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Berkeley Engineering
celebrates distinguished alumni
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DEAA winners (from left) In Sik Rhee, Wayne Clough, Floyd
Kvamme, and Steve Wozniak with Dean Newton (foreground). The
DEAA recognizes exemplary professional and technical leaders,
academic and research careers, or public service contributions
in engineering. Rhee received the Outstanding Young Engineer
Award, established in 2002 to recognize a rising leader under
age 40.
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The four guests of honor included a charismatic Georgia-born
educator, one of California’s leading venture capitalists,
a famous undergraduate who registered at Berkeley under a false
name, and a Korean American who found his major by asking a friend
which courses would be the most difficult.
This year’s top alumni—Wayne Clough, Floyd Kvamme,
Steve Wozniak, and In Sik Rhee—were celebrated by Berkeley
Engineering at its 30th annual Distinguished Engineering Alumni
Awards (DEAA) banquet, attended by 180 guests in the lobby of
Hearst Memorial Mining Building last September.
Clough (Ph.D.’69 CE), a Georgia native and now president
of Georgia Institute of Technology, is an internationally recognized
leader in geotechnical engineering and one of the country’s
foremost engineering educators.
Kvamme (B.S.’59 EECS) is partner emeritus in the Menlo Park–based
venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield, and Byers. One
of five founding members of National Semiconductor in 1967, he
helped transform the Syracuse-based transistor company into a
billion-dollar microelectronics supplier.
Wozniak (B.S.’86 EECS) had already invented Apple computers
when he became a student at Berkeley Engineering. To lower his
profile, he enrolled as “Rocky Clark,” a moniker constructed
from his dog’s name and his then-wife’s surname. He
founded Wheels of Zeus, Inc., in 2001, to further investigate
solutions to everyday problems through education and technology.
Rhee (B.S.’93 EECS) enrolled at Berkeley in 1989. Not knowing
which courses to attend he asked a friend which were the hardest.
“EECS is hell,” his friend replied, so Rhee promptly
enrolled in EECS. After graduating, he founded Kiva, a software
startup that was acquired first by Netscape and later by AOL.
In 2002, he founded Loudcloud, now Opsware Inc., the leading provider
of data center automation software.
Visit www.coe.berkeley.edu/alumni_friends/deaa/
for a video of the event.
Call for 2005 DEAA nominations
Nominations are now being accepted for 2005 distinguished alumni,
who will be honored at next year’s event on Saturday, September
24, 2005, at Hearst Memorial Mining Building. Nominations may
be submitted online and must be received by March 15, 2005. To
make a nomination, go to www.coe.berkeley.edu/alumni_friends/deaa/index.html.
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