THE #BIGGIVE IS LIVE!

Calling all alumni, students, faculty and staff! &nbsp The Big Give, our 24-hour day-of-giving blitz, is TODAY! Let’s join together and make this a BIG day for Mechanical Engineering!&nbspOur gifts will make a BIG difference for our terrific students and world-class teaching and research programs. &nbsp Here’s how to make a BIG impact : 1.…

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Tomorrow is the BIG GIVE! Find out how YOU can help support the ME Department!

Calling all alumni, students, faculty and staff! &nbsp The Big Give, our 24-hour day-of-giving blitz, is tomorrow,&nbspThursday,&nbspNovember 19th – let’s join together and make this a BIG day for Mechanical Engineering!&nbspOur gifts will make a BIG difference for our terrific students and world-class teaching and research programs. &nbsp Here’s how to make a BIG impact…

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ME Undergraduate Lavanya Jawaharlal Cuts Ribbon on ASUC Student Union

ME Undergraduate&nbspLavanya Jawaharlal cut the ribbon on the reopening of the ASUC Student Union as the executive vice president of the ASUC. According to&nbspJawaharlal, the student union is “”a new beginning … a new space, with new opportunities to grow.”” To learn more about the new student union, click here.

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‘ME Professor Xiang Zhang’s PhD Student, Zi Jing Wong, Wins Jean Bennett Memorial Student Travel Grant at Frontiers in Optics Conference’

Congratulations to ME PhD student Zi Jing Wong on winning the&nbspJean Bennett Memorial Student Travel Grant&nbspat the 2015 Frontiers in Optics conference. The grant was “”established in 2008, in memory of Jean M. Bennett, a highly decorated research physicist who was recognized for her contributions to the studies of optical surfaces and served as OSA’s…

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ME Professor Mohammad R. K. Mofrad and ME Grad Student Mohaddeseh Peyro Reveal New Clues to How the Gatekeeper for the Cell Nucleus Works

ME Professor Mohammad R. K. Mofrad and ME graduate student Mohaddeseh Peyro, along with two other researchers, have released their findings today in a paper titled “Evolutionarily Conserved Sequence Features Regulate the Formation of the FG Network at the Center of the Nuclear Pore Complex.” The paper uncovers “new clues to how a molecular machine…

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ME Professor David Dornfeld to be Honored at ASME’s 2015 IMECE

ME Professor David Dornfeld will be recognized by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME on Monday, November 16th during the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition IMECE in Houston, Texas. Professor Dornfeld will be receiving the M. Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Medal during the ceremony. The medal is “conferred upon an exceptional individual who…

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‘ME Undergraduate Lavanya Jawaharlal to Pitch Stem Company Tonight on Shark Tank, 9 PM/EST, ABC’

ME Undergraduate Lavanya&nbspJawaharlal, along with her sister Melissa, will be pitching their company,&nbspSTEM Center USA, to the panel of judges tonight on Shark Tank! STEM Center USA is&nbspa robotics outreach program aimed at inspiring youth by providing after-school programming and selling robotics kits for hands-on learning. &nbsp Shark Tank is a “”critically-acclaimed reality showthat has…

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ME Professor Boris Rubinsky Awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Galati

On October 19, 2015, ME Professor Boris Rubinsky was awarded the Doctor Honoris Causa by the Senate of&nbsp””Lower Danube””&nbspof the University of Galati in his native Romania. The Senate boasts that “”Professor Rubinsky, through exceptional scientific work, is a world-class scientist, which honors the American people, the people of Israel, and Romania by being born…

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ME Students Drew McPherson and Kevin Haninger Team Up to Launch Design Group to Help Tackle Difficulties Associated with Disabilities

ME senior Drew McPherson and PhD student Kevin Haninger have teamed up with&nbspcognitive science student Francisco Peralta to launch EnableTech. EnableTech is a student organization that “”aims at providing assistive technologies to people with disabilities in the Berkeley community. These assistive technologies will be investigated, designed, and, if needed, prototyped by students interested in real…

