ME 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…

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Berkeley 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.

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Heat-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…

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Engineering’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…

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Meet 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.

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Now 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,…

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The HAB Project: A Platform for Space Research

hab launch

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…

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ME 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…

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CalSol 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…

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ME 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…

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UC Berkeley Students and Bay Area Makers Join Global Movement to Collaborate and Develop Custom Solutions with People with Disabilities in 48-hour Makeathon

[Berkeley,&nbspMarch 17-19]&nbsp85 innovators and makers will gather at Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation at UC Berkeley for&nbspTOM: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…

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ME Undergrad Nicole Panditi Helps Lead 3D Printer Filament Reclamation Project

Story originally published on February 15, 2017 By&nbspAnne Brice, Berkeley News &nbsp UC Berkeley is a leader in 3D printing. From creating a&nbspprosthetic hand for an 8-year-old girl&nbspto a&nbsp“smart cap” that senses spoiled food&nbspto&nbsplarge-scale cement buildings, engineers and designers on campus are pushing the technology to the limits, using it in ways never seen before.…

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ME Undergrad Neelanjan Lahiri in Berkeley ENGINEER Feature on Berkeley Hyperloop

Learning to Levitate Originally Published on 5/1/2016 in Berkeley ENGINEER &nbsp 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. &nbsp The world’s Hyperloop fascination started back in 2012, when SpaceX founder Elon Musk let loose…

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‘Student Group, Berkeley Hyperloop, Wins Spot to Test at SpaceX’

SpaceX, a company that&nbspdesigns, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft, recently launched an open&nbspcompetition,&nbspgeared towards university students and independent engineering teams, to design and build the best Hyperloop pod. The Berkeley Hyperloop&nbspteam spent the last semester designing a Hyperloop pod to enter into the competition, engineered around safety and reliability. &nbsp This past weekend,…

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ME Undergraduate Lavanya Jawaharlal Cuts Ribbon on ASUC Student Union

ME Undergraduate&nbspLavanya Jawaharlal cut the ribbon on the reopening of the ASUC Student Union as the executive vice president of the ASUC. According to&nbspJawaharlal, 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.

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‘ME Undergraduate Lavanya Jawaharlal to Pitch Stem Company Tonight on Shark Tank, 9 PM/EST, ABC’

ME Undergraduate Lavanya&nbspJawaharlal, along with her sister Melissa, will be pitching their company,&nbspSTEM Center USA, to the panel of judges tonight on Shark Tank! STEM Center USA is&nbspa robotics outreach program aimed at inspiring youth by providing after-school programming and selling robotics kits for hands-on learning. &nbsp Shark Tank is a “”critically-acclaimed reality showthat has…

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ME Undergraduate Lavanya Jawaharlal Participates in Girls in Engineering Summer Camp

ME undergraduate&nbspLavanya Jawaharlal and&nbspME Professor&nbspGrace O’Connell were&nbspfeatured by&nbspBerkeley News&nbspfor their participation in&nbspGirls in Engineering, a camp that gives middle school girls hands-on experience in engineering. The article says Jawaharlal&nbsp””insisted that the girls master the proper names&nbspand functions of the robotic parts they were about to assemble. They went over terms like chassis, micro-controller and breadboard,…

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