ME PhD Student Brian Salazar received the Best Poster Presentation award at the 2019 International Conference on Planarization/CMP Technology in Hsinchu, Taiwan. This award was for his work entitled “Die-scale modeling of planarization efficiency using segmented CMP pads: analyzing the effects of asperity topography.” Salazar is currently a Ph.D. student in ME Professor Hayden Taylor’s …
News items about graduate students
Berkeley MEng Class of 2020 Profile
Each year the UC Berkeley Master of Engineering (MEng) program admits students from around the world who go on to become leaders in their respective fields. With 42 countries represented in the Class of 2020, the Fung Institute offers an extremely diverse student body of prospective engineers who come from many different backgrounds and perspectives.
Q&A with Intellicare, Winners of the 2019 Fung Institute Mission Award
Each year, the Fung Institute Mission Award is awarded to the Capstone team that best exemplifies the mission of the institute: “transforming scientists into leaders who can take risks and develop technical, social and economic innovations.” Finalists are nominated by Fung Instructors; winners are chosen by Fung Institute staff based on the project brief. This …
ME Assistant Professor Mark Mueller and ME PhD Student Nathan Bucki Receive IEEE ICRA Best Paper Award
ME Assistant Professor Mark Mueller and ME PhD student Nathan Bucki received the Best Paper on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Award at the 2019 IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Established in 2018, the award recognizes the best paper on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles presented at the conference based …
MEng Capstone team wins 2nd place in Big Idea pitch competition
A group of Master of Engineering and PhD students recently placed 2nd in the “Hardware for Good” category of the Big Idea competition at UC Berkeley. Their project utilizes cryotechnology for 3D bioprinting and isochoric preservation to increase access to tissues and organs for millions and quadrupling current preservation times. They were chosen from over …
ME Grad Students, Gideon Ukpai and Matthew Powell-Palm, Selected to Compete in the Big Ideas Grand Prize Pitch Day
ME graduate students, Gideon Ukpai and Matthew Powell-Palm, have been selected to participate in the Big Ideas Grand Prize Pitch Day, which will be held on April 24th at 5pm, in Blum Hall. Ukpai and Powell-Palm are one of seven Grand Prize finalist teams, from an original pool of more than 300 projects, competing for …
MEng Student Perspective: Berkeley Audio Design Challenge
UC Berkeley’s Audio & Education Design Challenge, sponsored by Bose and Autodesk, took place on Oct. 22, 2016. Shail Shah was on one of the two winning teams.
ME PhD Student Hossein Heidari Wins Shark Tank Award at BASF Innovent 2018
Hossein Heidari, a PhD candidate in ME Professor Hayden Taylor’s lab, has won the $100,000 Shark Tank prize for “Best Innovative Technology” at BASF Innovent 2018. Heidari received the award for the Design for Nanomanufacturing lab’s work on “Computed Axial Lithography,” a volumetric 3D printing solution invented in the lab as a new paradigm in additive manufacturing. BASF is a leading chemical …
From UC Berkeley to Burning Man: Meet Alireza Lahijanian, the engineering graduate behind the giant sculptures
Every year, the flat desert of Black Rock Desert, Nevada, becomes a temporary city where artists and counterculture-seekers flock to attend Burning Man. Central to the festival experience are the multistory sculptures — which are monuments, kinetic or still, that provide artists with an outlet for “radical self-expression,” a key principle of Burning Man.
ME Alum Kenneth Armijo Receives 2018 Zia Award
Kenneth Armijo, an alumnus of the School of Engineering, was one of the recipients of the 2018 Zia Award on Sept. 29. Armijo earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering in 2005 and his master’s and Ph.D. from University of California, Berkeley, where he also earned business credentials.
ME Grad Student Garrett Corcoran Named ASC Scholar-Athlete of the Week
ME graduate student Garrett Corcoran was recently named the Athletic Study Center (ASC) Scholar-Athlete of the Week. ASC staff nominate and select scholar-athletes who exemplify UC Berkeley’s high academic standards. Corcoran was recognized by the ASC for “epitomizing the Berkeley standard of excellence via rigorous research, collegial competition, and purposeful pursuit.” Congratulations, Garrett! (Also included on the above image: …