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Osama
Abudayyeh
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Newsmakers:
Berkeley Engineering alumni in the headlines
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to us at Forefront@coe.berkeley.edu
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Osama Abudayyeh (M.S.’86, M.Eng.’87
CE) was appointed interim associate dean for research and graduate
programs of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at
Western Michigan University, where he has been on faculty since
1996. Abudayyeh, who holds professional engineering licensure
in four states, taught at North Dakota State University and served
with the California Department of Transportation for three years
before joining the WMU faculty.
Ankur Luthra (B.S.’03 EECS, Business
Administration) has received a 2004 Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship
for New Americans, a program initiated in 1997 to help new Americans
achieve their educational goals and highlight the contributions
immigrants make to the quality of life in the U.S. Luthra is now
pursuing a master’s in computer science at Oxford University
as a Rhodes scholar and will begin at Harvard Business School
this fall.
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Scott
Carlyle
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Scott Carlyle (B.S.’04 CE) was named a
first team Academic All-American, one of 15 student athletes nationwide
in the at-large category to achieve this distinction. The golfer,
from El Dorado Hills, California, received Cal’s 2004 Neufeld
Scholar Athlete Award for the highest GPA (3.95) among senior
male student athletes. He also earned Pac-10 honorable mention
and was one of five finalists for the Byron Nelson Award. Carlyle
is now working as project engineer for Cleveland Golf on design,
testing, and manufacturing aspects of golf equipment.
Anant Jhingran (M.S.’87, Ph.D.’90
CS) has been named an IBM Distinguished Engineer, a career title
awarded to staff engineers who have achieved a sustained record
of invention and recognition company- and industry-wide. Director
of business intelligence of IBM’s Silicon Valley Lab, Jhingran
heads research and development and is working on ways for companies
to extract valuable business intelligence from unstructured data.
He is the holder of 20 patents relating to electronic commerce
and search technologies.
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| Gary
May |
Gary May (M.S.’88, Ph.D.’91 EECS)
received two 2004 awards from the American Society for Engineering
Education: the Minorities in Engineering Award for his achievement
in increasing participation and retention of minorities and women
in engineering; and the William Elgin Wickenden Award for his
paper on under-represented minority students in engineering, published
in the Journal of Engineering Education last year. May, Motorola
Foundation Professor of Microelectronics in Electrical and Computer
Engineering and executive assistant to the president at Georgia
Institute of Technology, also received the 2004 Georgia Tech Outstanding
Undergraduate Research Mentor Award.
Jigar Mehta (B.S.’01 ME) was cinematographer
on “My Flesh and Blood,” which won the Documentary
Audience and Directing Awards at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival.
The film tells the story of Susan Tom, a single mother from Fairfield,
California, who adopted 11 special-needs children. It was screened
on HBO last Mother’s Day and will be available in DVD format
this fall. Mehta, who is now pursuing a master’s at Berkeley’s
School of Journalism, also made “The Many Voices of Cal,”
a 17-minute video for prospective students.
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