Students

Berkeley Engineering team wins $10,000 for cloud-storage innovation

11/23/15 Daily Californian — The EECS graduate student duo of Tae Joon Seok and Sangyoon Han has come away with $10,000 after winning third place in a national competition among collegiate inventors for their cloud-technology innovation, called the Silicon Waveguide Array Photonic Switch.

Engineering student Akol Kuan high-fives sixth-graders at Beacon Day School

Of war, water and working to fix South Sudan

11/18/15 — Civil engineering undergrad Akol Kuan brought tales of his native South Sudan to Oakland's Beacon Day School, where sixth graders had just finished reading A Long Walk to Water, a novel that follows the hardships and heartbreaks of two Sudanese 11-year-olds.

Celebrating World Toilet Day, reinventing sanitation

11/17/15 — United Nations World Toilet Day on Nov. 19 is environmental engineering doctoral student William Tarpeh's main chance - a time to proselytize about all things sanitation. For mechanical engineering grad student Emily Woods, it's a boost for Sanivation, the company she co-founded to convert human feces into charcoal for a poor community in Kenya.

The problem with ‘help’ in global development

11/10/15 SSIR — To move beyond good intentions, the development paradigm must shift toward collaboration, community involvement, and empowerment, writes mechanical engineering Ph.D. candidate Julia Kramer in a commentary for the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

The Jawaharlal sisters appearing on "Shark Tank"

Pi-Bot inventors score $200,000 deal on ‘Shark Tank’

11/02/15 — Berkeley Engineering senior Lavanya Jawaharlal and her sister Melissa, both mechanical engineers, walked away from TV's investment reality show “Shark Tank” with a $200,000 deal that they will put toward taking their STEM robotics education concept nationwide.

President Obama at White House astronomy night

Will STEM education be the child left behind?

11/02/15 NPR — Berkeley Engineers And Mentors (BEAM), a student volunteer group that teaches an after-school STEM program at a Berkeley elementary school, was featured in a Morning Edition report on the budget a policy hurdles facing STEM education.

Melissa and Lavanya Jawaharlal with their Pi-Bot

Pi-Bot inventors, STEM proselytizers dive into ‘Shark Tank’

10/30/15 — Lavanya Jawaharlal, a senior in mechanical engineering, and her engineer sister Melissa founded STEM Center USA to open up access to the fields of science, technology, engineering and math to more diverse students.

Ribbon-cutting for the Graduate Professional Services Center

Campus opens career center for grad students, post-docs

10/28/15 — With the opening of the Graduate Professional Services Center in Sproul Hall, UC Berkeley graduate students and postdocs now have a place to go for help exploring how their studies can prepare them for career paths, both within and beyond academia.

Graduate student researcher Zack Phillips demonstrating the modified Cellscope

Undergrad research on the rise at Cal

10/27/15 Blum Center — A team of six young EECS students working in the Computational Imaging Lab, whose LED array dome extended the reach of the CellScope microscope, exemplifies the mutual benefits of research by undergraduates at UC Berkeley.

EnableTech: Engineering for accessibility

10/20/15 — The new EnableTech student group aims to develop creative solutions to minimize challenges presented by disability.

Vanessa Salas and Giovanni Pacheco discuss their project on particulate matter in West Oakland

GM Foundation funding connects engineers with underserved communities

09/18/15 — A poster session focused on community engagement and improvement brings together students in the Engineering Scholars as Engaged Scholars program and their supporters from the GM Foundation.

Welcoming new students

09/17/15 — The college community welcomes new students to campus with ice-breaking games, a showcase of student group activities and, of course, a Top Dog lunch.

Foundation honors 9 Berkeley graduate students as Siebel Scholars

09/11/15 — The Siebel Scholars Foundation has named its 2016 class of exceptional graduate students, including nine from Berkeley. The Berkeley cohort includes five students from bioengineering, three from computer science and one from energy science.

Berkeley Engineering opens Jacobs Hall, a hub for design education

08/19/15 — On Aug. 20, a public celebration marks the opening of Jacobs Hall, with four floors of studios and maker spaces for digital design, prototyping, fabrication and manufacturing.

A student sketch from the Interactive Seating class

Interactive seating: New course models design innovation education

08/15/15 — A new course from the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation reinvents the chair and models a new form of engineering education at Berkeley.

Process behind the Volta phone-charging rocking chair

Rock on: Student-designed chair generates energy to charge phone

07/13/15 California magazine — The Volta, a chair that harnesses the rocking motion of the sitter to generate energy, has won a National Maker Faire award for its inventors - four Berkeley undergrads taking part in the interdisciplinary Interactive Seating Design Competition sponsored by the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.