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May 11, 2007 Vol. 77, no. 13S
Looking
Back
No one ever said being an engineer was going to be easy. When we
stepped on this campus four years ago, we were challenged by our professors
and our peers to work for what we deserved. Nothing was served to us
on a platter. Rather, if we recognized an opportunity, we had to pursue
it on our own. Being blue and gold means you can accomplish anything
if you have the spirit to do it, and that’s what makes Cal unique.
Our first year here was full of experiences, from making friends at CalSo to
realizing Telegraph Avenue isn’t as weird as it seems to be. In our first
football season, we defeated USC in a triple overtime game. We have been able
to hold our heads high against that “small” school across the bay
because we have had the axe all four years. Telling the world that this is
Bear Territory feels so good. This place has given each of us a different experience,
but we all have one thing in common — we are all Berkeley Engineers. [FULL
STORY]
While
you were here… a sampling of College and world highlights
2003
§ U.S. and coalition forces invade Iraq. §Bob
McClain (B.S.’86, M.S.’88 CEE) runs for governor in California’s
recall election; voters choose Arnold Schwarzenegger.
2004
§
NASA’s ScramJet breaks a record by obtaining a speed
of Mach 9.6, almost 10 times the speed of sound. § CEE student
William Hung makes his infamous appearance on the TV show, “American
Idol.” § The world’s tallest bridge (984 feet) opens
in France.§ Bill Gates speaks on campus to more than 1,600 engineering
students and faculty. § The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft arrives
at Saturn. § Cal’s Tau Beta Pi chapter wins its seventh “Little
Big Game.”
2005
§
Civil rights figure Rosa Parks dies at age 92. §Jasmina Vujic
becomes the first female chair of a top-10 university nuclear engineering
department. §French surgeons complete the first human
face transplant. § CEE professors mobilize the campus response
to Hurricane Katrina. § Lance Armstrong wins a seventh straight
Tour de France. §BioE undergraduates develop a device for “ouchless” injections.
2006
§
U.S. vice president Dick Cheney accidentally shoots a friend on a
Texas ranch. § EECS students start a DeCal class to get others
charged up about electrical engineering. §For the first time,
women vote in elections for the National Assembly of Kuwait. §ME
students teach robot fundamentals to children of San Francisco’s
homeless. § Nintendo launches its seventh-generation video game
console, the Wii. §The College’s newest department, BioE,
celebrates its eighth year.
2006
§
Dean Newton passes away from pancreatic cancer. §The world population
reaches 6.6 billion §1,237 Berkeley
engineering graduates head out into the world.
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