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ME Undergrad Neelanjan Lahiri in Berkeley ENGINEER Feature on Berkeley Hyperloop
Learning to Levitate Originally Published on 5/1/2016 in Berkeley ENGINEER   Before shooting their futuristic vehicle down a test track at high speeds for a design competition this summer, 40 Berkeley students must first make their Hyperloop pod levitate.   The world’s Hyperloop fascination started back in 2012, when SpaceX founder Elon Musk let loose…
Read MoreME Professor Xiang Zhang Wins 2016 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics
ME Professor Xiang Zhang has been awarded the 2016 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics. The prize recognizes researchers “”who have made an outstanding and innovative contribution to the field of applied physics. It has been awarded annually since 1998 by the editors-in-chief of the Springer journals Applied Physics A – Materials Science & Processing and Applied Physics B…
Read MoreCommencement is just around the corner! Click here for all you need to know!
Engineering Commencement Congratulations on your upcoming graduation! Now it’s time to recognize and celebrate a job well done.    The spring 2016 College of Engineering commencement will consist of two ceremonies, one for baccalaureate degree recipients and one for graduate degree recipients.  Online registration for the spring 2016 ceremony is now closed.  Contact bears@berkeley.edu for information. Baccalaureate Degree…
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Read MoreSuitX’s Robot Suit Lets Paralyzed People Walk Again
SuitX, a Berkeley startup, has developed what promises to be the lightest, lowest-cost exoskeleton yet — a low-profile robotic suit that helps people who use wheelchairs stand up and walk.
Read More‘ME Professor Reza Alam Graces Front Page of Berkeley.edu for “Making Waves”‘
Making waves: Turning ocean power into electricity Originally Published on Berkeley.edu on 3/15/2016, by Thomas Walden Levy   Ocean waves have vast energy potential. The Electric Power Research Institute estimates the total wave energy resource along the United States coastline at 2,640 terawatts per year. One terawatt can supply more than 93,000 typical U.S. homes with power annually.…
Read MoreME’s Outstanding GSI Award Winners Announced
Congratulations to this year’s Outstanding GSI Award Winners! Siavash Ameli Raunak Bhinge David Fernandez Gutierrez Spencer Frank Daniel Pineda Xian Shi Lu Wang Shiying Zhou
Read MoreMaking Waves: Turning Ocean Power Into Electricity
Ocean waves have vast energy potential. The Electric Power Research Institute estimates the total wave energy resource along the United States coastline at 2,640 terawatt-hours per year (TWh/yr). One TWh/yr can supply more than 93,000 typical U.S. homes with power annually.
Read MoreME Ph.D. Candidate Sonia Travaglini is “Defining the Original Smart Material”
The kingdom fungi contains some of the oldest known terrestrial organisms in the world. Sonia Travaglini, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering, is studying the properties of part of this eclectic kingdom to find new sources for sustainable composites.
Read MoreME Professor Xiang Zhang Wins 2016 Max Born Award
ME Professor Xiang Zhang has won the 2016 Max Born Award of The Optical Society OSA. This award honors Max Born, who made distinguished contributions to physics in general and to optics in particular.  The award is presented to a person who has made outstanding contributions to physical optics, theoretical or experimental.  It was established in 1982,…
Read MoreME Professor Lisa Pruitt Wins 2016 Distinguished Teaching Award
Congratulations to ME Professor Lisa Pruitt on winning UC Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award! Five UC Berkeley faculty members were selected as recipients of the award, the campus’s most prestigious honor for teaching. The award recognizes teaching that incites intellectual curiosity in students, engages them thoroughly in the enterprise of learning, and has a lifelong impact.   …
Read MoreGraduate Student in ME Professor Mohammad Mofrad’s Lab Wins First Place in the 2016 Image Contest of the Biophysical Society Meeting
ME Graduate student Zeinab Jahed, a member of ME Professor Mohammad R. K. Mofrad’s lab, has won the first place prize in the 2016 Image Contest of the Biophysical Society Meeting. The image, titled “Bacterial Networking,” shows a scanning electron microscopy of Staphylococcus Aureus bacterial cells forming networks on top of poly-dimethyl-siloxane PDMS micro-posts. Congratulations,…
Read MoreSpring 2016 Engineering Commencement Announcement
The UC Berkeley College of Engineering has announced that the spring 2016 commencement ceremony will take place on Monday, May 16. The undergraduate ceremony will start at 9 a.m. and the masters and Ph.D. ceremonies will begin at 2 p.m.   – Online registration is currently open at engineering.berkeley.edu/commencement. College of Engineering students completing degree requirements for the summer and fall…
Read MoreMembers in ME Professor Hayden Taylor’s Group Win Berkeley Cleantech University Prize
Members in ME Professor Hayden Taylor’s group, Liam Berryman and Lance Brockway, have won the “Berkeley Cleantech University Prize CUP“” – a competition put on by the Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute BECI and Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative BERC, and sponsored by the Department of Energy DOE. After four months of mentorship and training from the competition’s dedicated mentors and…
Read MoreME Professor Homayoon Kazerooni’s Lab Advances as a Top 20 Finalist in “Robotics for Good” Competition
The Berkeley Robotics & Human Engineering Laboratory’s medical exoskeleton, Phoenix, and its specific use for children with Cerebral Palsy, was named as one of the top 20 finalists in the Robotics for Good competition. Phoenix was chosen from a pool of 664 entries, from 121 countries, in December of 2015. The competition and judging ceremony…
Read MoreME Professor Alice Agogino’s BEST Lab Featured on the Discovery Channel
The BEST Lab‘s tensegrity robot research was recently featured on the Discovery Channel’s nightly science magazine, the Daily Planet. The feature contrasted their sleek and faster Rev3 of the Berkeley Tensegrity Robot with Rev1. Both Rev1 and Rev2 use elastic cords and linear actuators to shape shift the tensegrity robot into punctuated rolling motion. Rev3…
Read MoreME Student Lavanya Jawaharlal Talks About Females of Color in STEM
The BLUM Center recently spoke with ME Student Lavanya Jawaharlal on females of color in STEM. To read the full interview, please click here.
