The research data are complete.
Eduardo 鈥淲ayo鈥� Dozal immediately emails his findings to a Carnegie Mellon colleague who could be sequestered anywhere. A chemical engineering graduate student, Dozal is used to navigating the wireless world for academic research.
鈥淚 work on projects that involve people from different engineering departments and even different colleges,鈥� explains the future Houston-based Shell Global Solutions engineer. 鈥淚t鈥檚 nice to login remotely to my office workstation from any point on campus and check on the status of things like simulation runs. Having wireless collaboration has made a huge impact on my productivity.鈥�
It has also helped earn the university an impressive ranking.
- #2: best campuses for wireless networking and ultra-high-speed connections to classrooms and online instruction鈥�Princeton Review
Recent top 10 rankings among universities don鈥檛 stop there:
- #5: best graduate business program鈥�The Wall Street Journal
- #7: overall technology鈥�The London Times
- #10: 鈥渃oolest campus鈥� for the environment鈥�Sierra Magazine
Liam Bucci (E鈥�08) found that rankings bring Carnegie Mellon significant cachet, especially when graduates have employment interviews. 鈥淭hey definitely knew about these rankings, and it made a difference when we talked salary,鈥� says Bucci, who this spring joined WET Design (Water Entertainment Technology) in Los Angeles as an engineering liaison.
Maciej 鈥淢ac鈥� Golonka (TPR鈥�08), a soon-to-be Microsoft product manager in Redmond, Wash., says being enrolled in the Wall Street Journal鈥檚 #5 ranked business school has been a big help. 鈥淩ecruiters want to come [to Carnegie Mellon],鈥� he says, working on his laptop鈥攗ntethered, of course鈥攊n the Posner Hall lounge. 鈥淲hen I mention the words 鈥楥arnegie Mellon,鈥� people take notice.鈥�
鈥擟HRIS A. WEBER
