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BATON ROUGE - 海角社区 Engineering Dean this fall debuts a new lecture series to bring exceptional scholars, inventors, and entrepreneurs in engineering, computer science, and construction management to campus.

Colvin said the goal of the series is to educate students, inspire faculty, and build relationships between 海角社区 researchers and national leaders.

鈥淟et鈥檚 bring great minds here so we can learn from them - and have them learn about us,鈥� Colvin said. 鈥満＝巧缜� Engineering is home to excellence in research, teaching, technology policy, and commercial innovation. This lecture series will elevate the college, and the university, nationally.鈥�

Lectures are free and will be recorded for viewing on . All members of the college and university are invited.

The Dean鈥檚 Distinguished Lecture Series kicks off Thursday, November 13 at 1:30 p.m. in the Dalton J. Woods Auditorium with a talk, 鈥淓nergy, Innovation, Coordination, and Supply Chain Resilience,鈥� by renowned Rice University energy economist Kenneth B. Medlock III. This talk, co-hosted by 海角社区鈥檚 Center for Energy Studies, will be in the Energy, Coast and Environment Building located on 93 South Quad Drive on the 海角社区 campus.

Medlock is the James A. Baker III and Susan G. Baker Fellow in Energy and Resource Economics at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and the senior director of the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University. Medlock has published on topics ranging from natural gas and electricity markets to engineered and nature-based carbon capture. Medlock has testified before Congress and served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of Energy. He is a member of the American Economic Association and the National Petroleum Council.

The second lecture in the series takes place on Friday, November 21 at 3 p.m. and features J.N. Reddy, a legend in mechanical engineering teaching and research, speaking about "Nonlocal Approaches to Modeling Architected Structures and Fractures in Solids." Reddy is a University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, and the inaugural Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University. The lecture will be held in Room 1100 in Patrick F. Taylor Hall on the 海角社区 Campus.

Reddy鈥檚 work in solid mechanics, plate theory, composite materials, applied mathematics, and the pioneering finite element method have created new theories, informed commercial software programs, inspired university courses, and won him numerous awards, including the Prager Medal from the Society of Engineering Science, the Timoshenko Medal and the ASME Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Gauss-Newton Medal from the International Association for Computational Mechanics. Reddy has published over 620 journal articles, authored 21 books, and delivered more than 150 invited talks worldwide. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and seven other national engineering academies, including in Canada, China, and Brazil.

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