Read More‘Student Group, Berkeley Hyperloop, Wins Spot to Test at SpaceX’
SpaceX, a company that designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, recently launched an open competition, geared towards university students and independent engineering teams, to design and build the best Hyperloop pod. The Berkeley Hyperloop team spent the last semester designing a Hyperloop pod to enter into the competition, engineered around safety and reliability.   This past weekend,…
Read MoreME PhD Graduate Joon Sik Lee Appointed Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs in Korea
ME PhD graduate Joon Sik Lee was recently nominated as the Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs by South Korean President Park Geunhye. Dr. Lee completed his graduate work in heat transfer at Berkeley, and moved on to become a professor at Seoul National University, where he also served as Executive Vice President and Provost. He recently spent…
Read MoreME Professor Costas Grigoropoulos’ Laser Thermal Lab Featured in Latest Issue of Advanced Materials
Researchers in the Laser Thermal Laboratory have developed a new method for the stable doping of atomically layered transition-metal dichalchogenide materials TMDCs. TMDCs play a crucial role in next generation opto- electronic devices enabling new functionalities to overcome limitations of current semiconductor devices. Doping is a central issue in the integration of these new materials…
Read MoreME Professor Tarek Zohdi Answers Your Burning Fireworks Questions in Latest ScienceNode Article
When your fireworks go boom, how do you know where they’ll land? To answer this question, ME Professor Tarek Zohdi, along with other UC Berkeley scientists, model blast envelopes to improve firework safety and enjoyment. Read the latest article from ScienceNode to find out more!
Read MoreFormer ME Professor Michael Carroll Passed Away on January 17
Michael M. Carroll, 2000 Photography by Sharon M. Steinman   It is with great sadness that we relay the news that Professor Michael Carroll passed away on Sunday, January 17, 2016, in Houston, after a long struggle with Parkinson’s disease and cancer. Professor Carroll was a faculty member of our Mechanical Engineering Department from 1965…
Read MoreME Professor Paul Wright Elected to the National Academy of Inventors
ME Professor Paul Wright has been elected to the National Academy of Inventors. The academy elected three UC Berkeley faculty members, in honor of their innovation and creativity leading to patented inventions that have made a tangible impact on society. The Berkeley News says Wright is “”widely recognized as a scholar, entrepreneur and leader of UC…
Read MoreME PhD Student Sui Yang Wins NKT Photonics Student Award
ME Professor Xiang Zhang’s PhD student, Sui Yang, won the NKT Photonics Student Award, in recognition of an excellent presentation at the MRS conference. Congratulations, Sui!
Read MoreME Professor Paul Wright Wins BASF Energy Contest
ME Professor Paul Wright, and his colleague James W. Evans, are winners of the BASF Energy Contest for their research with 3D printed batteries. The winners of the contest were chosen from 122 applications, and a jury of BASF experts chose the four best proposals to be given funding. The contest “”initiated by BASF at…
Read MoreME Professor Oliver O’Reilly Named ASME Fellow
ME Professor Oliver O’Reilly has been named an ASME Fellow for “”over two decades of exemplary teaching and mentoring of students and for outstanding research in the areas of rigid body dynamics, vibrations, and continuum mechanics of one-dimensional continua.”” Congratulations, Professor O’Reilly!
Read MoreME Professor Francesco Borrelli Elevated to IEEE Fellow
ME Professor Francesco Borrelli has been elevated by the IEEE Board of Directors to IEEE Fellow, for his “contributions to the theory and applications of model predictive control.” Congratulations, Professor Borrelli!
Read MoreME Post-Doc Debanjan Mukherjee Wins American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship
ME post-doc, Dr. Debanjan Mukherjee, is one of the recipients of the prestigious American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship. Dr. Mukherjee is currently a postdoc with ME Professor Shawn C. Shadden, and completed his Ph.D with ME Professor Tarek I. Zohdi. Congratulations, Dr. Mukherjee!
Read MoreM.Eng. Alum Daniel Lim Helps to Create Sophie’s Super Hand
“I studied engineering for the past five years, and I thought this is the first project where I can directly improve someone’s life. When I saw Sophie’s picture, I wanted to do this.” – Daniel Lim M.Eng.’15   Click here to read the full story from the latest issue of Berkeley ENGINEER.
Read MoreME Professor Alice M. Agogino Honored by ASME for Furthering Engineering Design Education
Contact: Mel Torre Phone: 212 591-8157 Email: torrem@asme.org Online: www.asme.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Alice M. Agogino, Ph.D., a resident of Berkeley, Calif., and Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes professor of mechanical engineering at the University of California UC, Berkeley, was honored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME. She was recognized for tireless efforts in…
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