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ME NEWS - ARCHIVE 2008 Elkin wins 2008 SNAME prize More... December 22, 2008 Work by Zhang and students selected by Time Magazine as one of Top 10 Scientific Discoveries of 2008 More... December 19, 2008 Zhang is one of 11 Berkeley faculty named as AAAS Fellow More... December 18, 2008 MS student Tim Jacobi designs next generation of roller coaster rides More... December 17, 2008 Paul Wright is new CITRIS Director More... December 16, 2008 Marcus work on Great Red Spot of Jupiter honored by Discover Magazine More... December 12, 2008 Fernandez-Pello et al in 'The Universe' on the History Channel More... December 11, 2008 ME Staff honored for their University service More... December 11, 2008 Borrelli is new Chair of TC on Automotive Controls IEEE More... December 10, 2008 Team SAE video More... November 25, 2008 Professor Maurice Holt has died More... November 19, 2008 Professor Frederick S. Sherman has died More... November 13, 2008 A Real-life Lesson in Design, E10 project More... November 10, 2008 Darryll Pines, ME BS grad, named Dean of the A. James Clark School of Engineering More... November 7, 2008 Professor Lisa Pruitt has published a book about her horse JJ More... November 5, 2008 TIME's Best Inventions of 2008: The Invisibility Cloak More... November 3, 2008 Professor Ronald Yeung Honored as 2008 International Researcher More... November 3. 2008 New way of creating computer chips More... October 22, 2008 Obama and McCain Campaigns Weigh In on Issues Affecting Women in STEM More... October 20, 2008 Boris Rubinsky appointed Professor in Graduate School More... September 2, 2008 Xiang Zhang's article in Nature Photonics More... August 12, 2008 Zhang and co-workers are closer to developing invisibility shield More... August 11, 2008 Al Pisano gives driving tips on KGO Bay Area TV ABC 7 More... July 31, 2008 Lieu named COE Associate Dean More... July 1, 2008 Zohdi named 2008 Pi Tau Sigma Professor of the Year More... June 30, 2008 Joseph Frisch has died More... June 25, 2008 Pisano named to MD&DI 100 Notable People More... June 25, 2008 A remedy for deadly water More... June 12, 2008 Pictures from 2008 Commencement More... May 26, 2008 New Hubble, Keck images show turbulent Jupiter More... May 22, 2008 Zhang awarded $17.5M for NSF nano center SINAM More... May 19, 2008 ME Students Win in Bears Breaking Boundaries Competition More... May 9, 2008 ME Shop helps to win in ASCE/AISC Student Steel Bridge Competitions More... May 1, 2008 Cal FSAE More... April 29, 2008 Tinker Day More... April 29, 2008 See images from ME's Cal Day More... April 15, 2008 LMAS is carbon neutral More... April 10, 2008 A Doctor in the (Jazz) House More... April 3, 2008 ME Dept at UCB Ranks 3rd in US News & World Report Rankings More... March 31, 2008 Ron Yeung interviewed in New York Times More... March 18, 2008 Rex Walheim, 1984 ME grad, flies on recent Atlantis Space Shuttle More... March 11, 2008 Al Pisano interviewed on KAUST by NBC11 More... March 6, 2008 UC Berkeley and KAUST announce $28 million partnership More... March 5, 2008 Xiang Zhang elected SPIE Fellow More... February 21, 2008 Robert Sawyer elected to NAE More... February 8, 2008 Lieu works to improve martial arts protective gear More... February 6, 2008 George Leitmann marks 50th year in ME More... February 4, 2008 Andrew Packard elected IEEE Fellow More... January 28, 2008 Arun Majumdar's work creates media interest More... January 28, 2008 Tony Oppenheim has died at the age of 92 More... January 22, 2008 Both Discovery News and Nature Magazine feature the research of Philip Marcus on the Great Red Spot of Jupiter. January 22, 2008 Rubinsky’s research on IRE listed as a key technology of 2007 by NASA Tech Briefs More... January 14, 2008 2007 Zhang's research selected as Discover Magazine's "Top 100 Science Stories of 2007" More... December 17, 2007 ME ranked #2 in nationwide productivity index More... December 13, 2007 Pictures from the 2007 Holiday Party More... December 10, 2007 Majumdar named Head of EETD, LBNL More... November 5, 2007 Hongzhao Liu, ME undergrad, wins AIAA Award More... October 23, 2007 MOT and Agogino's ME290P