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Quake model aids in fault studies

11/05/12 — A new civil engineering study reveals that the more time an earthquake fault has to heal, the faster the shake it will produce when it finally ruptures. Because the rapidity and strength of the shaking are what causes damage to major structures, the new findings could help engineers better assess the vulnerabilities of buildings, bridges and roads.

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.

Shining a light on brain tumors

11/05/12 — Llewellyn “Trey” Jalbert knows what cancer looks like up close. Before applying to be a Ph.D. candidate in the Joint UC Berkeley/UCSF Graduate Program in Bioengineering, he had spent two years as a research associate examining MRI images of patients with malignant brain tumors in the UCSF lab of Professor Sarah Nelson. Then, Jalbert himself was diagnosed with cancer-a malignant melanoma-and underwent surgery.

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.
Chart showing info collected by Quantified Traveler app

Rerouting behavior

11/01/12 — 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.
Student welding steel bridge component

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.

Decisions, decisions

11/01/12 — Two Berkeley students - an EECS and a political economy and business major- developed Politify, a non-partisan mobile app that enables voters to evaluate the costs and benefits of a candidate's policy platforms.

Olympic-caliber engineer

11/01/12 — Olympic rower and mechanical engineering student Olivier Siegelaar relates his experiences as an Olympian and student-athlete.

A new loo

11/01/12 — 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.
Byung Yang Lee, Seung-Wuk Lee and Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Electricity goes viral

11/01/12 — Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a novel way to create electrical energy with the tap of a finger.

Mistaken identity

11/01/12 — Berkeley Stem Cell Center researchers have identified a multipotent stem cell as the cause of blocked arteries.

Switched

11/01/12 — A multi-institutional team of researchers has created the first artificial molecules whose chirality - a molecule's distinct right or left orientation - can be quickly switched from right to left with a beam of light.

Charged up

11/01/12 — A team from the Algorithms, Machines and People (AMP) Laboratory developed an mobile phone app that provides individual energy recommendations.

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.

Image makers

11/01/12 — To reduce or even eliminate the use of anesthesia for pediatric patients during MRIs, EECS professors have developed a way to drastically reduce the time needed to conduct MRI exams.
Jose Carmena

Within reach

11/01/12 — Director of the Brain-Machine Interface Systems Lab Jose Carmena discusses the future of meshing mind and machine.
Ting Xu in the lab

Precious cargo

11/01/12 — Researcher Ting Xu's new nanocarrier delivers drugs directly to tumors, then disassembles to safely leave the body.
Inside a Gram Power-connected home in rural India

Prepaid power

11/01/12 — 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.

Alumni notes

11/01/12 — News and photos of Berkeley Engineering alumni from decades past.