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UC Berkeley Department of Mechanical Engineering Ranked #2 Undergraduate ME Program
The Department of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley has been ranked the #2 undergraduate Mechanical Engineering program in the 2020 U.S. News and World Report’s annual list of “America’s Best Colleges.” The College of Engineering at UC Berkeley was also ranked the #3 engineering program overall and the top public engineering school. Go Bears!
Read MoreTransfer Mike Nash: Mountain Bike Racing Got Me into Engineering
“I’m a junior, and I’m 28, so I took a little bit of time off of school. I didn’t really know what I wanted to do in college. I was racing mountain bikes. I was a professional — I raced downhill. When you’re in a race, you get a bunch of different sponsors. You get…
Read MoreBerkeley Engineers Propose Solutions for Reaching U.N. Development Goals
Last year, three UC Berkeley undergrads won a competition co-hosted by the MIT Climate CoLab and the United Nation’s Environment Program (UNEP), which sought ideas for achieving the U.N.’s sustainable development goals by 2030.
Read MoreME Student Gracielita Mendoza-Beginez Gives Speech at Undergraduate Engineering Commencement
On Tuesday, May 21, ME student Gracielita Mendoza-Beginez took to the podium as the student speaker for the Berkeley Engineering undergraduate commencement ceremony. Mendoza-Beginez shared her own experience as a first-generation, low-income Latina engineering student and encouraged her fellow graduates to address the lack of diversity in engineering. “Representation in STEM matters, and we have…
Read MoreBerkeley Engineers off to change the world
Nearly 700 undergraduate students and 800 graduate students gathered with their families and friends at the Hearst Greek Theatre yesterday for the College of Engineering’s annual commencement ceremonies. During both events, speakers called on graduates to draw on their Berkeley education to promote equity as well as innovation.
Read MoreHeat-powered hat
Pranav Vaidhyanathan, an electrical engineering and computer sciences student, remembers summer blackouts in his hometown of Chennai, India. It wasn’t unusual for electricity to be out for as long as 20 hours. Mechanical engineering student Alex Yamada could commiserate. Growing up on Oahu, Hawaii, Yamada remembers how the island would frequently lose power — especially after a big…
Read MoreEngineering’s 2019 commencement speakers
Gracielita Mendoza-Beginez (B.S.’19 ME) will be this year’s undergraduate commencement speaker. A first-generation college student, Mendoza-Beginez initially came to Berkeley to pursue a degree in environmental science from the College of Natural Resources. But midway through her freshman year, she realized that she had an interest and talent for engineering and worked hard to transfer into…
Read MoreMeet the future engineers
About 350 students from across the East Bay descended on the Berkeley campus last weekend for Engineering for Kids (E4K), a one-day science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) event for low-income fourth- to sixth-grade students. The annual event is organized and hosted entirely by Berkeley students.
Read MoreThe Fast Track to Being a CEO-Engineer
A dual undergraduate program in engineering and business is gaining traction with students.
Read MoreUC Berkeley College of Engineering launches a new course to help engineers become better communicators
A new undergraduate course called the Art of STEM Communication will be launched Spring 2019 at UC Berkeley. The course was created by the Dean of UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering (COE) Tsu-Jae King Liu and will be co-taught by her and freelance journalist Sonner Kehrt. The goal of this course is to train engineering students…
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 MoreThe HAB Project: A Platform for Space Research
Student group Space Technologies at Cal aim for 100,000 feet with their High Altitude Balloon launch.
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 MoreThe HAB Project: A Platform for Space Research
Article originally published on 4/20/18 in Berkeley ENGINEER Photo courtesy of STAC by Daniel McGlynn It’s early on Saturday morning. Right in the heart of campus, on Memorial Glade, a dozen students gather and prepare to launch a high-altitude balloon 100,000 feet into the atmosphere. They are part of Space Technologies at Cal STAC, a…
Read More‘Engineering Student Group, Berkeley Hyperloop, Crowdfunds to Prepare for SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition ‘
Berkeley Hyperloop bLoop, a team of UC Berkeley engineering students, is currently raising funds to help prepare for the 2018 SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition. In January of 2016, bLoop was one of 22 teams chosen by SpaceX to compete in the 2018 competition. The group is currently raising funds via Berkeley Crowdfunding, which will be…
Read MoreME Student Groups Host Honda STEAM Connections Tour for Local Middle and High School Students
BERKELEY, Calif. Thursday, Sept. 15 — Sarah Dixon raised her hand to ask Max Chilton a question. First, the driver of the No 8 Chip Ganassi Racing Teams Honda posed a question to the middle school student from Berkeley, California: “I see your name on your jacket. Are you related to my teammate?” “That would…
Read MoreME Undergrads Take 3rd Place in NASA Aeronautics University Design Challenge 2016-2017
