Acadiana Briefs for Jan. 21, 2012
ULL professor noted
at India conference
LAFAYETTE — University of Louisiana at Lafayette mechanical engineering professor Suren Dwivedi received a lifetime achievement award at the International Conference on Agile Manufacturing held Dec. 18-20 in Agra, India.
Dwivedi is also the director of the university’s virtual reality and product realization lab.
The conference was sponsored by the Lean Institute — Batten College of Engineering and Technology at Old Dominion University of Norfolk, Va., and co-sponsored by The International Society of Agile Manufacturing and the International Society for Productivity Enhancement.
Costumes welcome at bicentennial fete
LAFAYETTE — A reception celebrating the beginning of the Louisiana Bicentennial celebrations and the opening of the exhibition “Satire, Scandal and Spectacle: The Art of George Schmidt” will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum.
The event is free. Guests are encouraged to dress as their favorite Louisiana characters or historical figures.
For more information, visit http://museum.louisiana.edu or the Louisiana Bicentennial at http://www.louisianabicen
tennial2012.com.
Compiled by the Acadiana bureau