University of California, Berkeley Mechanical Engineering

‘ME Professor Alice Agogino Named an “Engineering Trailblazer” by UC Berkeley’

UC Berkeley calls ME Professor&nbspAlice Agogino&nbspan “”engineering trailblazer,”” and talks with her about gender, minorities and STEM for social justice in this latest article featured on the&nbspBerkeley.edu&nbsphomepage. The article quotes Professor Agogino as saying, “”When I started at Berkeley, I would occasionally have classes in which there not a single woman. In required classes, there …

‘How to Grow the Back’ with ME Professor Grace O’Connell

UC Berkeley talks with ME Professor&nbspGrace O’Connell&nbspabout “how to grow the back,” and the research happening in her&nbspSoft Tissue Biomechanics Lab. Professor O’Connell has been “at the heart of this research since graduate school. Now in her second year as assistant professor of mechanical engineering, she is adapting the technology with the aim of growing …

National Academy of Engineering Selects ME Professor Grace O’Connell for Symposium

Congratulations to ME Professor&nbspGrace O’Connell&nbspon being selected to participate in the&nbspNational Academy of Engineering’s NAE 21st&nbspannual&nbspU.S. Frontiers of Engineering&nbspUSFOE symposium! Engineers who are performing exceptional engineering research and technical work in a variety of disciplines were selected to come together for the 2 1/2 day event in September. &nbsp Click here to read the full …

American Society of Mechanical Engineers Features ME Professor Xiang Zhang in New Video

Our YouTube page now features a video by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ASME, featuring ME Professor Xiang Zhang, who was awarded their Nancy DeLoye Fitzroy and Roland V. Fitzroy Medal last Fall. Professor Zhang was honored for his “pioneering contributions in metamaterials and the creation of the first optical superlens to overcome the …

ME Undergraduate Lavanya Jawaharlal Participates in Girls in Engineering Summer Camp

ME undergraduate&nbspLavanya Jawaharlal and&nbspME Professor&nbspGrace O’Connell were&nbspfeatured by&nbspBerkeley News&nbspfor their participation in&nbspGirls in Engineering, a camp that gives middle school girls hands-on experience in engineering. The article says Jawaharlal&nbsp””insisted that the girls master the proper names&nbspand functions of the robotic parts they were about to assemble. They went over terms like chassis, micro-controller and breadboard, …

ME Professor Alice Agogino & Students Win Best Paper Awards at ICED15

Congratulations to ME Professor&nbspAlice Agogino, and her students, on winning two&nbspReviewer’s Favourite “”Best Paper”” Awards&nbspat this year’s&nbspInternational Conference on Engineering Design! Professor Agogino presented a paper on&nbspEuiyoung Kim’s doctoral research, “Design Roadmapping: Challenges and Opportunities” by Euiyoung Kim, Shun Yao, and Agogino. The paper won the first Reviewers’ Favourite Award, which are the&nbsptop 10% of&nbspreviewed …

ME Professor Liwei Lin’s 3D-Printed Smart Cap in the News

ME Professor Liwei Lin, and fellow UC Berkeley engineers, have developed a 3D-printed “smart cap” to help you keep track of spoiling foods. Berkeley News quotes Professor Lin as saying, “Our paper describes the first demonstration of 3D printing for working basic electrical components, as well as a working wireless sensor. One day, people may …

Behind the scenes look at the ME Student Machine Shop

Ever wonder what kind of work goes into the projects and inventions that come from the Department of Mechanical Engineering? Well, all that magic happens in our ME Student Machine Shop, here in Etcheverry Hall. Take a behind-the-scenes look at the shop, and meet some of our students, faculty and shop staff that make it …

Grant awarded from Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study

ME Professor Alice Agogino, along with Dr. Sohyeong Kim and Professor Henry Chesbrough from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, recently won a grant from the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study. This award will seed research on “Open Innovation in Food Innovation and Design: Comparative Case Study of California Cuisine and New Nordic Cuisine.

Students win First Place in Big Ideas contest

ME students Julia Kramer PhD student, Abhimanyu Ray MEng student, and Karan Patel MEng student, along with Betsy McCormick MBA student, Haas School of Business won&nbspFirst Place&nbspin the Global Health category in the Big Ideas contest for their proposal,&nbspVisualize: Saving Lives with Training for Cervical Cancer Screening. The proposal was partially developed through a capstone …

Zi Jing Wong awarded MRS Gold Graduate Student Award

ME graduate student Zi Jing Wong was recently awarded the MRS Gold Graduate Student Award at the 2015 MRS Spring Meeting in San Francisco. The MRS Graduate Student Awards are intended to honor and encourage graduate students whose academic achievements and current materials research display a high order of excellence and distinction.

Alice Agogino in the Special Design Issue of Berkeley ENGINEER

“”What are we designing? Are we designing for those in extreme poverty? Are we designing for the human condition? I hope so, and I hope that becomes part of the Jacobs Institute story.”” –ME Professor Alice Agogino in the Special Design Issue of Berkeley ENGINEER.