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Industrial engineering

Robot arms (seen here in multiple exposures) folding towels using the SpeedFolding method.

Fastest ever laundry-folding robot is here

10/24/22 — NPR: But SpeedFolding method, from an international team including Berkeley Engineering's AUTOLab, is likely still slower than you.
Robot arm moves full wine glass without spilling.

New technology helps robots move objects quickly and safely

06/22/22 — Robot arms don’t have to compromise on speed
Old-style drawings of fish, cow and chicken above stylized petri dishes

The future of meat

04/15/22 — The Alt: Meat Lab pairs scientific innovation with entrepreneurship to bring plant-based proteins from the classroom to the market.
cancer cells in the bloodstream

Put to the test

11/15/21 — A method that uses a common machine learning algorithm can help detect cancer from a simple blood test, well before the first symptoms are present.
Ricardo San Martin in the Alt: Meat Lab

At Berkeley’s Alt: Meat Lab, some students learn to be CEOs

10/22/21 — LA Times: A program at Berkeley Engineering connects students interested in creating plant-based alternatives to animal products with potential investors
cancer cells in the bloodstream

Using machine learning to detect early-stage cancers

08/16/21 — Berkeley researchers develop algorithm for method that identifies cancer from blood tests, well before first symptoms are present.
abstract graphic of optimization

UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech and USC launch new National AI Research Institute

07/29/21 — NSF awards $20M for researchers to deploy AI to tackle massive optimization challenges
Adults and child cooking in a kitchen

Time more important than funding for food assistance, study finds

06/25/21 School of Public Health — A paper co-authored by IEOR associate professor Anil Aswani showed that Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program recipients who had more available time were able to prepare higher quality meals
Jacobs Institute Project Support

Berkeley engineers win Extraordinary Teaching in Extraordinary Times Awards

04/27/21 — Nine engineering teaching groups were honored for innovations in remote instruction
Time-lapse photo of robotic arm grasping and moving various objects

Smooth operator

04/26/21 — A research team has developed AI software that allows robotic arms to quickly grasp and move objects in a steady motion.
Head shot of Ikhlaq Sidhu, SCET faculty director

Ikhlaq Sidhu marks 15 years at SCET

02/16/21 — The faculty director and chief scientist created a new model for the academic innovation center that embraces innovation in both academia and industry.
Time-lapse photo of robotic arm grasping and moving various objects

Deep learning helps robots grasp and move objects with ease

11/18/20 — Combining neural networks with motion planning software gives robots the speed and skill to assist in warehouse environments
Eye exams being performed at a hospital in China.

Better eye screening

10/25/19 — Researchers from the RADAR Lab have developed algorithms that can help with the diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy — the most common cause of vision loss among people with diabetes — by detecting features in retinal images with better than 97% accuracy.
Engineering students pose with Oski

Berkeley Engineering is #3 in U.S. News rankings

09/09/19 U.S. News & World Report — Berkeley Engineering's undergraduate program was again ranked third overall and the top public engineering school by U.S. News & World Report. Eight individual engineering programs were ranked among the top 5 in their respective fields, and all were in the top 10.
cellscope

Fletcher Lab’s mobile phone-based microscope receives Gates Foundation support

08/27/19 — The Gates Foundation awarded a grant to Berkeley in July 2019 to support the scaled-up production of the LoaScope, a mobile phone-based microscope developed by bioengineering professor Daniel Fletcher and researchers in his bioengineering laboratory.
Jerome Singer

Jerome R. Singer, MRI pioneer, dies at 97

08/06/19 — Jerome R. Singer, professor emeritus and a pioneer in the field of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), passed away in July. Singer taught and conducted research in the electrical engineering and computer sciences and the biophysics departments at Berkeley for 25 years.
2D OPA Chip

New chip could lead to cheaper and better medical imaging devices and self-driving cars

08/06/19 — Berkeley engineers have created the fastest silicon-based, programmable two-dimensional optical phased array, which could improve medical imaging, optical communications and LiDAR sensors.
Anca Dragan and Javad Lavaei, Berkeley Engineering professors.

White House honors engineering faculty with early career awards

07/03/19 — Anca Dragan and Javad Lavaei have been awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). Newly hired faculty members Alvin Cheung and Barna Saha were also honored.
innovation

Government-funded research increasingly fuels innovation

06/20/19 — New research shows that cuts in federal funding for science might endanger the innovation that increasingly fuels the modern economy.
Commencement 2019

Berkeley Engineers off to change the world

05/22/19 — At two rainy commencement ceremonies, speakers called on graduates to draw on their Berkeley Engineering education to promote equity as well as innovation.
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