Alumni notes
05/01/15 — Stay caught up with Berkeley Engineering alumni.
News
Farewell
05/01/15 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni
Jacobs Hall: New home for design innovation
05/01/15 — Jacobs Hall, the main hub for the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, will open for its first classes this fall.
In the domain of design
05/01/15 — In this special issue, engineering faculty look at how design innovation is used to solve "wicked problems."
Vires Aero
05/01/15 — Vires Aeronautics is developing a new technology to make flight more efficient.
KNOX Diagnostics
05/01/15 — Knox Diagnostics is a new medical device company that is working on a cheaper and more portable asthma monitoring device.
Clarity
05/01/15 — Clarity is a wearable air pollution monitoring and reporting device.
Smart scooter
05/01/15 — Modified Razor scooters are used in a cyber-physical system design course to how electric vehicles interface with the energy grid.
ToastBoard
05/01/15 — ToastBoard is designed to make circuit design and testing easier. It's a better breadboard.
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.
NASA Tensegrity robots
05/01/15 — These squishy robots are inspiring new ways of thinking about the form and function of automated systems.
Design case studies
05/01/15 — Tensegrity robots, pollution monitors and new flight technology are a few of the design innovations originating at the college and now moving from prototype into production. View slideshow.
Jitendra Malik among 5 Berkeley scientists named to National Academy
04/28/15 — Jitendra Malik, the Arthur J. Chick Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, is one of five UC Berkeley professors elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, the nation's oldest and most prestigious scientific organization.
‘Intelligent design’ — can it deliver?
04/28/15 Berkeley Research — Berkeley bioengineer David Schaffer uses a strategy known as directed evolution to find variations in a common virus that will allow it to effectively deliver drugs to target cells.
Super-cute robot bug gets $1.4M to teach kids to code
04/27/15 Venture Beat — Dash Robotics, which began as a research project at Berkeley Engineering and CITRIS, has secured $1.4 million in seed funding to help refine and market its small bio-inspired origami robots that teach kids how to program while they play.
How to attract female engineers
04/27/15 New York Times — In a New York Times op-ed article, Lina Nilsson, innovation director for the Blum Center, writes that the key to increasing the number of female engineers may be to focus engineering projects and curriculums on achieving societal good.
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.
CITRIS launches “People and Robots” initiative
04/23/15 CITRIS — The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society has launched the CITRIS People and Robots Initiative, a multidisciplinary, multi-campus research program that builds on 40 years of robotics research, a network of alumni, and many active labs and projects.
CEE chair Madanat appointed dean of engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi
04/23/15 — Samer Madanat, chair of the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering from 2012-present, has been named dean of engineering at New York University's Abu Dhabi campus, and will be leaving Berkeley in July.