Under observation
11/01/13 — Scientists have discovered a better way to study integrins experimentally, by creating a computer model.
Faculty
Check your head
11/01/13 — Researchers have developed affordable technology to help diagnose brain injuries in real time.
Artificial forest
11/01/13 — Berkeley researchers have developed an “artificial forest,” a model that directly converts sunlight into chemical fuels in a process that mimics photosynthesis.
Cracked encryption? Back doors? Cellphone snooping may be easier than ever
10/31/13 NBC News — Computer science professor Vern Paxson weighs in on the National Security Agency's interception of wireless communications, noting that even modern encryption may have flaws if done incorrectly. He also worries about allegations that the NSA is vacuuming up information at a heretofore unimagined scale.
The talk that wasn’t
09/27/13 Scientific American — A story from the Heidelberg Laureate Forum about EECS professor emeritus Manuel Blum -- a scientist, a teacher, a human, and "a person with a genuine curiosity about everything."
Design: The new toolkit for teaching engineering
09/11/13 — While some educators debate the pros and cons of online learning, we think there's a far more pressing and promising innovation that we need to offer today's engineering students: Immersion in experiential design.
Al Pisano named dean of engineering at UC San Diego
07/15/13 Berkeley Engineering — Albert P. (Al) Pisano, a distinguished member of the UC Berkeley College of Engineering faculty since 1983, has accepted appointment as Dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering at UC San Diego, starting September 1, 2013. Berkeley Engineering Dean S. Shankar Sastry called Pisano "an exceptional choice for this leadership position."
Sastry reappointed to second term as dean of engineering
06/20/13 — S. Shankar Sastry has accepted reappointment as dean of the College of Engineering, effective July 1, 2013, the campus has announced. Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer said Sastry's "accomplishments as a leader have been exemplary, as have his research, scholarship, and professional reputation."
To a fault
05/01/13 — Civil engineers have found that determining how long a fault has healed between seismic events help them predict the type of shaking that will occur when it ruptures again.
A hot spot
05/01/13 — Led by engineering professor Robert Ritchie, researchers have created a facility where scientists can test ceramic composites at extremely high temperatures.
Mind readers
05/01/13 — Researchers were able to infer sensitive information—such as credit card PINs, birth months and home locations—from participants wearing brainwave-reading headsets that are typically used for hands-free gaming.
Everlasting clock
05/01/13 — An eternal clock that would always keep accurate time, even after the heat-death of the universe, is no longer just an intriguing concept, thanks to a team of scientists, led by ME professor Xiang Zhang.
Greening the factory floor
05/01/13 — Berkeley graduate students and professors at the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability, led by mechanical engineering chair David Dornfeld, are guiding factory owners and builders to a green manufacturing future.
Farewell
05/01/13 — Remembering members of the college community that have recently passed away.
Making art out of earthquakes
03/26/13 The Atlantic — Industrial engineering professor and artist Ken Goldberg discusses his latest project – an "Internet-based earthwork" called Bloom, which makes the constant low-level seismic action of the Hayward Fault near campus visible as a dynamic artwork.
Bob Bea, the master of disaster
02/25/13 Men's Journal — Civil engineering professor Bob Bea, who leads off testimony this week in the trial of BP and other companies involved in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout, is profiled for his work as "the nation's foremost forensic engineer ... the guy to call when levees break or oil rigs explode – to sift through the wreckage, assign blame, and try to prevent the same mistakes again."
Amy Herr’s lab has shrunk the Western Blot
12/12/12 — Bioengineering professor Amy Herr and BioE graduate student Alex Hughes have created a microfluidic Western blot device that can run 48 assays in an hour or less. Their improvement of the Western blot, a workhorse of biology labs, has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Alan Searcy
11/21/12 — Alan W. Searcy, a professor emeritus of materials science and engineering, passed away on Nov. 5 at the John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek.
Rerouting behavior
11/01/12 — Associate professors of civil and environmental engineering Raja Sengupta and Joan Walker created the Quantified Traveler app to quantify what influences travel behavior and to encourage more sustainable travel.
Farewell
11/01/12 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni