Pupin Medalist Henry Michel, '49
Pupin Medalist Leon Lederman '48 GSAS, with President George Rupp
Egleston Medalist Vittorio Castelli '58 and Ted Borri '51, CESAA President.
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Pupin Medalist Henry Michel, '49 |
Pupin Medalist Leon Lederman '48 GSAS, with President George Rupp |
Egleston Medalist Vittorio Castelli '58 and Ted Borri '51, CESAA President. |
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Reception Sponsor Lucent Technologies Patrons AT & T Labs BlackRock Financial Chase Manhattan Bank Merck & Co., Inc. Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc. Telcordia Technologies Sponsors A Friend American International Group Credit Suisse First Boston Ernst & Young LLP Fathom Goldman Sachs Honeywell Mr. & Mrs. Constantine Ioannou Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Mr. Savio Tung Siemens Medical Group UBS Warburg Xerox Corporation Friends Aegon Financial Services Assurant Group Balboa Life & Casualty G.E. Capital Assurance IBM | The Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association's annual awards dinner was the forum for honoring three Columbians while listening to a fourth give praise to the engineering profession. Physics Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman '48, '51 GSAS, '90 Hon and Henry L. Michel '49, Chairman Emeritus of Parsons Brinckerhoff Inc., received the Pupin Medal for service to the nation in science and technology. Vittorio Castelli '58 M.S., '63 Ph.D., former Mechanical Engineering Department Chair and Xerox Senior Research Fellow, received the Egleston Medal for distinguished engineering achievement. William V. Campbell CC '62, Chairman of Intuit, spoke about his career as "a frustrated non-engineer." Dr. Lederman, Director Emeritus of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and former Higgins Professor of Physics at Columbia, was cited for "his lifetime dedication to science and society" and for his devotion to transforming the teaching of science in secondary schools. Mr. Michel was honored for "his vision to eliminate national, political and scientific boundaries to promote the growth of the construction industry and the civil engineering profession," for his 50 years of management of massive construction projects, transportation planning, and rail and rapid transit system design, and for his commitment to research as the founder of the Civil Engineering Research Foundation. Dr. Castelli, the founder and first manager of the Xerox Mechanical Engineering Sciences Laboratory, was praised as an engineering wizard, guru, advisor, and sage, whose critical electromechanical technology is present in nearly every Xerox product made today. Intuit's Bill Campbell, the keynote speaker, was captain of Columbia's only Ivy League Championship football team, in 1961. He went on to become varsity head football coach before his career-changing move into marketing at Apple Computer. "I always wanted to be in engineering," said Campbell, "but the bias was business." He said he is now surrounded by technical information that would come more easily to him if he had continued in the 3-2 program. He noted there has been a complete transformation of the University, led by the Engineering School. | 
Dinner co-chairs Marylee Jenkins '88 and Paul Petrylak '83.
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