President Shapiro has persuaded me to stay on another year as Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, so that my term will now expire at the end of June 2002.

This extension has given me the opportunity to pause and reflect on what we have accomplished, and on our future agenda.

The success of our students is the yardstick by which I most prefer to measure our progress. Here are a few facts that show we are growing at a healthy pace.

Each year at opening ceremonies, Princeton University presents four prizes to undergraduates in recognition of academic excellence. In 1998 three of those four prizes went to B.S.E.s. In 1999 an engineering student won one of the prizes, and this year, two of the university's top academic prizes went to engineering students.

• Jared Kramer, a computer science major, is the winner of the Class of 1939 Princeton Scholar Award for the Class of 2001 (see page 21). This goes to the member of the senior class who, at the end of the junior year, has achieved the highest standing in all preceding college work at Princeton. Chan Vee Chong, who earned his B.S.E. in only three years, received this award for the Class of 1999.
  
  
• Abbie B. Liel is recipient of the George B. Wood Legacy Sophomore Prize for the Class of 2002 (see page 22). This prize recognizes exceptional academic work in the sophomore year at Princeton. Last year, this prize went to Eileen Higham '01.
  
  
• The valedictorians for 1999 and 2000 were engineers: Chan Vee Chong and Andrew Houck. Chan Vee had the highest academic average of any Princeton University student in the past 25 years.
  
  
• Three of the last five Jacobus Fellowships--the University's highest academic award for graduate students--went to engineers. This year, Yueh-Lin Loo, a chemical engineering graduate student, was named the Jacobus Fellow (see page 22). In 1997 the award went to Claire Adjiman, also a chemical engineering graduate student; and in 1996 Harindran Manoharan, an electrical engineering student, received the award.

We can apply that same measure of quality to our faculty. In the fall of 1998, we celebrated Dan Tsui's Nobel Prize in Physics--it was the first for an engineering faculty member at SEAS.

Since I arrived at the SEAS in 1991, six faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (Pablo Debenedetti, Anthony Evans, Irvin Glassman, Richard Lipton, William Russel, and George Scherer); six have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (David Billington '50, Anthony Evans, Philip Holmes, William Russel, Daniel Tsui, and Andrew Yao) and one has been elected to the National Academy of Science (Andrew Yao).

On the fund-raising front, we raised five endowed chairs this summer, increasing by 25 percent the number of endowed chairs in engineering. We will fill you in on the details after the ink dries.

Perhaps more importantly than reflecting on what we have done, we should take this opportunity to define what it is that we plan to do over the remaining two years of our term.

• We plan to establish endowed positions for practitioner-teachers following the teaching models established by Norman Augustine '57 *59 for leadership and Ed Zschau '61 for entrepreneurship.
  
  
• We plan to create more outreach opportunities for A.B. students, particularly in the alliance of engineering and the liberal arts. Our goal is to increase the percentage of A.B. students serviced from 40 percent to 60 percent.
  
  
• We plan to see the completion of the Friend Center for Engineering Education, which will provide a new location for the engineering library and larger classrooms equipped with multimedia technology. Space in the E-Quad and the Computer Science building will be reconfigured to make room for new laboratories and student lounges.
  
  
• We plan to enroll 50 students per year in the one-year, no-thesis, Master of Engineering program.
  
  
• We plan to expand the faculty, particularly in the departments of computer science and electrical engineering that spearhead the information technology revolution.

This is a full agenda, but we are Princeton engineers, and we are up to the challenge.