Alumni

Richard Simpson, pioneering safety regulator, dies

07/27/23 — Washington Post: Simpson (B.S.'56 EECS), founding chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, was 93

Photo of Gridscope mounted to a power pole in a snowy, mountainous area. (Photo courtesy Gridware)

CITRIS Foundry alumni innovate for a more sustainable world

06/01/23 — CITRIS: Startups founded by Berkeley engineers work to combat climate change, improve energy efficiency and develop more sustainable solutions

New & noteworthy

05/17/23 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

On the grid

05/17/23 — A device from Gridware, founded by engineering alums, uses harmonics from power poles to evaluate grid integrity and hazard risks.

Farewell

05/17/23 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Hari Balakrishnan awarded 2023 Marconi Prize

02/22/23 — Berkeley Engineering alum, innovator and entrepreneur honored for the broad societal impact of his discoveries in mobile sensing, networking and distributed systems

Civil and environmental engineering professor Kenichi Soga.

Kenichi Soga named to the NAE

02/07/23 — Berkeley geotechnical engineer receives one of the highest professional honors accorded an American engineer

Black Engineering and Science Alumni Club to host anniversary celebration for BESSA, BGESS

02/03/23 — Celebrating Black excellence and inspiring the next generation of Berkeley engineers

Energized for real-world impact

01/25/23 — Founded by Berkeley Engineering alumni, Gridware uses sensors to tackle the threat of wildfires

Three of the 11 members of the Yankho women’s co-op (left), the backbone of and inspiration for Umodzi, along with Brian Ndongera (third from right), an advisor to Umodzi, Mathews Tisatayane (second from right), founder and president, and Sean Mandell, co-founder and CEO.

Berkeley engineer brings sustainable development to Malawi

01/13/23 — Mathews Tisatayane (M.DevEng’22) applies his knowledge of development engineering and social entrepreneurship to provide fellow Malawians clean energy and new economic opportunities

hohlraum converting laser energy into X-rays

Berkeley Engineering alumni help achieve decades-long quest for nuclear fusion

12/22/22 — Andrea Kritcher (M.S.’07, Ph.D.’09 NE) and Brian Spears (Ph.D.’04 ME) share their thoughts on the future of fusion research and how their time at Berkeley shaped their careers

Campanile and the Golden Gate Bridge on a supermoon sunrise

Farewell

11/07/22 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

New & noteworthy

11/07/22 — Updates about Berkeley Engineering alumni, faculty and students.

Lighting up Hollywood

11/07/22 — Alum Paul E. Debevec received a lifetime achievement award at the 74th Emmy Awards.

NASA astronaut candidates Warren “Woody” Hoburg, Kayla Barron, Frank Rubio and Zena Cardman.

To infinity and beyond

11/07/22 — Alum Warren “Woody” Hoburg will pilot a spacecraft mission to the International Space Station in spring 2023.

Glyphic Biotechnologies cofounders Joshua Yang and Daniel Estandian

Bringing biotech to market

08/17/22 — MTM alum advances medical technologies with two startups

Lighting up Hollywood

08/03/22 — UC Berkeley alum wins Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award

FIRE Foundry crew take a break from training at a Wildland Academy event

Fired up for the future

07/19/22 — FIRE Foundry aims to increase diversity among fire crews and accelerate the adoption of advanced firefighting technologies

Hoburg in front of a T-38 trainer aircraft

To infinity and beyond: EECS alum becomes spacecraft pilot

07/07/22 — A NASA astronaut since 2017, Warren Hoburg (M.S.’11, Ph.D.’13 EECS) will be piloting the spacecraft Dragon to the International Space Station

Parallel journeys, lasting legacies

06/30/22 — Inside Higher Ed: Gary May, Darryll Pines and Reggie DesRoches met at Berkeley Engineering in the 1980s. Now they all head large research universities — and remain close friends