The future of engineering education
11/01/17 — Executive Associate Dean Phil Kaminsky writes about how the emerging triad of technology, entrepreneurship and design are being used to reimagine how engineers are prepared.
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Case studies in forward thinking
11/01/17 — Nine Berkeley Engineering faculty members share some of their forward-looking work and how it might impact what's to come.
Forward thinking
11/01/17 — Dean Sastry, faculty keep the focus on tomorrow in new Berkeley Engineer
Dean’s word: Future bound: Partners wanted
11/01/17 — Dean Sastry ponders what's in store for the future here at the college, and how to connect that vision to reality.
Inventing the future
11/01/17 — In a Q&A with Berkeley Engineer, Dean Shankar Sastry outlines his vision for the future of the college and beyond.
Chest sound waves
11/01/17 — The award-winning Tabla, a device that digitizes chest sounds for diagnosing pneumonia (and other ailments), began as a class project in Jacobs Hall.
No sense, no feeling
11/01/17 — Berkeley engineers are experimenting with bringing tactile feeling into virtual worlds, first with a glove called Tacto.
Shoestring theory
11/01/17 — Ever wonder why shoelaces come untied? Well, wonder no longer.
Artificial skin grafts
11/01/17 — Researchers are looking at chicken skin dynamics to figure out how to build artificial skin to be used for grafts.
Materials genome to solar fuels
11/01/17 — Berkeley Lab's Materials Project was deployed with great success in an effort to find new materials that hold promise for capturing more of the sun's energy.
Needleless vaccines
11/01/17 — No more needles. Vaccinations can be done as easy as saying “ahh.”
Berkeley sounds: The early days of KALX
10/31/17 — Sam Wood (B.S'68 EECS) recounts the early days of the radio station that would eventually become KALX.
NSF awards support Berkeley data science institute, national workshops
10/27/17 — The UC Berkeley Institute for Data Science and its partners have received one award from the National Science Foundation to deepen the theoretical foundations of data science in a new transdisciplinary institute, and another to strengthen educational strategies through national workshops.
13.5-mile tunnel will make or break California’s bullet train
10/23/17 LA Times — A critical part of California's high-speed rail project is a 13.5-mile tunnel through the Diablo Range - a landmark project whose costs may greatly exceed initial expectations. "This is not good news for taxpayers of California," says civil engineering professor William Ibbs, who has consulted on similar rail projects around the world.
Behind the scenes with PREP
10/23/17 — Matthew Brueckmann (ME'15) found his calling early - he wanted to be an amusement park engineer. This summer, he returned to campus to lead a tour of California's Great America so that PREP participants could learn about the science and technology behind the scream-inducing machines.
PREP by design
10/23/17 — Electrical engineering and computer science freshman, Rebecca Chery, reflects on the lessons learned during a design challenge undertaken as part of the college's PREP program.
Student-built solar home places third in national contest
10/23/17 — A joint Berkeley/University of Denver team's prototype for a stackable solar home took third place in the Department of Energy's Solar Decathlon, a collegiate competition to design and build full-size, solar-powered houses.
Pete Bragg, materials science pioneer, dies at 98
10/20/17 — Robert Henry “Pete” Bragg, Jr., professor emeritus of materials science and engineering, passed away on Oct. 3 at the age of 98. Bragg joined the Berkeley faculty in June 1969, one of six African American faculty on campus at the time.
Berkeley-Denver team comes in third in Solar Decathlon
10/18/17 Denver Post — A collaboration between UC Berkeley and the University of Denver took third place in the Solar Decathlon 2017, a challenge for student teams to build and operate highly energy-efficient and innovative solar houses. The team's RISE house was designed specifically for the city of Richmond, Calif.
Biologically inspired foldable robot bugs head to market
10/18/17 TechCrunch — Toy maker Mattel has teamed up with Berkeley-born Dash Robots to create Kamigami, a robotics platform that lets kids build their own six-legged robotic bugs from foldable plastic sheets.