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Paul Jacobs, Kirsi Tikka, Tejal Desai and Dennis Discher

Alumni inducted into national academies

05/01/16 — Several alumni have been inducted into the National Academy of Engineering for their contributions to engineering research, practice, or education and the National Academy of Medicine for their contributions to the advancement of medical sciences.
Gleb Budman at Backblaze

The backup generator

05/01/16 — Backblaze, a cloud backup company that offers unlimited storage for a fee of $5 per month, is accelerating its growth to find, encrypt and save all of a user's files of any size or type to an off-site location.

Farewell

05/01/16 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni
David Breslauer speaking at SXSW

Spinning a new market for synthetic silk

04/25/16 Foundation Capital — David Breslauer (Ph.D.'10 BioE), co-founder and and chief scientific officer at Bolt Threads, spoke at SXSW this month about what it takes to bring a technology like synthetic silk out of a lab and into a marketplace of your own creation.
Jeremy Fiance

Meet VC Jeremy Fiance, young Berkeley superconnector

04/18/16 Tech Crunch — Jeremy Fiance, 24, whose 2014 interdisciplinary studies degree combined engineering, design and business, is giving back to his alma mater in a unique way with the launch of the House Fund, a $6 million venture capital fund whose sole goal is to invest in startups coming out of UC Berkeley.
Water spraying from rusted pipe

How to save water from California’s leaky infrastructure

03/07/16 California magazine — Thanks to outdated systems and structures, California's water managers don't know how much water the state truly has, how much we really use, or how much leaks from ancient pipes before it ever reaches a tap. Berkeley engineers like Paul Sagues (M.S.'80 ME) are working on ways to dry up that waste.
Diane Greene at a 2014 Dean

Diane Greene tops list of powerful women engineers

02/24/16 Business Insider — Tech entrepreneur Diane Greene (M.S.'88 EECS) is the #1 pick of Business Insider in its National Engineers Week salute to influential women engineers, honored for her selection by Google to run its cloud computing business. Also on the list is #3 Tara Bunch (B.S.'85 ME), VP of operations at Apple.
CEO Liz Klinger and the Lioness vibrator

Like GPS for your sex drive

02/17/16 — Our phones are smart. Our cars are smart. And now, thanks to SkyDeck-based Lioness and its Berkeley Engineering grads, even vibrators can be smart, providing the data a woman needs to reach her destination free of detours, traffic tie-ups and road rage.
Diane Greene

Google picks Diane Greene to expand its cloud business

11/23/15 NY Times — Google, playing catch-up in the booming cloud computing market, has named VMware co-founder Diane Greene (M.S.'88 EECS), a respected Silicon Valley entrepreneur and technologist, to head its cloud business that caters to companies.
Eko Core stethoscope

The superior stethoscope

11/20/15 Time — The Eko Core smart stethoscope, developed by CEO Connor Landgraf (B.S'13, M.Eng'14 BioE) and his team at Eko Devices, has been named one of the 25 best inventions of 2015 by Time magazine.
The founding Instant eSports team, from left to right: Sebastian Merz, Rick Ling and Jonathan Lin.

Instant eSports

11/17/15 — Instant eSports, recently founded by three former EECS students, is a new type of media company for a new type of sports fan.
Discarded circuit boards ready for processing

Filtering the e-waste stream

11/16/15 — Alumnus Glen Langstaff (B.S'77 ME/NE) wants to use new technology to make disposing of old technology cheaper and more efficient. Here's how:
blueEnergy project in Bluefields, Nicaragua

blueEnergy’s water and sanitation technology for Nicaragua

11/06/15 Blum Center — NGOs like blueEnergy, founded by Berkeley graduate Mathias Craig (B.S'01 CEE), are helping to provide residents of resource-rich but infrastructure-poor Nicaragua with access to clean water and improved sanitation.

Toy tinkerer makes good

11/01/15 — Prolific inventor and designer Jack McCauley (EECS '86) has made a $2.5-million gift to establish the McCauley Family Fund in Design Innovation to support programs within the Jacobs Institute.

Spider-inspired silken threads

11/01/15 — Where some people see mere cobwebs, David Breslauer sees nature's most robust fiber. Now the bioengineering Ph.D.'s company, Bolt Threads, has learned how to mimic spider silk in the lab - without spiders.

Farewell

11/01/15 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni

Alumni notes

11/01/15 — Stay caught up with Berkeley Engineering alumni.