ANN ARBOR—Nobel Prize winner Herbert Kroemer will receive the Goff Smith Prize from the University of Michigan College of Engineering and lecture at Chesebrough Auditorium in Chrysler Center[map] on Sept. 20 at 4 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception.

Kroemer is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the 2001-2002 recipient of the Goff Smith Prize. Kroemer won the Nobel Prize in physics last year for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in fast opto- and microelectronics components. Fast transistors built with heterostructures are the basis for today’s modern information technology, found in everything from radio link satellites and cordless phones, to laser diodes that drive high-bandwidth signals through the fiber optical cables creating the Internet.

The Goff Smith Prize and Lecture Series is the highest external honor bestowed by the U-M College of Engineering and includes a $10,000 honorarium. The award was recently established with a gift from alumnus Goff Smith (BSE ’38, MBA ’39). Smith, who retired as chairman and CEO of Amsted Industries in 1982, has also endowed a co-directorship for the Tauber Manufacturing Institute and served as the Class of ’38E president.

The U-M College of Engineering is consistently ranked among the top engineering schools in the world. The College is comprised of 11 academic departments: aerospace engineering; atmospheric, oceanic and space sciences; biomedical engineering; chemical engineering; civil and environmental engineering; electrical engineering and computer science; industrial and operations engineering; materials science and engineering; mechanical engineering; naval architecture and marine engineering; and nuclear engineering and radiological sciences. Each year the College enrolls over 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students, and grants about 1,000 undergraduate degrees and 600 master’s and doctoral degrees. To learn more, visit the Web site at http://www.engin.umich.edu.

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