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News | Archives The Canterbury economy can be far more successful says Steve Abley, Chairman of the Canterbury Branch of the Institution of Professional Engineers (IPENZ). “Why doesn’t NZ produce enough technologists when we have a world class research and engineering school right here in Christchurch?” Steve says that according to the most recent data New Zealand has the lowest percentage of engineering graduates in the OECD and compared to the so called “tiger” economies we need about 4,000 first year engineering students per year, not the 1,000 that are currently split between Auckland and Christchurch. But rather than wait for national or local government to implement change,
the local IPENZ Branch is choosing to inspire our future engineers now.
Dr Jack Bacon, a NASA employee and pre-eminent engineer They have invited American professional engineer Dr Jack Bacon, a NASA employee and pre-eminent engineer, speaker, author and futurist to speak at a series of free school lectures in Christchurch. Dr Bacon will explain what engineering can achieve at the forefront of practical science 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. Dr Bacon is also giving a free public lecture on Monday 8 August at 7pm
at the Christchurch Town Hall titled “History in the Making”.
The local IPENZ Branch invites all members of the public to join them
in considering how technology can grow the Canterbury economy. ENDS Jack Bacon 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 the past 15 years Jack has worked for NASA on the International Space
Station project. A job he describes as requiring everything that mankind
has learned about engineering, science, politics, language, and finances,
and then making it all work 400 kilometres above the earth. Steve Abley – Chairman IPENZ Canterbury Branch
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