Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced that the Government College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), has been identified as the venue for the Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series, a global education initiative designed to connect students across the globe with Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry and Physics. Dr George F. Smoot, the 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics, will visit the COEP campus in the first week of March to deliver a lecture on The History and Fate of the Universe and interact with students and faculty. He will also deliver a colloquium on The Cosmic Microwave Background during his visit on March 4th and 5th.

The Honeywell Nobel Laureate Lecture Series brings students together with some of the world’s most advanced minds to inspire and motivate the development of the leading scientists of the future. The India initiative was launched in December, 2007 with the visit of Dr. Sheldon Glashow, the 1979 Nobel Laureate in Physics, to the Visveswarya Technological University, Belgaum, Karnataka.

Honeywell will also host an Orkut Community

(http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=41602117) providing students a chance to read previous Nobel Laureate Lectures that were held in the USA, Shanghai and Belgaum last year

Dr. Smoot is an author of more than 200 science papers and is also co-author (with Keay Davidson) of the popularized scientific book 'Wrinkles in Time” (Harper, 1994) which elucidates cosmology and the COBE discovery. Currently, Dr. Smoot conducts research in astrophysics and observational cosmology, and is most famous for his research on the cosmic background radiation. This radiation is thought to be the relic of the intense heat of the early Big Bang. Dr. Smoot was co-awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics for discovery of the blackbody form and anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background radiation.

The Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series is part of Honeywell's Science Education Initiative, an effort designed to inspire the next generation of engineers and scientists beginning with students and teachers at middle schools and extending to targeted universities around the world. Honeywell's science and math education programs, FMA Live!, Honeywell Educators@Space Academy, and Honeywell Scholars@Presidential Classroom, have already reached more than 100,000 students and teachers in 26 countries and 41 U.S. states. For additional information, please visit www.honeywellscience.com.

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About COEP

The College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), is among the most prestigious engineering colleges in India. The foundation stone of the current premises was laid by His Excellency the Governor, Sir Bartle Frere, on the 5th August, 1865 and in 1868, the College moved to its new building.

The College was divided into three departments for matriculated and unmatriculated students. Two new classes, an Agricultural class and a Forest class, were added to the college, and the name of the college was changed from The Poona Civil Engineering College to The College of Science. In 1911, all non-engineering courses closed, and the college was renamed as “College of Engineering, Poona “(COEP). The college has gone on expanding, adding new departments and new wings by the year.

In 2003, the college got autonomous status, thus giving it the freedom to set its own curricula and manage its own finances. This has been the biggest change as far as pedagogy at COEP is concerned. Today, COEP houses 9 Undergraduate departments, 18 Postgraduate courses and a Ph.D. program. Currently, over 3000 students are enrolled for various courses ranging from Mechanical to Instrumentation and Control Engineering.