New model sheds light on how wildfires spread through communities
California has already recorded more than 6,000 wildfires this year, underscoring the need for better mitigation strategies to reduce their devastating…
Berkeley Engineering welcomes new faculty to campus
Ken Kamrin, associate professor of mechanical engineering Kamrin received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from MIT. His research interests include…
New $150 million research center to develop sustainable model for materials production
UC Berkeley will partner with the new Rio Tinto Centre for Future Materials to develop a sustainable model for materials production to…
7.5 Qualifying Examination Guidelines
ME Biomechanics Qualifying Examination The qualifying exam does not focus on coursework, and examiners explicitly do not examine students in…
ME Professor and Ph.D. Student’s Research Featured in Soft Robotics
Squishy Robotics, UC Berkeley’s BEST (Berkeley Emergent Space Tensegrities) Lab, and a NASA Ames co-author were on the cover of…
Berkeley researchers send 3D printer into space
Imagine a crew of astronauts headed to Mars. About 140 million miles away from Earth, they discover their spacecraft has…
Winners of 2024 CITRIS Aviation Prize reach great heights
What would it take to connect the University of California’s campuses in Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz with a…
Researchers design soft actuators that mimic ‘bone-in-flesh’ structure of human limbs
Berkeley engineers have developed magnetically controlled soft actuators that mimic the “bone-in-flesh” structure of human limbs. Ultrafast and highly precise…
ME Undergraduate and Alumni Among Berkeley Engineering Commencement Speakers
Born and raised in the Philippines, Abhinav Subramaniam has worked with UC Berkeley’s Invention Corps on numerous projects—such as designing…
ME Undergraduate Lilly Etzenbach Among 2024 University Medal Finalists
In the remarkable diversity of the 2024 University Medal finalists, there is a striking theme: All of the finalists started…