Each year, the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership publishes an alumni magazine featuring articles and stories of MEng alumni. The latest issue, which features Mechanical Engineering MEng student Purva Juvekar on the cover, can be found here.
ME Professor Alice Agogino Wins Top U.S. Award for Mentoring
by Julianna Fleming, Berkeley ENGINEERING Mechanical engineering professor Alice Agogino has been named winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring PAESMEM, the government’s highest honor for mentors who have worked to expand talent in science, technology, engineering and mathematics STEM. The award was announced this week by the White House Office …
Wind Power Team Wins Fung Institute Mission Award
The Wind Power team, a group of mechanical engineering MEng students collaborating on a capstone project, has been awarded the Fung Institute Mission Award. This award, chosen by the Fung Institute staff, is given to the team that best exemplifies the mission of the institute, “transforming scientists into leaders who can take risks and develop technical, …
ME Assistant Professor Hayden Taylor Awarded Hellman Fellows Fund and Signatures Innovation Fellowship
ME Assistant Professor Hayden Taylor has been awarded the 2018 Hellman Fellows Fund and the 2018/2019 Signatures Innovation Fellowship. The Hellman Fellows Fund was established by the late F. Warren Hellman in 1995 to support substantially the research of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their research. The Signatures Innovation Fellows …
Now and Forever Berkeley Engineers
Originally published on 5/16/18 by Berkeley ENGINEERING Photo by Matt Beardsley This year Berkeley Engineering’s Commencement was a waypoint for several of the college’s major milestones. Not only did graduates from the college’s baccalaureate and graduate programs gather with their friends and family in the Hearst Greek Theatre to mark the completion of their degrees, …
ME Graduate Student Jonathan McKinley Wins 2018 USA Triathlon Collegiate Club National Championships
Congratulations to ME graduate student Jonathan McKinley on winning the 2018 USA Triathlon Collegiate Club National Championships! The championship took place during the last weekend in April in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where McKinley raced against 800 other athletes.
The HAB Project: A Platform for Space Research
Article originally published on 4/20/18 in Berkeley ENGINEER Photo courtesy of STAC by Daniel McGlynn It’s early on Saturday morning. Right in the heart of campus, on Memorial Glade, a dozen students gather and prepare to launch a high-altitude balloon 100,000 feet into the atmosphere. They are part of Space Technologies at Cal STAC, a …
ME Chair Roberto Horowitz Awarded ASME 2018 Rufus Oldenburger Medal
Professor Roberto Horowitz, our current department chair and the James Fife Endowed Chair in Engineering, has been selected to receive the ASME 2018 Rufus Oldenburger Medal in recognition of his pioneering and impactful contributions to control applications in mechatronics, magnetic data storage and traffic systems. The Rufus Oldenburger Medal is a prestigious ASME Society award …
Sohn Lab Engineers Squeeze Cells Through Microtubes to Detect Cancer
Originally published on 4/17/18 | Berkeley ENGINEERING News by Wallace Ravven Photo by Noah Berger Over the course of her lifetime, a woman has a one in eight chance of developing breast cancer. With the past few decades’ advances in early detection and treatment, a diagnosis by no means forecasts defeat. The earlier the cancer …
Capstone Profile: Million Hands Team – Creating Prosthetic Hands for Children
by Maya Rector Originally published on Medium Each year, UC Berkeley Master of Engineering students work on a team of 3 to 5 students with the goal of engineering solutions using cutting edge technology and methods to address crucial industry, market or societal needs. We’ll be documenting several capstone teams as they work on their year-long projects, …
Nature’s Microsystems & Nanoengineering Spotlights Sohn Research Lab’s Paper as Featured Article
A research paper from the Sohn Research Lab is now the featured article in the latest issue of the online journal from Springer Nature, Microsystems Nanoengineering. Their paper, “Characterizing cellular mechanical phenotypes with mechano-node-pore sensing,” covers a “simple and innovative technique for measuring the mechanical properties of cells could lead to a versatile clinical diagnostic tool.” Congratulations …
ME Teaching Professor Sara Beckman Wins 2018 Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award
ME Teaching Professor Sara Beckman has been selected as the recipient of the 2018 Carol D. Soc Distinguished Graduate Student Mentoring Award for Senior Faculty. The 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 …
MEng Capstone Team Aims to Automate and Standardize Influenza Case Reporting
Originally published on February 20, 2018 via Medium by Maya Rector Each year, UC Berkeley Master of Engineering students work on a team of 3 to 5 students with the goal of engineering solutions using cutting edge technology and methods to address crucial industry, market or societal needs. We’ll be documenting several capstone teams as they work …
Scientists Discover ‘Chiral Phonons’ – Atomic Rotations in a 2-D Semiconductor Crystal
A research team from the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has found the first evidence that a shaking motion in the structure of an atomically thin (2-D) material possesses a naturally occurring circular rotation.
