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.
Alumni
Zen and the art of Bug repair
09/26/17 California magazine — John Muir (the Berkeley civil engineering grad, not the naturalist) self-published How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, AKA "The Idiot's Guide," almost half a century ago, gaining a cult following among hippies and their ilk that has kept the book in print to this day.
Student-designed medical device wins Fast Company award
09/12/17 — Tabla, a low-cost medical device to diagnose pneumonia, has won the student category of Fast Company's 2017 Innovation by Design Awards. Tabla was created by a trio of mechanical engineering and bioengineering students as a classroom project for the Jacobs Institute's Interactive Device Design course.
Christopher Ategeka: Health care access for all
08/22/17 PBS NewsHour — In a Brief but Spectacular video on PBS, Berkeley Engineer and entrepreneur Christopher Ategeka (B.S.'11, M.S.'12 ME) tells how he is using his influence to recruit health professionals to work in underserved parts of Africa.
Heart and asthma monitors? There’s an app for that
08/10/17 New York Times — Two startup companies spun out of bioengineering's senior capstone design program are taking the world of remote health monitoring by storm. Monitoring devices by Eko Devices and Knox Medical Diagnostics are changing the landscape of medicine, the New York Times reports.
Toxic exposure: Chemicals are in our water, food, air and furniture
07/03/17 UCSF — As director of UCSF's Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment, Tracey Woodruff (B.S.'85 EECS, Ph.D.'91 BioE) believes that we need to know more about environmental toxics so we can reduce our exposure to the worst of them and protect ourselves and our children from their harmful effects.
Thinking inside the cardboard box
06/30/17 Berkeley Science Review — Traditional aid programs import finite resources that require an agency to distribute and maintain. Blum Center development engineers are changing the game by helping communities use their own resources, knowledge and people-power to solve their problems, says mechanical engineering alum Sonia Travaglini.
Berkeley alum Anantha Chandrakasan named MIT dean of engineering
06/23/17 MIT — Anantha P. Chandrakasan (B.S.'89, M.S.'90, Ph.D.'94 EECS) has been named dean of MIT's School of Engineering. Earlier this year, Chandrakasan received an Electrical Engineering Distinguished Alumni Award from UC Berkeley.
Dawn Tilbury to head NSF engineering
06/21/17 NSF — Dawn Tilbury (M.S.'92, Ph.D.'94 EECS), a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Michigan, will lead investments in fundamental engineering research and education as the newly appointed head of the National Science Foundation's Directorate for Engineering.
EECS alum Warren Hoburg joins astronaut corps
06/12/17 NASA — Warren “Woody” Hoburg (M.S.'11, Ph.D.'13 EECS), 31, an MIT assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics, is one of 12 new astronaut candidates selected by NASA from its largest field of applicants ever.
Saving lives through safer buildings
05/08/17 Wall Street Journal — The nonprofit group Build Change, founded by Elizabeth Hausler (M.S.'98 Ph.D.'02 CEE), says it has helped create more than 51,000 earthquake-resistant homes and schools in developing countries.
Berkeley is #1 school for Silicon Valley tech hiring
05/03/17 Business Insider — Silicon Valley tech firms hire more alumni from UC Berkeley than any other school, including Stanford and the Ivy League, according to a new analysis from online recruiting company HiringSolved.
Angel investors honor Magnetic Insights as innovative startup
05/03/17 — Bioengineering startup Magnetic Insight, founded by Patrick Goodwill (Ph.D.'10 BioE) and professor Steven Conolly, was selected by the Angel Capital Association for its 2017 Luis Villalobos Award for ingenuity, creativity, and innovation among startups.
Bob Jewett’s double life
05/01/17 — Alumnus Bob Jewett applied his engineering knowledge to billiards and made a second career of dissecting and competing in the game.
New UC Davis chancellor
05/01/17 — Alumnus Gary May is the new chancellor of UC Davis after a successful career as dean of engineering at Georgia Tech.
Shielding ice sheets
05/01/17 — Alumna Leslie Field founded Ice911, a nonprofit organization that uses salt-sized hollow glass spheres sprinkled on vulnerable ice to boost reflectivity and slow the melting process.
Four alumni named to Forbes’ 30-Under-30 list
05/01/17 — Alums Ankur Aggarwal, Timothy Downing, Thibault Duchemin and Tim Wang were recognized for their contributions to science, healthcare and consumer technology.
NAE Class of 2017
05/01/17 — Eight Berkeley Engineering professors, alumni and board members have joined the National Academy of Engineering.
Alumni notes
05/01/17 — News and photos of Berkeley Engineering alumni from decades past.
VR innovator Han Jin named to 30 Under 30
04/25/17 Inc. — The latest crop of 30 Under 30 young entrepreneurs at Inc. includes Fung Institute alumnus Han Jin (MEng '12 IEOR), co-founder of Lucid VR, which has simplified capturing virtual reality with a mass-market 3-D video camera.