course highlighted as award winning design program in Business Week More... October 16, 2007 ME Unveils its Energy Curriculum for Fall 2007 More... August 15, 2007 ME's Formula SAE Team starts new car design Preliminary layout work for the Formula SAE 2008 car has been completed. More... August 16, 2007 Xiang Zhang was interviewed by the New York Times for the long article “Light Fantastic: Flirting with Invisibility” in relation to his group's breakthrough demonstration of the “superlens,” published on June 12, 2007 More... July 27, 2007 Boris Rubinsky works with Virginia Tech scientists to develop technique using short electrical pulses that target only cancer cells More... July 16, 2007 Lydia Sohn presents handheld nanocytometer at a "science fair" in Washington, DC for leaders of Congress and the National Science Foundation More... July 2, 2007 Professor Liwei Lin's research on nano-scale polymer fibers is featured in the latest issue of Lab Notes More... June 2007 Commencement for Class of 2007 More... June 1, 2007 Andrew Szeri named Dean of the Graduate Division More... May 17, 2007 Alice Agogino receives grant from the Chancellor's Green Campus Fund More... April 28, 2007 The work of Jaspal Sandhu, PhD student of Alice Agogino, is profiled in cnet. More... April 10, 2007 Zhang group created an "Optical Turbine" that beats the fundamental diffraction limit More... March 23, 2007 Three of Lin's students take top honors at BSAC IAB More... March 21, 2007 Lisa Pruitt named to Talbot Chair More... February 28, 2007 Paul Wright elected to NAE More... February 9, 2007 Dean Richard Newton has died at 55 More... January 4, 2007 2006 Oppenheim's book published More... December 21, 2006 ME 5 Year BS/MS Program More... November 15, 2006 Assistant Professor in Controls More... November 15, 2006 J. Karl Hedrick named the ASME 2006 Rufus Oldenburger Medalist More... November 15, 2006 Zhang's Superlens wins Micro/Nano 25 2006 Award More... October 25, 2006 Marcus elected Vice Chair of the Division of Fluid Dynamics of the American Physical Society. More... October 24, 2006 Upgraded Student Shop Opens More... September 18, 2006 Michael Frenklach wins 2006 Comustion Institute Silver Medal More... August 18, 2006 Masayoshi Tomizuka wins 2006 AACC John R. Ragazzini Award More... July 7, 2006 Tony Keaveny's book on Orthopaedic Biomechanics is published More... July 7, 2006 Alice Agogino wins The Chancellor's Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence More... May 31, 2006 Arun Majumdar wins 2006 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award More... May 24, 2006 Commencement was May 20, 2006 More... May 22, 2006 Article co-written by Costas Grigoropoulos and Hyung Gyu Park is featured in Science magazine. More... May 19, 2006 Professor R. W. Yeung named Pi Tau Sigma Professor of the Year More... May 17, 2006 Two ME graduate students are co-winners of the First Annual CITRIS White Paper Competition Al Pisano to speak at Southern California Engineering Alumni Society on June 8 More... May 11, 2006 Michael Frenklach to speak at Leermakers Symposium More... May 9, 2006 Faculty delegation from Beijing University of Technology visits ME More... May 9, 2006 O'Reilly wins first annual GWE Mentoring Award More... May 5, 2006 Hubble snaps baby pictures of Jupiter's 'Red Spot Jr.' More... and more... May 5, 2006 Student Awards, 2005-06 More... May 5, 2006 Cal Day 2006 More... April 25, 2006 McMains wins 2005-06 Hellman Award More... April 24, 2006 Lin and co-workers develop new electrospinning technique More... April 13, 2006 Yaniv Scherson wins Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship More... March 30, 2006 Andy Packard wins 2005 IEEE Control Systems Technology Award More... March 28, 2006 Getting Set to Commemorate the Big One More... March 27, 2006 Joseph Barranco wins Metropolis Award from the American Physical Society More... March 27, 2006 A gentleman may forget, but Berkeley MEs always remember More... March 22, 2006 Request for nominations for the Serge Granik Memorial Award More... March 21, 2006 Wehausen Memorial Graduate Scholarship - Fund Drive More... February 24, 2006 Alice Agogino et al. win IEEE