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High Marks
The results from several national surveys are out, and Harvey Mudd College ranks high
Princeton Review– Top 20 College
For the 14th consecutive year, Harvey Mudd College was named by The Princeton Review as one of the nation’s best institutions for undergraduate education. HMC is featured in the 2011 edition of its annual guidebook, “The Best 373 Colleges.”
When compared to the other 373 colleges in this year’s guidebook, HMC was the only college of math, science and engineering to make the Top 20 lists in two of the key academic categories: “Professors Get High Marks” (ranking 10th), and “Most Accessible Professors” (ranking 14th). HMC also made the Top 20 list in the category of “Students Study the Most” (ranking 3rd).
According to a current student quoted in the profile, HMC’s curriculum “teaches way more math and science than you knew existed, then adds one-third humanities on top of if it” and “prepares undergraduates for both industry and grad school.” Reflecting on the student body, yet another student noted that there has been a “strong effort to recruit talented under-represented groups.” HMC has been extremely successful in recruiting more women, who make up 51% of the class of 2014.
On a scale of 60-99, HMC received an overall academic rating of 99, the highest possible score. Admission received an overall rating of 98, with Financial Aid receiving an overall rating of 97. Other overall ratings were high in the categories of “Quality of Life” (88) and “Green” (80).
PayScale– Highest earners in the nation
The highest earning college graduates in the U.S. come from Harvey Mudd College, according to data released in July by PayScale, an online salary information company, in its 201011 College Salary Report. HMC graduates earn on average $126,000 mid-career, beating out MIT, Caltech, Harvard and Princeton.
HMC had the highest median salary of all colleges in the study, as well as the No. 1 ranking in the two categories in which it falls, liberal arts colleges and engineering colleges.
Analysts collected data from 999 bachelor’s degree institutions in the last year and tracked median salaries of employees who graduated in the last five years as well as median mid-career salaries of graduates with more than 10 years of experience in a given field. While mid-career salaries fell 1.5% overall between 2009 and 2010, engineers, scientists and mathematicians continued to earn top salaries.
Forbes–Top 25
In its list of America’s best colleges, Forbes ranked HMC No. 22 out of a list of 610 schools. Forbes’ rankings are based on the quality of the education colleges provide, the experiences of the students and how much they achieve.
New to the HMC Board
The HMC Board of Trustees, made up of 33 individuals who direct the policies and funds of the institution, added several new members recently.
Nabeel Gareeb ’86/87 (engineering) is a dynamic leader who has transformed companies with his expertise. From 2002 to 2008, Gareeb steered the St. Peters, Mo.-based silicon wafer manufacturer MEMC from a modest concern to a $2-billion-peryear semiconductor industry powerhouse. He is the former chief operating officer of International Rectifier Corp.
Jonathan Mersel ’75 (physics) is the outgoing past president of the Alumni Association Board of Governors (AABoG). He is a former chair of the Alumni Fundd Committee and has been a member of AABoG since the 1980s, having held the positions of secretary, treasurer, vice president and president. He is a principal engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation.
Peter Muller is a senior advisor of Morgan Stanley and head of Process Driven Trading, a proprietary trading group which he founded in 1992. He is also co-founder and chairman of the Investment Committee of Chalkstream Capital Group, an investment firm. He serves on the Leadership Council of the Robin Hood Foundation and on the board of Math for America. He graduated with honors with a B.A. in mathematics from Princeton University.
Christopher Seib ’00 (engineering) is the chief technology officer and founder of InstaMed, the industry-leading healthcare payments network and platform. He was previously an executive in Accenture’s Health and Life Sciences practice. He joins the board as one of HMC’s young alumni trustees, a position that carries a three-year term.
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Commencement 2010
AThe class that arrived when Maria Klawe became Harvey Mudd College president four years ago said a fond farewell to her, and she to them, Sunday, May 16, at the 52nd annual Commencement on the Mudd Quadrangle.
She expressed joy at watching “her class” of 164 students graduate. “I am honored and very fortunate to be president of a college with such incredible students.... I am so proud of each of you,” she said.
Andrew Dorantes, vice president for administration and finance/treasurer, received the Henry T. Mudd Prize for outstanding service to the College. Student speaker Mark Cyffka
Benyue (Emma) Liu Elizabeth (POM ’12) and Sarah Nitzan Wise words
-Freeman Hrabowski, III, Commencement speaker
Freeman Hrabowski, III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, received an HMC Honorary Degree of Doctor of Engineering presented by HMC Trustee Jude Laspa ’65.
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Find audio and video of Hrabowski’s Commencement talk at www.hmc.edu/specialinterestfeatures/oncampus/hrabowskicommencement-2010.html
View and download your favorite Commencement photos at www.flickr.com/photos/harvey-mudd-college
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Celebrating Students and Sponsors
This past spring, current President’s Scholars, finalists for the 2010–11 President’s Scholars Program (PSP) and program donors gathered for the annual President’s Scholars Recognition Dinner. The event was created to recognize the corporations, foundations and individual donors that sponsor this important program.
