Eco-friendly tiny house
11/01/16 — A team of Berkeley students took two years to build a 171-square-foot eco-friendly house for a statewide alternative housing competition. The tiny house integrates advances in sustainable and affordable design.
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Materials database speeds innovation
11/01/16 — Assistant professor of materials science and engineering Kristin Persson launched the Materials Project to provide a comprehensive materials database to speed up discovery and deployment of new technologies.
Q+A on homebrewed drugs with John Dueber
11/01/16 — Bioengineering professor John Dueber discusses the possible risks and benefits of laboratory research aimed at converting glucose to morphine.
Next-gen batteries
11/01/16 — A team led by materials science professor Gerbrand Cedar has made an important discovery that could eventually lead to longer-lasting lithium batteries.
Neural dust
11/01/16 — Scientists have created a dust-sized ultrasound sensor that can be placed in the human body to monitor nerves, muscles, or even organs and potentially lead to new treatments for epilepsy or immune system disorders.
Green cities
11/01/16 — The majority of the world's population is projected to live in cities by the year 2050. Although cities are considered strains the environment, nuclear engineering professor Daniel Kammen see the potential for cities to be models of sustainability.
Concrete thinking
11/01/16 — Concrete is the most commonly used building tool - yet one of the most environmentally damaging. Professors Claudia Ostertag, Arpad Horvath and Paulo Monteiro are finding ways to mitigate that.
Brand new glue
11/01/16 — Inspired by marine mussels, professor Phillip Messersmith is developing a new kind of glue to be used in fetal surgery.
Alumni notes
11/01/16 — News and photos of Berkeley Engineering alumni from decades past.
Following the New Sun Road
11/01/16 — Two alumni have co-founded New Sun Road, a technology company committed to implementing solutions to climate change and global energy poverty.
2 professors among the “7 over 70”
11/01/16 — A companion to Tech Review's annual 35 Innovators Under 35 list features a list of seven innovators over 70. The new list includes electrical engineering and computer sciences (EECS) professor Ruzena Bajcsy and professor emeritus Michael Stonebraker, now at MIT.
7 Berkeley engineers among 35 top innovators under 35
11/01/16 — Five alumni - among seven engineers in all from the college - were named the Top Innovators Under 35 of 2016 by MIT Technology Review.
Farewell
11/01/16 — Obituaries for Berkeley Engineering faculty and alumni
$1.5 million to study language development, via bats
10/26/16 — Seeking insight into the neurobiological basis of language learning, the New York Stem Cell Foundation has granted a $1.5 million Robertson Neuroscience Investigator award to Michael Yartsev, assistant professor of bioengineering, for his novel studies involving bats.
DOE recognizes Berkeley, Jacobs Hall for energy innovations
10/26/16 Energy.gov — The Energy Department's Better Buildings Challenge program on Tuesday recognized UC Berkeley for its leadership in energy efficiency, citing in particular the 65 percent energy savings at Berkeley Engineering's new Jacobs Hall facility.
Fung Institute celebrates five-year anniversary
10/24/16 — Lee Fleming, faculty director of the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership, reflects on the institute’s first five years and looks ahead as the M.Eng. program grows and moves into new offices in Shires Hall.
Building the Berkeley Hyperloop
10/24/16 — Berkeley Hyperloop, currently crowdfunding for a January 2017 launch, is taking on an ambitious design challenge — and it’s part of a rich ecosystem of Berkeley students applying classroom learning and hands-on design skills to real-world challenges.
A grand tiny house
10/24/16 — A team of Berkeley students recently designed and built a tiny house for a statewide competition encouraging alternative and environmentally sustainable housing.
The world according to Dot
10/24/16 — A team of undergraduates has found early success with a company that builds beacons to make the Internet of Things more intuitive.
Wildfire management vs. suppression benefits forest and watershed
10/24/16 — An unprecedented 40-year experiment in Yosemite National Park, led by a team of Berkeley civil and environmental engineers, strongly supports the idea that managing fire, rather than suppressing it, makes wilderness areas more resilient to fire, with the added benefit of increased water availability and resistance to drought.