The Connecticut Post Online - Sikorsky helicopter designer talks shop 1 of 2 Log in | http://www.connpost.com/ci_8243969 Register Now Site Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH Home News Sports Features Entertainment Business Opinion Contents Archive Search | Customer Services | Classifieds | Homes | Jobs | Cars | Rentals | Place an Ad Contact Us Local News En Español RSS» Police Log | News | Business | Sports Brooks Newspapers Death Notices Legal Notices News Columnists Pet News Police Log del.icio.us Digg Reddit YahooMyWeb Google Sports Local Sports What's this? Sikorsky helicopter designer talks shop ROB VARNON [email protected] Article Last Updated: 02/12/2008 09:51:57 PM EST Top News Headlines (AP) Weather Facebook 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. High School Sports High School Football High School Basketball The Week That Was Bridgeport Bluefish Bridgeport Sound Tigers UConn Sports Columnists Girls & Sports Comics Accent Weddings 20-Something Home & Garden Horoscopes Life Planning Neighbor to Neighbor Religion 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 Advertisement 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. Social Security Technology Tidbits Travel Entertainment Book Review Calendar of Events Contests Crossword Puzzle Get Out Blog 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. Horoscopes In The Clubs Movie Listings Movie Review Music Review On Video/DVD PreView Cover story Soap Recaps Theatre Review Business Zahn Building Business 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 . Financial Reports Top Business News (AP) 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. 2/13/2008 10:15 AM The Connecticut Post Online - Sikorsky helicopter designer talks shop 2 of 2 Opinion http://www.connpost.com/ci_8243969 Rob Varnon, who covers business, can be reached at 330-6216. Editorials Print Letters to the Editor News Columnists Email Return to Top Tell us your breaking news! or call us at 1-800-423-8058 Michael J. Daly Ken Dixon John Hourihan James H. Smith Peter Urban Stephen J. 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