SPRING 2005
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Real World Engineering attendance best ever
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NASA These Berkeley Engineering women were just three of the more than 350 undergraduates who attended Real World Engineering, an annual networking event where alumni participants help young engineers plan their futures.
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More than 350 undergraduate engineering students packed the house at February’s Real World Engineering 2005, a forum and networking event held annually to introduce students to alumni who are living their professional lives to the fullest following their Berkeley Engineering degrees.
It was the largest attendance since the event was initiated five years ago to help students chart academic and career paths during and after their undergraduate years. Nearly 60 alumni returned to campus to participate in 12 separate panel discussions on a range of engineering fields, network at a sushi reception following the formal program, and answer students’ questions about how to find the right major or job, whether or not to go to graduate school, and how to translate their engineering degrees into successful and fulfilling careers.
Associate Dean Dave Auslander set the tone with his opening remarks. “Think of yourselves not as students but pre-alumni,” he told the audience in Sibley Auditorium. “It’s easy to get into class and forget everything else. But your education here is just as much about learning what you want to do as it is about learning the class material.”
Real World Engineering is held every February. If you are an alumnus and would like to participate in the 2006 event, please let us know by filling out and submitting the form at www.coe.berkeley.edu/alumni/volunteer/.
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