April 2003
Friends of
the College of Engineering,
Dean
Kamen, inventor of the Segway human transporter (above),
will address graduates at the May 24th College commencement.
Courtesy Segway
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Last week, U.S.
News & World Report released their 2003 rankings of engineering
graduate schools. I am pleased to report that Berkeley Engineering
is again one of the top three ranked schools in the country
in this survey, just slightly behind MIT and Stanford. However,
Berkeley continues to draw students with average GRE scores well
in excess of the other top schools and we certainly experience
that talent in the students we educate every day.
On May 24th, more than one thousand of those talented future
leaders will receive their degrees at our annual commencement.
This year we asked students to nominate and vote for their commencement
speaker and the overwhelming favorite was Dean
Kamen, inventor and creator of, among other things, the
IBOT
and the Segway human transporter.
Truly an engineer's engineer, Dean has generously agreed to offer
what I'm sure will be an inspiring and insightful talk at our commencement
and I hope I have the chance to meet many of you at Berkeley on
that day.
Our Southern California friends and alumni should save
the date June 5 for a presentation by Gene
Myers, one of our newest faculty members and most recent
inductees into the National Academy of Engineering. Gene, who was
featured in last month's Lab Notes,
is the world-renowned expert who developed many of the algorithms
used to decipher the human genome. Look for location and time details
of this special Berkeley Engineering presentation in the next issue
of Lab Notes.
Very best wishes to you and to your family, and Go Bears!
/rich
A. Richard Newton
Dean, College of Engineering and
the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering
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