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 programs 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 Biological Engineering and Environmental Engineering degree programs and this is information we can get from no one else.
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.
Thank you,
Dan