About 350 students from across the East Bay descended on the Berkeley campus last weekend for Engineering for Kids (E4K), a one-day science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) event for low-income fourth- to sixth-grade students. The annual event is organized and hosted entirely by Berkeley students.
The Fast Track to Being a CEO-Engineer
A dual undergraduate program in engineering and business is gaining traction with students.
How much energy can automated vehicles save?
Among the many advantages of automated vehicles that are often mentioned in media, energy saving is usually one of them. But how much energy can these vehicles actually save? A group of Master of Engineering (MEng) students at UC Berkeley is looking for the answer to this question.
Meet our new faculty: Kosa Goucher-Lambert, mechanical engineering
Name: Kosa Goucher-Lambert Discipline: Mechanical engineering Degrees: B.A., physics, Occidental College, 2011; M.S., Ph.D., mechanical engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, 2014, 2017 Research interests: I’m interested in all things design and product development. My research predominantly aims to develop new theories, models, and tools to understand and enhance designers’ ability to effectively solve challenging problems using a wide variety of …
ME Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka to Receive the 2019 Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award
ME Professor Masayoshi Tomizuka has been selected to receive the 2019 Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award. This award recognizes UC Berkeley faculty for their vital role in mentoring graduate students and training future faculty, and seeks to foster the qualities of excellence in mentorship that are so important to the Berkeley community. …
Solve the Bay Area housing crisis, fight climate change and more, all while earning college credit
New UC Berkeley class has lofty goals for its students.
New 3D printer uses rays of light to shape objects, transform product design
A new 3D printer uses light to transform gooey liquids into complex solid objects in only a matter of minutes.
Meet our new faculty: Hannah Stuart, mechanical engineering
Name: Hannah Stuart Department: Mechanical engineering Degrees: B.S., mechanical engineering, George Washington University, 2011; M.S., Ph.D., mechanical engineering, Stanford, 2013, 2018 Research interests: I’m interested in improving robot dexterity through building end-effectors with embodied intelligence and robustness, especially for challenging environments. This includes the design of novel grippers and hands; touch perception for autonomous or teleoperated interventions; and bioinspired …
Berkeley Mechanical Engineers & LLNL Researchers Invent Real-Life “Replicator”
A new 3D printer uses light to transform gooey liquids into complex solid objects in only a matter of minutes.
New Faculty Spotlight: Kosa Goucher-Lambert
The Department of Mechanical Engineering would like to introduce you to one of our newest faculty members: Assistant Professor Kosa Goucher-Lambert.
Professor Goucher-Lambert joined us here in Etcheverry Hall in the Spring of 2019. Below, Professor Goucher-Lambert shares how he became interested in the field of mechanical engineering, his hobbies outside the office, and what he looks forward to most here at Berkeley.
OP-ED: We need to use modern technologies to prevent wildfires
Uncontrolled, large-scale fires are growing in number and will increasingly affect more communities beyond the immediate fire zone. These fires will continue to threaten countries around the globe and drain their resources until effective fire-management protocols are in place. With California at the center of this problem, we must look into technologies that will control and prevent wildfires.
UC Berkeley College of Engineering launches a new course to help engineers become better communicators
A new undergraduate course called the Art of STEM Communication will be launched Spring 2019 at UC Berkeley. The course was created by the Dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering (COE) Tsu-Jae King Liu and will be co-taught by her and freelance journalist Sonner Kehrt. The goal of this course is to train engineering students …
Brian Mick: ‘It takes people skills to create change in an organization’
I’ve been building things since I was a kid,” Brian recalls. When I asked him how he decided to become an engineer, he reminisced about his lively, inventive childhood. He would build whatever he could get his hands on — Lego spaceships, toy rockets and planes, dams in the stream out back.
UC Berkeley Master of Engineering programs waive application fee for current students
The Coleman Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership has announced that the Master of Engineering, or MEng, application fee will be waived for UC Berkeley undergraduates and alumni who apply this year.
Researchers use jiggly Jell-O to make powerful new hydrogen fuel catalyst
A cheap and effective new catalyst developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, can generate hydrogen fuel from water just as efficiently as platinum, currently the best — but also most expensive — water-splitting catalyst out there.
