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Colonel Scott Willey
In keeping with the theme for the Class of 2014 Orientation, Colonel Scott Willey, a guide and lecturer with the Smithsonian Institute, will discuss World War I technological advances in propulsion, structures, armament, and aerodynamics at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, in Colton Chapel.
The lecture, “The First World War in the Air: Implications for the Future,” is free and open to the public and is this year’s Judith A. Resnik Memorial Lecture. It is part of a yearlong series of events and curricular and co-curricular activities focusing on the orientation theme of “1914 to 2014: Waging War, Staging Peace.”
Willey will discuss the operational use of airpower in WWI (going from observation only to reconnaissance, air combat, bombing, and rudimentary transport); WWI technological advances, and where all this leads up to now. The primary thrust of the talk will be that scientists discover new technologies; the military/political structures come up with new needs; and engineers develop the means to achieve those needs through application of technologies.
The Resnik Memorial Lecture is named in honor of astronaut Judith A. Resnik, an electrical engineer who lost her life in the Challenger space shuttle disaster on Jan. 28, 1986. The annual lecture is sponsored by the Farber Memorial Endowment Fund, created in April 1994 by a gift from the late Jack Farber ’31.