Dr woodie flowers biography

Woodie Claude Flowers November 18, — October 11, was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His specialty areas were engineering design and product development ; he held the Pappalardo Professorship and was a MacVicar Faculty Fellow. Working with inventor Dean Kamen , Flowers helped design the organization's competition structure based loosely around his 2.

Flowers was born in Jena, Louisiana on November 18, , [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and named after his grandfathers Woodie and Claude. The collision killed two people in Flowers' vehicle and one in the other. The event ingrained his self-described "genetic opposition to violence" and his "fierce, vocal loathing of any spectacle that involves crashing pieces of machinery into each other with deliberate force.

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Flowers initially expected not to attend college, but at the advice of a high school teacher he attended Louisiana Polytechnic Institute under a disability scholarship, [ 4 ] graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Discover: the World of Science changed its name to Scientific American Frontiers in , and Flowers served as its host [ 16 ] until when he was replaced by Alan Alda.

Flowers was known for having an eclectic selection of hobbies, including wildlife photography, scuba diving , unicycling , skydiving , and trapeze. Flowers died on October 11, , at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston following complications from aorta surgery. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.

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