Robotics & Automation Society Best Paper Award. More... February 23, 2006 Arun Majumdar to deliver Donaldson Lectures at University of Minnesota More... February 20, 2006 David Dornfeld recipient of 2005 JSPE Takagi Award More... February 13, 2006 Fabrizio Bisetti wins 2006 Chevon-Berkeley Fellowship in Mechanical Engineering More... February 9, 2006 Sara McMains, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, has received the prestigious NSF CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. More... January 23, 2006 Zhang group's Research selected as Top 10 Nanotechnology Breakthroughs in 2005 by the Journal of Nanotechnology Law and Business. More... January 19, 2006 Professor Xiang Zhang Selected as Finalist for “Best Small Tech Researcher Award” by Small Times Magazine Click here for more details January 18, 2006 The search to fill a new faculty position in Interactive Media is underway. Click here for more details. January 11, 2006 2005 ME Professor Emeritus Robert Sawyer named chair of state ARB December 24, 2005 ME and Hanyang University enter agreement December 24, 2005 Benson Tongue, Berkeley Unsung Hero November 4, 2005 Alice Agogino elected ASME Fellow November 4, 2005 Energy pricing, green buildings, and putting technology in California homes. Professor Paul Wright joins other CITRIS faculty in a discussion with Chancellor Birgineau on energy-saving technologies. October 5, 2005 Gordon Long, ME senior lab mechanician, named Instructor of the Year by Pi Tau Sigma. The award honors an instructor’s dedication to students and ability to mentor and work with them. More details in Engineering News. September 12, 2005 Scoping Out the Nanoworld. Professor Xiang Zhang is taking a close look at the nanoworld. Very close. Read the article in Lab Notes for more details. September 2005 Amnon Bar-Ilan, a recent graduate of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, awarded best thesis prize. The International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) has awarded the Best Thesis in the North American Region prize to Amnon Bar-Ilan. More... September 12, 2005 Fish Eggs Spawn a DNA Delivery Revolution. Rubinsky's work on electroporation featured in The Scientist. More... July, 2005 WERNER GOLDSMITH: Life and Work (1924-2003). A memorial article about Werner Goldsmith (co-authored by S. A. Berger) is available. More... July, 2005 Leitmann celebrates his 80th birthday. George Leitmann, Professor in the Graduate School and Associate Dean for International Relations in the College of Engineering, UC Berkeley, celebrated his 80th birthday in a variety of ways during a two week trip to Europe in May/June 2005. More... July 25, 2005 Majumdar et al. create first nanofluidic transistor. University of California, Berkeley, researchers have invented a variation on the standard electronic transistor, creating the first "nanofluidic" transistor that allows them to control the movement of ions through sub-microscopic, water-filled channels. More... June 28, 2005 Building the Beam Machine. Austin shimmered with heat that stretched over the night air. Under the large barn roof were 27 spots for 27 solar cars. At 3 a.m., sweaty, exhausted students lay passed out on the ground, oblivious to whirring power tools, while their teammates grimly continued construction and debugging. More... June 15, 2005 Agogino is co-chair of the Berkeley Diversity Research Initiative. Academic leadership welcomes research proposals from all disciplines to advance this crucial institutional effort. More... May 4, 2005 Berkeley/Stanford Computational Fest 2005. Twelve speakers, six from Berkeley and six from Stanford, on topics ranging from anisotropic friction to meshfree simulations of ductile fractures and more... April 26, 2005 Boris Rubinsky's cryogenic work profiled on PBS's Nova. More... April 25, 2005 Xiang Zhang's research group's work featured in Science magazine. Group creates a superlens that can overcome a limitation in physics that has historically constrained the resolution of optical images. More... April 21, 2005 Sara McMains wins 2005 Prytanean Faculty Award. The award recognizes both her scholarly contributions with the