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Oster Gives Ahlborg Lecture and Demonstration of Revolutionary Transportation Technology utilizing magnetic levitation vehicles in vacuum tubes
March 1-2, 2004

Daryl Oster, CEO, ET3, Florida, spent March 1-2, 2004 at RWU in lecture and demonstration of revolutionary high speed travel technologies capable of achieving 4,000 mph speeds using a fraction of the energy of current rail, air or automobile systems. Oster's visit was supported with funds from the Ahlborg Interdisciplinary Initiative between the School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation and the School of Engineering, Computing and Construction Management.

On Monday, Oster delivered the lecture, "Evacuated Tube Transport Technologies" to students in Professor Robert O'Neill's Engineering Senior Seminar, which was also attended by several graduate architecture students and faculty. On the second day, graduate students Tim Ganetis, Jason Carr, and Kathleen Murtagh collaborated with Oster and the School of Engineering, Computing and Construction Management's Jim Dorothy in building a model demonstrating the magnetic levitation transport principles within vacuum tubes. The model will be displayed in the new RWU Center for Macro Projects and Diplomacy, currently under construction as part of the expansion of the Architecture building.

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