Mind the gap
05/01/13 — ITS graduate student Dan Howard re-envisioned the Berkeley campus in the style of the iconic London Underground map.
Students
Dean’s word: Bechtel made better
05/01/13 — Celebrating the re-dedication of Bechtel Engineering Center.
Introducing the Dreambox
05/01/13 — Alum Will Drevno and partners created the Dreambox, a vending machine to make 3D printing more accessible.
Q+A: Oxford-bound
05/01/13 — Alum Daniel A. Price, selected as a 2013 Rhodes Scholar, shares his future plans for Oxford and beyond.
Critical making comes to campus
05/01/13 — “Students are going to understand how to collaborate across disciplines while respecting and appreciating the viewpoints, values and concerns of others about a design,” Eric Paulos says. “I fundamentally believe that this is the future of the practitioner. They will have to know how to co-create things.”
Experiential ed.
05/01/13 — Many hands-on labs, shops and workspaces around campus allow students to learn by doing.
The ethical engineer
04/02/13 — In a world shaped by technology, engineers have the power and hence the responsibility to exercise tremendous influence on society. They must be able to solve problems not only with design and invention, but also with an understanding of the full range of human consequences, from the legal and economic to the ethical.
Building an LGBT community for STEM majors
04/02/13 — Despite the demands of schoolwork, mechanical engineering senior Paul Zarate has not only joined different student groups every year of his college career, but this past year he started his own. In 2011, Zarate founded the Berkeley chapter of Out in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (oSTEM), a national organization dedicated to the professional development of LGBT students in STEM majors.
Decisions, decisions
11/05/12 — It has been a busy year for the developers of the new web app, Politify. It was only October of 2011 when Nikita Bier, then a political economy and business major, approached Jeremy Blalock, a second-year EECS student, to collaborate on an easy-to-use app to analyze public policy. They developed a non-partisan tool that enables voters to evaluate the costs and benefits of each presidential candidate's promised policies.
Dean’s word: Innovation by design
11/02/12 — Step into room 122 of Hesse Hall on a weekday afternoon, and you're likely to see more than 100 freshmen building-and then bending, melting and even breaking-their own product prototypes.
Fabricating the ApoCALypse
11/01/12 — CEE Steel Bridge team competed against 600 students from 47 engineering schools in May 2012 to win the national title.
Olympic-caliber engineer
11/01/12 — Olympic rower and mechanical engineering student Olivier Siegelaar relates his experiences as an Olympian and student-athlete.
Q+A on revolutionizing online education
11/01/12 — Computer science professor Armando Fox discusses Berkeley's partnership with the online education program edX.
Piggyback ride
11/01/12 — Berkeley Engineering students helped create CINEMA (CubeSat for Ions, Neutrals, Electrons and MAgnetic fields), a low-cost nanosatellite designed to piggyback aboard other NASA missions.
Picture-perfect translation
11/01/12 — EECS grad Chun Ming Chin and his team at Translate Abroad have created a mobile app that makes translating Chinese characters as simple as taking a photo.
MasterCard Foundation brings African students to Berkeley
09/26/12 — Civil engineering undergrad Lilian Kabelle is one of seven new students from Sub-Saharan Africa attending Berkeley this fall at no cost as part of The MasterCard Foundation Scholars Program. The $500-million initiative will provide some 15,000 talented yet financially disadvantaged young people in developing countries with full scholarships and comprehensive support for their high school and college educations.
Cal Energy Corps working worldwide on smart solutions
09/24/12 — Launched in 2011, the Cal Energy Corps provides undergraduates with practical research and experiential-learning opportunities through internships with partner organizations across the academic, corporate and nonprofit sectors. Modeled on the U.S. Peace Corps, the program aims to engage Berkeley students tackling alternative energy, climate change and sustainability issues around the world. This summer, 13 of the 32 Cal Energy Corps interns were Berkeley Engineers
2013 Siebel Scholars announced
09/10/12 Siebel Foundation — Nine Berkeley Engineering graduate students have been named 2013 Siebel Scholars. This year's cohort of 85 graduate students in the nation's leading business, bioengineering and computer science programs join a group of almost 800 in the program, which fosters leadership and academic achievement. Honorees receive $35,000 to complete their final year of study. Congratulations to this year's winners: In Bioengineering: Lukasz Jan Bugaj, Laura Rose Croft, Timothy Lamont Downing, Alex James Hughes and Debkishore Mitra; and in EECS: Yunlong Li, Antonio Lupher, Brandon Wang and Wei Wu.
Introducing Berkeley Engineer
06/26/12 — In mailboxes and in kiosks around campus, the college's venerable Forefront magazine, first published in 1970, is now Berkeley Engineer. The new name change, in the works for a year, better defines our sense of place and purpose and celebrates the human values that are at the core of our work.
UC Berkeley announces 2012 Bergeron Scholars
06/12/12 Wall Street Journal Market Watch — UC Berkeley has announced the 2012 Bergeron Scholars. This year's Scholars are the first women to benefit from the program funded by Sandra and Douglas Bergeron in Fall 2011. The Berkeley Bergeron Scholars Program provides scholarships, program support and mentorships to five undergraduate women each year pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.