SUBJECT:

New Departments in the Jacobs School of Engineering

I am pleased to bring to your attention a recent organizational change in
the Jacobs School of Engineering. Effective July 1, 1999, the Department of
Applied Mechanics and Engineering Science (AMES) was partitioned into two
new departments: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) and Structural
Engineering (SE). The new UCSD departments were approved by UC Office of
the President on March 23, 1999.

Juan Lasheras will serve as the first chair of the Department of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering, and Freider Seible will chair the Department of
Structural Engineering. If you would like to know more about the research
and teaching activities of MAE and SE, you might want to visit their web
sites (www-mae.ucsd.edu; www.structures.ucsd.edu).

I am confident that the campus can look forward to a bright future for
these new departments, and I hope you will join me in extending best wishes
to their faculty, staff, and students.

Marsha A. Chandler Senior Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs