It was a lovely party on the patio
FALL FETE:
Graduate students from all departments enjoyed free pizza, beer and cookies during a College welcome party in Wozniak Lounge hosted by Engineering Alumni Relations. The warm weather was a perfect backdrop to meet up with old friends and make new ones before the demands of the semester set in. “It can’t get much better than free pizza and beer,” remarked one partygoer. RACHEL SHAFER PHOTO
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You’re moving into a new apartment and you need a microwave. You head down to Target and there are five models. How to pick one? Cost might be a factor … you want to save a few bucks. But you also want a model that is easy on the environment, one that doesn’t just save energy but also has the smallest environmental impact from the time it was manufactured until final disposal. To gather this information and analyze it yourself would be a hassle, until now.
Enter Total Environmental Assessment Rating or TEAR, an Internet-based rating system under development by ME professor Benson Tongue and his undergraduate researchers. The website rates consumer products such as microwaves, refrigerators and vacuum cleaners on their environmental footprint. For example, researchers give the Hoover Wind tunnel vacuum their highest rating: five green trees out of a possible five. (The more green trees the more environmentally benign a product is). [FULL STORY]
If this is your last year at Berkeley Engineering, join a group of seniors who will be leaving a legacy behind through the Senior Gift Campaign!
Q: What is the Senior Gift Campaign?
A: The Senior Gift Campaign is your first opportunity to begin a lifelong partnership with your soon-to-be alma mater by saying “thank you” to Berkeley Engineering. The goal of the campaign is not as much about money as it is about participation. With a little help from everyone, we can make this one of the best senior gift campaigns ever! [FULL STORY]
There are 4,200-plus students in Berkeley’s 2006 freshman class. CEE freshman Connie Wong is one of them. She lives with a roommate in the Unit 1 dorm complex on south side and has settled into her half of their 13.9 by 13.2-foot room. Computer and printer are set up; microfridge is running; bed (on this afternoon at least) is made, and alarm clocks (all three) are plugged in. The roommates have a nice view of the Campanile from their seventh-floor window. Sometimes it’s loud with fraternity members whooping it up at night on nearby streets or construction crews providing an unwelcome early morning wake up. But so far, so good.
Recently Engineering News met up with Wong to ask about college life and her thoughts about the coming year. When we spoke, she had Welcome Week and one full day of classes under her belt. [FULL STORY]
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