2007
Zhang's research selected as Discover Magazine's "Top 100 Science Stories of 2007"
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December 17, 2007
ME ranked #2 in nationwide productivity index
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December 13, 2007
Pictures from the 2007 Holiday Party
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December 10, 2007
Majumdar named Head of EETD, LBNL
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November 5, 2007
Hongzhao Liu, ME undergrad, wins AIAA Award
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October 23, 2007
MOT and Agogino's ME290P course highlighted as award winning design program in Business Week
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October 16, 2007
ME Unveils its Energy Curriculum for Fall 2007
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August 15, 2007
ME's Formula SAE Team starts new car design
Preliminary layout work for the Formula SAE 2008 car has been completed.
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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
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July 27, 2007
Boris Rubinsky works with Virginia Tech scientists to develop technique using short electrical pulses that target only cancer cells
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July 16, 2007
Lydia Sohn presents handheld nanocytometer at a "science fair" in Washington, DC for leaders of Congress and the National Science Foundation
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July 2, 2007
Professor Liwei Lin's research on nano-scale polymer fibers is featured in the latest issue of Lab Notes
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June 2007
Commencement for Class of 2007
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June 1, 2007
Andrew Szeri named Dean of the Graduate Division
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May 17, 2007
Alice Agogino receives grant from the Chancellor's Green Campus Fund
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April 28, 2007
The work of Jaspal Sandhu, PhD student of Alice Agogino, is profiled in cnet.
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April 10, 2007
Zhang group created an "Optical Turbine" that beats the fundamental diffraction limit
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March 23, 2007
Three of Lin's students take top honors at BSAC IAB
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March 21, 2007
Lisa Pruitt named to Talbot Chair
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February 28, 2007
Paul Wright elected to NAE
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February 9, 2007
Dean Richard Newton has died at 55
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January 4, 2007
2006
Oppenheim's book published
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December 21, 2006
ME 5 Year BS/MS Program
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November 15, 2006
Assistant Professor in Controls
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November 15, 2006
J. Karl Hedrick named the ASME 2006 Rufus
Oldenburger Medalist
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November 15, 2006
Zhang's Superlens wins Micro/Nano 25 2006 Award
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October 25, 2006
Marcus elected Vice Chair of the Division of Fluid
Dynamics of the American Physical Society.
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October 24, 2006
Upgraded Student Shop Opens
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September 18, 2006
Michael Frenklach wins 2006 Comustion Institute Silver Medal
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August 18, 2006
Masayoshi Tomizuka wins 2006 AACC John R. Ragazzini Award
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July 7, 2006
Tony Keaveny's book on Orthopaedic Biomechanics
is published
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July 7, 2006
Alice Agogino wins The Chancellor's Award for
Advancing Institutional Excellence
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May 31, 2006
Arun Majumdar wins 2006 ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award
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May 24, 2006
Commencement was May 20, 2006
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May 22, 2006
Article co-written by Costas Grigoropoulos and Hyung Gyu Park
is featured in Science magazine.
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May 19, 2006
Professor R. W. Yeung named Pi Tau Sigma Professor of the Year
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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
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May 11, 2006
Michael Frenklach to speak at Leermakers Symposium
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May 9, 2006
Faculty delegation from Beijing University of Technology visits ME
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May 9, 2006
O'Reilly wins first annual GWE Mentoring Award
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May 5, 2006
Hubble snaps baby pictures of Jupiter's 'Red Spot Jr.'
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May 5, 2006
Student Awards, 2005-06
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May 5, 2006
Cal Day 2006
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April 25, 2006
McMains wins 2005-06 Hellman Award
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April 24, 2006
Lin and co-workers develop new electrospinning technique
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April 13, 2006
Yaniv Scherson wins Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship
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March 30, 2006
Andy Packard wins 2005 IEEE Control Systems
Technology Award
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March 28, 2006
Getting Set to Commemorate the Big One
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March 27, 2006
Joseph Barranco wins Metropolis Award from the American Physical Society
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March 27, 2006
A gentleman may forget, but Berkeley MEs always remember
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March 22, 2006
Request for nominations for the Serge Granik Memorial Award
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March 21, 2006
Wehausen Memorial Graduate Scholarship -
Fund Drive
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February 24, 2006
Alice Agogino et al. win IEEE Robotics &
Automation Society Best Paper Award.
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February 23, 2006
Arun Majumdar to deliver Donaldson Lectures at
University of Minnesota
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February 20, 2006
David Dornfeld recipient of 2005 JSPE Takagi Award
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February 13, 2006
Fabrizio Bisetti wins 2006 Chevon-Berkeley Fellowship in Mechanical Engineering
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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.
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January 23, 2006
Zhang group's Research selected as Top 10 Nanotechnology Breakthroughs in 2005 by the Journal of Nanotechnology Law and Business.
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January 19, 2006
Professor Xiang Zhang Selected as Finalist for “Best Small Tech Researcher Award” by Small Times Magazine
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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.
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September 12, 2005
Fish Eggs Spawn a DNA Delivery Revolution.
Rubinsky's work on electroporation featured in The Scientist.
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July, 2005
WERNER GOLDSMITH: Life and Work (1924-2003).
A memorial article about Werner Goldsmith (co-authored by S. A. Berger) is available.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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March 23, 2005
Designing for the greater good
E 10 class creates gear to protect farm workers from pesticides.
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March 28, 2005
Arun Majumdar elected to NAE. Professor Majumdar was honored for his contributions to nanoscale thermal engineering and molecular nanomechanics.
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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.
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February 23, 2005
Liwei Lin has been elected to the grade of Fellow Grade the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
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February 23, 2005
Don M. Cunningham, professor emeritus, died on December 21, 2004 in Grass Valley, California at the age of 85.
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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
