Electrical engineering

Students in the first M.E.T. class on the steps of Sutardja Dai Hall

Inaugural M.E.T. class prepares to study business and engineering

08/23/17 Haas News — The founding class of 40 students in the Management, Engineering, & Technology program arrived at Berkeley this week ready to learn from each other and from top faculty at both Berkeley Engineering and the Haas School of Business.

Armen Chouldjian demonstrates the web app he and Anuj Shah developed for BART

For BART engineering interns, a focus on safety, reliability and innovation

08/23/17 Mass Transit — When EECS senior Armen Chouldjian returns to UC Berkeley in the fall, he'll ride BART knowing his summer internship helped increase safety and reliability for all the transit system's riders.

Defending the Internet from spear fishing

08/23/17 — At the USENIX Security Conference in Vancouver this month, a team of computer science researchers from Berkeley Engineering won the 2017 Internet Defense Prize - and a $100,000 award - for their new approach to detecting credential spear phishing attacks.

Ensuring that robots and humans work and play well together

08/17/17 MIT Tech Review — EECS assistant professor Anca Dragan is working to distill complicated or vague human behavior into simple mathematical models that robots can understand. Her visionary work has landed her a spot on MIT Tech Review's 35 Innovators Under 35 list.

Salto-1P, the amazing jumping robot

07/18/17 IEEE Spectrum — Thanks to some mechanical fine-tuning and the clever addition of a pair of thrusters, Salto-1P, the tiny jumping robot from EECS professor Ronald Fearing's Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, is leaping longer, faster and higher than ever. Prepare to be amazed.

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.

Ana Claidia Arias with a flexible medical sensor

Ana Claudia Arias wins FLEXI R&D award

06/22/17 SEMI — EECS associate professor Ana Claudia Arias has won the 2017 FLEXI R&D Achievement award for her development of flexible medical sensors and printed flexible devices.

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.

V&A Café brings dining and collaboration to Etcheverry

06/12/17 — The Berkeley Engineering community has an inviting new space for meetings and collaboration with the June 8 grand opening of the V&A Café in Etcheverry Hall.

Avideh Zakhor: the brains behind Google Earth and Street View

05/26/17 Mercury News — EECS professor Avideh Zakhor, inventor of the 3-D modeling technology underlying Google Earth and Street View, is now turning her attention indoors. Her new startup - Indoor Reality - aims to create virtual reality and augmented reality technology for the mapping of building interiors.

Rikky Muller wins early career professor award

05/08/17 Keysight — EECS assistant professor Rikky Muller has been selected to receive the 2017 Keysight Early Career Professor Award for her work in advanced integrated circuits for implantable and wearable medical devices.

Small wonder

05/01/17 — Researchers have created the world's smallest transistor, a development that could advance the performance and efficiency of electronics.

Reading minds

05/01/17 — The BioSENSE Lab has created a “pass-thought” reader to authenticate wearers by reading their brainwaves.

High jump

05/01/17 — Inspired by the galago's unique ability to store energy in its tendons to leap to great heights, researchers have designed a small robot that can spring off walls and perform multiple vertical jumps.

Berkeley implements new 2-degree program between engineering and business

04/28/17 Daily Californian — UC Berkeley's College of Engineering and Haas School of Business are offering a highly selective two-degree program - the Management, Entrepreneurship and Technology (MET) program - that will begin in fall 2017.

Image alchemist Alexei Efros wins ACM computing prize

04/18/17 ACM — The Association for Computing Machinery has awarded its 2016 Prize in Computing to EECS professor Alexei Efros "for groundbreaking data-driven approaches to computer graphics and computer vision."

The most robot-proof job of them all

04/14/17 Marketplace — EECS assistant Professor Anca Dragan talks with David Brancaccio about how her native Romania gave her a leg up on studying human-robot interactions, and on helping develop those skills for more would-be scientists.

An interstellar journey

04/13/17 — A group of Berkeley students is developing the tools and technologies for humanity's next big step - exploring the deep reaches of space.

Katherine Yelick, Hari Balakrishnan, Paul Jacobs and Andrea Goldsmith

Katherine Yelick, 3 alumni named AAAS fellows

04/12/17 AAAS — EECS professor Katherine Yelick is one of 228 newly elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest learned societies. Also honored in the 2017 class are Berkeley Engineering alumni Hari Balakrishnan, Andrea Goldsmith and Paul Jacobs.