Eli Yablonovitch wins 2019 Franklin Medal
Eli Yablonovitch, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences, will receive the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering.
Eli Yablonovitch wins 2019 Franklin Medal
12/10/2018, by Linda Vu The Franklin Institute announced today that Eli Yablonovitch, professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California, Berkeley, will be the recipient of the 2019 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Electrical Engineering . He was honored “for widely used scientific improvements to radio- and light-based technologies in wireless communications and solar energy applications.” The Franklin Institute Awards have... X
Connie Chang-Hasnain named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
12/11/2018, by Linda Vu EECS professor Connie Chang-Hasnain has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, an organization that champions the societal benefits of university research. XThis innovation removes deadly arsenic from India's water
12/12/2018 Everyday, tens of millions of people drink water that significantly increases their risk of cancer and other deadly diseases. UC Berkeley professor Ashok Gadgil amd Asian Institute of Technology's Joyashree Roy hope to fix that with an efficient and cost-effective system called Electrochemical Arsenic Remediation (ECAR) for removing arsenic contamination from drinking water. X
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Jiggly Jell-O makes powerful new hydrogen fuel catalyst
12/13/2018 - A cheap and effective gelatin-based catalyst, developed by Berkeley researchers led by mechanical engineering professor Liwei Lin, can generate hydrogen fuel from water just as efficiently as platinum, the far more expensive current standard.
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Sports Tech - The future of Cal Athletics
12/7/2018 Berkeley Science Review - A new collaboration between Cal Athletics and the College of Engineering, puts athletes and engineers to work developing base technologies or applications that improve athletic performance.
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Ion drive flight test points to radically different future for aviation
12/5/2018 Forbes - Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have conducted a successful 8-second flight test of an aircraft with an ion drive propulsion system, a larger version of the same cutting-edge technology that Berkeley engineers are using to fly centimeter-scale microrobots .
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New quantum material could take computers beyond semiconductors
12/3/2018 - Researchers from Intel Corp. and UC Berkeley's MSE are looking beyond current transistor technology and preparing the way for a new type of memory and logic circuit that could someday be in every computer on the planet.
150 years of innovation
As Berkeley Engineering celebrates a century and a half of making our mark on history, we're highlighting people with the pioneering spirit, creative energy and social responsibility that characterize the college. This week: Richard S. Muller, MEMS pioneer.
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