Engineering is not merely knowing and being knowledgeable, like a walking encyclopedia; engineering is not merely analysis; engineering is not merely the possession of the capacity to get elegant solutions to non-existent engineering problems; engineering is practicing the art of the organized forcing of technological change ... Engineers operate at the interface between science and society ...
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Gordon S. Brown (1907 - 1996)
Mike Ward
Dean and Professor of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering
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Office: | OCNL 407 |
| Telephone: | 530 898-5963 | |
| FAX: | 530 898-4070 | |
| E-mail: | MWard@csuChico.edu | |
| Research & Teaching Interests: | Dynamics of Multi-Body Systems Control Systems Mechanical Design |
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| Education: | Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University, 1983 M.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1975 B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Davis, 1973 |
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| Licensure: | California State Professional Engineering License in Mechanical Engineering | |


