In case you hadn’t heard, Adrian Bejan is the receiving the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Mechanical Engineering from the Franklin Institute. Bejan is being honored for his contributions in thermodynamics and convection heat transfer that have improved the performance of engineering systems, as well as his pioneering interdisciplinary contribution of constructal theory, which predicts natural design and its evolution in engineering, scientific, and social systems.
Past laureates include: Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Pierre and Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Gordon Moore, Jane Goodall, and Jacques Cousteau, among others. Awards week is scheduled April 16th-20th, and you can find information and tickets for the awards ceremony and dinner here: Franklin Institute Awards Ceremony.
In conjunction with the awards week, there is also a National Science Foundation workshop being held at Villanova University: Constructal Theory, What the Future Holds.
Following the workshop, on the afternoon of April 18th, there will be a symposium, Constructal Theory: What the Future Holds. This is free and open to the public, but requires registration.
I am very much looking forward to these events, and meeting people who are part of the constructal community. Hope to see you there!