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A solid education is more important to an individual today than it has been at any time in human history says NASA engineer Dr Jack Bacon who will be in Christchurch in two weeks to give a series of free school and university lectures organised by the Canterbury Branch of the Institution of Professional Engineers (IPENZ). Dr Bacon is a Systems Integration Engineer for NASA on the technical management team overseeing the construction and operation of the International Space Station. He hopes to inspire and encourage students to view science, engineering and technology as a viable career path by exploring just how far imagination and vision can take them. He will be discussing NASA’s space shuttle missions, the vision for future moon and mars missions, and describe his work on the International Space Station which he calls ‘the most complicated technical project in history’. “The job requires that we take everything that mankind
has learned about engineering, science, politics, language, and finances,
and make it all work in a man-made world 400 kilometres above our heads.
It’s like needing to use everything in an encyclopaedia,” Jack has been recognised twice as the NASA Outstanding Speaker Award, and is also an author, futurist, and technological historian who has worked in all facets of modern technology, including artificial intelligence, controlled thermonuclear fusion, the electronic office, factory automation, and the conquest of space. Dr Bacon is also giving a free evening public lecture on Monday 8 August at 7pm at the Christchurch Town Hall titled “History in the Making”, discussing emerging technologies that will re-shape society as we have come to know it. The local IPENZ Branch invites the public to come along. ENDS Notes to journalists Jack Bacon has often been called “A New Carl Sagan.” He is an internationally-known motivational speaker, a distinguished lecturer of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), and one of the most requested speakers in America for topics concerning technology and factors that shape human society. Jack received his bachelor of science degree from CalTech in 1976, and a master of science and Ph.D. respectively in 1978 and 1984 from the University of Rochester, where he worked on laser-fusion power reactors, fusion propulsion systems and microgravity fluid surfaces. For further information:
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