Jacobs School of Engineering Dean Albert P. Pisano will host the annual Ring Ceremony and hand out the school's 2017 Annual Awards to student and faculty winners in multiple categories on Saturday, June 17 from 8-10pm on Warren Mall.
CSE personnel are among this year's major award recipients. CSE undergraduate Ryan Hill is one of three Student of the Year Award recipients. In Hill's case, it was the award honoring his influence and potential as an alumnus. (The other two student recipients were from Bioengineering and Structural Engineering.)
The Jacobs School's Faculty of the Year Award also went to CSE. The school is honoring CSE Associate Teaching Professor Christine Alvarado. (See our previous article on Alvarado's three teaching awards this year.)
Kyle Huynh
Graduating students from each of the Jacobs School departments were also asked to recognize awardees for significant contributions over the course of their time as an engineering or computer science undergraduate. In this category, the Department Award for CSE is going to two Computer Science seniors, both named Kyle: Kyle Buzsaki (B.S. '17) and Kyle Huynh (B.S. '17). Both graduating students have been tutors in CSE 100 (Advanced Data Structures in C++).
Another CSE tutor, Kimberly Ly, who tutors students in Java, has been selected to be the graduating student speaker on behalf of the Class of '17 in the Jacobs School of Engineering. She will speak during the Ring Ceremony. Ly is accepting her B.S. in Computer Science this month, but is part of a 5-year BS/MS program, so she'll remain in CSE next year and receive her M.S. in Computer Science in June 2018.
The Class Speaker is one of two invited speakers at the Jacobs School event: the other is keynote speaker and ECE alumnus Dharmendra Modha (Ph.D. '96), an IBM Fellow, computer scientist and lead researcher for the Cognitive Computing group at IBM Almaden Research Center.
The last day for registering for the Ring Ceremony was May 1. For more on the Ring Ceremony, click here.