ME professor Lisa Pruitt honored as distinguished teacher
03/23/16 — Lisa Pruitt, professor of mechanical engineering, is one of five 2016 winners of UC Berkeley's Distinguished Teaching Award, the campus's most prestigious honor for educators.
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BioE startup Zephyrus acquired by Bio-Techne
03/23/16 GEN — Zephyrus Biosciences, a company spun out of bioengineering professor Amy Herr's lab and nurtured by SkyDeck and the Bakar Fellows program, has been acquired by Bio-Techne Corp. to commercialize its single-cell Western Blot technology.
Berkeley Engineering garners four #1 rankings
03/16/16 U.S.News & World Report — In graduate program rankings released Wednesday, Berkeley Engineering ranked first in civil engineering, computer science, electrical engineering and environmental engineering. All programs remain in the top 10, with bioengineering, industrial engineering and nuclear engineering ranked higher than in 2015.
Automakers go back to school for self-driving cars
03/16/16 Bloomberg Business — Automakers Ford, Toyota and Volkswagen, along with electronic companies Nvidia, Samsung, Qualcomm and Panasonic, are collaborating to fund artificial intelligence research at UC Berkeley, hoping this DeepDrive alliance can help them build the brains behind self-driving cars.
Georgia Tech Engineering Dean Gary May delivers Kuh lecture on increasing diversity
03/15/16 — On March 10, 2016, Gary May (M.S'88, Ph.D'91 EECS), engineering dean at the Georgia Institute of Technology, gave the fifth annual Kuh Lecture about increasing participation and diversity in STEM fields.
Defining the original smart material
03/15/16 — Sonia Travaglini, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering, studies the properties of fungus to discover the composite materials of the future.
Making waves: Turning ocean power into electricity
03/15/16 — Ocean waves constantly generate energy. Berkeley engineers are trying to build a device to harness that power and convert it to electricity.
Experiments show magnetic chips could dramatically increase computing’s energy efficiency
03/14/16 — In a breakthrough for energy-efficient computing, Berkeley engineers have shown for the first time that magnetic chips can operate at the lowest fundamental energy dissipation theoretically possible under the laws of thermodynamics.
How to save water from California’s leaky infrastructure
03/07/16 California magazine — Thanks to outdated systems and structures, California's water managers don't know how much water the state truly has, how much we really use, or how much leaks from ancient pipes before it ever reaches a tap. Berkeley engineers like Paul Sagues (M.S.'80 ME) are working on ways to dry up that waste.
‘Deep learning’ – a giant step for robots
03/04/16 Berkeley Research — For 15 years, Berkeley robotics researcher Pieter Abbeel has been looking for ways to make robots learn. In 2010 he and his students programmed a robot to fold towels. Now, he's gotten robots to learn from their experience.
Inside the artificial intelligence revolution
02/29/16 Rolling Stone — A visit to Sutardja Dai Hall's "robot nursery school," where EECS professor Pieter Abbeel and colleagues are trying to teach robots to understand the world and think intelligently, kicks off a look at the potential and the perils of artificial intelligence.
A key to careers in biomedical and biotech fields
02/26/16 — For career-focused students, the biomedical industry can seem like an exclusive club. But UC Berkeley's Bio-Manufacturing to Market program holds the key, providing internships that connect science and engineering undergrads with biomedical and biotech startups in the East Bay.
How deep learning gives us a precise picture of all the water on earth
02/26/16 MIT Technology Review — Scientists are using artificial intelligence to help them achieve precise, dynamic measurements of water levels around the world. CEE professor Steven Glaser says most current water models are based on readings from the last 50 years.
Imprint Energy challenges students to build a better battery
02/25/16 Sutardja Center — Imprint CEO Christine Ho (B.S'05, M.S'07, Ph.D'10 MSE) returned to campus as part of the Sutardja Center's Collider program, which challenges students to work on cutting-edge research projects with industry.
ME student team wins cleantech prize
02/25/16 — Students in mechanical engineering professor Hayden Taylor's group have won the $100,000 grand prize in the Berkeley Cleantech University Prize competition for their development of an omniphobic coating that can boost air conditioner efficiency.
Diane Greene tops list of powerful women engineers
02/24/16 Business Insider — Tech entrepreneur Diane Greene (M.S.'88 EECS) is the #1 pick of Business Insider in its National Engineers Week salute to influential women engineers, honored for her selection by Google to run its cloud computing business. Also on the list is #3 Tara Bunch (B.S.'85 ME), VP of operations at Apple.
EECS’ Nir Yosef among 8 new Sloan fellows on campus
02/24/16 — Eight UC Berkeley assistant professors, including Nir Yosef of EECS, are among 126 new Sloan Research Fellows, honoring early-career scientists and scholars whose achievements and potential identify them as rising stars.
CEE’s William Tarpeh honored as a young innovator
02/19/16 NBC — Environmental engineering Ph.D. student William Tarpeh, whose work promotes sustainable sanitation in developing countries, was selected by NBC News as one of the NBCBLK28 - innovators and game changers who are "young, gifted, and unapologetically Black."
Young Berkeley Engineering faculty members honored by White House
02/19/16 — President Obama this week named three young UC Berkeley faculty members, including EECS associate professors Pieter Abbeel and Sayeef Salahuddin, as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers.
Building a rescue roach
02/18/16 New York Times — Humans may never eliminate cockroaches, but they could learn enough from them to build robots that crawl through rubble to look for survivors or gather information after disasters, according to scientists at UC Berkeley's PolyPEDAL Lab.