Let them see you sweat: Wearable sensors analyze perspiration
01/27/16 — Berkeley engineers have built a small, flexible device that can monitor levels of important body fluids simply by measuring sweat on a person's skin.
Faculty
Outgoing Berkeley Lab director to take research helm at UC Berkeley
01/21/16 — Paul Alivisatos, a professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering who has run the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory for the past seven years, has been tapped as UC Berkeley's next vice chancellor for research.
Former ME professor Michael Carroll passes away
01/19/16 — Professor Michael Carroll, who taught mechanical engineering at Berkeley from 1965 until 1988 before becoming dean of engineering at Rice University, died January 17 in Houston, after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease and cancer.
Filtering water with graphene
01/15/16 — CEE professor Baoxia Mi is developing a more efficient water filtration membrane constructed from graphene oxide, a carbon-based material that's made from naturally-occurring graphite, the same material found in pencils.
Adding ‘Beauty and Joy’ to Obama’s push for computer science teaching
01/15/16 NPR — President Obama wants hands-on computer science classes for every student. Computer science professor Dan Garcia, creator of "CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing," spends part of each day trying to figure out what that would look like.
Gradescope: Taking the pain out of grading
01/15/16 — Sergey Karayev and Arjun Singh bonded over an "extremely painful" experience well-known to GSI's everywhere: grading handwritten papers and exams.
The artificial materials that came in from the cold
12/15/15 Berkeley Lab — Researchers led by Robert Ritchie, professor of mechanical engineering and materials science and engineering, have developed a freeze-casting technique that enables them to design and create strong, tough and lightweight materials comparable to bones, teeth, shells and wood.
AMP Lab: Solving big data’s biggest problems
12/02/15 Berkeley Research — The AMP Lab, launched in 2011 by Michael Franklin and colleagues in computer science, has already had an outsized impact on industry, from battling cancer to getting an answer from Siri.
Seeking data wisdom
11/23/15 Berkeley Research — Science and engineering have a way of turning what seems like fantasy into reality - like "mind reading," or genetic organ formation, two promising research areas that rely on a powerful interlocking of science, computation and statistics that EECS and statistics professor Bin Yu calls "data wisdom."
Robot toddler learns to stand by ‘imagining’ how to do it
11/10/15 MIT Technology Review — Instead of being programmed, Darwin, a robot in the lab of EECS associate professor Pieter Abbeel, uses brain-inspired algorithms to “imagine” doing tasks before trying them in the real world.
Roberto Horowitz named mechanical engineering chair
11/09/15 — Roberto Horowitz, the James Fife Endowed Chair Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been named chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the College of Engineering.
Robots: Will they steal your job?
11/06/15 Fortune — At a Fortune Global Forum roundtable on automation, Berkeley Engineering professor and roboticist Ken Goldberg took issue with the notion that workers in routine and repetitive jobs are likely to be displaced by robots.
3-D mapping your world with a backpack
11/02/15 KQED Quest — EECS professor Avideh Zakhor has extended 3-D mapping and rendering - what she calls ‘reality capture' - to interior spaces through a laser-equipped backpack that collects thousands of data points, then stitches them together into a 3-D model.
Heavy lifting
11/01/15 — With an eclectic array of equipment, the Glaser Lab is home to research projects ranging from seismic safety and geothermal energy monitoring to sensor grids to measure Sierra snowpack.
Farewell
11/01/15 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni
Khalid Mosalam appointed director of Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center
10/12/15 — Khalid M. Mosalam, Taisei Professor of Civil Engineering at UC Berkeley, has been appointed director of the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, a multi-institutional research and education center headquartered at Berkeley.
EECS faculty members awarded NSF grants for cybersecurity research
10/08/15 National Science Foundation — Three EECS faculty members, David Wagner, Dawn Song and Sanjit Seshia, were awarded cybersecurity research grants from the National Science Foundation. The grants are part of NSF's $74.5 million Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace (SaTC) program.
Berkeley to lead energy and water consortium
10/05/15 — Berkeley, in partnership with UC Irvine and Berkeley Lab, will lead a five-year, multi-million dollar international research effort to tackle water-related aspects of energy production and use. Civil and environmental engineering professor Ashok Gadgil will head the new consortium.
Researchers talk new diagnostic methods at global tech conference
09/18/15 — Four Berkeley Engineering professors took part in the World Economic Forum's ninth Annual Meeting of the New Champions last week in Dalian, China, leading a discussion on how breakthroughs in medical diagnostic technologies are transforming healthcare.
David Dornfeld, green manufacturing expert, to lead Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
08/17/15 — David Dornfeld, chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley and recognized worldwide as an expert in smart and sustainable manufacturing, has been named faculty director of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.