Within reach
Director of the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab Jose Carmena discusses the future of meshing mind and machine.
Photo by Noah Berger
Precious cargo
Researcher Ting Xu’s new nanocarrier delivers drugs directly to tumors, then disassembles to safely leave the body.
Prepaid power
Two Berkeley alumni started a microgrid project to bring electricity to places too remote to have cost-effective connections to traditional utility-scale power grids.
Fabricating the ApoCALypse
CEE Steel Bridge team competed against 600 students from 47 engineering schools in May 2012 to win the national title.
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Dean's word: Innovation by design
11/1/2012 - 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.
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Rerouting behavior
11/1/2012 - Associate professors of civil and environmental engineering Raja Sengupta and Joan Walker created the Quantified Traveler app to quantify what influences travel behavior and to encourage more sustainable travel.
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A new loo
11/1/2012 - In response to a challenge posed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to develop toilets that are clean, affordable and sustainable for the 2.5 billion people who lack access to modern latrines, engineering professor Kara Nelson and postdoctoral student Temitope Ogunyoku designed a new loo.
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