Dear Berkeley Engineer:
Are you interested in coming back to campus and sharing your expertise with current undergraduate students? We have the opportunity for you! Sign up to volunteer at one or more of the following upcoming student career programs by emailing bears@berkeley.edu:
- Prepare as a Freshman or Sophomore to be Competitive in High Tech, March 5, 12:30-2pm: Inform students how to best prepare for an internship in high tech.
- Engineering Roundtable, April 2, 1-3pm: Host a group table discussion about your field and company.
- Engineering Resume Critique, April 15, 4-6pm: Meet one-on-one with students and provide feedback on their resumes.
Beginning Tuesday, February 16, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI @Berkeley) and the New York Times will offer an exciting six-week online course with Professor Dan Kammen on The Energy Challenge: Balancing Resources and Policies. Join an international community of participants in their online classroom for weekly discussions and gain access to a specially created archive of New York Times articles on energy and related issues, organized by subject to correspond with the topic of the week. Write your own Op-Ed and share your ideas with your international colleagues in the private online forum. Register online today!
On February 1, U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced the formation of a Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future. Per Peterson, professor and chair of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley, with expertise in advanced reactor systems, nuclear waste processing and inertial fusion energy, will join the Commission in formulating recommendations for developing safe, long-term solutions to managing the nation's used nuclear fuel and waste.
Join UC Berkeley's online alumni community, @cal, today and receive free email forwarding service and the ability to network with alumni and current students. To register, go to http://cal.berkeley.edu. (If you graduated after May 2009, just log in with your CalNet ID and passphrase.) @cal, great minds online.
GO BEARS!
Dawn Kramer
Associate Director, Events & Programs
College of Engineering
UC Berkeley
(510) 643-7828 ph
http://coe.berkeley.edu/alumni
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UPCOMING EVENTS
UC Berkeley Cleantech Institute: Haas School of Business
Monday, February 22 & Tuesday, February 23
8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
Executive Education Learning Center, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley
The Cleantech Institute is a two-day program designed to advance commercialization of clean technologies by converging a dialogue between the key triad: Economics, Innovation and Policy; facilitating knowledge building and action taking to make the system work better; and creating a network that continues "action learning." Participants will gain the networks and know-how necessary to catalyze the industry into achieving its potential. For more information and to register visit: http://executive.berkeley.edu/programs/cleantech-institute/.
UC Berkeley Energy Symposium: 2020 Envisioning the Future of Global Energy
Wednesday, March 3, 7:00 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
Thursday, March 4, 8:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
Haas School of Business & MLK Student Union, UC Berkeley Campus
A student-run conference bringing together researchers, business leaders, policymakers and students to discuss energy issues facing our time. This year's symposium explores how policy, technology and business practice will shape the energy landscape around the world. Wednesday will highlight the Innovation Expo, an event that will highlight cutting-edge technologies being developed by UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Thursday will highlight two keynote speakers and 12 separate panels discussing a variety of insightful energy topics. For more information and to register visit: http://berc.berkeley.edu/symposium-about-2010.
Berkeley Engineering Alumni and Friends Social Hour
Thursday, March 4
6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Duke of Edinburgh, 10801 N. Wolfe Rd, Cupertino, CA
The economy and job market may be struggling, but it's time to celebrate the spring and meet some fellow alumni. Networking is more important than ever! Join Bay Area Engineering alumni at Duke's - a British pub - for a no-host bar in the back area of the restaurant. For more information or to RSVP, please contact Chris Apple (EECS '75) at: chris@applehome.com.
Breaking Trail: Mountains and Molecules
Tuesday, March 9
6:00 p.m.-8:30 p.m.
International House, UC Berkeley
International House invites alumni, friends and residents to a Lodestar Dinner program featuring Arlene Blum (I-House 1967-'68), mountaineer, biophysical chemist and author, speaking on Breaking Trail: Mountains and Molecules. Blum will address her adventures in mountain climbing and in fighting the use of toxic chemicals in consumer products. Her first book, Annapurna: A Woman's Place, was included in Fortune magazine's "2005 list of the 75 Smartest Business Books We Know." Blum is currently a visiting scholar in Cal's College of Chemistry. Reservations are required. For more information visit: http://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/ihouse.html?event_ID=27956.
