MechE Announces


Shiv Nadar Partnership New Program Will Strengthen Ties Between U.S. and India


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n the near future, MechE intends to expand its boundaries to the “Cyber Corridor” of Chennai, India, via a strategic partnership recently announced by the Shiv Nadar Foun- dation and Carnegie Mellon University. The announcement of this partnership follows up on the efforts by India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and U.S. President Barack Obama to encourage stronger collaboration between higher education institutions in India and the U.S. In the new program, MechE students will study in Chennai following a curriculum designed and taught by Carnegie Mellon. Admission and academic processes will have the same rigorous stan- dards that are Carnegie Mellon hallmarks. Once completed with their studies, students will receive Carnegie Mellon degrees. Dr. Shiv Nadar, a pioneer in the field of information technology, founded the HCL Group of Companies, a leader in the IT world with $5.5 billion in revenues and 77,000 employees in 29 countries. He created his Foundation in


order to “give back” and help others achieve the same level of success.


In announcing the partnership, Nadar said, “Global educa- tion has always been the big dream for Indian students. Each year, more than 40,000 Indian students head overseas in search of global exposure and educational opportunity. This alliance with Carnegie Mellon University will now offer Indian students the chance to access the education architecture of a highly renowned, world-class institution right here in India.” Jared L. Cohon, President of Carnegie Mellon, said,


“India’s engineers constitute a large proportion of key scientific and research establishments worldwide. This new alliance enables Carnegie Mellon and the Shiv Nadar Foundation a chance to offer India’s students a distinc- tive edge and international recognition. We believe that this landmark partnership will establish a new way of delivering engineering education to Indian students.”•


Remembering George Bugliarello


George Bugliarello, a MechE faculty member from 1959 to 1969, passed away on February 18 following a short illness. He was 83 years old and lived in Port Washington, New York. Born in Trieste, Italy, Bugliarello


studied engineering at the University of Padua, graduating summa cum laude in 1951. He earned a masters degree in civil engineering at the University of Minnesota and a doctorate in civil engineering and hydrodynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the MechE faculty. While here, he taught fluid mechanics and established a program in bio-engineering. After leaving Carnegie Mellon, Bugliarello was Dean of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago. As the first President of Polytechnic Institute of New York—formed by the merger of Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and New York University’s School of Engineering and Science in 1973—he also was the “mastermind” of MetroTech, one of the first urban university-industry research parks in the U.S. Bugliarello is credited with a number of scientific inventions and educational innovations, including Hydro, a computer lan- guage for water resources; the creation of pioneering graduate programs in biological and financial engineering; and the found- ing and co-editorship of the journal Technology in Society. Bugliarello was Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Engineering. He held honorary lifetime membership in the National Association for Science, Technology and Society. He was a Founding Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and, from 1994 to 1997, chaired the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment of the National Research Council (NRC). He served as chair of the NRC’s Committee on Alternatives to Antipersonnel Landmines, and as a member of the NRC Committee on Army Science and Technology for Homeland Defense. Bugliarello’s international experience included consultant- ships abroad for UNESCO and OECD, and assignments as a specialist for the U.S. Department of State in Venezuela and Central Africa. He was the U.S. member of the Science for Stability Steering Committee and of the Science for Peace Steering Committee, of the Scientific Affairs Division of NATO. Bugliarello is survived by his wife Virginia and his sons Nicholas and David. The Department extends its deepest sympathies to his family.•


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Photo courtesy NYU Polytech

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