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Sikorsky helicopter designer talks shop
ROB VARNON rvarnon@ctpost.com
Article Last Updated: 02/12/2008 09:51:57 PM EST
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The father of the Black Hawk helicopter, retired Sikorsky engineer Ray Leoni Sr., will be one of the featured spea kers
during National Engineers Week at the University of New Haven.
Leoni, who holds the design patent for the UH-60 Black Hawk, will speak at UNH on Feb. 20 at 5 p.m. in Buckman Hal l in
Schuman Auditorium.
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A 41-year veteran of the Stratford-based helicopter maker, Leoni will discuss the competition for the Army's first Black
Hawk contract, which began in 1972, and how Sikorsky, fighting to remain a viable company, was able to win the pri ze
and reinvent itself.
It's the kind of story that UNH Tagliatela College of Engineering Dean Barry Farbrother hopes will awaken more peo ple to
the importance of engineering and inspire everyone to think beyond how to use technology to how it works. He said it's
important to the national and state economies to encourage people to pursue careers in the field, because it's the
engineers and scientists who are driving advances around the globe.
Farbrother said students today are great at adopting and using new technology, but they need to take that next ste p and
learn how it works. He hopes events like Engineers Week will encourage more to do that.
The National Society of Professional Engineers started National Engineers Week in 1951 in the hopes of promoting m ath
and scientific literacy among the nation's children. Programs such as building bridge structures out of Popsickle sticks and
creating a toothpick structure to
protect eggs dropped from buildings were among the
early projects the group used to try to inspire students to
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pursue engineering.
Today, 75 professional associations, companies and
government agencies support Engineers Week. It
officially kicks off Sunday and ends Feb. 23, but UNH
and other area engineering schools are holding events
earlier than that.
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Some of the events at UNH are free and open to the
public, including Leoni's speech. Leoni will also sign his
book, "BLACK HAWK: The Story of a World-Class
Helicopter."
UNH kicks off its events Friday at noon, when Julie
Newman, Yale University's director of the office of
sustainability, talks about the challenges facing
engineers working under new constraints designed to cut
pollution and reduce the waste of raw and used
materials.
All lectures are will be held in Buckman Hall.
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On Tuesday at 1 p.m., Dr. Richard Deslauriers, president of Doctors Research Group Inc., will discuss meshing busi ness
and medicine.
Leoni speaks next Wednesday, followed by Dennis Xu, chairman of the board of Viaon Technology Corp. of China on
Feb. 21. Xu will discuss China's reliance on engineering to create an innovative economy.
While UNH has a large program planned, Connecticut's other schools also are marking the week.
The University of Bridgeport's School of Engineering is kicking off its annual Spring Colloquium on New Frontiers in
Engineering on Thursday, when assistant professor of mechanical engineering Jungling Hu gives a talk about advance s
of computational fluid dynamics in engineering analysis and design.
UB will have eight other free lectures after Hu; all are open to the public and will begin at 4 p.m. in Dana Hall. The
speakers include professors from other universities and, on May 1, Pei-Chung Wang of General Motors.
Other engineering schools were planning a variety of student-focused events or ceremonies to honor local engineers .
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For more information about the University of New Haven's events, contact professor Ismail Orabi at 932-7144.
For information about University of Bridgeport events, visit www.bridgeport.edu.
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