Dawn Tilbury: Shaping engineering research

EECS alumna Dawn Tilbury (M.S. ’92/Ph.D. ’94) is the subject of a Berkeley Engineering profile in honor of  the campus’s year-long 150th anniversary celebration.  As head of the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Engineering, which provides academic institutions with more than 40% of the federal grants for fundamental engineering research, Tilbury exemplifies the type of leadership nurtured through a Berkeley Engineering education.  “As the primary funder of basic research, NSF is uniquely positioned to bring people together to discover new approaches to renewable energy, reliable transportation, enhanced health and safety, and other national challenges,” she said.