ME Assistant Professor Grace O’Connell to Receive 2019 Y.C. Fung Early Career Award
ME Assistant Professor Grace O’Connell has been selected to receive the ASME’s 2019 Y.C. Fung Young Early Career Award. The Early Career Award was established to recognize young investigators who are committed to pursuing research in the field of Bioengineering and have demonstrated significant potential to make substantial contributions to the field of Bioengineering. Professor O’Connell was selected for her …
ME Assistant Professor-In-Residence Somayeh Sojoudi to Co-Lead Team in ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition
ME Assistant Professor-In-Residence Somayeh Sojoudi, along with IEOR Professors Shmuel S. Oren and Javad Lavaei, will be leading a team competing in the ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition. The team will be made up of more than ten Post-Docs, Graduate and Undergraduate students from ME, EECS, and IEOR. They are one of 18 teams selected to compete for funding. The competition comprises a …
Fire Research Group launched to explore effective engineering solutions for uncontrolled wildfires
Tarek Zohdi, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Fung Institute, has led the launch of the Fire Research Group (https://frg.berkeley.edu) recently to develop and implement more effective engineering solutions for uncontrolled wildfires. The group is a collective of researchers from the College of Engineering, the Space Sciences Laboratory (Berkeley) and Lawrence …
Berkeley ingenuity keeps lithium-ion batteries at temps even Goldilocks would love
New research by Berkeley engineers may soon make it more practical to use battery-powered vehicles and devices in extreme temperatures, such as in icy-cold winters in Minnesota or stifling-hot summers in Death Valley. Those conditions represent temperature ranges that fall outside the narrow window — typically 20 to 40 degrees Celsius — needed for a …
ME PhD Student Hossein Heidari Wins Shark Tank Award at BASF Innovent 2018
Hossein Heidari, a PhD candidate in ME Professor Hayden Taylor’s lab, has won the $100,000 Shark Tank prize for “Best Innovative Technology” at BASF Innovent 2018. Heidari received the award for the Design for Nanomanufacturing lab’s work on “Computed Axial Lithography,” a volumetric 3D printing solution invented in the lab as a new paradigm in additive manufacturing. BASF is a leading chemical …
ME Professor Costas Grigoropoulos Gives 2018 Hawkins Memorial Lecture in Heat Transfer
On Thursday, October 4th at Purdue University, ME Professor Costas Grigoropoulos gave the 2018 Hawkins Memorial Lecture in Heat Transfer on “Laser Materials Processing and Nanomanufacturing.” The annual lecture series was established in 1984 to honor the memory of George A. Hawkins, former dean of the College of Engineering. The memorial lecture provides an opportunity for a leader in heat transfer …
Chancellor Carol Christ: In Chang-Lin Tien, a leader to emulate
This week we are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the C.V. Starr East Asian Library and the Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies — the latter named for Berkeley’s seventh chancellor. These events, for me, bring Chang-Lin even more vividly to mind. He was, of course, the first person of Asian descent to lead …
ME Chair Roberto Horowitz Receives Medal at AMES’s 2018 DSCC
ME Chair Roberto Horowitz was awarded the Rufus Oldenburger Medal at the 2018 Dynamic Systems and Control Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on October 2, 2018. Professor Horowitz was presented with the prestigious medal during the Awards Ceremony on October 2, 2018, on behalf of the 2018 DSCC Organization Committee and the Dynamics Systems and Control Division (DSCD) of the American Society of Mechanical …
Alex Marques: ’The mentorship I’ve had is the best part of my work life’
Alex Marques graduated in 2018 with an MEng degree in Mechanical Engineering and Product Design. He currently works as Product Manager at Bishop Wisecarver, a business-to-business company (B2B) that sells machine components and engineering services in the realm of motion technology.
From UC Berkeley to Burning Man: Meet Alireza Lahijanian, the engineering graduate behind the giant sculptures
Every year, the flat desert of Black Rock Desert, Nevada, becomes a temporary city where artists and counterculture-seekers flock to attend Burning Man. Central to the festival experience are the multistory sculptures — which are monuments, kinetic or still, that provide artists with an outlet for “radical self-expression,” a key principle of Burning Man.