George David Chairman and Chief Executive Officer United Technologies Corporation Yale University, Faculty of Engineering Dean's Distinguished Lecturer, "UTC Positioned for the Next Millennium" Thursday, November 5, 1998 4:30 p.m. in Davies Auditorium followed by a reception in the Becton Faculty Lounge

George David was elected chief executive officer of United Technologies Corporation in 1994 and chairman in 1997. He had previously been elected president and chief operating officer of the corporation in 1992.

Mr. David joined Otis Elevator Company in 1975, just prior to the merger of Otis into United Technologies. After heading up Latin American and later North American operations, he became Otis' president in 1986. He subsequently led UTC's Carrier and UT Automotive subsidiaries before being elected the corporation's president.

Mr. David received his BA from Harvard and MBA from the University of Virginia.

He is chairman of the US-ASEAN Business Council and the National Minority Supplier Development Council. He is a board member of the Institute for International Economics in Washington and a charter member of the Consultative Council on Foreign Investment in Russia, an advisory body to former Prime Minister Chernomyrdin.

He is president of the board of trustees of the University of Virginia's Graduate School of Business. He is also incoming board president of the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, America's oldest public art museum. Mr. David has led the United Way fund raising drive in Hartford and is a former Governor of the American Red Cross.

United Technologies ranks twenty-first in size among U.S. manufacturing firms and is the parent company of Pratt & Whitney, Carrier Corporation, Otis Elevator Company, Sikorsky Aircraft, Hamilton Standard, and UT Automotive.

The primary reason Mr. David is coming is to formally present the $450,000 UTC grant which will provide support for the development of the new Select Program in Engineering.

Mr. David is particularly interested in the interface between technology and management, and we have been reflecting that interest in our new IT course in SOM (which Professor Prober is teaching now for the second year), in the Management Sciences course that Arthur Haut of SOM is teaching for our engineering students, in the new graduate level SynThesis course (Product Design and Business Development for Entrepreneurial Teams), in our new Management of Technology seminar series (today's visitor is a v.p. from Lucent), and from the faculty and student exchanges that are occurring in these courses. We have particularly been assisted by Subrata Sen and David Cromwell, who are on the advisory committee for the Select Program, and we anticipate many opportunities for a growing relationship between SOM and the Faculty of Engineering under Dean Bromley's leadership.