ways to reduce their cost.

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