A UC Berkeley student team placed among the finalists awarded the top three prizes in the NASA Aeronautics Design Challenge 2016-1017. The competition, which drew entries from 26 different teams, evaluated the quality and feasibility of each submission: a design proposal for a commercial supersonic business jet that would theoretically meet NASA’s performance criteria and…
Read MoreCalSol Comes in First Place at Formula Sun Grand Prix
Photo credit: Chris Cartland Campus solar vehicle team comes in 1st at Formula Sun Grand Prix Originially published in The Daily Californian on July 10, 2017 By Atira Nair | STAFF On Saturday, CalSol, a campus solar vehicle team, won the Formula Sun Grand Prix, or FSGP, an annual nationwide solar vehicle track race. The…
Read MoreME Undergraduate Student Ankita Joshi Wins KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize
ME undergraduate student Ankita Joshi has been awarded the 2017 KIDS FIRST: David L. Kirp Prize by the Institute for the Study of Societal Issues at the University of California, Berkeley. The KIDS FIRST prize “rewards students engaged in new or ongoing work that demonstrates a commitment, whether in education or other domains, to creating…
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 Undergrad Nicole Panditi Helps Lead 3D Printer Filament Reclamation Project
Story originally published on February 15, 2017 By Anne Brice, Berkeley News   UC Berkeley is a leader in 3D printing. From creating a prosthetic hand for an 8-year-old girl to a “smart cap” that senses spoiled food to large-scale cement buildings, engineers and designers on campus are pushing the technology to the limits, using it in ways never seen before.…
Read MoreME Alum Anuj Chaudhary and a Team of Berkeley Undergrads Are Boosting the Intelligence of Your Apps
Photo by Noah Berger Article originally published by Berkeley ENGINEERING   The world according to Dot 10/24/2016, by Daniel McGlynn   Kunal Chaudhary and Rahul Ramakrishnan met one another a few years ago as Berkeley freshmen. They were part of Venture Strategy Solutions, a startup consulting club that gave them behind-the-scenes glimpses of how young companies…
Read MoreME Undergrad Ankita Joshi Crowdsources to Help Bring STEM and Design Skills to Youth in Oakland
ME undergrad Ankita Joshi, along with her fellow students Michelle Nie and Aubrey Larson, have teamed up to create Mak. The group formed Mak pronounced “make” with the mission to empower urban youth to become 3D designers and local innovators. The organization’s goal is to provide youth with the STEM and design skills they need…
Read More‘ME Undergrad Andrew Seliskar is “Swimming at a Whole New Level”‘
Article originally published in The Washington Post on June 25, 2016. by Amie Just   “”After a year at Cal-Berkeley, Andrew Seliskar is swimming at a whole new level”” In Andrew Seliskar’s first big swim meet, his goggles fell off. He doesn’t remember whether he was 6 or 7 years old, but he does recall…
Read MoreME Undergrad Neelanjan Lahiri in Berkeley ENGINEER Feature on Berkeley Hyperloop
Learning to Levitate Originally Published on 5/1/2016 in Berkeley ENGINEER   Before shooting their futuristic vehicle down a test track at high speeds for a design competition this summer, 40 Berkeley students must first make their Hyperloop pod levitate.   The world’s Hyperloop fascination started back in 2012, when SpaceX founder Elon Musk let loose…
Read MoreME Student Lavanya Jawaharlal Talks About Females of Color in STEM
The BLUM Center recently spoke with ME Student Lavanya Jawaharlal on females of color in STEM. To read the full interview, please click here.
Read More‘Student Group, Berkeley Hyperloop, Wins Spot to Test at SpaceX’
SpaceX, a company that designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, recently launched an open competition, geared towards university students and independent engineering teams, to design and build the best Hyperloop pod. The Berkeley Hyperloop team spent the last semester designing a Hyperloop pod to enter into the competition, engineered around safety and reliability.   This past weekend,…
Read MoreME Undergraduate Lavanya Jawaharlal Cuts Ribbon on ASUC Student Union
ME Undergraduate Lavanya Jawaharlal cut the ribbon on the reopening of the ASUC Student Union as the executive vice president of the ASUC. According to Jawaharlal, the student union is “”a new beginning … a new space, with new opportunities to grow.”” To learn more about the new student union, click here.
Read More‘ME Undergraduate Lavanya Jawaharlal to Pitch Stem Company Tonight on Shark Tank, 9 PM/EST, ABC’
ME Undergraduate Lavanya Jawaharlal, along with her sister Melissa, will be pitching their company, STEM Center USA, to the panel of judges tonight on Shark Tank! STEM Center USA is a robotics outreach program aimed at inspiring youth by providing after-school programming and selling robotics kits for hands-on learning.   Shark Tank is a “”critically-acclaimed reality showthat has…
Read MoreME Undergraduate Lavanya Jawaharlal Participates in Girls in Engineering Summer Camp
ME undergraduate Lavanya Jawaharlal and ME Professor Grace O’Connell were featured by Berkeley News for their participation in Girls in Engineering, a camp that gives middle school girls hands-on experience in engineering. The article says Jawaharlal ””insisted that the girls master the proper names and functions of the robotic parts they were about to assemble. They went over terms like chassis, micro-controller and breadboard,…
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