- Woodie Flowers
Woodie C. Flowers is a professor of
mechanical engineering at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology . His specialty areas are engineering design and product development, he holds the Pappalardo Professorship and is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow.He gained his B.S. at Louisiana Polytechnic University in 1966 and added a M.S., a M.E., and a Ph.D., all from MIT between 1968 and 1972. He was made an Assistant Professor at MIT in 1972 and a professor in 1988.
He hosted "
Scientific American Frontiers " onPBS from 1990 to the spring of 1993. He was replaced in that role byAlan Alda . Flowers also has the title "Distinguished Partner" atOlin College . He has been the co-founder of and national advisor to theFIRST robotics competition since its inception in1992 . Each year, the Woodie Flowers Award is given by FIRST to one mentor for his or her contributions to the students on their team. (Flowers was the first recipient of the award, which began in 1996.)Woodie Flowers is a prominent member of the FIRST Robotics Community. He is a member of the Game and Kit Design Committee for the
FIRST Robotics Competition .In 2007, he earned a Honoris [http://www.unab.cl/sitio-html/unabtv.asp?cat=fac&sec=FI&id=fi0005] causa from Chilean university
Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello External links
* [http://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/index.html?id=26 Flowers' personal page at MIT]
* [http://faculty.olin.edu/~wflowers/ Olin faculty information page on Flowers]
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