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Space Program a Valuable Scientific Resource ASTRONAUT BRUCE MCCANDLESS CITES NEED FOR “NEW AND AGGRESSIVE” ENGINEERS
Risk management is key for advancing space exploration, said United States space program veteran and astronaut Bruce McCandless. “The real challenge is to take a task which has a perception of high risk and engineer and analyze it until you overcome and manage those risks and then go forward and conquer it,” he said. McCandless visited campus Oct. 4 to present the Astronaut Scholarship Award to Paul Riggins ’12 and to provide a his- toric look at NASA’s space shuttle program, a review of lessons learned and a glance at the potential future of space exploration. He highlighted pending and future projects including the
James Webb Space Telescope, which can image data farther out in the infrared band. Its planned position of a million miles out from Earth, however, may make it difficult to service should a problem arise, McCandless said. He also touched on the current shift toward commercial low-
earth orbit vehicles, China’s development of the space station, “Heavenly Palace-1,” efforts to address near-Earth asteroids, and NASA’s new Space Launch System. “I do believe we are in a time of great change. We need new
and aggressive engineers and scientists to develop new concepts and push them,” McCandless said. “It’s a new day. The opportu- nities are different, but they are there.”
—Koren Wetmore
Astronaut Bruce McCandless congratulates Paul Riggins ’12, 2011 Astronaut Scholar.
College News
High Regards The annual rankings roundup
U.S. News and World Report No. 1 in undergraduate engineering (tied with Rose-Hulman) No. 1 SAT/ACT percentile range (25th-75th) among incoming students No. 18 among 252 U.S. private and public liberal arts colleges
Trustee Update The Harvey Mudd College Board of Trustees recently approved the appointment of Kevin Schofield P13 of Bellevue, Wash. He is general manager for strategy and communications at Microsoft Research, where he develops relationships with customers, press, analysts and Microsoft’s own product groups. Schofield joined Microsoft in 1988, and has worked in Microsoft Research since 1997. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College with a bachelor’s degree in computer science. Schofield is deeply involved with the Human-Computer
Interaction research field and is the co-author of three issued patents and several pending ones. Schofield’s twin daughters, Elly and Xanda, are both members of the HMC class of 2013.
PayScale, 2011-12 College Salary Report No. 1 Highest salaries of all U.S. liberal arts college graduates. HMC alumni earn a median starting salary of $64,400 and a median mid-career salary of $121,000.
Washington Monthly No. 1 among liberal arts colleges whose undergraduates go on to get their Ph.D.s.
No. 2 “Best Engineering Colleges by Salary Potential” No. 9 among liberal arts colleges that give back to their communities
Princeton Review Guidebook One of “The Best 376 Colleges”; among “Best in the West” No. 1 “Students Study the Most” No. 2 “Professors Get High Marks”
FALL/WINTER 2011 Har vey Mudd College
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