Lewis Edgers is Professor Emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Tufts University. He earned his BS in Civil Engineering at Tufts and his MS and PhD at MIT. He joined the faculty at Tufts in 1967, advanced through the ranks as Department Chair, and Associate Dean of the School of Engineering and retired as Prof. Emeritus in 2014. Prof. Edgers is an expert in geotchnical engineering whose work focuses on the relationships between the built environment and soil, rock, and water. He is a registered professional engineer and a Fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers.
Prof. Edgers has served as faculty host for several Travel-Learn trips including trips to the Panama Canal, Japan, Provincial France, Dutch Waterways, The Scottish Isles and Norwegian Fjords. His lecture topics have included the construction of the Panama Canal, global climate change, earthquake hazards, land reclamation and flood control,and green energy.
On this program, using examples by Brunelleschi, Galileo and Leonardo Da Vinci, Prof. Edgers will examine the relationship between art, science and engineering from classical times through the Italian renaissance. He will also discuss the challenges of ground subsidence in Venice and Pisa and flooding in Venice.