Light up the season
Looking to give to Berkeley Engineering by year’s end? Make your gift by 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Dec. 31.
Light up the season
6/19/2014 The Leadership Challenge 2014: Double your gift. Double your impact. You can double the value of your gift to the Berkeley Engineering Fund, the College’s top fundraising priority, through the Leadership Challenge. The Leadership Challenge has been launched by a group of Berkeley Engineering’s closest friends for the 2014–15 academic... X
Where vision meets know-how
Xiang Zhang’s XLab
11/1/2014, by Paul Preuss Take a look into mechanical engineering professor Xiang Zhang’s XLab, where Zhang and his more than 30 postdocs, Ph.D. students and visiting scientists investigate the emerging field of metamaterials. XDevices: Smarter stethoscopes
11/1/2014, by Thomas Walden Levy BioE alum Connor Landgraf has transformed the classic stethoscope into a tool with the potential to save lives and eliminate billions of dollars a year in unnecessary spending. X
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Discovery advances ferroelectrics in quest for lower power transistors
12/17/2014 CITRIS - A new study led by engineers at UC Berkeley and CITRIS describes the first direct observation of a long-hypothesized but elusive phenomenon called “negative capacitance” in ferroelectric material, which could open the door to a radical reduction in the power consumed by transistors and the devices containing them.
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Students show off ‘autonomous vehicles’ at L.A. Drone Expo
12/16/2014 - Berkeley Engineering students joined civil engineering professor Raja Sengupta at the first-ever Drone Expo in Los Angeles on Saturday, demonstrating their “unmanned autonomous vehicles” to a crowd of hobbyists and enthusiasts.
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Gearing up for the Hour of Code
12/9/2014 NBC Bay Area - To mark CS Education Week, Jessica Aguirre interviews EECS professor Dan Garcia about the Hour of Code. At Berkeley, CS Education Day on December 9 brings 500 local high school students to campus for a full day of activities related to computer science.
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Got an earache? S.F. startup says a smartphone’s the cure
12/9/2014 SFGate - CellScope, a San Francisco startup born in Dan Fletcher's bioengineering lab, believes that telemedicine’s next frontier is buried under earwax. On Tuesday, the company started selling a device that transforms an iPhone into an ear-viewing otoscope.
Final stretch
The end of the fall 2014 semester is fast approaching. Students looking for help or a place to study can find it at the Center for Access to Engineering Excellence. The center offers a variety of free services to support academic success, including review sessions, study groups, tutoring and more.
Year-end academic calendar
- Classes end: Dec. 5
- Reading week: Dec. 8–12
- Last day of instruction: Dec. 12
- Final exams: Dec. 15–19
- Fall semester ends: Dec. 19
- Spring semester begins: Jan. 13
- Spring classes begin: Jan. 20
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