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Berkeley Engineering professors leading World Economic Forum panel

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.
Eko stethoscope

Eko’s digital stethoscope green-lighted by FDA

09/02/15 — The digital stethoscope startup Eko Devices, co-founded by Berkeley Engineering graduates and nurtured by SkyDeck, the campus accelerator, has won federal permission to enter the medical device market.
Kourtney Kardashian with breast pump

Can we build a better breast pump, already?

08/06/15 Fast Company — Mechanical engineers Ayyana Chakravartula and Jocelyn Bale-Glickman are developing a breast pump that is lighter, smaller, quieter, and has fewer moving parts than current pumps on the market. They describe their prototype as the Apple of breast pumps, and they're beginning their search for investors.
Diagram of smart cap using 3D-printed plastic with embedded electronics to wirelessly monitor the freshness of milk.

3D-printed ‘smart cap’ uses electronics to sense spoiled food

07/20/15 — UC Berkeley engineers, in collaboration with colleagues at Taiwan's National Chiao Tung University, have expanded the range of 3D printing technology to include electrical components, successfully printing a wireless “smart cap” for a milk carton that detects signs of spoilage using embedded sensors.
Panasonic exoskeleton

The exoskeletons are coming

07/16/15 MIT Technology Review — Workers could soon strap on a power-assist suit to maneuver heavy objects, as several companies are working toward commercially available exoskeletons, including Ekso Bionics, cofounded by Berkeley mechanical engineering professor Homayoon Kazerooni.
Alice Agogino

Alice Agogino: ME trailblazer

07/15/15 Blum Center — When historians get around to investigating the trials and triumphs of women scientists in the late 20th century, they would do well to spend some time looking at the career of Alice Merner Agogino, a pioneer in mechanical engineering, development engineering and STEM gender equity.
Grace O’Connell (right) and PhD graduate student Megan Pendleton in the lab

How to grow back the back

07/06/15 Berkeley Research — Grace O'Connell, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, is exploring ways to grow human disc tissue – the spongy, protective material between vertebrae – in order to repair or replace damaged cartilage.
Jill Hruby

New Sandia director will be first woman to lead national security lab

06/23/15 Sandia National Lab — Jill M. Hruby (M.S.'82 ME) has been named the next president and director of Sandia National Laboratories, the country's largest national lab. She will be the first woman to lead a national security laboratory when she steps into her new role July 17.
ME professor Grace O

More women in engineering – what’s working?

06/17/15 — From Dean Sastry: In order to increase the representation of women in engineering, we are moving beyond good intentions with proven strategies for sustaining their interest and fostering leadership.
Aaron Wienkers

ME’s Wienkers is University Medal finalist

05/12/15 — Aaron Wienkers, a graduating senior in mechanical engineering, is one of four finalists for the 2015 University Medal, which honors honors outstanding scholarship, public service and strength of character. He is also the recipient of the ME department citation.
Vires Aero wing

Vires Aero

05/01/15 — Vires Aeronautics is developing a new technology to make flight more efficient.
ToastBoard developers Filip Maksimovic, Julie Newcomb, Daniel Drew and Dominic Cincione and their creation.

ToastBoard

05/01/15 — ToastBoard is designed to make circuit design and testing easier. It's a better breadboard.
Students with tensegrity robot models

NASA Tensegrity robots

05/01/15 — These squishy robots are inspiring new ways of thinking about the form and function of automated systems.
Rube Goldberg drawing of a complicated contraption

A simple task

04/22/15 The Verge — More than a century after his graduation from UC Berkeley with an engineering degree, Rube Goldberg's whimsical machines - symbols of "man's capacity for exerting maximum effort to accomplish minimal results" - are the focus of national competitions and a loving retrospective.
EECS professor Ana Claidia Arias demonstrates her wearable MRI wrap to Barbara Bakar and Arnold Silverman.

Bakar Fellows show off their discoveries to tech entrepreneurship world

03/25/15 — Sixteen UC Berkeley faculty, including many Berkeley Engineers, who are conducting commercially promising research supported by the Bakar Fellows Program traveled to San Francisco to deepen their connections with prominent venture capital firms, industry partners and entrepreneurs.