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Visionaries in Technology: Distinguished Speaker Series

Dartmouth Engineering's Visionaries in Technology distinguished speaker series honors engineers and scientists whose insights have benefited humanity through revolutionary engineering solutions, paradigm-shifting scientific advances, novel fields of inquiry, or policy-shaping debate.


Past Visionaries

"Robots Under Antarctica, and One Day, in Space"

Britney E. Schmidt (2024)

Associate Professor of Astronomy and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University

"Intelligentsia of Nano-Architected Hierarchical Materials"

Julia Greer (2023)

Ruben and Donna Mettler Professor of Materials Science, Mechanics, and Medical Engineering, Caltech

"Riding Data Waves: From Ripples to Tsunamis"

Brenda Dietrich (2019)

Geoffrion Professor of Practice, Cornell Engineering's School of Operations and Information Engineering

"Resonant Systems for Physical and Biochemical Sensing"

Roger T. Howe (2018)

William E. Ayer Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University

"Navigating the Turbulence of the Global Energy System"

Arun Majumdar (2017)

The Jay Precourt Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Co-Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University

"Computational Thinking: My vision for the 21st Century"

Jeannette M. Wing (2016)

Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research Consulting Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

"Symbiotic Systems for The Future of Energy, Water, and Food"

Alexander H. Slocum (2015)

Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT

"Machine-to-Machine Transportation Systems"

Jennifer Healey (2014)

Research Scientist, Systems and Software Research Lab at Intel

"'Simplicity' as a Component of Invention"

George M. Whitesides (2012)

Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University