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Dean's Speaker Series
Series Overview
The College of Engineering and Computer Science Dean's speaker series serves as a valuable platform to foster collaboration, inspire innovation, and provide insights into cutting-edge research and developments. The series is funded through the Wright State Foundation and has the objectives of facilitating collaboration, inspiring students, showcasing research, promoting interdisciplinary research, addressing current challenges, encouraging innovation, engaging the community, supporting professional development, and enhancing the reputation of the college.
Upcoming Speakers
Stefan Börnchen, University of Luxembourg
A Quantum of God: Myths and Promises of Salvation in Quantum Technology
Date: October 1, 2024
Time/Location: 1–2 p.m., 109 Oelman Hall
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Dr. Stefan Börnchen is a Research Scientist for Humanities and Digitalization at the University of Luxembourg. Doctorate (2006), habilitation (2017) and adjunct professor (2021) at the University of Cologne. Visiting lectureships at the Free University of Berlin, the Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and the University of Tehran. Main areas of work: Literature of the 18th to 21st centuries, music and literature, graphic literature (comics and graphic novels), theory of cultural studies, media theory, psychoanalysis, narratives of the digital and narratives of artificial intelligence.
Monographs: Stalingrad on the Elbe. Cold, war and homelessness in Dörte Hansen's novel Altes Land (2022), "Everything is one." Romantic metaphorology of the medium (2021), Poetics of the line. Wilhelm Busch, Max and Moritz and tradition (2015), Kryptenhall. Allegories of writing, voice and music in Thomas Mann's "Doctor Faustus" (2006).
Eileen Bjorkman, Ph.D.
Women in Engineering and Aviation: An Unfinished Revolution
Date: October 9, 2024
Time/Location: 1–2 p.m., 109 Oelman Hall
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Eileen Bjorkman, Ph.D. is a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and senior executive with 700+ hours of flying time as a flight test engineer in 25 different types of military aircraft, primarily the F-4, F-16, C-130, and C-141. Her last position with the Air Force was as Executive Director, Air Force Test Center, Edwards Air Force Base, California. In retirement, Eileen sits on the boards of several non-profit professional organizations. She is also a freelance writer and author of three books, most recently The Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat. She has both MS and BS degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in Ohio, and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Washington in Seattle. She also has a Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from The George Washington University in Washington, DC.
Accessibility
The College of Engineering and Computer Science is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible event. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact Jessica Blevins at jessica.blevins@wright.edu or 937-775-5001. All requests must be made at least three business days prior to the event. We will attempt to implement late requests but cannot guarantee they will be met.
