Watch the 2007 ConocoPhillips/C.J. “Pete” Silas Program
in Ethics and Leadership Lecture
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The ConocoPhillips/C.J. “Pete” Silas Program
in Ethics and Leadership
In recognition of the outstanding career achievements of Georgia Tech Chemical Engineering graduate C.J. “Pete” Silas, The Phillips Petroleum Foundation awarded a grant to the School of Chemical Engineering to develop the Phillips Petroleum/C.J. “Pete” Silas Program in Ethics and Leadership. Ethics, leadership and quality, founded on the basics of strong communication skills and professionalism, are regarded as essential components of an engineering education. This program spotlights the importance of ethics and leadership by focusing on technical and business decisions that have ethical ramifications. These topics and related areas are integrated into the required chemical engineering courses and are addressed in an annual public symposium with prominent industrialists and ethicists leading discussions on current issues of technology and ethics.
Silas Program Lecturers
C. Judson King
Provost and Senior Vice President –Academic Affairs, Emeritus
The University of California System
Elsa Reichmanis
Bell Labs Fellow and
Director of the Materials Research Department
Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies
Thomas M. Connelly, Jr.
Senior VP & Chief Science and Technology
Officer, DuPont
Lynn Elsenhans
President and CEO of Shell Oil Products U.S.,
President Shell Oil Company, and
Country Chair for Shell U.S.
Charles “Garry” Betty
President and Chief Executive Officer,
EarthLink, Inc.
William G. Paul
Attorney with Crowe & Dunlevy and
President Emeritus, American Bar Association
Raymond V. Gilmartin
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
of Merck & Company, Inc.
Robert W. Galvin
Chairman of the Executive Committee of Motorola, Inc.
Shaun F. O’Malley
Chairman Emeritus and Chairman of the Ethics Resource
Center of Pricewaterhouse, LLP
C.J. “Pete” Silas
Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
of Phillips Petroleum Company