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All dressed
up and ready to go
THAT CIVIE LOOK:
Engineering News caught this group of CEE students
on their way to a field trip. From left, senior Elizabeth Chhom,
junior Brian Yangyuen, junior Franklin Lee, senior Joey McCue,
senior Rosalynn Chongchaikit, senior Enrique Yang, and senior
Daniel Tran. “We went to the Vista College construction
site in downtown Berkeley for our CEE 166 class, Construction
Engineering,” McCue explains afterward. “We were
given an hour-long tour of the site and learned that the construction
is difficult because of the location and proximity to other
buildings, which surround the site on three sides. Also, the
construction is being done under LEED (Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design) parameters for a Green Building rating. This
means the construction can only use certain materials that are
considered environmentally friendly.” (Photo Credit: Rachel
Jackson)
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EECS junior transfer Scott Goodson has a cold, but that doesn’t
prevent him from messing around on his 1.1-terabyte laptop in his Unit
1 dorm room. “I’m really into video,” he says. “I
like making them, especially time-lapse ones, because you can easily
see and analyze patterns.” He plays a sped-up clip of driving
along streets and freeways in southern California shot from the roof
of his car. The video is set to electronica music. For Goodson, driving
is a relatively new thing. He’s 16.
“It’s not really that difficult,” he says when asked
about being so young at Berkeley. “People can’t really tell
I’m 16. The only ones who know are people I’ve told.”
It’s true that Goodson doesn’t act like a typical teenager.
Then again, he didn’t spend much time in high school. “I
was there one year as a freshman and then I petitioned to go to junior
college and get my AA degree,” he explains. He also skipped half
of sixth grade, all of seventh, and the first half of eighth grade.
All told, he bypassed five years of K-12. [FULL STORY]
She’s from Taiwan and speaks fluent Mandarin. She moved to California
in the fifth grade and confesses to being a band nerd. She marched in
the Rose Parade. She’s a former ASUC intern. She likes business
and marketing. She thinks it would be fun to be a poet. She believes
Hurricane Katrina is a good example of why everyone needs to be socially
responsible and help each other out.
Meet ME/MSE senior Jui-Shan Grace Hsu. As president of the Engineers’
Joint Council (EJC) this year, Hsu leads an organization that oversees
some 25 engineering student groups and societies and a budget of $29,000.
She’s also the public face for engineering students in various
College and campus organizations.
“It’s been hectic so far,” she says. “There
have been a lot of meetings on top of my schoolwork and research. But
as EJC president, I want to make sure I’m the mediator between
engineering students and outside parties.” For example, she’s
already working with ASUC senator Igor Tregub and Berkeley’s mayor
to address safety concerns of northside residents about navigating their
way around campus. But her main goal this year is to revive the old
days when EJC wasn’t just a source of money for clubs, but a forum
for engineering students to raise concerns and wield real clout across
campus. [FULL STORY]
Jim Young (B.S.’94, M.S.’97, Ph.D.’04 EECS) rides
into work on his Ducati motorcycle. He tries to get there about noon.
His office is located in a slick corporate-style building in downtown
Berkeley, but Young’s floor is more like a college pad. The overhead
lights are off, and here and there Christmas lights glow. There’s
no organized office: a cubicle here, a desktop propped on boxes there,
a makeshift table with a laptop. Computer screens glow. There’s
a mess of empty bottles, magazines, and a massage chair. The chair is
Young’s preferred workspace.
“I really, really love my job,” says Young. “Before
I was lazy, but now I’m a bit of a workaholic.”
Young, 32, is co-founder and CEO of HOTorNOT.com. Launched
in the autumn of 2000, the website provides a forum for people to post
pictures of themselves or their friends online. The site’s visitors
rate how good-looking the person is from 1 (not) to 10 (hot). If it
sounds a bit like high school (or college for that matter), then that’s
precisely why the site became wildly popular. Friends told friends about
it like a juicy piece of gossip. In due time, the New York Times,
Salon.com, People, Entertainment Weekly,
and BusinessWeek covered it. [FULL STORY]
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