August 2003
Friends of the College of Engineering,
The
"Celebrating Engineering Excellence" symposium
is Saturday, September 13.
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This is a special
issue of Lab Notes devoted to the research of four of our distinguished
faculty who will be presenting at our inaugural "Celebrating
Engineering Excellence" event here on Campus on Sept.
13. Each one of these distinguished faculty is working on projects
that will have a direct impact on our society— from saving
Californians money on their heating bills, to cleaning our precious
water supply, to protecting firefighters. Professors David
Culler, Teresa Head-Gordon,
Tsu-Jae King, and Paul
Wright are featured in this issue of Lab Notes and you can
read about the other two presenters in our research magazine,
Forefront: Ken
Goldberg and Alex
Horne. This event is open to all. For more information, please
see www.coe.berkeley.edu/deaa.
On the same
day, we will also be honoring this year's Distinguished Engineering
Alumni at a gala luncheon in the lobby of the Hearst Memorial
Mining Building. This year, I am very proud to announce that we
will be recognizing the careers of Eugene Herson (CE '65, '66),
Yong-Kyung Lee (EECS '75) and Robert Taylor (CE '56, '58,
'63) as well as our Outstanding Young Leader, Dawn Tilbury
(EECS '92, '94). Read more about our honorees at www.coe.berkeley.edu/deaa.
We have also added a new feature to Lab Notes in this issue,
called Lab Notes Update, where we review
the current state of a research project described in an earlier
issue of Lab Notes to see what progress has been made! In this
issue, we revisit Bioengineering Professor Ted Cohn's innovative
light system that warns drivers when they are traveling too
close to another vehicle—the lights are now being field
tested on buses in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
I hope you are all having a great summer. Go
Bears!
/rich
A. Richard Newton
Dean, College of Engineering and
the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering
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