September 2003
Friends of the College of Engineering,
The
"Celebrating Engineering Excellence" symposium
is Saturday, September 13.
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Over the past few years you have often heard me refer to CITRIS, our innovative
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, and highlight
that many CITRIS projects are now finding real, high impact applications in
society.
In the latest
example, a team of CITRIS researchers recently rigged trees
in a key northern California redwood grove with networks of
tiny wireless sensors. Fifty "micromotes" or miniature
weather monitoring stations—about the size of 35mm film canisters—are
measuring light, temperature, humidity, and barometric pressure
up and down these trees, while a micro-sized PC processes and
stores the data and a low power radio transmits the readings to
the attending botanical researchers.
It is inspiring to read how excited these researchers are to have
the essential information they need to develop healthier and
more sustainable forests. These micro sensors are also being
installed to monitor the state of our wine crops here in California—a
project that may soon require my "personal supervision!"
To read more about this project, please visit our web "newsroom"
at http://coe.berkeley.edu/newsroom/index.html
As I walk across
campus I can feel the energy of our world-class students who've
just returned for the start of school (they still look younger
every year!). This fall we have 524 students in our freshman
class, admitted from more than 5,000 applicants. We continue
to attract the very best and the brightest to Berkeley Engineering.
Speaking of
the best and the brightest, please join our Berkeley Engineering
faculty, alumni, students and friends for our inaugural "Celebrating
Engineering Excellence" symposium on Sept. 13 here on
campus. The day will feature six of our stellar faculty, followed
by a gala luncheon in the newly-renovated Hearst Memorial
Mining Building to honor this years' Distinguished
Alumni Awards winners. Our keynote speaker David Kennedy
(CE '59, '62), long-considered California's water czar, will address
some of the pressing water issues the State faces. You can register
online
or call 510-643-7100.
Hope to see you on Sept. 13th. Go Bears!
/rich
A. Richard Newton
Dean, College of Engineering and
the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering
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