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‘ME Alumnus Nick Kohut, Co-Founder of Dash Robotics, Creates Origami-Style Robots’

ME alumnus&nbspNick Hohut, along with his team at Dash Robotics, has created the “”world’s first lightning-fast, origami-style robots that you can build yourself!”” The robots, named Kamigami, were created as an educational tool, furthering their mission of making STEM education accessible to everyone. According to Dash Robotics, Kamigami are “”perfect for those looking for a…

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‘ME PhD Student Zi Jing Wong Wins Best Student Paper Award at Metamaterials 2015, the 2015 IEEE Phototonics Conference & the CLEO Pacific Rim 2015’

ME Professor&nbspXiang Zhang’s&nbspPhD student&nbspZi Jing Wong, has won the Best Student Paper Award at the&nbspMetamaterials 2015 – Ninth International Congress on Advanced Electromagnetic Materials in Microwaves and Optics. The Congress provides “”a unique topical forum to share the latest results of the metamaterials research in Europe and worldwide and&nbspbring together the engineering, physics, and material…

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SF Business Journal Features Jacobs Hall and ME Chair David Dornfeld

The&nbspSan Francisco Business Journal&nbsprecently published an article featuring UC Berkeley’s new Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation, and the opportunity it will bring to Bay Area companies to help mentor and mold students in the College of Engineering. In the article, ME Chair David Dornfeld, who was recently named Faculty Director of the institute, spoke of…

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ME alumnus Christopher Ategeka Partipates in First-Ever White House Demo Day

On August 4, 2015, President Obama hosted the first-ever White House Demo Day, which “”focused on inclusive entrepreneurship, welcoming startup founders from diverse walks of life and from across the country to showcase their innovations.”” Christopher Ategeka, who graduated with a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley, was one of the lucky&nbspentrepreneurs…

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ME PhD Student Zi Jing Wong Wins Best Paper Award at SPIE Conference

ME Professor Xiang Zhang’s PhD student Zi Jing Wong, has won the Best Student Paper award at the 2015 SPIE Active Photonic Materials Conference. Wong’s award winning paper, “Single Mode Parity-Time Laser,” discusses: “The concept of parity-time PT symmetry exploits the interplay between the material loss and gain to attain novel optical phenomena such as…

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ME Chair David Dornfeld named Faculty Director of the Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation

Congratulations to our department chair, ME Professor David Dornfeld, on being named the faculty director of the new&nbspJacobs Institute for Design Innovation! &nbspS. Shankar Sastry, dean of engineering at Berkeley, calls Professor Dornfeld “”that rare individual who can work at the intersection of technology design, manufacturability and real-world impact to spark creative problem-solving and innovation.””&nbspThe…

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ME Students in the Lin Lab Featured on ABC7 News

Students in ME&nbspProfessor&nbspLiwei Lin’s Lin Lab were featured this week on ABC7 KGO, talking about their work on the “”Smart Cap.”” The 3-D printed cap&nbspuses electronics to sense spoiled food, for instance, in that carton of milk that’s been sitting in your refrigerator for too long… or is that just us?! &nbsp To view the…

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ME Professor Dennis K. Lieu Wins EDGD’s Distinguished Service Award

At the June 2015 annual meeting of the&nbspAmerican Society for Engineering Education ASEE in Seattle, ME Professor Dennis K. Lieu was presented with the&nbspDistinguished Service Award DSA by the Engineering Design Graphics Division EDGD.&nbspThe Distinguished Service Award&nbspis a the highest award given by EDGD, which is the oldest division within ASEE.

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ME Lecturer Marcel Kristel Wins PSOW Essay Contest

Congratulations to ME Lecturer Marcel Kristel on winning the&nbspProtocol School of Washington’s alumni essay contest. The contest aligned&nbspwith&nbspNational Business Etiquette Week, and awarded the winner a day with&nbspPamela Eyring, the president of the PSOW. Kristel has chosen to share the prize with UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering students, and has arranged for Eyring to provide…

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