Professor Yale Patt, Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering, was the inaugural lecturer at the new Henry Taub Memorial Distinguished Lecture Series at Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel. The Board of Governors of Technion established the lecture series in memory of Henry Taub, a major benefactor of the university who died in 2011 at the age of 83. Dr. Patt's lecture coincided with the Technion Board of Governors meeting in Haifa on June 11, 2013.