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December 15, 2004

Carnegie Mellon Network Nights Link Students With Alumni & Employers

On the last week of winter break, students will have the opportunity to attend Network Nights to connect with alumni on January 5 in Baltimore and January 6 in Boston and the San Francisco Bay Area. The informal receptions are designed to provide a convenient forum for alumni and students to meet Carnegie Mellon-affiliated employers. ...

October 28, 2004

CIT Career Kaleidoscope Connects Students & Alumni

Fifty six ambitious engineering undergraduates arrived at the third annual Carnegie Institute of Technology (CIT) Career Kaleidoscope brimming full of questions for alumni and CIT advisory council members, who were invited to campus to talk with them about their careers. Students rotated between eight roundtables, staffed with a professional at ...

October 19, 2004

ECE Graduates Return for Homecoming

Nearly fifty ECE alumni returned to Pittsburgh on October 15-17 for homecoming weekend, visiting new buildings, meeting old friends, and reminiscing about a time before the days of wireless computing and laptops, when nanotechnology was a tiny twinkle in the engineer's eye. William Bean (EE '39) represented the earliest EE class in ...

October 5, 2004

Alumni Amy Pierce Offers Management Insight to Women in ECE

Amy Pierce, who has been working for Harris Corporation in Melbourne, Florida since she graduated from what was then the Electrical Engineering Department in 1980, joined a group of ten Women in ECE (WinECE) students over dinner and shared her experiences rising from engineering to management.

As an engineering manager in the ...

June 9, 2004

ECE Department Head Named Dean of College of Engineering

Carnegie Mellon University has named Pradeep K. Khosla, the Philip and Marsha Dowd Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Robotics, dean of the College of Engineering (CIT), effective July 1. He succeeds John L. Anderson, who left in April to become provost of Case Western Reserve University.

A member of the CIT faculty ...