Artificial intelligence gives stethoscopes a much-needed upgrade
03/03/20 - Alumni develop algorithms that will help predict possible heart failure
Alumni
Alumnus Darryll Pines named president of University of Maryland
02/18/20 - Pines, the current dean of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering, will start his appointment July 1.
New & noteworthy
10/25/19 - Class notes and other updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni and faculty.
Bancroft Library oral history, podcast highlight Berkeley Engineering achievements
08/01/19 - Berkeley Engineering's contributions to the rise of the semiconductor industry were featured in a recent library podcast, while mechanical engineering professor emeritus George Leitmann was interviewed for an oral history project.
Building tech solutions for social good
05/15/19 - Tech for social good - that's not just the motto of Berkeley's Blueprint club, but an accurate description of the work they're producing.
New & noteworthy
05/01/19 - Class notes and other updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni and faculty.
Three named as top young innovators
11/14/18 - Alessandro Chiesa, Chelsea Finn and John Schulman were recognized on MIT Technology Review's list of “35 Innovators Under 35.”
The art of innovation
08/23/18 - It's been a long, strange trip for George Crow (B.S.'66 EE), from proofreading textbooks for his Berkeley professors in the sixties to developing the original, groundbreaking Apple Macintosh computer (and its many offspring) with Steve Jobs and the Mac team.
Remembering Bill Baker, Berkeley Lab’s first electrical engineer
07/24/18 - Berkeley Engineering alumnus William R. “Bill” Baker, who died May 4 at age 103, was a lifelong engineer with an unrelenting mind, boundless ingenuity and dozens of patents to his credit. He was the first electrical engineer hired by Ernest O. Lawrence for what would eventually become Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
Three Berkeley engineers named as top young innovators
06/29/18 - An EECS professor, graduate student and recent alumnus have been named to MIT Technology Review's 2018 list of “35 Innovators Under 35.”
Eric Schmidt calls for greater investment in public universities
06/04/18 - In an op-ed published in the Sacramento Bee, Berkeley Engineering alum and former Google exec Eric Schmidt (M.S. '79/Ph.D. '82 EECS) advocates for more government support of public universities, including the University of California. Schmidt, who is a member of the UC Berkeley Board of Visitors, points out that the investment in public universities has paid Californians back many times over.
New & noteworthy
06/02/18 - Class notes and other updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni and faculty.
Q&A with Barbara Simons
03/16/18 - Barbara Simons, a founding member of Women in Computer Science and Engineering (which is celebrating its 40th anniversary), has been sounding the alarm about the potential pitfalls of internet and electronic voting for more than a decade.
The hidden social mission behind a trending toy
03/13/18 - A herd of stuffed animals with mix-and-match parts paid a visit to a Sutardja Center classroom to help students learn how they can design products to have a social impact - a subject dear to the heart of Animoodles CEO (and industrial engineering alumna) Marissa Louie.
An engineer’s guide to sexism
02/23/18 - It's not often a female engineer steps before hundreds of male colleagues at a major conference and gives a tutorial on the institutional sexism in their profession. But that's what happened at this month's International Solid State Circuits Conference, where Berkeley alum Teresa Meng (M.S.'84, Ph.D.'88 EECS), Stanford professor and Atheros Communications co-founder, addressed “Winning the game in a male-dominated industry.”
Celebrating diversity in engineering and science
02/13/18 - The Black Engineering and Science Students Association and the Black Graduate Engineering and Science Students celebrated milestone anniversaries with a daylong event at Alumni House on Feb. 10, including a keynote address by alumnus and UC Davis Chancellor Gary May.
Taking the stage
02/09/18 - Drew McPherson (B.S'17 ME) recently took the stage in San Francisco to give a talk at “People That Don't Normally Lecture.” He talked about the accident he had at 19 that left him paralyzed. He also talked about what came next: a desire to design and build things that help people meet a need.
EECS professor Chang-Hasnain named to NAE
02/07/18 - EECS professor Constance Chang-Hasnain is among 83 new members elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Two alumni also were elected to the academy.
How to build a viral app
02/06/18 - Telling a Newton Lecture Series audience that he got "really good at failing," Berkeley alumnus Nikita Bier recounted his difficult journey to creating TBH, a viral app that allows teenagers to anonymously compliment each other through a series of polls.
Drone pioneer Warren Hoburg named Innovator of the Year
12/20/17 - Aerospace engineer and astronaut candidate Warren "Woody" Hoburg (M.S.'11, Ph.D.'13 EECS) has been named Innovator of the Year by R&D Magazine for his pioneering work creating the Jungle Hawk Owl extended-flight drone.