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In
This Issue:
 Biomedical
Engineering Raises the Roof
Yugoslav
President Presents Bust of Michael I. Pupin to Columbia
Wedding
Bells, Missing Crowns, and Veggie Burgers
New
Designs for Engineering Education
Columbia
Video Network: Again "Best of the Web"
Eight
Faculty Members Named Full Professors
Four
Professors Honored by Alumni Groups and School
A Message from the President: Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association
Alumni:
Our Newest and Our Most Steadfast
Alumni
Briefs
ACAA
Scholarship Instituted
Homecoming
2002
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STUDENTS
Columbia Video Network: Again “Best of the Web”
 For
the third consecutive year, Forbes Magazine has named Columbia Video
Network as “Best of the Web” for distance learning.
Calling it “a top-notch program, with the bonus of a prestigious
name,” the rating continues with superlatives: “The
quality of offerings on Columbia University’s Video Network
is higher than the usual fare. Targeting engineers, CVN offers six
MS degrees and certificate programs in several graduate specialties
of engineering. Lectures, course materials, class notes, homework
assignments and syllabi . . . online.”
Grace Chung, CVN’s executive director, said CVN students
themselves provide the most flattering praise. Jacqueline Tse, who
works in the Palo Alto headquarters of Hewlett Packard, said, “The
Columbia faculty and staff continuously give speedy support and
helpful advice in all areas, from academic to technical support.
I found none of its competitors comes close to it.”
More than 70 percent of CVN students view lectures online. CVN’s
tri-screen system allows viewers to see the professor while simultaneously
viewing slides, images or course notes projected for the students
in the classroom. CVN students can access particular slides from
a class by using the table of contents provided for each class.
Because actual classes are videotaped, distance learning students
can hear questions
posed by students on-campus as well as the professor’s response.
“CVN offers flexibility without academic compromise,”
said Ms. Chung, “and we are constantly improving the program.”
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