The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exits. Most are designed as a replacement for activities once at the core of the engineering profession. Commodity engineers who simply run simulations can be bought and sold like sacks of grain. To be effective, we must practice informed creative thinking . To feel good about our lives, we must also practice gracious professionalism .
Ideal innovators practice both.
His current research includes work on the creative design process and product development systems. Dr. Flowers is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Daniel Webster College. He was recently selected to receive a Public Service Medal from NASA and the Tower Medallion from Louisiana Tech University. He is a MacVicar Faculty Fellow at MIT for extraordinary contributions to undergraduate education. Currently, Dr. Flowers is a director of four companies, and he is on the board of Technology Review magazine.