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SUMMARY:Transition Engineering - The most important engineering discipline in human history
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:IET Prestige Lecture 2010. Associate Professor Susan Krumdieck on "Transition Engineering, The most important engineering discipline in human history".=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0AAssociate Professor Susan Krumdieck=0D=0ABS and MS (Arizona State University), PhD (University of Colorado at Boulder)=0D=0ADepartment of Mechanical Engineering=0D=0AUniversity of Canterbury=0D=0Awww.aemslab.org.nz=0D=0A=0D=0A=0D=0AThroughout human history, new engineering fields have emerged with each new challenge or opportunity. Some would say Civil Engineering is the oldest discipline, as it arose out of the great military and infrastructure challenges of early civilisation.  However, we might argue that process engineering to preserve and store food, materials engineering, or energy engineering had to be well advanced in order to support a high culture. With the industrial revolution, the cold war, and the silicon age, electrical, aerospace, nuclear and controls are among a few of the new engineering disciplines. The range of new infrastructure, products, materials, products, communications and weapons developed by all of these engineers has been extraordinary, as has the environmental and social impact.  =0D=0A=0D=0AIn this lecture I will present the hypothesis that a field of engineering is emerging to address the challenges of our own technology. Transition Engineering has its roots in the early 20th Century when public outrage over worker safety led to the establishment of Safety Engineering as a discipline. Transition Engineering is currently a discipline recognised in Computer and Software Engineering where change management for IT systems requires an engineering project in itself.  I will present the fundamental framework for Transition Engineering, the art and applied science of system change. Engineers will find the structure of the framework familiar. But then, I will push the boundaries of engineering and technology development with the radical suggestion that the new field of Transition Engineering will emerge to address the 21st Century=92s great challenges; climate disruption, resource depletion, ecosystem reclamation and population reduction. The lecture will include some examples of Transition Engineering innovations.=0D=0A=0D=0A =0D=0ABiographical Sketch=0D=0A=0D=0ASusan Krumdieck is Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury where she lectures Thermodynamics, Energy Engineering and directs the Final Year Projects Programme. She is the director of the Advanced Energy and Materials Systems Lab, an interdisciplinary research group including engineering, sciences, social and community organizations.  She has been actively pursuing a wide range of research in strategic solutions to complex problems and untenable dilemmas.  =93Advanced=94 means incorporating complexity, history, the future and people into the engineering of energy and materials with a systems perspective.  Her research includes development of demand response systems, fuel retail constrained allocation system, individual and freight transport energy constraint risk assessment tools, and personal and freight transport adaptation investigations. She also actively works with local communities in New Zealand and the Pacific to help transition groups set up new structures and pursue change projects.=0D=0A=0D=0APlease check back on the Events Calendar on the day of the event to ensure the event is still being held. If the event has been cancelled, it will no longer appear.=0D=0A
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