Simplify: The RISC story
05/01/15 — EECS professors David Patterson and Carlo Séquin, along with the Reduced Instruction Set Computer team, were honored by IEEE for their landmark work from the 1980s.
News
Seismic song
05/01/15 — Sensors lying on the Hayward Fault, which runs under campus, were connected to lights and sounds for a mid-winter public art show.
Fostering disruptive technologies
05/01/15 — The Bakar Fellows program supports faculty who are trying to translate research into commercialized technologies.
Lost and found
05/01/15 — A piece of early atomic history was found in a storage closet.
For clean water
05/01/15 — Susan Amrose is building new technologies to address arsenic contamination in drinking water.
The graphene switch
05/01/15 — New research holds promise for controlling graphene's properties, potentially opening new applications for its use.
The many frontiers of synthetic biology
05/01/15 — Better drug delivery systems and provisioning deep space missions are among the new ideas emerging from synthetic biology research.
Alumni notes
05/01/15 — Stay caught up with Berkeley Engineering alumni.
Farewell
05/01/15 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni
Jacobs Hall: New home for design innovation
05/01/15 — Jacobs Hall, the main hub for the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, will open for its first classes this fall.
In the domain of design
05/01/15 — In this special issue, engineering faculty look at how design innovation is used to solve "wicked problems."
Vires Aero
05/01/15 — Vires Aeronautics is developing a new technology to make flight more efficient.
KNOX Diagnostics
05/01/15 — Knox Diagnostics is a new medical device company that is working on a cheaper and more portable asthma monitoring device.
Clarity
05/01/15 — Clarity is a wearable air pollution monitoring and reporting device.
Smart scooter
05/01/15 — Modified Razor scooters are used in a cyber-physical system design course to how electric vehicles interface with the energy grid.
ToastBoard
05/01/15 — ToastBoard is designed to make circuit design and testing easier. It's a better breadboard.
Transcense
05/01/15 — This smartphone app makes conference calls more accessible to deaf users by transcribing conversations in real time.
Dash Robotics
05/01/15 — These biomimetic, origami-like kits are designed to get kids (of all ages) hooked on building robots.
NASA Tensegrity robots
05/01/15 — These squishy robots are inspiring new ways of thinking about the form and function of automated systems.
Design case studies
05/01/15 — Tensegrity robots, pollution monitors and new flight technology are a few of the design innovations originating at the college and now moving from prototype into production. View slideshow.