Posts Tagged ‘Grad News’
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…
Read MoreFrom 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.
Read MoreME 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.
Read MoreME 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:…
Read MoreMillion Hands
“Million Hands,” a 2017 CITRIS seed-funded project that aims to build an open-source platform for customizable, functional, and low-cost prosthetic hands, has been making progress in developing 3D-printed prosthetic hands with more robust capability.
Read MoreSohn Lab Grad Student Olivia Scheideler Accepted Into MIT’s Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop
Olivia Scheideler, a graduate student in ME Professor Lydia Sohn’s Sohn Research Lab, has been accepted into the Rising Stars in Mechanical Engineering Workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this Fall. The workshop is aimed at women graduate students and postdocs considering future careers in academia. The inaugural Rising Stars event is expected to draw 30 of the…
Read MoreLin Lab Engineers Develop Origami Electronics Using Cheap, Foldable Paper
Originally published in Berkeley ENGINEERING on 6/18/18 by Wallace Ravven, Image by Xining Zang UC Berkeley engineers have given new meaning to the term “working paper.” Using inexpensive materials, they have fabricated foldable electronic switches and sensors directly onto paper, along with prototype generators, supercapacitors and other electronic devices for a range of applications. Research…
Read MoreNow and Forever Berkeley Engineers
Originally published on 5/16/18 by Berkeley ENGINEERING Photo by Matt Beardsley This year Berkeley Engineering’s Commencement was a waypoint for several of the college’s major milestones. Not only did graduates from the college’s baccalaureate and graduate programs gather with their friends and family in the Hearst Greek Theatre to mark the completion of their degrees,…
Read MoreME Graduate Student Jonathan McKinley Wins 2018 USA Triathlon Collegiate Club National Championships
Congratulations to ME graduate student Jonathan McKinley on winning the 2018 USA Triathlon Collegiate Club National Championships! The championship took place during the last weekend in April in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, where McKinley raced against 800 other athletes.
Read MoreME Ph.D. Student Hossein Heidari Wins Young Researcher Award at μTAS 2017
ME Ph.D. student Hossein Heidari received the Young Researcher Poster Award at the 21st International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (μTAS 2017). The award, sponsored by The Society for Chemistry and Micro-Nano Systems (CHEMINAS), recognizes excellence among participants at the conference. Heidari’s award-winning poster focused on his work with ME Professor Hayden Taylor on…
Read MoreME Ph.D. Student Negar Mehr Wins WTS-OC Scholarship
ME Ph.D. student Negar Mehr has been awarded a Graduate Scholarship from the Orange County chapter of Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS). WTS is an international organization “committed to excellence in the transportation industry and provides opportunities for member career advancement through the exchange of information, ideas, and experiences.” The award will be presented at the Annual…
Read MoreMPC Lab Members Win 2017 IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award
ME PhD candidate Ashwin Carvalho and former PostDoc Stéphanie Lefévre, along with ME Professor Francesco Borrelli, have won the 2017 IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering Best Paper Award. The award, given by the IEEE Robotics Automation Society, recognizes the best paper published in the previous calendar year, and is judged on technical merit, originality, potential…
Read MoreME Alum Christopher Daily-Diamond to Discuss Shoe String Theory at SF Exploratorium on September 7
ME Alum Christopher Daily-Diamond will be presenting at the Exploratorium on Thursday, September 7th from at 9:00pm, during their “After Dark Thursday Nights” event. Shoelace Knots Untied With Christopher Daily-Diamond 9:00 p.m. Phyllis C. Wattis Webcast Studio Sooner or later, most of us have looked down to see that our shoelaces have come undone, despite…
Read MoreME PhD Student Yumeng Liu Wins Outstanding Paper Award at Transducers 2017
ME PhD student Yumeng Liu, along with his fellow Lin Lab members Huiliang Liu, Yong Cui and Takeshi Hayasaka, have won the Outstanding Paper Award at the 19th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Transducers 2017 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. In the winning paper, Lin Lab members demonstrated “a new AC sensing scheme based on…
Read MoreME Doctoral Student Sonia Travaglini is Thinking Inside the Cardboard Box
Article originally published in the Berkeley Science Review By Sonia Travaglini How do you help someone thousands of miles away in an Indian slum fix their roof, or someone in the African urban jungle access cervical cancer screening? You might think of sending some money, or perhaps supporting some charitable agencies. But in recent years…
Read MoreME Graduate Student Chengzhi Shi & ME Professor Xiang Zhang Work to Bring High-Speed Communications to the Deep Sea
Photo Credit: Merilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab Could This Strategy Bring High-Speed Communications to the Deep Sea? Originally published by the Berkeley Lab News Center on June 27, 2017 by Sarah Yang 510 486-4575 A new approach to sending acoustic waves through water could potentially open up the world of high-speed communications to activities underwater, including scuba diving, remote ocean…
Read MoreTUNE IN: ME Grad Students Give Whirlwind of TV & Radio Interviews After Their Shoelace Research Goes Viral
ME graduate students Christopher Daily-Diamond and Christine Gregg have had a pretty busy week (or being that they are grad students, perhaps we should say a BUSIER week!). Their research, conducted alongside ME Professor Oliver O’Reilly in the Dynamics Lab, on why shoelaces come untied, has piqued interest around the world after being published in the…
