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CE students challenge you to the "ultimate"
match
FRISBEE FUN: CE senior Kevin Burlingham
looks for an open teammate in a Friday afternoon game of ultimate
Frisbee on the lawn in front of Wellman Hall. For three semesters
now, the chapter officers of the American Society of Civil Engineers
and the national CE honor society, Chi Epsilon (XE), have acted
out their friendly rivalry in a biweekly game of ultimate. That
makes for a steady stream of good-natured verbal sparring before
and after the game, compounded by the fact that both chapters
share the same office. According to the teams, XE has won the
most games and continued the trend, winning this game 12 to 11.
In fact, XE is so confident, it's challenging other student
societies. "We'll take on Tau Beta Pi, IEOR, or any
other engineering organization out there!" declares CE junior
Nathan Van Etten.
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Last year, one of the College's
newest graduate offerings, Applied Science and Technology (AS&T),
celebrated its eleventh anniversary. AS&T focuses on studies involving
the application of physical and mathematical techniques to fundamental
investigations and emerging areas within the physical and life sciences.
AS&T offers students the option of crossing disciplinary lines to
create an individual graduate degree program.
Last fall, 10 new students entered the program, compared to two when
the program first started back in 1993. To mark the occasion, Engineering
News sat down with AS&T doctorate students Andy Aquila (B.S. '04
Eng. Phys.), Greg Bogin Jr., Corin Greaves, Brenda Haendler (M.S. '03
ME), Michael Lam (M.S. '03 AS&T), and Diana Yi to learn more.
Why did you choose AS&T?
Michael Lam: The big appeal of AS&T is its answer to the
classic problem: You know you want to go to graduate school, but you
don't know in...[FULL
STORY]
As any undergraduate student
knows, when you apply to the College as a high school senior, you either
choose a department or apply to the engineering undeclared program.
It's difficult to choose a department and it's difficult to get into
engineering undeclared. Then, as freshmen, students take their specified
classes. At this point, making a change is difficult.
"By the end of their first year, students have made a substantial commitment,"
says Associate Dean and ME professor Dave Auslander, "and there are
real barriers to transferring from department to department. And that's,
of course, a tradition of going to college: changing majors."
For the last few years, the College has been working to solve the problem.
The proposed...[FULL
STORY]
One day in 1996, then NE
Ph.D. student Darren Bleuel (B.S. '93 Ph.D. '03 NE) was hanging out
with his NE friends, reading the Daily Cal funnies. "These comics suck,"
one friend declared. Then he turned to Bleuel and said, "You should
do a strip."
"About what?" asked Bleuel.
"About us," came the reply. "About us Nukees."
Ah, Bleuel knew, the material was just waiting to be mined. Comedy born
from engineering students slaving away in the industrial environs of
Etcheverry Hall, bent double under the demands of professors, pondering
the nature of science over beers, navigating a minefield of personal
relationships, and oh the characters, the gloriously weird characters!
Bleuel didn't hesitate. A comic strip named "Nukees" -- now that would
be funny. Only one problem: He couldn't draw.
Any engineer knows a problem only exists to be worked down to its solution.
Bleuel didn't know how to draw, but he could copy with the best of them,
so copy he did: Peanuts, Calvin and Hobbes, anything he could get his
hands on.
"I got good enough so I could eventually teach myself to draw," he says.
In January 1997, Bleuel published...[FULL
STORY]
The National Academy of
Engineering (NAE) recently elected new members, including three engineering
faculty: CS Professor David E. Culler for contributions to scalable
parallel processing systems, including architectures, operating systems,
and programming environments; EECS professor Roger T. Howe for contributions
to...[FULL
STORY]
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