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.
Aaron Wienkers selected as finalist to receive prestigious UC Berkeley’s University Medal
Aaron Wienkers, a recently graduated senior from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was selected as one of five finalists to receive UC Berkeley’s prestigious University Medal, an honor that requires a 3.96 GPA and goes to those who have overcome challenges and are making a difference in people’s lives.
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 First Place in the Global Health category in the Big Ideas contest for their proposal, Visualize: 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.
Spring 2015 Commencement and ME Reception photos
Pictures from the Spring 2015 Commencement and the ME Reception are now up on our Facebook page!