Dear Clark School Students, Faculty, Staff & Friends:

Pulse Doppler radar. The universal product code. Flexible coronary artery stents.

These wide-ranging technologies, which enhance everyday life for millions of people around the world, are only a few of the many pioneered by Clark School alumni, faculty and friends, and celebrated in the Clark School's Innovation Hall of Fame.

You can be on hand to honor and learn from our next inductee and his innovations. Please join us for:

The 2006 Innovation Hall of Fame Induction
Honoring
Rajiv Laroia, M.S. '89, Ph.D. '92
Kim Engineering Building
4:30 p.m.
October 16, 2006

Dr. Laroia is a leading developer of wireline and wireless technologies who recently sold his company to communications giant QUALCOMM.

Following the induction, you can learn even more by attending the Charles and Helen White Symposium on Engineering Innovation, featuring:

Keynote speaker Barry West
CTO and president of 4G Mobile Broadband
Sprint Nextel
Andrew J. Viterbi
Co-founder, retired vice chairman and CTO
QUALCOMM Incorporated
Rajiv Laroia
Moderator Nariman Farvardin

By attending the Innovation Hall of Fame Induction and the White Symposium, you will gain real insight into technological innovation and innovators, and glimpse the exciting future of telecommunications. I hope to see you there.

Sincerely,

Nariman Farvardin
Professor and Dean
A. James Clark School of Engineering