Society of Manufacturing Engineers to Hold 2nd David Dornfeld Manufacturing Vision Award and Blue Sky Competition
The second David Dornfeld Manufacturing Vision Award and Blue Sky Competition, funded by the National Science Foundation, will be held during the 2018 SME North American Manufacturing Research Conference/ASME Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference NAMRC/MSEC, June 18-22, 2018, in College Station, Texas. The aim of this competition is to identify long-term challenges and new visionary …
ME Assistant Professor Grace O’Connell Receives Prestigious NSF CAREER Award
ME Assistant Professor Grace O’Connell has received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation NSF as a part of the Faculty Early Career Development CAREER Program. The CAREER Program is a foundation-wide program that offers the NSF’s “most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education and to …
International Conferences to Celebrate ME Professor Boris Rubinsky’s 70th Birthday
8th World Congress of Biomechanics 8-12 July, 2018 in Dublin, Ireland “Cryotherapy and Cryopreservation Boris Rubinsky’s 70th Birthday Celebration” Through the online registration system, you will have an opportunity to book your attendance, hotel, social events and optional tours all through the “one click”. For any queries regarding registration, socials, tours and accommodation, please email …
Building Better Batteries to Provide Renewable Energy Anytime, Anywhere
Adjunct Prof Ravi Prasher describes new materials for the batteries of the future.
The Lin Lab’s New Hybrid Supercapacitor is Super-Charged
Originally published in Berkeley Lab News on December 2017. In research that could lead to next-generation energy storage systems, a team of Foundry scientists and users have developed a way to make a new kind of supercapacitor. By coating carbon nanotube electrodes with titanium disulfide, the researchers developed a method to create a supercapacitor with the highest …
ME Professor Carlos Fernandez-Pello Awarded the Howard W. Emmons Invited Plenary Lectureship by the IAFSS
ME Professor Carlos Fernandez-Pello has been awarded the Howard W. Emmons Invited Plenary Lectureship by the International Association of Fire Safety Science IAFSS. As part of the award, Professor Fernandez-Pello gave the Plenary Lecture at the IAFSS’s 12th International Symposium on Fire Safety Science on current fire science interest. His paper, “Wildland Fire Spot Ignition …
ME Professor David Steigmann Wins 2017 Acta Mechanica Sinica Best Paper Award
ME Professor David Steigmann has won the 2017 Acta Mechanica Sinica AMS Best Paper Award for his paper titled, “Mechanical response of fabric sheets to three-dimensional bending, twisting, and stretching.” The AMS Best Paper Award was established to “foster original and innovative scientific research in the field of mechanics.” AMS is an international journal published …
ME Professor Mark Mueller Receives ABB Research Award 2017
Photo by: Giulia Marthaler ME Assistant Professor Mark Mueller has received the ABB Research Award 2017 for his doctoral thesis on drones. The award, in honor of Hubertus von Gruenberg, is given to outstanding postdocs whose research has specific real-world applications, potential for innovation, and benefits society and the environment. Professor Mueller’s award-winning research focuses …
ME Ph.D. Student Hossein Heidari Wins Young Researcher Award at μTAS 2017
ME Ph.D. student Hossein Heidari received the Young Researcher Poster Award at the 21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (μTAS 2017). The award, sponsored by The Society for Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems (CHEMINAS), recognizes excellence among participants at the conference. Heidari’s award-winning poster focused on his work with ME Professor Hayden Taylor on …
ME Ph.D. Student Negar Mehr Wins WTS-OC Scholarship
ME Ph.D. student Negar Mehr has been awarded a Graduate Scholarship from the Orange County chapter of Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS). WTS is an international organization “committed to excellence in the transportation industry and provides opportunities for member career advancement through the exchange of information, ideas, and experiences.” The award will be presented at the Annual …
ME Professor Boris Rubinsky Receives Medal and Honorary Membership from the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences
ME Professor Boris Rubinsky has been awarded the Medal of the Romanian Academy of Technical Sciences, and also made an Honorary Member of the academy. The academy is an “autonomous, non-governmental entity, organized as a national forum of scientific personalities in engineering sciences. It has the purpose to promote debates, initiatives, research, technical creation and …