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Engineering benchmarks for cap-and-trade

05/01/13 — The Mechanical Engineering Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability is helping the California Air Resources Board to develop methodologies for determining CO2 allocations for companies to help reduce the state's overall CO2 emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

Comments

05/01/13 — Comments by readers on recent issues.

Welcoming a new chancellor

05/01/13 — In fall 2012, Nicholas Dirks, formerly executive vice president and dean of Columbia University's arts and sciences faculty, was named the 10th chancellor of UC Berkeley.
Diagram of Radiological Multi-sensor Platform truck

RadMAP rollout

05/01/13 — Nuclear detection is becoming portable with RadMAP, Berkeley's Radiological Multi-sensor Platform, a detection system built into a truck.

Introducing the Dreambox

05/01/13 — Alum Will Drevno and partners created the Dreambox, a vending machine to make 3D printing more accessible.

Q+A: Oxford-bound

05/01/13 — Alum Daniel A. Price, selected as a 2013 Rhodes Scholar, shares his future plans for Oxford and beyond.
Gregory McLaskey

To a fault

05/01/13 — Civil engineers have found that determining how long a fault has healed between seismic events help them predict the type of shaking that will occur when it ruptures again.
Robert Ritchie and Hrishikesh Bale

A hot spot

05/01/13 — Led by engineering professor Robert Ritchie, researchers have created a facility where scientists can test ceramic composites at extremely high temperatures.

Mind readers

05/01/13 — Researchers were able to infer sensitive information—such as credit card PINs, birth months and home locations—from participants wearing brainwave-reading headsets that are typically used for hands-free gaming.

Everlasting clock

05/01/13 — An eternal clock that would always keep accurate time, even after the heat-death of the universe, is no longer just an intriguing concept, thanks to a team of scientists, led by ME professor Xiang Zhang.
Western blot

Streamlined

05/01/13 — Since its debut in 1979, the Western blot has remained basically unchanged, but the Herr Lab may have developed a better version to work with.
Invention Lab tools

Critical making comes to campus

05/01/13 — “Students are going to understand how to collaborate across disciplines while respecting and appreciating the viewpoints, values and concerns of others about a design,” Eric Paulos says. “I fundamentally believe that this is the future of the practitioner. They will have to know how to co-create things.”
Civil and Environmental Engineering lab

Experiential ed.

05/01/13 — Many hands-on labs, shops and workspaces around campus allow students to learn by doing.
David Dornfeld

Greening the factory floor

05/01/13 — Berkeley graduate students and professors at the Laboratory for Manufacturing and Sustainability, led by mechanical engineering chair David Dornfeld, are guiding factory owners and builders to a green manufacturing future.

Alumni notes

05/01/13 — News and photos of Berkeley Engineering alumni from decades past.

Farewell

05/01/13 — Remembering members of the college community that have recently passed away.

Chair man

05/01/13 — Coleman Fung, founder of OpenLink, a global company that develops financial and risk management software, endowed two new chairs in the College of Engineering in 2012.

PiE wins $25,000 for hosting high school robotics competition

04/24/13 Daily Cal — Pioneers in Engineering, a Berkeley Engineering student group, has won $25,000 in the Zipcar Students with Drive contest for reaching out to underprivileged high schools and promoting education in science, technology and engineering through a robotics competition.