Read MoreME Professor Grace O’Connell Awarded Signatures Innovation Fellowship
ME Assistant Professor Grace O’Connell has been awarded the 2017-2018 Signatures Innovation Fellowship. The fellows program “supports innovative research by UC Berkeley researchers in the data science and software areas with a special focus on projects that hold commercial promise.” O’Connell was awarded the fellowship, with ME graduate student Bo Yang, a member of O’Connell’s…
Read MoreME Graduate Students Team Up in the O’Reilly Lab to Test Their Shoe-String Theory
Photo by Christopher Daily-Diamond Shoe-string theory: Science shows why shoelaces come untied By Brett Israel, Media Relations brett.israel@berkeley.edu, 510 643-7741 Berkeley – A new study by mechanical engineers at UC Berkeley finally shows why your shoelaces may keep coming untied. It’s a question that everyone asks, often after stopping to retie their shoes, yet one…
Read MoreUC Berkeley Students and Bay Area Makers Join Global Movement to Collaborate and Develop Custom Solutions with People with Disabilities in 48-hour Makeathon
[Berkeley, March 17-19] 85 innovators and makers will gather at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley for TOM:Berkeley, a three-day technology-development marathon where participants work together with people with disabilities to develop solutions for everyday challenges. Physical prototypes address the local need, and the designs will be published online to address the needs of others with…
Read MoreME Professor Alice Agogino and ME Ph.D. students Rachel Dzombak and Julia Kramer Discuss Development Engineering
Impact Design Hub, “”an online resource for architects, designers, makers, and others committed to designing a better world,”” recently sat down with ME Professor Alice Agogino and ME Ph.D. students Rachel Dzombak and Julie Kramer to discuss their point of view on Development Engineering. Agogino is the Chair of the Development Engineering Graduate Group at the…
Read MoreLin Lab Members Win Best Student Paper Award at MEMS 2017
ME graduate students Eric Sweet and Ilbey Karakurt, along with their fellow Lin Lab members Joshua Chen and Alison Long, have won the Best Student Paper Award at the 30th IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems MEMS 2017 in Las Vegas, NV. Their winning paper demonstrates “a fully-3D printed multi-input microfluidic concentration gradient generator,…
Read MoreME PhD Student Dongchi Yu Wins SNAME-2016 Graduate Paper Honor Prize
ME PhD student in Ocean Engineering, Dongchi Yu, presented a paper at the NorCal-SNAME Professional Meeting March 16, 2016 on his recent research on “Numerical and Experimental Analysis of Wave-Resistance Reduction of Asymmetric Di-Hull Systems by Exploiting Interference Effects”. The study concerns validating a theory that allows the ship designer to rapidly optimize the stagger…
Read MoreME PhD Student Duncan Haldane and Fellow Roboticists at UC Berkeley Create Wall-Jumping Robot
Roboticists at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded. The agility of the robot opens new pathways of locomotion that were not previously attainable. The…
Read MoreME Ph.D. Students Sarah Koehler and Negar Zahedi Mehr Win Best Paper Award
ME Ph.D. Students Sarah Koehler and Negar Zahedi Mehr have won the Best Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE 19th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems. The conference is the annual flagship conference of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society and welcomes articles in the field of Intelligent Transportation Systems, dealing with new developments in…
Read MoreResearch on the Berkeley Autonomous Car Recognized by the US Secretary of Transportation
ME Professors Francesco Borrelli and Karl Hedrick, ME Ph.D. student Ashwin Carvalho, and Associate Director for Self-Driving Vehicle Development, Chan Kyu Lee, were in attendance for the US Department of Transportation’s DOT announcement of a new policy on Automated Vehicle Development. The group was invited by Anthony Foxx, the DOT’s Secretary of Transportation, to take…
Read MoreME Doctoral Graduate Euiyoung Kim Wins 2016 Best Paper Award at the 2016 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conference
ME Doctoral graduate Euiyoung Kim, along with his co-authors Jaewoo Chung, ME Teaching Professor Sara Beckman, and ME Professor Alice Agogino, won the 2016 Best Paper Award at the 2016 American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ International Design Engineering Technical Conference. The topic of the paper, titled “Design Roadmapping: A Framework and Case Study of Planning…
Read MoreME Ph.D. Candidate Anju Toor Selected as Rising Star by Carnegie Mellon University
ME Ph.D. Candidate Anju Toor has been selected as a Rising Star by Carnegie Mellon University, and will participate in the 2016 Rising Stars workshop. This annual academic career workshop brings together the world’s brightest women Ph.D. students, postdocs, and engineers/scientists, for two days of scientific interactions and career-oriented discussions aimed at navigating the early stages of…
Read MoreME Doctoral Student Aimee Goncalves Helps Young Makers Build Prosthetic Hands for Children in Need
On Tuesday afternoons in June and July, 30 middle school-aged girls gather in one of the maker spaces in Jacobs Hall. They are participants in one of four weeklong sessions of Girls in Engineering, a summer program at Berkeley designed to increase diversity in STEM fields by inspiring girls about the wonders and impact of engineering and…
Read MoreME’s Outstanding GSI Award Winners Announced
Congratulations to this year’s Outstanding GSI Award Winners! Siavash Ameli Raunak Bhinge David Fernandez Gutierrez Spencer Frank Daniel Pineda Xian Shi Lu Wang Shiying Zhou
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