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September 2002
Friends of
the College of Engineering,
New
engineering students break for lunch and enjoy the sun during
orientation. Angela Privin photo
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As the new school
year swings into full gear and both our new and returning students
settle down to work, our '02-'03 student body represents over
100 countries with a distinguished group of new graduate students
from more than 20 countries and 80 undergraduate institutions
world wide. Joining them are 750 new undergraduates as well,
including 150 students transferring into our junior year, most from
local and community colleges. These students are certainly the very
best of the best!
All of these students will have access to the finest engineering
minds alive. Indeed I learned recently that we have more members
of the distinguished National Academy of Engineering on our faculty
than any of the Big 10+ engineering schools in the country.
And Berkeley has more NAE members today than the total of all
other UC campuses combined!
| Incredible
Incoming First Years: The Class of '06 |
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UC
Berkeley |
College
of Engineering |
| GPA
"capped" |
3.79 |
3.87* |
| GPA
"uncapped" |
4.21 |
4.34* |
| #
of Honors/AP classes in HS |
17.3 |
19.5* |
| SAT
Math |
673 |
733* |
| Sat
Verbal |
631 |
652* |
| SAT
Combined |
1304 |
1386* |
| SAT
II Math |
675 |
746* |
| SAT
II Writing |
651 |
671* |
| SAT
II Combined |
1326 |
1417* |
| *Denotes
highest average of any college or school at UC Berkeley |
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Last month we
introduced our latest CITRIS-affiliated research initiative—Berkeley’s
new Center for Intelligent Systems (CIS)—with a two
day research symposium, featured below. By bringing together more
than 20 faculty representing seven Berkeley departments (including
four departments outside the College) and active participation
from CITRIS industrial partners, this center will integrate fundamental
new theory, algorithms, and technologies from computer science,
mathematics and statistics, robotics, vision research, and the biological
sciences to tackle some of the toughest problems posed by our CITRIS
research agenda in Societal-Scale Systems. While work in
each of these areas has been ongoing for some time now, this is
an important new coordinated emphasis in the College and I know
we will be hearing a lot from, and about, this group as their work
progresses.
Since 1975 we have been honoring some of our most accomplished alumni
with the Distinguished
Engineering Alumni Awards. I am very pleased to announce that
our 2002 award recipients are our own Professor George Leitmann
(Ph.D., ME ’56), microelectronics entrepreneur and industry
leader Robert S. Pepper (B.S. EE ’57, M.S. EE ’58,
Ph.D. EE ’61), and civil engineering pioneer Theodore Van
Zelst (B.S. CE ’44). This year we also added a new category
to this award that recognizes alumni 40 years of age or younger
who are already making major contributions to their field, their
community or their institutions. I am personally delighted to see
that the first recipient of this important award is Professor
Valerie Taylor (EECS ’91), who is making a mark not only
with her teaching and research but with her outstanding outreach
efforts to attract more students from underrepresented groups to
engineering. Valerie, also featured in this issue of Lab Notes,
will receive her award along with the other winners of the DEAA
on November 16 at our annual gala dinner. I hope you will join
Petra and me at the Claremont Hotel to congratulate our award winners—please
see the
calendar for more information about this event.
Very best wishes and Go Bears!
/rich
A. Richard Newton
Dean, College of Engineering and
the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering
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