Ashok Gadgil awarded National Medal of Technology and Innovation
10/24/23 — Distinguished CEE professor's technological innovations have profoundly benefited low-resource communities worldwide
Civil engineering
Berkeley Engineering alums among winners of MacArthur Foundation’s ‘genius award’
10/18/23 — UC Newsroom: Linsey Marr (M.S.'97, Ph.D.'02 CEE) and Lester Mackey (Ph.D.'12 CS) recognized for bringing outstanding originality, dedication and drive to their fields
Hybrid cooling leads to 32% energy savings in tropical office buildings — without sacrificing comfort
10/12/23 — CITRIS: Berkeley researchers, academic partners in Singapore combine ceiling fans with higher AC set points
Researchers develop new AI-based design method for metamaterials
10/10/23 — Innovative approach can create everyday products with novel mechanical properties
Ashok Gadgil wins inaugural R&D Leader of the Year award
08/24/23 — R&D World magazine cited the distinguished professor's 30+ years of innovations that profoundly benefited low-resource communities
Greater access to water and sanitation could help curb antibiotic resistance
06/30/23 — Berkeley-led study highlights key role of community environmental factors in transmission of resistance genes
Robotic pup tested in East Bay could be the future of infrastructure inspection
06/12/23 — ABC7 News: Berkeley civil engineers send in Spot to inspect 100-year-old, 7,000-foot-long tunnel
Researchers reveal the ‘hidden’ costs of drinkable water
05/04/23 — Successful water treatment technologies require a deeper understanding of users’ challenges
Berkeley Lab and PEER to release advanced Bay Area quake simulations
02/09/23 — Supercomputer-generated simulations will be available on an open-access website, giving the broader earthquake research community and engineers access to critical data
Kenichi Soga named to the NAE
02/07/23 — Berkeley geotechnical engineer receives one of the highest professional honors accorded an American engineer
Researchers to help reduce wildfire risk with dynamic modeling, serious games
12/20/22 — CITRIS: With a $2.5 million NSF grant, an interdisciplinary UC team led by civil engineering professor Kenichi Soga is partnering with Bay Area communities to help residents respond to natural disasters more quickly — and more safely.
Massive traffic experiment pits machine learning against ‘phantom’ jams
11/23/22 — CIRCLES Consortium field trial shows AI-powered cruise control system could help smooth traffic flow, improve fuel economy
Into the drink
11/07/22 — Researchers have found that water chlorination does not negatively impact the gut microbiome of children.
Bringing arsenic-safe drinking water to rural California
09/21/22 — Berkeley engineers have created a simple, low-cost arsenic treatment system to help low-income communities access safer water (With video)
Commentary: Failing to act on climate change is robbing future generations of choices
07/12/22 — Chicago Tribune: CEE professor Ashok Gadgil and other frustrated scientists call for a reorientation of climate research to drive effective action and transformative change
New study evaluates NOAA’s wildfire smoke forecasting model
07/05/22 — Using data from the 2018 Camp Fire, civil engineering researchers identify ways to improve experimental smoke prediction tool
UC Berkeley-PEER shaking table turns 50
06/22/22 — Remains the largest multidirectional earthquake simulator in the US
Former UC Santa Cruz chancellor, Berkeley Engineering dean Karl Pister has died
05/16/22 — Pister, a structural engineering professor who devoted more than 70 years to the university, to higher education and to expanding educational opportunities for students from kindergarten to graduate school, was 96.
Civil engineers partner with Stockton students to build 120 air purifiers
04/26/22 — In honor of Earth Day, students from professor Tina Chow's CE 105 class joined with Edison High School to build and distribute air purifiers to the south Stockton community
Seeing red
04/15/22 — A study has found a strong association between present-day air pollution levels and historical patterns of redlining.
