March 2005
Friends of the College of Engineering,
This month the National Academy of Engineering announced its new members for 2005. As always, Berkeley Engineering was well represented with five faculty from the campus and one alumna on the new members and associates list. These faculty are:
- David Culler, EECS, for his contributions to scalable parallel processing systems, including architectures, operating systems and programming environments;
- Roger Howe, EECS, for his contributions to the development of microelectromechanical systems in processes, devices and systems;
- Arun Majumdar, ME, for his contributions to nanoscale thermal engineering and molecular nanomechanics;
- William Kahan, EECS, who was one of 10 foreign associates named, for the development of techniques for reliable floating point computation, especially the IEEE Floating Point Standards;
- Harvey Blanch, Chemical Engineering, for scientific, engineering, and educational advances in enzyme engineering, bioseparations, and biothermodynamics.
Alumna Shafi Goldwasser (MS '81, PhD '84 CS) was named for her contributions to cryptography, number theory, and complexity theory, and their applications to privacy and security. She is the RSA Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. Congratulations Shafi and to all our new NAE members!
Most importantly, Berkeley and Stanford shared the lead for number of new members and together we accounted for more than 10% of new engineering honorees. The importance of these two preeminent engineering institutions in the Bay Area simply cannot be over overestimated, for the future of our economy here in California and to the nation!
From April 21-23 Berkeley Engineering will again co-host the 2nd annual Bridging the Divide Conference with the Haas Business School, the School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS), our joint Management of Technology program, and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). Leaders in new technology, education, business and economics as they relate to the developing world will share their thoughts and experiences at the conference and will lead workshops and panels in the following subjects. This is a wonderful opportunity for discussion and networking across many fields, with an important common goal. I hope to see you there.
/rich
A. Richard Newton
Dean, College of Engineering and
the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering
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