we caught up with frank doyle, the dean of the harvard school of engineering and applied sciences toabout the ambitious goal of becoming a top five engineering school in the next five years. also, the general partner of a capitalaised general firm. you moved out here from santa barbara, where you had a long tenure at the university of california system to run the engineering school. what attracted you to this position? >> the legacy of harvard, the power of the institution, the creativity of the students. i was drawn to the innate talent, the raw creativity of the students, combined with the power of the harvard professional schools at large. the medical school, the business school, the law school. it is an interesting and historic moment in regards with engineering. we are tripling enrollment at the engineering school. moving to a new building. all at the same time the marvelous gifts are coming in. it is an unusual confluence. emily: some say that harvard engineering has a lag stanford, m.i.t., carnegie mellon. you have pledged to be a top-five school within five years, which is fa

emily: frank doyle, the dean of the harvard school of engineering and applied sciences with spark capitalt, our focus on the boston startup scene continues. we will talk supersonic jet technology. you're watching the best of "bloomberg west." ♪ emily: continuing with our focus on boston innovation, let's turn to aerospace and the research to bring supersonic aircraft to market. flying faster than the speed of sound. the technology has been around since the 1960's and is used in the military, but the last supersonic flight that carried civilians was the concorde that crashed in 2000. now nasa is working on supersonic flight along with boston-based spike aerospace. we sat down with the ceo and spark capital. explain boston's role in the aerospace scene. we think of texas and we think of the west coast, but we don't think of boston. >> florida, california, and texas get a lot of attention. a lot of rockets are built in those areas. there is a credible amount of technology that is developed in boston. we have m.i.t., harvard, northeastern, boston university have tremendous aerospace programs.

emily: all right, frank doyle, department ofd's engineering. thank you. and l.a.udge has thrown that a media mogullenging sumner redstone as mentally incompetent. bys comes after he testified video that he wanted his daughter to make medical decisions for him if he becomes incapacitated. he said he wanted his his life.end out of she is suing them for $70 million. the drama goes on. for are best known companies like twitter, but these days they are focusing on robotics. a much more to come this week on's robotics. we will catch up with the irobot founder, and a deep dive into out m.i.t. is doing cutting-edge research on everything from self artificials to limbs. stay with us. ♪ emily: this is a special edition of bloomberg west, live from district hall, diving into the companies that are driving boston troll growing tech scene. fromng me, our guest behind the companies like twitter and oculus -- you guys were very early on oculus. had crews animation. bijan: our job is to find exceptional osborne doors. we -- entrepreneurs. we were very early with osha with twitter

we will be talking to frank doyle. their goal is to be a top five program in the world.ing to one of the partners and earliest investors in twitter. they have their eye on drone companies. we are going to be talking to a guy working on supersonic jets. remember the last supersonic jet that was available to some aliens -- two civilians? this guy wants to bring the idea back. it's a fascinating story. as you can see you have got all of technology happening right here. appreciate it, emily. the next hour, betty liu will be following today's trade. cindy crosby will be her guest. here are the markets. looking at the dow, fairly changed. more coming up. ♪ >> 3:00 p.m. in new york. welcome to bloomberg markets. ♪ betty: good afternoon. here is what we're watching at this hour. markets are actuating. taking energy stocks down with it. -- about the sectors that may be poised to rise. the resilient premise or just to keep her job. a vote keeping her in congress has been an old. that has stocks selling off. a rough day for lending clubs. after aumbling, ceo out review found loan s