University and her role as teacher and mentor. More... April 20, 2005 Carolyn White awarded AFCEA Fellowship. Carolyn White, ME graduate student and PhD candidate, has been awarded the 2005 AFCEA Fellowship in support of her thesis "Thin Film Shielding Alloys for Magnetic Field Modulation." More... April 19, 2005 2006 U.S. News engineering school rankings for graduate programs announced Berkeley has tied with Stanford for second place among top Mechanical Engineering graduate programs nationwide. UC Berkeley's College of Engineering has placed third among the top schools nationwide, following Stanford and MIT. The U.S. News rankings are based on two types of data: expert opinion about program quality and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school's faculty, research, and students. April 1, 2005 The Science of a Gender Gap. Alice Agogino discusses Lawrence Summers, gender discrimination and the low number of female scientists and engineers in academia. More... March 31, 2005 Professor Emeritus Lawrence Talbot, known for his work in fluid mechanics, died March 19 of heart failure. He was 79. Talbot joined the UC Berkeley Department of Mechanical Engineering in 1951, doing work in high altitude and high speed aerodynamics that was largely used in satellite design and use. Talbot worked on rarefied gas dynamics in what was then known on campus as the Division of Aeronautical Sciences at a time when the division was well known for its work in that field. More... March 23, 2005 Designing for the greater good E 10 class creates gear to protect farm workers from pesticides. See the article... March 28, 2005 Arun Majumdar elected to NAE. Professor Majumdar was honored for his contributions to nanoscale thermal engineering and molecular nanomechanics. See the article... February 14, 2005 O'Reilly, Lin, Pisano research on autosensing for autos profiled in COE's Lab Notes February 2005 Andrew Szeri and colleagues create model of brain's electrical storm during a seizure. See the article... February 23, 2005 Liwei Lin has been elected to the grade of Fellow Grade the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. More... February 23, 2005 Don M. Cunningham, professor emeritus, died on December 21, 2004 in Grass Valley, California at the age of 85. More... January 7, 2005 2004 Kazerooni's work featured in the New York Times magazine December 2004 Buckley wins ASME MS Paper Award December 2004 Keaveny and Papadopoulos win SC2004 Paper Award December 2004 Dharan's work profiled in Lab Notes December 2004 2004 Undergraduate Survey December 2004 Professor Don M. Cunningham has died December 2004 Professor George J. Maslach has died November 2004 Pisano elected ASME Fellow November 2004 Professor Lawrence W. Stark has died November 2004 Yeung awarded 2004 Davidson Medal October 2004 Agogino, Song win 2004 Xerox Best Paper Award October 2004 Research ofZohdi and Johnson profiled in Lab Notes September 2004 Oppenheim wins Classic Paper Award September 2004 Berkeley-ITRI Research Center agreement is signed August 2004 Toilliez and Poupard win Best Student Paper Prize August 2004 UC Berkeley forms group with Taiwan Researchers June 2004 Agogino receives NSF top award for teaching and research May 2004 Dornfeld receives 2004 SME Medal May 2004 Pruitt wins Presidential Award May 2004 Pisano named ME Chair April 2004 Marcus predicts global climate change on Jupiter April 2004 Interdisciplinary nanotechnology club starts on campus April 2004 Kazerooni's robotic research highlighted March 2004 Zohdi's research profiled in COE's Lab Notes March 2004 Mechanical Engineering in orbit January 2004 Savas wins 2003 Zarem Award January 2004 Sawyer wins 2003 Soichiro Honda Medal January 2004 2003 ME Grad student’s project makes “Estrosense” November 21, 2003 ME 221's High Tech Product Design and Manufacturing Tradeshow, Monday, November 24. November 2003 MIT's Mitter presents seminar series November 7, 2003 Majumdar appointed to advisory group to PCAST November 3, 2003 Zohdi Wins AAM Award October 20, 2003 McMains' work on virtual reality featured in COE Lab Notes September 2003 ME grad student Newman featured in COE Engineering News September 15, 