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Mechanical engineering

Low-cost prototype of a robotic arm

UC Berkeley-led team receives $8.4M for AI-based approaches to cyber-physical systems

12/10/20 — Project proposes a novel approach that blends AI and machine learning with guidance from human and computational oracles
Exploded view of N95 mask, and assembled prototype modeled by undergrad researcher Jason Duckering

Anti-COVID mask breaks the mold

12/10/20 LBL — Scientists from Berkeley Engineering and Berkeley Lab have designed a rechargeable N95 mask with a custom fit
Sanjay Kumar, RObert RItchie and Peidong Yang

Top scholars named AAAS fellows

12/02/20 — Engineering professors Sanjay Kumar (bioengineering), Robert Ritchie (mechanical engineering and materials science) and Peidong Yang (chemistry and materials science) are among five Berkeley scholars elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
JPS project supplies awaiting pick-up.

At Berkeley Engineering, creativity still shines through remote learning

11/02/20 — Remote learning has inspired creative thinking for Berkeley Engineering courses that emphasize team collaboration and maker projects
beam tested under bending

Berkeley researchers use 3D printer to make stronger, greener concrete

10/13/20 — The team built octet lattices out of polymer, creating a novel way to reinforce concrete
Farmer sorting rice

UC Berkeley team advances food systems in new $20M research center

08/26/20 — Campus expertise in simulation technologies will play a key role in the new AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems
Members of the Clean Air Car Race teams

The Clean Air Car Race turns 50

08/26/20 — In 1970, Berkeley Engineering students envisioned low-emission cars of the future
Cryogenic experiment photo

UC Berkeley accelerates bio-preservation research as part of $26M NSF center

08/04/20 — The Advanced Technologies for the Preservation of Biological Systems (ATP-Bio) center could dramatically expand organ transplant options
Grace O

Berkeley team creates respiratory devices from sleep apnea machines

07/07/20 — Resourceful and affordable, about 600 apparatuses from Grace O'Connell's lab head to Ecuador this month
Jupiter

Hey Jupiter

04/14/20 — New research refutes reports that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is dying.
Amazonian freshwater fish, Arapaima gigas

Tough as scales

04/14/20 — A study has determined exactly what makes the scales of the Amazonian freshwater fish, Arapaima gigas, so tough.
Liwei Lin testing wearable sensor actuator

In touch with reality

04/14/20 — A new flexible, wearable device that can sense motion and give haptic feedback has applications for AR/VR technologies.

Quantum weirdness

04/14/20 — Researchers have shown that heat energy, in the form of molecular vibrations, can travel across a few hundred nanometers of a complete vacuum.
Paige Balcom and Peter Okwoko wearing face shields.

Engineering Ph.D. student turns recycled plastic into face shields for Ugandan medics

04/10/20 Berkeley News — Paige Balcom is co-founder of Takataka Plastics, which has its roots in Berkeley's Big Ideas Contest.
Rendering of a sleep apnea device retrofitted to help COVID-19 patients

Turning sleep apnea machines into ventilators

04/02/20 — Converting CPAP and BiPAP machines safely could add tens of thousands to COVID-19 ventilator supply
Illustration of technique to "print" cellular structures

New technique ‘prints’ cells to create diverse biological environments

03/18/20 — Berkeley researchers utilize photolithography and programmable DNA to rapidly “print” two-dimensional arrays of cells and proteins that mimic cellular environments in the body
Darryl Pines

Alumnus Darryll Pines named president of University of Maryland

02/18/20 UMD Right Now — Pines, the current dean of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering, will start his appointment July 1.
Plate of cooked spaghetti

Is spaghetti the key to building a better robot?

01/22/20 — Studying how spaghetti reacts to water might offer clues to how robots built from flexible materials can better mimic human movement, according to Oliver O'Reilly, professor of mechanical engineering.
Tarek Zohdi

Tarek Zohdi named 2019 AAM Fellow

01/02/20 American Academy of Mechanics — Tarek Zohdi, Chancellor's Professor and Will C. Hall Endowed Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been named the 2019 Fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics. This is an honor accorded to only one person per year in the country.
Vacuum chamber used to test heat transfer

Heat energy leaps through empty space, thanks to quantum weirdness

12/11/19 — In a surprising new study, Berkeley researchers led by Xiang Zhang, professor of mechanical engineering, showed that heat energy can travel through a complete vacuum due to invisible quantum fluctuations, a discovery that could have profound implications for the design of computer chips.
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