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Organic material design and fabrication
PROJECT GOURD:
In anticipation of Halloween, members of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, carved pumpkins at a club event. For some, the best part was removing the pumpkin guts. Others liked plotting what to carve. But everyone thought it was a fun way to hang out, eat snacks and not think about problem sets!
RACHEL SHAFER PHOTO
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When Istvan Gorog (B.S.’61, M.S.’62, Ph.D.’64
EE) arrived at UC Berkeley in 1957, he had few clothes and no money.
His family was 6,099 miles away in Budapest, Hungary, and he wasn’t
sure if he’d ever see them again. Along with 200,000 other refugees,
he had escaped from Hungary after Soviet forces brutally quashed a
popular uprising against the communist government in October 1956.
As a Technical University student, he had taken part in peaceful demonstrations.
Now, he was lucky to be alive. He was 18.
Today, Gorog is 68 and the president and CEO of CAPA Technologies, a company
he started this year after spending more than 40 years in consumer electronics
research and management. Recently, Gorog returned to campus to share his story
at a colloquium that commemorated the 50th anniversary of the “1956 Hungarian
Revolution and Freedom Fight.” [FULL STORY]
In Hesse Hall, teams of ME seniors labor over instrument
panels and machines. They conduct experiments, record data and analyze
the results. In the shock absorber dynamometer experiment, a team is learning
to evaluate the behavior of a gas-filled shock absorber. Earlier in the
semester, the seniors had collected a baseline set of data that established
how the shock absorber would behave under normal conditions. Now, they’re
throwing in the proverbial monkey wrench by changing one parameter at
a time. At the moment, the team is using an oil of a different viscosity.
Multiply that by several parameters, add in two more experiments, three
papers and an oral presentation per experiment, and you have ME 107B,
the senior capstone lab every mechie experiences before graduation. [FULL STORY]
Before he came to Berkeley, BioE associate professor
Steve Conolly worked as a researcher in Stanford’s EE department,
where he developed a prepolarized MRI scanner and demonstrated high-quality
human wrist images with a low-cost scanner.
In 2004, he left a successful research career to join the five-year-old BioE
department. By accepting a faculty job at a new department within an emerging
discipline, Conolly took a leap. Engineering News interviewed the professor
earlier this semester about his decision to come to Berkeley and his thoughts
on the department today. [FULL STORY]
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