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TitleEngineers Week Colloquium Speaker
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TranscriptOffice of University Relations SDSM& T News 501 E. St. Joseph Street Rapid City, SD 57701- 3995 Phone: ( 605) 394- 6082/ 2554 Fax: ( 605) 394- 6177 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 18, 2000 DR. DANIEL TURNER ANNOUNCED AS ENGINEERS WEEK 2000 COLLOQUIUM SPEAKER Dr. Daniel Turner of the University of Alabama will be the Colloquium Speaker during Engineers Week 2000 February 20- 26 at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology. Dr. Turner will be presenting a show entitled " The World's Oldest Civil Engineering Professor, " on Wednesday, February 23 at 9: 30 am and 3: 00 pm in the Surbeck Student Center Ballroom. Donning a costume suitable for a professor of the mid 1800' s, Dr. Turner will portray a 178- year- old professor, Frederick Augustus Porter Barnard. Old F. A. P., as Barnard was nicknamed, will pack a lifetime of experiences into a 60- 90 minute comedy prepared for the middle school, high school, and college students, and the general public who will be in attendance. As an Engineers Week brochure describes, Old F. A. P. " was best at everything he did. He wrote the best sonnet, the best love story, took the best picture, charmed the most women, caught the most trout, calculated the best almanac and excelled at anything else he wanted to do. He was a brilliant scientist and the first man to teach engineering in the state of Alabama." Dr. Daniel Turner has been portraying Old F. A. P. since 1986 when he gave his first performance for the University of Alabama's 150th year celebration. Dr. Turner is professor and head of the department of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, and past National president of the American Society of Civil Engineers ( ASCE). His specialization and research interests are traffic safety, traffic engineering, highway design and operations, and policy. For more information about Dr. Turner's show on February 23, or for more information about Engineers Week 2000 contact the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology at ( 605) 394- 2256. ++ 30++ ( I: univrel/ pressrel/ 0100 Engineers Week Colloquium Speaker fxd rc)
CreatorSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology. University Relations;
SubjectSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology;
Local SubjectEngineers Week
Digital PublisherSouth Dakota School of Mines and Technology. Devereaux Library
Date2000-01-18
TypeText
Formatapplication/pdf
Languageeng
RelationIs part of Office of University Relations SDSM&T News Collection
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Submitting InstitutionDevereaux Library. South Dakota School of Mines and Technology.
Date Digital2009
CONTENTdm number3040
CONTENTdm file name3041.pdf
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