A San Diego Air and Space Museum Speakers Bureau Presentation.

San Diego has played an important role in the advancement of aviation over the past 150 years. This talk presents the evolution of San Diego as a center for the major milestones in both military and civilian aviation from the 1880s to today.  

For the past 3 years, Maud has been a docent at the San Diego Air and Space Museum. He serves on the museum’s Scholarship Committee and is a training coordinator for new docents. He enjoys engineering, history, and teaching, so being a docent at the museum is a perfect fit. He has extensive experience in preparing and giving talks on aviation and space history for the museum and is part of the museum’s Speakers Bureau. He is currently developing a course on Aeronautical Engineering for high school students to be offered through the museum.  He and his wife Linda live in Carlsbad.

Madhukar (Maud) Rao is a retired Chemical Engineer and currently serves as the Chief Strategy Officer for Workforce Development at Innovation Impact Partners, LLC. He has more than 36 years of industrial R&D experience with major chemical and semiconductor materials companies, where he held senior positions in R&D management. He holds a and M.S. in Materials Science from The Pennsylvania State University, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from The New Jersey Institute of Technology.