March 2006
Friends of the College of Engineering,
I was pleased to note that the latest NACE Salary Survey of the Class of 2006 has engineers receiving the highest job offers again this year, with four of our College disciplines placing ahead of accounting and economics. While salary offers for CS graduates fell slightly, they still placed in the top four.
One of the world’s great philanthropists visited our College last month to talk to students about his latest venture, WaterLeaders Foundation. Local real estate magnate Ken Behring is using his fortune to help the world’s poor and his goal with WaterLeaders is to provide clean drinking water to schools in the most undeveloped regions of the world. The foundation focuses on the development and distribution of small water treatment systems that emphasize the use of ultra filtration and reverse osmosis.
Ken spoke to more than 200 students in Sibley Auditorium. It’s no wonder our students were so intrigued with Ken’s project, as Berkeley has a long and distinguished history of student interest in helping the less fortunate. According to the 2006 rankings recently released by the US Peace Corps, UC Berkeley had produced the largest number of volunteers in Peace Corps history. Berkeley currently has 82 alumni in Peace Corps service worldwide and has provided 3,236 volunteers since the Corps began in 1961 - no other school has topped 3,000 volunteers. Here in the College we are also proud to support our own version of the Peace Corps with Engineers for a Sustainable World, a student group that leads projects in India, Mexico and here at home.
If you happen to be in the vicinity of Silicon Valley, please mark your calendar for April 11 when we will again be hosting Berkeley in Silicon Valley, this year at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.
Go Bears!
/rich
A. Richard Newton
Dean, College of Engineering and
the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering
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