Greetings from the Chair
Greetings to all BEE alumni and friends! As we look to the future, we see many great opportunities, and fortunately we have the bright and talented students, hard working and dedicated staff, and innovative and visionary faculty to make the most of them. It is encouraging to see that so many alumni have gone on to have successful careers.
Knowing more about your careers and how they relate to your education will be needed to maintain and improve our curriculum and the experiences BEE students receive. The great diversity in BEE alumni careers, especially those of our recent graduates, makes your insights and advice about our program even more critical than in the past. The accreditation process for our undergraduate program will require much greater feedback of information from alumni than in the past. Therefore, we may be contacting you from time to time to ask you specific questions about your experiences at Cornell or those since you graduated. The information you can provide us is critical to the continued improvement of the program and this is information we can get from no one else.
BEE and Civil and Environmental Engineering now offer a joint curriculum to students interested in focusing on Environmental Engineering. We see the joint curriculum as only the first step to greater coordination with our colleagues in CEE. We expect this initiative will lead to not only an improved and better-defined environmental engineering curriculum but also greater recognition of the quality of Cornell environmental engineering outside of Cornell. BEE is also developing a new Biological Engineering curriculum that will include opportunities to concentrate in areas such as Biological Engineering.
Finally, we need your help; our students need your help. BEE alumni are a very diverse bunch. Students and their parents frequently ask the obvious question "What do BEE graduates do?" You probably asked that question yourself but that question is more and more difficult for faculty to answer as BEE graduates move into new or nontraditional career areas. We know what some of you are doing, but not nearly all of you. We want to be able to give students the answer to that important question as accurately as we can. Please send us a brief note (Send an e-mail to Alley at akp28@cornell.edu) and tell us what you are doing. The rest of the faculty and I are genuinely interested, but more importantly, so are our BEE students.
Keep Grinning'
Mike