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Connor Landgraf with phone and stethoscope

Startup founded by students aims to revolutionize stethoscope

02/12/14 Daily Californian — Family doctors' iPhones may soon be incorporated into regular checkups to help monitor and detect heart conditions, thanks to a startup company run by UC Berkeley students and led by CEO Connor Landgraf (B.S.'13, M.Eng.'14 BioE).

Beyond Rube Goldberg’s machines

12/10/13 New York Times — Rube Goldberg's reservoir of elaborate contraptions that mutated simple tasks into madcap feats of ingenuity made him rich and famous. But the Berkeley-trained engineer (B.S. 1904 MSE) was also an all-around cartoon man and artist - the Thomas Edison of the newspaper comics pages - as the new book ‘The Art of Rube Goldberg' makes clear.

Cal football to be played on Kabam Field

12/09/13 San Francisco Chronicle — Kabam, a San Francisco-based mobile-gaming company, has secured naming rights for the playing field at Memorial Stadium. Three of Kabam's founders, including Michael Li, B.S. '01 EECS, are Berkeley graduates, as are 10 percent of the company's 700 employees worldwide.

Flying to the edge of darkness

11/22/13 — Adam Wright (B.S'05 ME) is building submarines that fly through water. He started his career at Hawkes Ocean Technologies as an unpaid intern before his freshman year of college. Early this year, he was named the company's president and CEO.
Jean-Paul Tennant with kids and baby elephants

Off the beaten track

11/01/13 — Meet Jean-Paul Tennant, CFO of the international adventure travel company GeoEx.
Project manager Kesor Kim at Levi

Building a super bowl

11/01/13 — An insider's look into the construction of the new Levi's Stadium, the NFL's first LEED Gold stadium and among the fastest ever constructed.

Alumni notes

11/01/13 — News and photos of Berkeley Engineering alumni from decades past.

Farewell

11/01/13 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni

Luck, smarts lead from Uganda to UC Berkeley

10/22/13 San Francisco Chronicle — The amazing journey of Christopher Ategeka, who went from teenage orphan and human scarecrow in Uganda to mechanical engineer at UC Berkeley (two degrees down, one more in the works), winning honors and prizes, founding a nonprofit and a biotech company, even giving a TED talk.

With Melt app, Shane Wey rediscovers the power of voice

09/11/13 — For some, the explosion of visual media and the Internet's transformation as a space dominated by images feels inevitable. But Shane Wey (B.S. '10 EECS) sees things differently. Bucking the digital visual trend, Wey cofounded Melt, an audio-based micro-blogging app that underscores the power of voice. Have a listen.

Will we ride the Hyperloop before decade’s end?

08/14/13 CNN — In an op-ed article for CNN, Berkeley Engineering alumnus Saurabh Amin (Ph.D. '11 CEE), an assistant professor at MIT, writes that in putting his Hyperloop transportation system before the public in conceptual form, Elon Musk might be able to minimize the design bottleneck that slows most massive infrastructure projects to a crawl.

Douglas C. Engelbart, inventor of the computer mouse, dies at 88

07/03/13 New York Times — Douglas C. Engelbart, 88, a visionary scientist and Berkeley electrical engineering Ph.D. whose host of inventions - among them the computer mouse - became the basis for both the Internet and the modern personal computer, died July 2 at his home in Atherton, Calif.

Molding the next generation of computer scientists

05/14/13 CNN Tech — Kevin Wang always had the teaching bug in him. Now the 2002 EECS alumnus and Microsoft developer is combining his passion and his profession through Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS), an initiative founded by Wang and supported by Microsoft that places high-tech professionals as part-time teachers in high schools.

Comments

05/01/13 — Comments by readers on recent issues.

Alumni notes

05/01/13 — News and photos of Berkeley Engineering alumni from decades past.

Farewell

05/01/13 — Remembering members of the college community that have recently passed away.

Chair man

05/01/13 — Coleman Fung, founder of OpenLink, a global company that develops financial and risk management software, endowed two new chairs in the College of Engineering in 2012.

No idle hands

03/05/13 — Alum Christian Fernandez says he was never a poster-boy student. Now, almost a decade after leaving campus, he is having a run of successful ventures. The computer programmer-turned-entrepreneur is juggling a couple of up-and-coming projects: a collaborative tech space, Ace Monster Toys, in West Oakland, and Hackbright Academy, a training ground for female programmers.