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"...the IAB is excited about the role that it will play in growing the standing of our great college."

he Industrial Advisory Board (IAB) values greatly its engagement with the College of Engineering's leaders in this critical transformational time--a time of new leadership, new technologies, intensified competition for high-quality faculty and students, as well as for research funding. We share your commitment to making this great college even more competitive.

Our rival colleges of engineering are also focused on improving their national standings. Their work makes our efforts even more urgent, since complacency here will in time certainly drop us in national ranking. In its first meeting with Dean Peercy, the Industrial Advisory Board reviewed its past efforts, and the College of Engineering's current national standings and its evolving vision.

From those discussions we created four priority IAB initiatives and formed teams to pursue each. They include:

• Retaining diverse faculty and students;

• Accelerating the commercialization of College of Engineering research and building an entrepreneurial environment that works effectively with the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF);

• Developing mutually beneficial relationships with other university colleges and schools; and

• Creating a plan to help the college achieve its vision of being a top-five public college of engineering.

The initiative teams helped clarify the college's needs, shape each initiative's vision and recommend additional steps for the dean, his staff and faculty to consider.

This work has just begun and the Industrial Advisory Board is excited about the role that it will play in growing the standing of our great college.

My sincere thanks to all of the IAB members who have enthusiastically engaged in these initiatives and to Dean Peercy, the staff and faculty for so positively working with us.

Leon P. Janssen, 1999-2000 Chair Industrial Advisory Board

Members of the Industrial Advisory Board are professionals in industry and government who advise college administrators, faculty and staff on academic programs, cooperative efforts with industry and future directions for our institution. Keeping abreast of developments in industry is vital to preparing our graduates for their careers, and the board plays an important role in communicating news from the industrial world.

Kathryn Anderson Tech. Leader, Control Info. Systems Procter & Gamble Cincinnati, Ohio Jeffrey A. Banaszynski Senior Vice President Allen-Bradley Co., Inc. Milwaukee, Wisconsin Eugene M. Bentley, III President Advanced Engineering, P.C. Washington, D.C. John E. Berndt President Sprint International Westwood, Kansas Brenda J. Blanchard Secretary of Commerce State of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin Guy D. Briggs VP / General Mgr. of Operations GM Truck Group Pontiac, Michigan Edward P. Cornell Vice President, Engineering Acuson Mountain View, California John R. Dewane Consultant, Space & Aviation Sys. Honeywell, Inc. Phoenix, Arizona R. Fenton-May Dir. of Operations Development The Coca-Cola Company Atlanta, Georgia C. Daniel Gelatt, Jr. President NMT Corporation LaCrosse, Wisconsin Jane Griesinger Manager Kurt Salmon Associates Princeton, New Jersey Thomas N. Hendrickson President and CEO CPAC Inc. Leicester, New York

Leon P. Janssen General Mgr., Academic Accounts GE Medical Systems, GE Co. Waukesha, Wisconsin Frederick C. Kiekhaefer President Mercury Hi-Performance Fond du Lac, Wisconsin Charles F. Kohlmeyer Vice President Baxter Health Care Corp. Deerfield, Illinois Thomas Kruger Private Consultant Charlotte, North Carolina Brian A. Mitchell President Mitchell Construction, Inc. Madison, Wisconsin Thomas J. Mohs Chairman Placon Corp. Madison, Wisconsin Tom Smart Mgr., Advanced Vehicle Technology Ford Motor Company Dearborn, Michigan Michael R. Splinter Sr. VP & GM, Technology & Mfg. Intel Corporation Santa Clara, California Mary L. Tilton Director Planar Standish Technology Lake Mills, Wisconsin Peter R. Tong President Mandarin Partners Long Beach, California Richard L. Wilkey President Fisher-Barton, Inc. Watertown, Wisconsin Sidney B. Williams, Jr. Of Counsel Flynn, Thiel, Boutell & Tanis, P.C. Kalamazoo, Michigan

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