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Honoring
Engineering Excellence
2002 UCLA Engineering Awards Dinner
In October, the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied
Science recognized the achievements of outstanding alumni, friends,
students, and industry partners at the Engineering Awards Dinner.
The School’s Alumnus of the Year award recognizes an accomplished
alumnus/a who has established a new standard of excellence within
engineering. Dwight Streit, the 2002 recipient, is a two-time graduate
of the School, and vice president of Microelectronics Technology,
for Northrop Grumman Space Technology.
Streit spent 15 years leading the technical and business development
efforts for advanced microelectronics and telecommunications at
TRW Space and Electronics, and received the TRW Chairman’s Award
for Innovation six times and the TRW Distinguished Patent Award
five times, setting company records. He is also a member of the
National Academy of Engineering.
Edward K. Rice, chairman of CTS Cement Manufacturing Company, was
selected as the 2002 recipient of the Engineering Alumni Association’s
Service Award, which honors a person who has generously given his
or her time and talents to the School or the community.
Rice’s involvement with the School began in 1951 as a lecturer and
later adjunct professor of materials science and engineering. He
has shown exceptional commitment to UCLA engineering students, and
to research in materials science. He also financed the construction
of the School’s premiere conference room, which is named in his
honor.
Intel Corporation was presented with the 2002 Industry Award, acknowledging
their exceptional relationship with the School. Intel has donated
nearly $9 million to UCLA, more than half of which went to engineering.
They have supported research in nearly all departments in the School,
and have also helped develop new educational programs. The company
provides financial support for student scholars and is also one
of the School’s most active recruiters. The award was accepted by
Abel Weinrib, director of communications and networking for Intel
Labs and UCLA’s senior sponsor at Intel.
The School also recognized the achievements of two outstanding students
- Andy Fong who received his BS in 1999 and MS from the Interdepartmental
Program in Biomedical Engineering in 2002, and Raymond Pon, who
received his BS in Computer Science in 2001.
As a graduate student, Fong helped develop robotic devices for testing
the locomotor capacity of spinally injured mice, and his work will
likely serve as a basis for parallel work on devices for humans.
In addition, he served as president of the Biomedical Engineering
Society at UCLA. Pon completed his studies with a GPA of nearly
4.0, and was an active member of Dr. Alfonso Cardenas’ Multimedia
Stream System research group.
Todd Cheney, UCLA Photography |
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