Dear Berkeley Engineer:

Believe it or not the sun is shining in Berkeley! Do you remember what happens when the sun shines on Memorial Glade? Frisbees fly, sunbathers soak up the rays, and all of those hardworking Cal students studying for midterms in Doe Library peer out the windows onto the Glade while counting down the hours until spring break arrives! 

Would you like to share your springtime memories as a Berkeley Engineering student with newly admitted students on Cal Day, Saturday April 17? If so, Berkeley Engineering Student Services is hosting an information table from 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (includes lunch!) in front of the Bechtel Engineering Center. Join us for an opportunity to share your past experiences here at Cal and to tell our visitors and potential students that all the hard work was worth it! We need volunteers for 1-hour time slots between 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m., to volunteer, email the 1-hour time slot you're available to: bears@berkeley.edu.

Faculty update… six Berkeley faculty members have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering! Election to the NAE is considered one of the most prestigious professional distinctions awarded to an American engineer. Please join us in congratulating new members: Lisa Alvarez-Cohen, chair of civil and environmental engineering; Eugene Haller, professor of materials science and engineering; Michael Jordan, professor in electrical engineering and computer sciences and in statistics; Jay Keasling, professor of biochemical engineering; Arthur Rosenfeld, professor emeritus of physics; and Xiang Zhang, professor of mechanical engineering.  These new members will be inducted to the NAE in October at a ceremony in Washington DC.

Stay in touch with your fellow alumni and hear what students are up to on the Berkeley Engineering Facebook fan page!  Become a fan today!

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

Help Select UC Berkeley Scholarship Participants
March and April 2010
California, New York and Washington DC
The California Alumni Association is recruiting alumni volunteers to help evaluate and score scholarship applications. Read, evaluate and score scholarship applications at a Reading Event near you. Volunteers will also have the opportunity to mingle, network and connect with local Cal alumni. For more information visit: http://alumni.berkeley.edu/services/volunteer/scholarship-selection/application-readers.

CAA Engineering Alumni Society Group Presents:  "Building a Sustainable IT Ecosystem" by Chandrakant Patel, and "Finding the Missing Memristor" by Dr. R. Stanley Williams
Monday, April 19
6:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Hewlett-Packard, 1501 Page Mill Rd, Building 3U Lobby, Palo Alto, CA
Network with fellow alumni and hear Chandrakant Patel, HP Fellow and Director of the Sustainable IT Laboratory at HP Laboratories, talk about his proposal of a sustainable global IT ecosystem to address the growing needs of populations in emerging economies. Stay for Dr. R. Stanley Williams, HP Senior Fellow and Director of the Information & Quantum Systems Laboratory, as he discusses the physical demonstration of the first intentional memristor, the fourth fundamental electronic circuit element. For more information and to register visit: http://my.berkeley.edu/site/Clubs?club_id=1155&pg=main.

Discover Cal Series: "The New California Dream: Can We Fix the Golden State?"
Tuesday, April 27, at the Menlo Circus Club, Atherton, CA
Wednesday, April 28, at the Veteran's War Memorial Building, Walnut Creek, CA
Tuesday, May 4, LA Public Library, Los Angeles, CA
6:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Education cuts. Broken politics. Overcrowded prisons. Immigration challenges. California, once the symbol of America's pioneering spirit, is barely hanging on today. Participate in a lively conversation about what's ailing California, and what can be done to recover the dream. For more information and to register visit: http://discovercal.berkeley.edu/.