ME NEWS - 2010
Lisa Pruitt and students examine faulty hip and knee implants to improve design.
December 13, 2010
Ömer Savaş receives U.S. Geological Survey Director's Award for his contribution to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response and exemplary service to the nation
December 2, 2010
ME senior Maha Haji's project, Interaction of Wave Energy Devices and the Environment: Biofouling Concerns and Mooring Systems, wins best poster award at SACNAS conference
October 7, 2010
Mechanical Engineering shares #1 ranking by National Research Council in 2010
October 6, 2010
Roberto Horowitz receives 2010 DSCD Henry M. Paynter Outstanding Research Award
September 14, 2010
ME sophomore Spencer Wong leads team to second place at the Rube Goldberg Machine Contest
September 13, 2010
Success Through Failure, a memorial symposium honoring Professor Iain Finnie's life and many technical accomplishments, September 24 through September 26
September 7, 2010
Alice Agogino's ME110 Students Make Surfing Greener
August 26, 2010
Ronald Yeung and Co-Workers Win ASME/OMAE Ocean-Renewable-Energy Best Paper Award
August 25, 2010
David Steigmann elected Chair of the Society for Natural Philosophy and Fellow of the Society of Engineering Science
August 23, 2010
Dave Dornfeld awarded the ASME William T. Ennor Award
August 13, 2010
Xiang Zhang's group develops Nano Optical Motor
August 9, 2010
Dave Dornfeld appointed Chair of Mechanical Engineering
July 23, 2010
Boris Rubinsky's work on the NanoKnife
July 21, 2010
Emeritus Professor Franklin Charles Hurlbut dies at age 90
July 6, 2010
Liwei Lin and team talk about the future of clothes
June 30, 2010
Lisa Pruitt and graduate students Eli Patten and Sara Atwood receive 2010 ASEE Best Paper Award
June 29, 2010
Ronald Yeung conferred honorary professorship at Harbin Engineering University
June 23, 2010
ME PhD Student Celeste Roschuni reports on 2010 AIDS LifeCycle
June 8, 2010
Tony Keaveny is the Winner of 2010 Van C Mow Medal
June 7, 2010
Van P. Carey is 2010 HP Innovation Research Program Award Winner
June 4, 2010
Acting Chair David Dornfeld has announced the appointment of Van Carey to the A. Richard Newton Chair in Engineering and Carlos Fernandez-Pello to the Almy C. Maynard and Agnes Offield Maynard Endowed Chair in the Department of Mechanical Engineering
June 2, 2010
James Casey named 2010 Pi Tau Sigma Professor
June 2, 2010
ME Grad Jason Valentine wins prestigious MRS Gold Graduate Student Award
June 2, 2010
Ömer Savaş and Flow Rate Group Provide Preliminary Best Estimate Of Oil Flowing from BP Oil Well
May 27, 2010
Albert P. Pisano appointed to lead Operational Excellence Program Office
Daily Cal article on Pisano's appointment
(June 1, 2010)
May 27, 2010
LA Times features article on nanotechnology work done in Liwei Lin's lab
May 20, 2010
David B. Bogy awarded Berkeley Citation
May 18, 2010
Explosi-Divas is competing as finalists in the Staples Global EcoEasy Challenge
Update: Explosi-Divas shares First Prize!
April 21, 2010
Professor Liwei Lin's research on nanogenerators featured on KRON4 News and in Science Magazine
April 8, 2010
Work by Alice Agogino's students, Kimberly Lau and Maha Haji, is profiled in the current issue of Innovations
April 8, 2010
David A. Dornfeld elected Fellow of the School of Engineering at the University of Tokyo, Japan
March 8, 2010
Costas Grigoropoulos awarded continuation funding of DARPA grant
March 1, 2010
Albert P. Pisano named Columbia University 2009 Egleston Medalist for Distinguished Engineering Achievement
February 25, 2010
Professor Emeritus Erich G. Thomsen has died at 103
February 22, 2010
Zhang Xiang elected to National Academy of Engineering
February 17, 2010
New fiber nanogenerators could lead to electric clothing says Liwei Lin
February 12, 2010
ME 102, Hami Kazerooni's Mechatronics class, is featured in Berkeley Innovations
February 5, 2010
George Johnson has been named 2009 recipient of the Leon Henkin Citation
February 4, 2010
Professor Lydia Sohn's research on limb and organ regeneration has been awarded a $1 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation
January 27, 2010
ME PhD student Jessica Vechakul one of three Berkeley students stranded in Haiti
January 15, 2010
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