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The U. C. Berkeley Chapter of the Engineering Honors Society, Tau Beta Pi,
has awarded Professor Oliver O'Reilly their 2013 Outstanding Faculty Member of
the Year award for excellence in teaching. The award was presented at the Society's annual banquet on May 3, 2013.
May 7, 2013
ME Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka receives the International Federation of Automatic Control’s Lifetime Achievement Award at the Symposium on Mechatronic Systems held in Hangzhou, China. The award is presented triennially to a researcher who has an exceptional history of participation in and contributions to the Federation’s mechatronic systems activities, and who has made enduring research contributions in mechatronics, either of a fundamental or applied nature.
Mechanical Systems Control Lab (MSC)
April 18, 2013
ME PhD student Danny Wilson wins Fulbright Fellowship Award and will use the award funds to conduct doctoral research in India.
April 2, 2013
ME third-year student and UC Berkeley Ambassaor Jared Karp discusses Cal's Design Engineering Collaborative at the Smithsonian Museum of American History as part of a six-speaker event, Spaces of Invention.
April 2, 2013
ME PhD students Xu Chen and Zhichao Song win The Chinese Government's Award for Oustanding Self-Financed Students Abroad.
April 2, 2013
ME and BioE Associate Professor Mohammad Mofrad and his graduate student Mehrdad Mehrbod (BioE) discuss how cells interact with their environment in the March 2013 issue of PLoS Computational Biology.
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March 21, 2013
ME PhD student Jennifer Wang has been awarded the American Society for Engineering Education's (ASEE) Mara H. Washburn Early Educator Grant. Wang, whose award was based on doctoral research she conducted under ME Professors Alice Agogino and Lisa Pruitt, received a $2,000 travel grant to attend the 2013 ASEE Annual Conference.
ASEE
March 20, 2013
ME Professor Xiang Zhang's graduate students have won two major educational awards. Anna Labno received the Raymond Davis Award in Imaging by the Society for Imaging Science and Techonlogy and Ziliang Ye received the Chinese government's Outstanding Overseas Graduate Student Award.
March 20, 2013
ME PhD student Changliu Liu's video wins second place in the Graduate Division's 2013 Distinguished Fellows Video Contest.
March 14, 2013
ME Professor Lisa Pruitt and her book Horse of Fire featured in The Daily Californian's blog, The Daily Clog.
March 13, 2013
ME Professor Reza Alam discusses wave cloaking strategies in COE's March 2013 edition of Innovations.
March 7, 2013
ME Professor Homayoon Kazerooni and his team at the Berkeley Robotics and Human Engineering Laboratory featured in NBC's Science of Innovation: Bionic Limbs (funded by NSF and the US Patent Office).
February 21, 2013
ME Ocean Engineering alumnus Christophe Cochet's paper, Hydrodynamic Performance of a Compound Cylinder Extracting Ocean-Wave Energy, wins the 2012 SNAME Graduate Paper Award.
February 21, 2013
Professor Liwei Lin’s Postdocs, Dr. Ryan Sochol and Dr. Fatemah Nazly Pirmoradi, have been named Outstanding Oral Paper Finalists by the 26th Annual IEEE Micro Electro Mechanical Systems Conference in Taipei, Taiwan. Dr. Sochol authored Cells on Arrays of Microsprings: an Approach to Achieve Tri-Axial Control of Substrate Stiffness and Dr. Nazly Pirmoradi authored Controlled Delivery of Antiangiogenic Drug to Human Eye Tissue Using a MEMS Device.
February 13, 2013
The ME Department is ranked #2 by U.S. News College Compass
February 8, 2013
ME Chair David Dornfeld has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) for his “contributions to sustainability in advanced manufacturing, sensors, and precision material processing.”
February 7, 2013
ME Professor Alice Agogino receives the 2012 Lifetime Mentor Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
UC Berkeley News Center, "The making of a 'lifetime mentor award' winner
January 22, 2013
ME Professor Tarek Zohdi has been elected President of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics.
December 21, 2012
ME Professor Francesco Borrelli is the 2012 recipient of the IEEE Control System Technology Award, which identifies outstanding contributions to control systems technology either in design and implementation or project management. Professor Borrelli was recognized for the design, implementation, and commercialization of the OnRAMP Design Suite for Powertrain Control.
December 17, 2012
ME Professor Homayoon Kazerooni and his graduate and undergraduate students' recent work on exoskeleton research in the Berkeley Robotics & Human Engineering Laboratory is featured on Richard Hammond's BBC program, Miracles of Nature. Hammond is also the co-host of BBC's Top Gear.Berkeley Robotics & Human Engineering Laboratory
December 1, 2012
ME Professor David Steigmann named next recipient of the Engineering Science Medal of the Society of Engineering Science.
November 13, 2012
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) announces the launch of its 2nd Annual Research Poster Competition open to undergraduates from around the world.
The deadline for this competition is October 29, 2012. For more details, see here and here.
October 25, 2012
Former ME Chair and Professor C.D. (Dan) Mote nominated for the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) presidency.
September 13, 2012
ME Professor Alice Agogino and Yao-Jung Wen win the Leon Gaster Award for Lighting Technology for their paper, Control of Wireless-Networked Lighting in Open-Plan Offices
September 11, 2012
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Harvesting Renewable Energy
This is a one-day series of introductory lectures on various topics in harvesting renewable energy organized by ME faculty members Reza Alam and Oliver O'Reilly. The lectures are intended to provide a broad overview of current research and open questions in harvesting energy from sustainable resources and are of interest to general audiences. The workshop is free and open to students, faculty, and staff.
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
8:00 am-5:00 pm
3110 Etcheverry Hall
Design Fest 2013
The Design Fest is an open house event where students will share their design projects to give visitors a sense of the diversity and magnitude of the design activity occurring in departments throughout the Cal campus.
Phase I
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
10:00 am-12:00 pm
College of Environmental Design
Phase II
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
1:00-5:00 pm
CITRIS Atrium, CITRIS Auditorium and the Blum Center
The Department of Mechanical Engineering Presents:
Developments in Applications of Prediction and Optimization-Based Control to Automotive Systems
Professor Ilya Kolmanovsky
Department of Aerospace Engineering
University of Michigan
Thursday, May 9, 2013
1:30 pm
3110 Etcheverry Hal
The Department of Mechanical Engineering Presents:
Nanoengineered Surfaces for Enhanced Phase-Change Heat Transfer
Professor Evelyn N. Wang
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Massachusetts Institure of Technology (MIT)
Cambridge, MA
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
11:00 am-12:00 pm
3110 Etcheverry Hal
M.E. Student Machine Shop Training
Scheduling begins on Tuesday, January 22, 2013.
To schedule your training, see Gordon, Mick, Dennis or Scott in 1166 Etcheverry Hall
Your training must be completed by Friday, March 22, 2013.
Faculty positions at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kindgom of Saudi Arabia
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