Dean Sastry to step down
10/13/17 — Dean Shankar Sastry is stepping down on July 1, 2018, after more than a decade leading the College of Engineering. He will return to teaching and research.
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École Polytechnique and Berkeley partner for new transportation program
10/11/17 — École Polytechnique and the Institute of Transportation Studies have signed a new partnership agreement for the new École Polytechnique's Executive Master degree program. The new program will train transportation leaders to design, deploy and manage strategies and projects for companies and organizations that have an international focus.
CRISPR-Gold fixes Duchenne muscular dystrophy mutation in mice
10/03/17 — Berkeley bioengineers have developed a new non-viral way to deliver CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing technology inside cells. Researchers in the labs of professors Niren Murthy and Irina Conboy have demonstrated in mice that the technique can repair the mutation that causes Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a severe muscle-wasting disease.
Brains for buildings, packaged in a smart briefcase
10/02/17 — Building-in-Briefcase is a new toolkit consisting of wireless sensors that monitor and communicate overall building health and function. The system, which can be used to retrofit intelligence into existing buildings, is designed to increase energy efficiency.
In undergrad startup class, students learn to build the future
10/02/17 — The student-run DeCal class “How to Build the Future,” created by computer science students Jimmy Liu and Zuhayeer Musa in collaboration with EECS professor Scott Shenker, encourages aspiring entrepreneurs by providing direct experience from world-renowned founders and professors.
Golden Goose Award for fuzzy logic’s clear impact
09/29/17 AAAS — The late EECS professor Lotfi Zadeh's 1965 concept of "fuzzy sets" has received a 2017 Golden Goose Award, bestowed by group of science societies to honor seemingly obscure, federally-funded research that had led to major breakthroughs.
Zen and the art of Bug repair
09/26/17 California magazine — John Muir (the Berkeley civil engineering grad, not the naturalist) self-published How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive, AKA "The Idiot's Guide," almost half a century ago, gaining a cult following among hippies and their ilk that has kept the book in print to this day.
Knotty circumstance: How that shoelace study went viral
09/25/17 California magazine — The study that would become a media sensation started innocently enough, when a 4-year-old naively asked her father (mechanical engineering professor Oliver O'Reilly), “Why do shoelaces come untied?”
Berkeley’s first campuswide tech club for women
09/19/17 — Young women interested in STEM fields founded FEMTech in 2015. Now, the group offers a full plate of workshops, events, tutoring services and even a robot building team - all helping make tech fields accessible to women of all majors.
IndyCar driver Max Chilton spreads the gospel of STEAM
09/15/17 IndyCar — Speaking to a spirited group of students of all ages at Berkeley, IndyCar driver Max Chilton spread the word on the importance of STEAM - science, technology, engineering, arts and math - to successfully educate the leaders of tomorrow.
Rising ratings for Berkeley Engineering
09/14/17 — U.S. News & World Report releases 2018 undergraduate program rankings, CEE retakes number one.
Ruzena Bajcsy honored for contributions to mankind
09/13/17 — EECS professor Ruzena Bajcsy has won a John Scott Award, bestowed since 1834 by the city of Philadelphia on those who have improved "the comfort, welfare and happiness of mankind." Bajcsy was honored for her contributions to robotics and engineering science.
New UC Berkeley program aims to fast-track path to Silicon Valley C-Suites
09/12/17 East Bay Times — UC Berkeley's new M.E.T. program, combining engineering and business degrees in just four years, is resonating with alumni, entrepreneurs, and the 2,500 smart, inventive and multitalented students who applied for the 40 seats in the inaugural class.
Student-designed medical device wins Fast Company award
09/12/17 — Tabla, a low-cost medical device to diagnose pneumonia, has won the student category of Fast Company's 2017 Innovation by Design Awards. Tabla was created by a trio of mechanical engineering and bioengineering students as a classroom project for the Jacobs Institute's Interactive Device Design course.
Simple sanitation, a Q&A with Ashley Muspratt
09/12/17 — Over 90 percent of wastewater generated on the planet every day is dumped into the environment without any treatment. CEE alum Ashley Muspratt is working on a solution.
In the future, warehouse robots will learn on their own
09/12/17 New York Times — Robotics researchers in Berkeley Engineering's AUTOLAB are using neural networks and machine learning to teach robots to grab things they have never encountered before - a remarkable achievement that could drive significant changes for some of the world's biggest businesses.
Herr, Shenker win Berkeley Visionary awards
09/11/17 SF Business Times — Bioengineering professor Amy Herr and EECS professor Scott Shenker are inaugural winners of the Berkeley Visionary Awards, an honor created by the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce to recognize innovative leaders in the city whose work is creating an economic impact.
Remembering Lotfi Zadeh
09/08/17 — Lotfi Zadeh - professor emeritus, world-renowned computer scientist and leader of the college community - died on September 6, 2017 at the age of 96.
Pieter Abbeel and Michael Jordan join IEOR
08/24/17 — Berkeley Engineering professors Pieter Abbeel and Michael Jordan, both experts in machine learning, have been appointed as joint faculty in IEOR in addition to their primary appointments in EECS (and Statistics for Jordan).
Fresh ideas for nuclear power
08/24/17 — Two dozen students from all over the world gathered at Berkeley for two weeks over the summer to discuss, plan and help start building a new nuclear energy sector. The students, along with professional mentors and speakers, were part of the 2017 Nuclear Innovation Boot Camp.