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Calling all lovers of Linux (and everything CS)
GOT UNIX?
EECS junior Edward Karuna (center) chats up a visitor to the Computer Science Undergraduates Association (CSUA) table during a sunny, busy Calapalooza. CSUA and other engineering societies were in full recruiting mode during Welcome Week in August. If you’re interested in karaoke, food, video games, and, oh, computers, check out www.csua.berkeley.edu . RACHEL SHAFER PHOTO
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Every day CEE professor Jack Moehle comes to work and wonders if this is the day the big earthquake will hit. He also knows it may not be today, but tomorrow, or the next day, or 100 years from now. “By its nature, earthquake engineering must deal with highly complex and uncertain issues,” says the director of PEER, the Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center . “What we’re doing at PEER is defining the uncertainty, creating an engineering framework for interpreting it and fashioning a set of tools so we can give answers to people who make decisions about seismic safety.”
For the last nine years, PEER has been making progress toward just that. On August 30, the research center celebrated its move from Richmond Field Station to campus with an open house at its new offices in Davis Hall. Students, faculty, staff and visitors ate hors d’oeuvre and toured the new space at 325 Davis . “We’re a multidisciplinary center involving researchers in engineering, seismology, architecture, economics and public policy. To encourage multidisciplinary participation, we need to be here in a central campus location,” Moehle says. [FULL STORY]
On September 7, the ME department hosted an open house to introduce its improved student machine shop. Eighteen months in the making, the up-graded shop, located in 1166 Etcheverry Hall, features 15 new machines and a rearranged layout. The shop will accommodate more students than before and make it easier for classes and clubs to complete projects in a timely manner, say shop personnel.
Senior lab mechanician Gordon Long and his co-worker Mick Franssen were in charge of the upgrade. “We have three new milling machines, six new lathes with digital readouts and six new drill presses,” Long says. “We were closed over the summer so we could reconfigure the shop and move the new machines in. The feedback we’ve gotten from students is it was worth the wait. They love it. The size of the space hasn’t changed but it feels bigger. ” [FULL STORY]
This fall, three engineers took their seats in the ASUC (Associated Students of the University of California, Berkeley) Senate for a year of solving campus problems through student government. Engineering News recently interviewed them about plans for this year.
Dwight Asuncion, IEOR junior
What are your goals?
Work with northside businesses to extend their hours of operation and with Residential Computing and the University to get engineering computer software installed in the residential computing centers and in select libraries. I’d also like to hold a canned food drive and a resources conference for student groups. Finally, I want to help fund all culture shows. [FULL STORY]
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