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.
News
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.
EECS offers online master’s program
05/01/13 — The college launches an EECS online master's program in integrated circuits.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Experiential ed.
05/01/13 — Many hands-on labs, shops and workspaces around campus allow students to learn by doing.
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.
Berkeley junior wins prestigious Goldwater scholarship
04/22/13 Daily Cal — Ritankar Das, 18, a junior double-majoring in bioengineering and chemical biology, has been selected as a 2013 Goldwater scholar, the premier undergraduate award of its type in these fields.
Experts tackle questions about broken Bay Bridge anchor rods
04/16/13 Mercury News — Two Berkeley Engineering professors, metallurgical engineer Tom Devine and mechanical engineer Robert Ritchie, field questions about why 32 high-strength threaded steel anchor rods in the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge weakened and snapped.
College, TI cut ribbon on $2.2 million electronics design lab
04/11/13 Berkeley Patch — Texas Instruments and the College of Engineering today opened the doors to a state-of-the-art electronics teaching lab in Cory Hall, made possible by major gifts from TI and Agilent, that will encourage ingenuity among undergraduate engineering students.