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ME Ph.D. student Yudong Ma wins the Chinese Ministry of Education's 2012 Award for Outstanding Students Abroad.
May 17, 2012
ME Chair David Dornfeld announces the appointment of Professor Ronald Yeung as American Bureau of Shipping Endowed Chair. "Professor Yeung is an outstanding member of the College and Berkeley campus community," said Dornfeld, "and we are thrilled to share this wonderful news."
May 11, 2012
The PikaPen Team, led by ME gradaute student Evan Chang-Siu places third in Big Ideas competition.
May 9, 2012
ME Ph.D. student Ryan Shelby to be keynote speaker at The Graduate Minority Student Project's First Annual Graduation Celebration.
May 7, 2012
ME Masters of Engineering graduate students Grant Bischof and Nick Jenson's team wins first place in the Energy Efficient Technologies category of the 2012 Big Ideas@Berkeley competition.
May 4, 2012
ME's Shareena Samson, Undergraduate Student Affairs Officer, and Melissa Varian, Chair's Executive Assistant, win Chancellor's Outstanding Staff Awards
April 24, 2012
ME announces this year's departmental graduate and undergraduate award winners
April 24, 2012
ME Professor Xiang Zhang's graduate student Junsuk Rho was presented with the graduate student silver medal award at this year's Materials Research Society 2012 spring meeting in San Francisco. The award honors students who show promise for significant future achievement in materials science and whose research displays a high level of excellence. Rho's work is in indefinite metamaterials.
April 23, 2012
Leadership and Service Learning Improves Confidence of Engineering Skills in Women, a paper by ME Professor Lisa Pruitt and GSIs Jennifer Wang, Eli Patten, Ryan Shelby, and Farzana Ansari, has been selected to receive the 2012 Denice D. Denton Best Paper Award.
April 20, 2012
ME alumnus and current doctoral student Christopher Ategeka receives the Graduate Student Award for Civic Engagement, a 2012 Chancellor's Award for Public Service
read more about Chrisophter in Forefront
CA Bikes Uganda (CAB)
April 10, 2012
ME alumni Dominique Roddier and Christian Cermelli's Windfloat wins Renewable Energy World.Com's 2011 Excellence in Renewable Energy Innovation Award
March 21, 2012
ME graduate student Nancy Diaz is interviewed by Noticiero Univision in celebration of International Women's Day
March 12, 2012
ME Chair David Dornfeld discusses sustainable manufacturing and product efficiency at the Autodesk Sustainability Summit in San Franciso
March 6, 2012
Managing the New Product Development Process, a joint ME/Haas MBA course taught by ME Professor Alice Agogino, takes students from concept generation to prototype development in one semester. The EcoFridge, a product created and developed in the course by Agogino's students Daniel Talancon and Vince Romanin, was presented at this year's Autodesk Sustainability Summit
Talancon and Romanin discuss their Eco-Fridge (YouTube)
March 4, 2012
NanoKnife, the technology researched and developed by ME Professor Boris Rubinsky and used in the treatment of hard-to-reach tumors, is discussed on American Health Journal
Tampa Bay Times | ME Fall 2011 Alumni Newsletter
February 17, 2012
ME Chair David Dornfeld receives AMT's Charles F. Carter Jr. Advancing Manufacturing Award for contributing to the advancement of the manufacturing industry.
February 2, 2012
ME graduate students Thomas Libby and Evan Chang-Siu, members of the Center for Interdisciplinary Bio-inspiration in Education and Research lab (CiBER) and ME Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka's MSC lab, co-authored papers on the biomechanical principles of lizards and tailed robots featured in Nature and nominated for the best paper award at IROS 2011.
UC Berkeley News Center | Nature video
IEEE Spectrum | IEEE Xplore® Digital Library
The Washington Post
January 6, 2012
Professor Clayton Daniel Mote Jr. receives ASME Distinguished Engineering Achievement Award
January 2, 2012
OMAE to honor Professor Ronald W. Yeung at the 31st International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, June 2012
December 9, 2011
KQED interviews Chair Dave Dornfeld at UC Berkeley's White House Manufacturing Conference
December 5, 2011
President Obama nominates Professor Arun Majumdar as Under Secretary of Energy
December 2, 2011
Ph.D student Sushrut Pavanaskar, his advisor Professor Sara McMains and their collaborator Professor Alla Sheffer of UBC won first prize in the 2011 International Audi Production Award competition. Eight finalist teams were invited to the finals workshop in Ingolstadt, Germany, November 16-17, where Pavanaskar presented the winning concept, A Novel Tool-Path Generation System for Energy Efficiency in CNC Machining.
