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feast for mechanical engineers
DIG IN! ME freshmen Rachel Zhou (right)
and Brian Loo help themselves to a pile of crab at the 23rd annual
all-you-can-eat Crab Feed put on by the Cal chapter of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers. The crab feed is a social mixer
for the chapter's student and professional members and included
a presentation by Engineers Without Borders. According to chapter
president Kimberly Lau, 90 people ate about 100 crabs, which were
purchased from Spenger's Fresh Fish Grotto in Berkeley.
"By the night's end," says Lau, "all the
food was gone."
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Put down those books and come out for some fun in the sun. This year's
Engineering Week, a uniquely Berkeley event celebrating student engineers,
is packed with daytime and evening activities that coordinator Grace
Hsu says will be cooler than last year.
"We're doing activities that people can stop by for 20 minutes and check
out," she says. "You don't have to sign up. It's an opportunity to be
social and see other departments. It's also an opportunity for students
to check out engineering student groups by visiting their tables."
There will be prizes for contests, including a Sony Playstation Portable.
Day activities are from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. on the lawn between Memorial
Glade and Evans Hall. In the event of rain, all events will be hosted
on the Evans patio area. Engineering Week is brought to you by the letters
EJC (Engineers Joint Council) and all the student...[FULL
STORY]
Energy & Resources Group (ERG) graduate student Fermin Reygadas
grew up in Baja California Sur, Mexico. He witnessed firsthand how rural
communities suffer from unsafe local water. Children, in particular,
got sick, and families were forced to travel great distances to purchase
bottled water from cities.
Baja communities, says Reygadas, are "proud of their unique environment,
so it's sad when they have to depend on the cities. I wanted to help.
It's a very personal thing for me."
Reygadas kept his promise. He and ERG graduate colleagues Micah Lang
and Forest Kaser, along with Haas graduate student Margaret Rhee, applied
for and received an $18,600 fellowship to field-test UV water purification
units in 30 Baja homes for eight weeks this summer. The team will install
the devices and monitor how people like them over the next year. The
fellowship is courtesy of Berkeley's Management of Technology International
Research Fellowship Program.
This simple technology was developed at the Renewable and Appropriate
Energy Lab and tested at environmental engineering labs on campus. A
germicidal bulb - which is just like a regular fluorescent light minus
the white phosphor coating around the inside and constructed with quartz
instead of glass - is attached...[FULL
STORY]
Alumnus Chris Kumai (B.S.'85, M.S.'92 and Ph.D. '00 MSE) is a Berkeley
guy through and through. He was born in town, went to Berkeley High
School, spent a few years getting all three of his MSE degrees at Berkeley
Engineering, and now works in the MSE department as a principal development
engineer.
If you've ever worked in the MSE labs, you've probably run into him.
"My staff and I handle all infrastructure issues, instructional lab
operations, facilities related issues, safety issues, and research support.
My teaching duties are to train graduate student instructors in the
principles and operation of equipment for the Engineering 45 lab and
the MSE 130A lab." He also creates and troubleshoots instructional experiments.
Not surprisingly, Kumai's office is chock full of wires, equipment and
gadgets. He loves...[FULL
STORY]
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