2003 Agogino's students winners of NSF-funded student competition September 12, 2003 Werner Goldsmith dies August 23, 2003 Yeung wins ASME International Offshore, Ocean, & Arctic Division Best Paper Award August 2003 Hedrick named P.I. of new ONR center August 22, 2003 Hedrick wins O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award July 25, 2003 Lydia Sohn joins ME faculty in micro-nano engineering July 21, 2003 James A. Stack wins AIAA Zarem Award for Distinguished Achievement in Aeronautics July 1, 2003 Lin, group, grow nanoscale wires June 23, 2003 Liwei Lin et al.'s research on microbial fuel cells wins Third Prize at the 5th Annual UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition June 2003 David M. Auslander wins 2003 Eckman Award April 23, 2003 Dornfeld's research is profiled in the April 2003 issue of the College of Engineering's Lab Notes April 2003 James Stack wins 1st place in AIAA student paper competition April 2003 Keaveny Elected Member for NIH April 2003 Agogino and Beckman Win Award for Invention and Innovation in New Product Development March 17, 2003 Majumdar named 2003 IIT Distinguished Alumnus March 4, 2003 Associate Specialist in the Area of Manufacturing Integration February 6, 2003 Preciado paper in the national finals in the Undergraduate Student Research Competition in Bioengineering at 2002 IMEC February 3, 2003 Agogino elected as a 2003 Fellow of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) February 2, 2003 2002 Tomizuka is the recipient of the 2002 ASME Rufus T. Oldenburger Medal Pisano's MEMS research helps spawn start-up company Majumdar Elected Fellow of ASME and AAAS Letimann receives Distinguished Engineering Alumnus award Chang-Lin Tien dies Rubinsky to receive the "Oscar of invention" for the bionic chip Pisano wins DARPA grant to develop a MEMS atomic clock Lin's research on microbial fuel cells highlighted R. W. Yeung honored as Georg Weinblum Lecturer 1992 PhD Sandeep Pandey receives 2002 Ramon Magsaysay award ME's Yiannis Constantinides Wins Best-Paper Prize Tomizuka awarded Hideo Hanafusa Outstanding Investigator Award Goldsmith Awarded Honorary Degree by the University of Patras Cal SMV team wins fuel-economy competition Honoring Chang-Lin Tien: A June 22 symposium at Berkeley ME 290F offered in Spring 2003 Gonzalez awarded Department Citation HESSI launch scheduled for February 5, 2002 Zohdi wins Outstanding Paper award 2001 Two ME Undergrads develop robotic fish Another MSC experiment travels with the Endeavour Fall 2001 Inventors' Open House, Tuesday, December 4 Pagni awarded Howard W. Emmons Lectureship Savas Group designs new wing to reduce wake turbulence Agogino's Group wins ASME/IEEE award Photos from the 2001 Barbeque The Bearacuda and HPV Team are new world record holders Tien to receive NAE Founders Award Majumdar leads group developing a micromachined cantilever, a cancer-detecting microchip Discovery Space Shuttle carries MSC experiment Kazerooni's work featured in Science News Majumdar named Chair of Nanotech Institute advisory board CTO of BMW Group to give Seminar on July 11, 2001 Wright Honored by SME Souza Retires from ME Keaveny Research Group Honored for Work on Trabecular Bone Photos from Graduation 2001 Carey honored by University at Buffalo Alumni Association Majumdar wins Gustus L. Larson Award Photos from Drake Luncheon Photos from ME 102B Inventors' Open House Prospective Grad Students Visit Mansour to Receive Honorary Doctorate ME Combustion Lab researchers create world's smallest rotary internal combustion engine Dharan Receives Fulbright Scholar Grant Pruitt Wins AAAS Award Pisano Elected Member NAE Edmund Laitone Dies 2000 Bogy Elected IEEE Fellow Savas Elected APS Fellow Berkeley Faculty Sweep 2000 ASME Awards in Controls ASME Explores Engineers' Role in Upcoming Nano Boom ASME Sponsors Workshop on Nanotechnology Pisano and Majumdar lead the way for ASME in Nanotechnology O'Reilly's freshman seminar explores Hollywood's most dramatic special effects Pisano named Director of ERL Lin, Pisano and Carey win Best Paper Award Dharan wins Pi Tau Sigma Award for Excellence in Teaching Tien to receive Madison Medal from Princeton University