Woodie Flowers | |
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 Flowers gives his signature thumbs up at the 2006 FIRST Championship in Atlanta, Georgia | |
| Born | Woodie Claude Flowers November 18, 1943 Jena, Louisiana, U.S. |
| Died | October 11, 2019 (aged 75) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Louisiana Tech University (B.S., 1966) MIT (M.S., 1968), M.E. (1971), Ph.D. (1973) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mechanical engineering |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Doctoral students | Li Shu |
Woodie Claude Flowers (November 18, 1943 – October 11, 2019) 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.[1][2]
Flowers was known for co-creating FIRST, a youth organization known primarily for operating FIRST Robotics Competition and other student engineering competitions. Working with inventor Dean Kamen, Flowers helped design the organization's competition structure based loosely around his 2.70 class at MIT.[2]
- ^ "Woodie C. Flowers". MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. Retrieved March 25, 2018.
- ^ a b "Professor Emeritus Woodie Flowers dies at 75". MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering. October 14, 2019. Retrieved October 15, 2019.