ToastBoard
05/01/15 — ToastBoard is designed to make circuit design and testing easier. It's a better breadboard.
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Transcense
05/01/15 — This smartphone app makes conference calls more accessible to deaf users by transcribing conversations in real time.
Dash Robotics
05/01/15 — These biomimetic, origami-like kits are designed to get kids (of all ages) hooked on building robots.
UC grad students deliver solutions, startups
04/24/15 University of California — Grad students from across the UC system will descend on Sacramento April 28 for Graduate Research Advocacy Day. Among them will be Berkeley civil engineering grad student André Carrel, who is studying how bus service reliability affects ridership.
Society of Women Engineers hosts new admits
04/01/15 — The campus chapter of the Society of Women Engineers invites newly admitted students to experience life at Berkeley for a weekend. (See video.)
Diversifying high tech? It’s not just a pipeline issue
03/05/15 TechCrunch — In a guest column, Omotayo Olukoya, a native of Nigeria who is studying electrical engineering and computer science, offers practical tips to tech companies struggling to find and hire a diverse team of engineers.
SkyDeck accepting spring 2015 applications
02/26/15 — SkyDeck, the startup accelerator in downtown Berkeley co-sponsored by the College of Engineering, is accepting applications for their spring 2015 session. All entrepreneurs affiliated with UC Berkeley, Berkeley Lab or UCSF are encouraged to apply; the deadline is March 31.
Jacobs Hall takes shape
02/25/15 — The mood was festive when the college community gathered to celebrate the placement of the final steel beam atop the new Jacobs Hall.
Generation innovation: battling neglected tropical diseases
02/25/15 Blum Center — The career trajectory of Ashley Tsai, bioengineering and material science major, was transformed by a Global Policy and Practice experience at Kohn Kaen University in Thailand, where she researched liver fluke infections, a disease common among the rural poor in many countries.
Engineers Week 2015
02/23/15 — Engineers Week (EWeek), a national celebration of science and technology, is underway February 23-27 on campus.
Mainstreaming science in the movies
01/13/15 berkeleyByte — Energy engineering undergrad Alison Ong discusses how Hollywood has been giving STEM fields a boost lately - The Imitation Game, Interstellar, The Theory of Everything - and notes the tension between good science and good storytelling.
Students show off ‘autonomous vehicles’ at L.A. Drone Expo
12/16/14 — Berkeley Engineering students joined civil engineering professor Raja Sengupta at the first-ever Drone Expo in Los Angeles on Saturday, demonstrating their “unmanned autonomous vehicles” to a crowd of hobbyists and enthusiasts.
Teaching design innovation
12/08/14 — The Jacobs Institute is supporting five design courses in spring 2015, ranging from a course on sketching for designers, to an interactive seating design competition, to a new lower-division engineering course in which students will gain hands-on and simulated experience with a wide range of manufacturing processes.
Cal students make crowd-funding site for Berkeley schools
12/02/14 Berkeleyside — A crowdfunding website, build by Berkeley Engineering computer science students from the Blueprint club, is helping teachers in the Berkeley public schools raise money for everything from books to robotics kits.
Bioengineer Zeleznick selected for Silicon Valley Bank Trek
11/21/14 Silicon Valley Bank Trek — Bioengineering undergraduate Zachary Zeleznick was one of 18 students from around the country selected to participate in the 2014 Silicon Valley Bank Trek. The Trek brings together top student innovators for a 3-day series of events with a “who's who” of influential investors and entrepreneurs in the tech community.
Stabilizing Strawberry Creek
11/17/14 — New construction repairs antiquated erosion control systems.
Cookstove case study
11/07/14 — Students in the new development engineering class make lunch on cookstoves.
Outback technology
10/29/14 — TIER scales sustainable technology - and tall trees - to bring cell service to rural villages.
GM Foundation funding connects students with community needs
10/27/14 — General Motors representatives joined members of Engineering Scholars as Engaged Scholars (ES)2 to celebrate the collaboration between the GM Foundation and Berkeley Engineering.
Devices: Ninja walker
10/07/14 — One team in Professor Amy Herr's senior capstone bioengineering course came up with an elegant solution to improve on walkers for the elderly and infirm that don't fit into tight spaces: the Ninja Walker.