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Giving
of herself
ABOUT A PINT: That's how much
blood ME junior Nicole Fung gave during the Tau Beta Pi Blood
Drive to help the Red Cross on Tuesday, March 8. "I haven't
done it in a while and it's an easy way to help people,"
Fung said. "I've done it three times before and I'm
always a little nervous because sometimes they have trouble finding
the vein." This time, Fung's experience was relatively
painless. Engineering students endured long waits next to Soda
Hall to donate. While they waited, some pulled out textbooks and
studied.
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A
letter from Spain
CEE junior describes his study abroad in Europe
This semester, CEE junior
Kevin Stephens is taking a hiatus from engineering to study abroad in
Barcelona, Spain, with the Cultural Experiences Abroad program. The
following is a letter he wrote to Engineering News about his experiences.
In some ways, my life here is similar to what it would be back at Cal.
I make frequent trips to the grocery store for beer and food. I also
study. Unless you are nearly fluent (which I'm not), there's really
not a program that offers engineering courses in Spain. So I'm studying
Spanish, and it's been a refreshing and enlightening break from technical
classes at Cal.
I have Spanish class four days a week at the University of Barcelona.
The Spanish I studied in high school is not the same version that is
spoken in Spain. What is a common phrase in Mexico could get you slapped
by an old lady here in Barcelona (though it hasn't happened to me).
Still, my Spanish is improving every day, and I plan to continue...[FULL
STORY]
Engineering
the written word
EECS senior co-founds writing website for college
students
Last fall, EECS senior Jesse
Young and his good friend Nick Miller, a legal studies senior, were
looking for a project they could do together that would showcase their
talents. Miller, steeped in the humanities, had a knack for words. Young,
an EECS techie, could code in his sleep. Writing + Web.
On Jan. 26, the two launched www.heeltribune.com, a website for college
writing. The site features first-person essays, editorials and satirical
news pieces written by college students from Berkeley, Harvard, Princeton,
and universities around the country. Since its launch, the site has
received 20,000 hits per month.
"It's a creative outlet for people," Young says. "Students are writing
in blogs anyway, but now they write to us instead."
Heeltribune.com is not a literary journal. Recent stories waxed poetic...[FULL
STORY]
Designing
for the greater good
E 10 class creates gear to protect farm workers
from pesticides
Laborers in California's
agricultural valleys are routinely exposed to pesticides. They inhale
pesticides from the air, drink pesticides in the water, and wear them
in their clothes. The result isn't good, said ME professor Alice Agogino.
Studies have found that human exposure to pesticides is linked to cancer,
birth defects, stillbirth, infertility and nervous system damage. Agogino
asked her E 10 Engineering Design and Analysis students to help. Their
assignment? Design a cost-effective and user-friendly product that would
protect farm workers as they go about their jobs.
No ordinary class exercise, but then, this is no ordinary class. In
an experimental version of E 10, Agogino's class is one of three five-week
modules the students are taking this semester. New this year, Agogino's
module is...[FULL
STORY]
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