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Students at the starting line of the Bluetooth-controlled vehicle race

A look at the Jacobs Spring Design Showcase

05/09/17 — The 2017 Jacobs Spring Design Showcase capped a semester that saw students develop sustainable products, prototype innovations, apply technology to combating extremism and race Bluetooth-controlled vehicles through an obstacle course.

Next big thing for David Patterson: New chip for Google Brain

05/08/17 CNBC — Less than a year after retiring from 40 years at Berkeley Engineering, legendary EECS professor David Paterson is now a key part of the team behind a critical chip that Google uses for artificial intelligence processing.

Elizabeth Hausler delivering the 2015 Minner Lecture

Saving lives through safer buildings

05/08/17 Wall Street Journal — The nonprofit group Build Change, founded by Elizabeth Hausler (M.S.'98 Ph.D.'02 CEE), says it has helped create more than 51,000 earthquake-resistant homes and schools in developing countries.

Rikky Muller wins early career professor award

05/08/17 Keysight — EECS assistant professor Rikky Muller has been selected to receive the 2017 Keysight Early Career Professor Award for her work in advanced integrated circuits for implantable and wearable medical devices.

Berkeley is #1 school for Silicon Valley tech hiring

05/03/17 Business Insider — Silicon Valley tech firms hire more alumni from UC Berkeley than any other school, including Stanford and the Ivy League, according to a new analysis from online recruiting company HiringSolved.

Angel investors honor Magnetic Insights as innovative startup

05/03/17 — Bioengineering startup Magnetic Insight, founded by Patrick Goodwill (Ph.D.'10 BioE) and professor Steven Conolly, was selected by the Angel Capital Association for its 2017 Luis Villalobos Award for ingenuity, creativity, and innovation among startups.

Malik honored for pioneering computer vision work

05/03/17 ACM — EECS chair and professor Jitendra Malik has won the 2016 ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award "for seminal contributions to computer vision that have led the field in image segmentation and object category recognition."

Comments

05/01/17 — Letters to the editor

Student presentations on battling terrorism through technology

After Nice attack, Berkeley students create class to tackle terrorism

05/01/17 LA Times — A friend's death in last summer's truck attack in Nice, France, helped motivate students Tyler Heintz (B.S.'18 EECS) and Anjali Banerjee to develop a class, in conjunction with the Sutardja Center, that explored technological means to deal with international terrorism.

Farewell

05/01/17 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty.

Bob Jewett’s double life

05/01/17 — Alumnus Bob Jewett applied his engineering knowledge to billiards and made a second career of dissecting and competing in the game.

New UC Davis chancellor

05/01/17 — Alumnus Gary May is the new chancellor of UC Davis after a successful career as dean of engineering at Georgia Tech.

Shielding ice sheets

05/01/17 — Alumna Leslie Field founded Ice911, a nonprofit organization that uses salt-sized hollow glass spheres sprinkled on vulnerable ice to boost reflectivity and slow the melting process.

Four alumni named to Forbes’ 30-Under-30 list

05/01/17 — Alums Ankur Aggarwal, Timothy Downing, Thibault Duchemin and Tim Wang were recognized for their contributions to science, healthcare and consumer technology.

NAE Class of 2017

05/01/17 — Eight Berkeley Engineering professors, alumni and board members have joined the National Academy of Engineering.

Alumni notes

05/01/17 — News and photos of Berkeley Engineering alumni from decades past.

Steps to launch a startup: 1. problem 2. Idea / discovery 3. Build a team 4. Prototype 5. Pitch to investors 6. Scale 7. Impact

Assembly instructions

05/01/17 — At Berkeley, 536 students have launched 468 startup companies since 2010 - the most of any public university. How does Berkeley do it? Oski demonstrates.

Small wonder

05/01/17 — Researchers have created the world's smallest transistor, a development that could advance the performance and efficiency of electronics.

Jungiao Wu and graduate students in the lab

The rule-breaker

05/01/17 — Professor of materials science and engineering Junqiao Wu has identified an outlier in the materials world: Vanadium dioxide can conduct electricity without conducting heat.

Safer transfusions

05/01/17 — Adam Arkin and team have used control theory to develop a simple diagnostic model that could personalize the treatment of patients suffering from traumatic coagulopathy.