Former CEO of Boeing to Speak on 'Working Together'
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Philip Condit, former chairman and chief executive officer
of Boeing, will speak on the design and manufacture of the Boeing 777 at 8:35 a.m., on
Wednesday, April 2 in room 2282 of the Bell Engineering Center.
Condit will discuss the concept of “Working Together.” He led
the team that launched the wide-body Boeing 777 airplane, and he pioneered
management concepts that integrated design/build teams of customers, suppliers
and employees to design and produce the 21st-century jet. The 777 “Working
Together” team has received numerous aeronautical awards, including the
prestigious Collier Award.
Elected president and member of the board of directors of
Boeing in 1992, Condit added the title of chief executive officer in 1996. In
1997, he was elected chairman. He was the seventh chairman since the company
was founded in 1916.
Condit resigned from his position as chairman and chief
executive officer of The Boeing Company on Dec. 1, 2003, and retired from the
company in March 2004.
Under his leadership, several mergers and acquisitions
transformed the company into a broad-based, global enterprise. Condit is the
author of several published papers on commercial aircraft technology and holds
a patent, awarded in 1965, for the design of a flexible wing called the
sailwing.
Condit received a bachelor’s degree in mechanical
engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1963; a master’s
degree in aeronautical engineering from Princeton University in 1965; a master’s
in management from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1975; and, in 1997,
a doctorate in engineering from Science University of Tokyo, where he was the
first Westerner to earn such a degree.
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College of Engineering
479-575-5697,
camillam@uark.edu
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