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Eko co-founders Jason Bellet, CEO Connor Landgraf and Tyler Crouch

Stethoscope meets smartphone and the heart knows it’s right

09/08/15 LA Times — The Eko Core digital stethoscope, developed by a trio of Berkeley alumni, aims to bring auscultation - the ancient medical practice of listening to a patient's heartbeat - squarely into the 21st century. It was cleared for sale in the U.S. this month.
LIDAR map from NOAA

Self-sweeping laser could dramatically shrink 3-D mapping systems

09/03/15 — A new approach that uses light to move mirrors could usher in a new generation of laser technology for a wide range of applications, including remote sensing, self-driving car navigation and 3-D biomedical imaging. The engineering team was led by EECS professor Connie Chang-Hasnain.
Eko stethoscope

Eko’s digital stethoscope green-lighted by FDA

09/02/15 — The digital stethoscope startup Eko Devices, co-founded by Berkeley Engineering graduates and nurtured by SkyDeck, the campus accelerator, has won federal permission to enter the medical device market.
Copter flies over campus in 2012

Copter to fly over campus in the name of science

09/01/15 — Kai Vetter, nuclear engineering professor and RadWatch director, is one of the scientists behind helicopter flyovers of campus this week as researchers seek to measure naturally occurring radiation in the environment.
Chameleon

Nature’s mood rings: How chameleons really change color

08/31/15 KQED — A PBS program on chameleons' color-changing abilities also looks at work led by EECS professor Connie Chang-Hasnain to create a color-changing array out of nano-sized silicon ribbons etched onto a flexible film.
Woman using augmented reality glasses

A new campus hub for design

08/26/15 — On August 20, Berkeley Engineering celebrated the opening of Jacobs Hall, the new headquarters for the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.
Thermoelectric PowerCard from Alphabet Energy

Why not convert waste heat into power?

08/26/15 NPR — What if there were a way to take the waste heat that spews from car tailpipes or power plant chimneys and turn it into electricity? Matt Scullin (M.S.'07, Ph.D.'09 MSE) thinks there is, and he founded Alphabet Energy to turn that idea into a reality.
Paul Jacobs speaks at the opening of Jacobs Hall

Grand opening for Jacobs Hall, the new hub for all things design

08/21/15 — With balloons, ribbon-cutting and four floors of student demos, the College of Engineering on Thursday threw open the doors of Jacobs Hall, where the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation will immerse students in hands-on, human-centered design.
Mouse with cheese

Engineered hot fat implants reduce weight gain in mice

08/20/15 — Scientists at UC Berkeley have developed a novel way to engineer the growth and expansion of energy-burning “good” fat, and then found that this fat helped reduce weight gain and lower blood glucose levels in mice. The technique could lead to new approaches to combat obesity, diabetes and other metabolic disorders.
Ricky Muller

Entrepreneur and alumna Rikky Muller named a top Innovator under 35

08/18/15 Berkeley Research — Rikky Muller (Ph.D.'13 EECS), co-founder of the medical device start-up Cortera Neurotechnologies, has been named one of 35 Innovators Under 35 by the MIT Technology Review. Muller's research into hardware that buzzes the brain at the right moments could help treat debilitating mental disorders.
Margret Schmidt with Tivo

Get this show on the code

08/17/15 Insight@Berkeley — As vice president of design and engineering at TiVo, Margret Schmidt (B.S'92 EECS) is passionate about the dynamic and fulfilling nature of product creation. She got a dose of that in her favorite Berkeley class, an E110 Venture Design course that required creation of a business plan and a final idea presentation.
Vern Paxson

Cyber-defense and forensic tools turn 20

08/14/15 National Science Foundation — In 1995, when Vern Paxson (now an EECS professor) was a doctoral student at Berkeley, he began writing what eventually became Bro, the ground-breaking open source cybersecurity software that was used to build a network monitoring framework. Today Bro is used by many of the largest supercomputing centers, national labs, universities and Fortune 10 companies.
Testing on PEER

Pioneering shaking table continues to be innovative

08/12/15 Structure magazine — Built in 1972, PEER's shaking table at the Richmond Field Station continues to make waves. With smart technology and other enhancements, the venerable testing device - the largest six-degree-of-freedom table in the U.S. - advances the science of earthquake engineering.
Kourtney Kardashian with breast pump

Can we build a better breast pump, already?

08/06/15 Fast Company — Mechanical engineers Ayyana Chakravartula and Jocelyn Bale-Glickman are developing a breast pump that is lighter, smaller, quieter, and has fewer moving parts than current pumps on the market. They describe their prototype as the Apple of breast pumps, and they're beginning their search for investors.