November 25, 2011
CalSol's Impulse finishes 20th in the final rankings of the 2011 Veolia World Solar Challenge, Australia. Read Chris Cartland's reflections on the competition.
November 2, 2011
Dr. Daniel Lanzillotti Kimura, postdoctoral research fellow in ME
Professor Xiang Zhang’s group, wins the International Photothermal and
Photoacoustic Association Junior Prize that recognizes outstanding
researchers under the age of 40 who, at an earlier stage in their
career, have made significant contributions to photoacoustic,
photothermal and related techniques and applications that are expected
to have strong impact on diverse scientific and engineering communities.
November 1, 2011
ME Ph.D. student Jiyoung Chang wins the IEEE CPMT SCV Chapter Graduate Grant for the fall semester of the 2011/2012 academic year.
October 20, 2011
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology announces ME Professor Lisa Pruitt as the inaugural winner of the A. Richard Newton Educator Award recognizing teaching practices, techniques and innovative education approaches that attract girls and women to math, computing and engineering.
October 14, 2011
ME Ph.D. candidate Gregory James Mc Cauley dies at age 30.
SFGate.com
September 28, 2011
ME doctoral student Jessica Vechakul, whose doctoral dissertation focuses on real-world projects to alleviate poverty, was named one of eight inaugural IDEO.org fellows selected from a pool of 400 applicants. The IDEO.org Fellowship Program "fosters design leaders of the future."
Design for Development
September 26, 2011
ME alumnus Keith W. Tantlinger, whose steel locking corners allow cargo containers to be joined together for shipping, dies at the age of 92.
The New York Times
September 7, 2011
ME Professor Liwei Lin and Princeton chemistry Professor Haw Yang, who collaboratively researched the temperature of individual cells in the human body, presented their findings at the 242nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
September 5, 2011
ME graduate student Junsuk Rho wins the Embassy of the Republic of Korea's 2011 Korean Honor Scholarship. The award, a nationwide competition that receives over 1,000 applicants, is given to 105 outstanding recipients. Thirty-three graduate students were among the winners including three from the San Francisco Consulate General's quarter (Northern California, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado).
August 24, 2011
Exergetic Analysis of Hybrid Energy Conversion and Storage Scenarios for Use of Solar Power in Stationary Applications, a paper by ME Professor Costas Grigoropoulos and his former Postdoctoral Researchers Nico Hotz and Seung-Hwan Ko and doctoral graduate Heng Pan, wins Best Paper Award at the ASME Fourth International Conference on Energy Sustainability. August 4, 2011
ME Professor Emeritus Chieh S. Hsu awarded ASME's 2011 J.P. Den Hartog Award for lifetime contributions to teaching and
practice of vibration engineering. Hsu's fellow Professor Emeritus, Dan Mote Jr., will accept the award on his behalf.
July 27, 2011
ME graduate Bradley Edgar (B.S. 1990, Ph.D. 1997) wins the 2010 Haagen-Smit Clean Air Award, the premier award recognizing those who have made outstanding contributions toward improving air quality.
July 24, 2011
ME alumnus Rex Walheim discusses being on board the final flight of NASA's space shuttle Atlantis
July 19, 2011
Samuel Mao and his research group's invention, Nanostructured Antifogging Coating, wins R&D Magazine's 2011 award for
significant proven technological advances
July 18, 2011
President Obama announces the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership linking UC Berkeley and five other universities with the federal government to spur job creation and economic growth. COE Dean Shankar Sastry says, "With traditional strengths in semiconductor manufacturing, precision machining and manufacture, technologies for green industry and a vision for educating a new generation of engineering leaders, Berkeley is very pleased to have been chosen to be one of the six lead universities in AMI."
Berkeley News Center
President Obama's speech on IEEE.org
June 27, 2011
Skin-Friction Drag Reduction by Air Lubrication: Theory and Applications
Professor Steven L. Ceccio
Chair
Department of Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering
Universeity of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Friday, May 4
2:30 - 4:00 PM
3110 Etcheverry Hall
M.E. Student Machine Shop Training Scheduling begins January 17, 2012.
To schedule your training, see Gordon, Mick, Dennis or Scott in 1166 Etcheverry Hall
Your training must be completed by March 16, 2012
Faculty positions at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kindgom of Saudi Arabia
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