Dean's Message
Connections. In our personal lives and our professional careers, connections are crucial to our sense of well-being and fulfillment, our development as human beings, and our contributions to society.
As engineering educators, we place a high value on providing opportunities for our students to connect their theoretical learning with hands-on experiences. At Santa Clara, we pride ourselves on our small class sizes and our ability to connect individually with our students. We also treasure a connection with our fellow Jesuit universities around the globe and are enriched by the experience of exchanges between students and faculty.
At the School of Engineering, we have enjoyed a longstanding connection with KEEN, a collaborative network of colleges and professors championing the entrepreneurial mindset in engineering undergraduate students by focusing on three Cs: curiosity, connections, and creating value.
In this edition of Engineering News, you will find many examples of how these three Cs come together through our student and faculty work. You’ll read about the personal experiences that fueled curiosity and connections that have created great value, about a priest whose 6,000-mile journey brought about a connection with researchers at Santa Clara that will improve health and well-being in Argentina. And, we have an interview with Tim Healy, who has been teaching electrical engineering at Santa Clara University for 50 years and still strives every day to find new connections that enrich and enable student learning!
Happy reading!
Godfrey Mungal
Dean
School of Engineering