Jischke to deliver heat transfer lecture

By Matt Poston
Staff Writer

"If you can't stand the heat, don't transfer to the president's office" is the title of the 2001 Hawkins Memorial Lecture in Heat Transfer, to be given by President Martin Jischke.

The lecture will be at 4 p.m. today in Room 161 of the Mechanical Engineering Building. The event is open to the public and free of charge.

Suresh Garimella, an associate professor of mechanical engineering, said that Jischke was chosen to give the lecture because of his early work as a professor and researcher in heat transfer.

Jischke, who received his bachelor's degree in physics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and earned his master's and doctorate degrees in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said he was honored to give the Hawkins Memorial Lecture.

The Hawkins Memorial Lecture series is an annual affair that began in 1984. Its intention is to honor George Hawkins, former dean of the Schools of Engineering. Every year a leader in heat transfer research is asked to present a topic of broad general interest to the community.

Hawkins earned three degrees from Purdue. He got his final one, a Ph.D., in 1935. In 1942 he became a professor of mechanical engineering and was dean of the Schools of Engineering from 1953 to 1967. He was vice president of academic affairs from 1967 until he retired in 1971. Hawkins died in 1978.

Jischke's lecture will discuss the career path he took, from working in his father's grocery business to being a professor to being president of Purdue University.

"I hope that I have something to say that is of interest to the students," Jischke said.

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