"The EPP program provides its graduates with an outstanding ability to cross functional engineering disciplines and address real-world problems.  The faculty are world-class, especially in areas such as telecommunications policy, decision theory, and risk assessment."

Susan Bailey
District Manager
Network Management Systems Planning
AT&T
Bedminster, NJ

"Carnegie Mellon's Department of Engineering and Public Policy is unique in combining the public policy dimension of technology into a solid engineering program without sacrificing the quality of either.  The faculty are at the cutting edge of a variety of fields such as environmental policy analysis and global change."

Richard Balzhiser
President, Emeritus
Electric Power Research Institute
Palo Alto, CA

"In many respects Carnegie Mellon's Department of Engineering and Public Policy (EPP) is unique among the nation's engineering programs.  On the one hand, it is a truly first-class engineering program, with analytical and technical standards as high as those of any other engineering department at Carnegie Mellon, or elsewhere.  On the other hand, the program provides a range of skills that gives the public policy community access to professionals who combine a depth and breadth of technical abilities with an understanding of the public policy that few, if any other academic programs, can provide.  In a world benefiting from and being challenged by the rapid evolution of science and technology and all the effects that flow from that evolution, the skills provided by Carnegie Mellon's EPP program are becoming more and more valuable.

Peter D. Blair
Executive Director
Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society
Research Triangle Park, NC

"In some universities there is, sadly, precious little connection between departments.  Tomorrow's professionals need to build their strengths and influence by combining disciplinary skills with multidisciplinary experiences.  The CMU Department of Engineering and Public Policy Program's orientation is in perfect resonance with this philosophy.  Its faculty and students are also engaged off-campus with real-world challenges in the public and private sectors.

This approach to higher education at CMU has produced highly capable and versatile professionals.  It has also measurably improved the information base for many recent public policy decisions.  Cheers to CMU and the EPP for it's pioneering work!"

John H. Gibbons
Former Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy,
and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology
Washington, DC

"The graduate program in Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie-Mellon is the best program of its kind in the world, to my knowledge.  The faculty are distinguished and the atmosphere for learning and research for students is outstanding.  For example, the work they are doing on the use of large-scale models to integrate knowledge from a variety of sources to improve understanding of complex problems such as climate change is path-breaking and useful, a rare combination.  Moreover, this work builds upon earlier work done in the Department to improve decision making in light of human perceptions of risk.  The methods EPP researchers have developed begin with the unavoidable uncertainties of the world as we find it and seek to take them into account appropriately in the choices organizations and people make.  Whether humans can build a sustainable society is open to question, but as I tell my students it is extremely unlikely that we will find a path that reconciles human aspiration and the limits and frailties of the natural world without the scholarship and training that EPP offers."

Kai N. Lee
Professor and Director
Center for Environmental Studies
Williams College
Williamstown, MA

"The Carnegie Mellon Department of Engineering and Public Policy offers a one-of-a-kind opportunity for engineers to prepare for the policy issues and imperatives that will shape their careers.  Under the sustained, creative leadership of Granger Morgan, the EPP Program has produced terrific graduates, influential reports, and academic leaders."

Gilbert Omenn
Executive Vice President of Medical Affairs
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

"EPP is a unique program that attracts strong students and gives them exceptional engineering skills that are directly applicable to the analysis of policies both in government and industry.  It is located in one of the strongest engineering schools in the country.  I highly recommend it, especially to students who want to contribute to public life."

Marie Elisabeth Paté-Cornell
Professor and Chair
Department of Engineering-Economic Systems & Operations Management
Stanford University
Stanford, CA

"Few programs have been more successful at bringing together the perspectives of engineering and policy disciplines in order to understand the wide range of significant problems at the interface of technology and society.  It is hard to imagine a better program in terms of preparing the student to extend the traditional tools and approaches of engineering and science to the complex public policy issues confronting society today.  EPP deals with a wide range of significant and contemporary problems at the regional and international level by bringing together, in a unique environment, some of the best and brightest faculty from CMU's more traditional departments."

Robert E. Roberts
Vice-President, Research
Institute for Defense Analysis
Alexandria, VA

"The Engineering and Public Policy Program at Carnegie-Mellon University has, for many years, been widely recognized as a unique resource to the science and technology policy community in the U.S. and, for that matter, globally. Many political leaders -- as well as corporate and government leaders -- see the EPP program as a leader of its kind and seek out graduates of the program for advice and employment.  This is a tribute both to the program's visionary leadership and the quality and success of its graduates, many of whom have made highly satisfying contributions to the national and international science policy scene."

Ellis Rubinstein
Editor, Science
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Washington, DC

"The EPP Program makes a uniquely progressive contribution to filling a critical void in today's knowledge support structure for both industry and the public sector.  The program's commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry and education, focused on actual issues and policies, is absolutely essential in an increasingly complex world in which the decision-making premium is on the synthesis of disparate information.  The EPP Graduate Program provides a model for transforming the narrow paradigm developed for the needs of the 19th Century into the professional education required for the 21st Century."

Kurt E. Yeager
President and CEO
Electric Power Research Institute
Palo Alto, CA