Initiated in response to the College’s strategic planning initiative HMC 2020, PSP provides four-year, full-tuition scholarships for highly qualified students who are members of groups traditionally underrepresented on campus and in the fields of science and engineering. This includes a wide range of students, such as women, ethnic minorities, students from rural areas and those who are the first in their families to attend college.
During the dinner, three current President’s Scholars Katarina Hoeger ’13, Guillermo Martinez-Garcia ’13 and Dustin Zubke ’13—spoke about how the President’s Scholars Program has helped them achieve their academic and personal goals. Also honored was the second graduating class of President’s Scholars, to whom President Maria Klawe awarded pins as a symbol of their accomplishments.
President’s Scholars Program Supporters
The Beckman Coulter Foundation The Boeing Company Martin Caniff ’74 Neil Chriss, HMC Trustee Robert and Mary Jane Engman Jason Fredrickson ’99 Eric Kim ’76 President Maria Klawe and the President’s Cabinet The John B. Kilroy, Sr. and Nelly Llanos Kilroy Foundation The Walter Lantz Foundation The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation Peter Osgood, HMC Office of Admission Robert Prestezog ’97 and Anna Prestezog ’97/98 The Raytheon Company Paul Schulte ’81 and Elizabeth De Baan Schulte ’84 Southern California Edison Fred Tomblin ’63 and Barbara Brooks Tomblin (SCR ’66) David Wilbur ’68 and Linda Wilbur The Wilke Family Foundation Katy Kuey Wong ’97 and Greg Wong
President Klawe meets PSP finalists.
Lilian de Greef ’12, Lena Reed, Natalia Fear, Martin Caniff ’74, Audrey Dang and Avril Coley
Guillermo Martinez Garcia ’13
Graduating President’s Scholars: Daniel Garcia, Andrew Pozo, Camille Sultana, Alyssa Dray and Donald Bolton
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Generosity and Innovation Mark Spring Events Global Clinic Projects
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Global Clinic Supported by Vickery Gift
The Vickery Family was recently honored for its $1 million contribution to the Harvey Mudd College Global Clinic Program. John Vickery ’91, son of the late Robert and Joan Vickery who bequeathed the generous endowment, and his wife, Yasemine, accepted an award on his parents’ behalf at an event on campus June 7.
Robert J. Vickery was an aerospace engineer and Joan Vickery was, arguably, one of the world’s finest mathematicians in software development. The couple said they were proud that their son, John, flourished in the intense and incredible atmosphere of Harvey Mudd College. They loved the Clinic Program and watched how it helped their son put his education into practice. It was witnessing this transformation that inspired them to give so generously to the Global Clinic Program. They knew that their gift would help talented students realize their potential. Robert Vickery passed away in 1996 and Joan Vickery passed away last year.
In an interview with the Claremont Courier, John Vickery remarked, “I am absolutely thrilled that my family is able to do this. I do remember the things I got out of my Clinic experience; it changed my life.”
Global Clinic Director Lisette de Pillis remarked that the endowment will help support the recruitment of more students into the Global Clinic program. “This year alone three projects are being funded. Without the gift, we would not have been able to run more than one project.”
The Department of Engineering began the Global Clinic Program in 2005 to prepare students to function as innovative engineers and scientists in a global context. Built upon HMC’s internationally recognized Clinic Program, the Global Clinic supports long-term sponsored engineering and science projects in which teams of HMC students collaborate with teams of students from partnering schools in Central and South America, Asia and Europe.
2009-10 Waste heat reclamation via a smallscale organic rankine cycle University of Iceland Development of a low-cost, rapidly deployable system for monitoring volcanoes Earth Observatory of Singapore/ Nanyang Technological University Wastewater treatment in rural China Lien Institute for the Environment/ Nanyang Technological University
2010-11 Developing small-scale thermal energy storage Birla Institute of Technology, India Protein separation techniques, applications in cancer research National University of Singapore and Bio-Rad Laboratories, Singapore Techniques for small-scale food canning & processing National University of Singapore and Operation Hope Foundation, Singapore and Indochina
HMC Lauds Water Reclamation Innovator
Water reclamation, or the reuse of highly treated wastewaters, potentially can provide new supplies equal to approximately 50 percent of Southern California’s water consumption. The novel technology MicroMedia Filtration (MMF) has developed could help the region move closer to this goal.
MMF was one of two companies honored for exceptional energy-saving devices at the 17th Annual TechAmerica High-Tech Innovation Awards co-sponsored by TechAmerica, the nation’s largest technology trade association, and Harvey Mudd College. MMF received the HMC Green Engineering Award for its wastewater treatment and renewable energy technology. A leader in the field of water reclamation, MMF has created an innovative three-part process: Solids Separator, which removes suspended solids from the raw stream, the Modular Filter, a continuously cleaning media filtration system, and the Energy Conversion System, which transforms fresh solids into various energy end products. The result is a modular, expandable, economical and environmentally friendly method for creating reusable water that consumes less than one-fifth the electricity of conventional systems.
Teridian, a semiconductor company, received an Award of Merit for its computer chip which measures energy consumption data in real time.
