Engineering News

May 15, 2006 Vol. 77, no. 15S

The Year in Photos: FALL 2005 TO SPRING 2006

CEE professor Bob Bea, graduate student Rune Storesund and Professor Ray Seed pose in front of a beached barge found near a levee break in New Orleans. The three were part of a Berkeley engineering team investigating levee and floodwall systems following Hurricane Katrina. (Photo provided by Rune Storesund)
ME senior Alex Chen talks to driver and ME senior Nihal Murthy, members of the Formula SAE team that designs, builds, and races a formula-style racing car. (Rachel Shafer photo)

 

In December, ME graduate student Fabian Beltran (left, foreground) demonstrated the fun properties of polymers for school children visiting Lawrence Hall of Science. (Rachel Shafer photo)
Graduate students made the most of a summer day on the lower part of the South Fork of the American River. Matt Sherburne (MSE, in back) guided, and paddlers are, from left, Scott Robertson (MSE), Jay Foulk (ME) and Gabe Harley (MSE). (Hotshot Imaging)

 

Engineering Science senior Austin Minnich learns to cut metal with an oxy-acetylene torch. Minnich was part of a group of 24 Berkeley engineers who learned to weld, blacksmith and shape molten glass at The Crucible in October. (Rachel Shafer photo)
Civie students share a laugh and some pizza with Roy W. Carlson Distinguished CEE professor Filip Filippou at a casual dinner-with-faculty event. (Rachel Shafer photo)

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ME senior Jayme Burket crowd-surfed during the Cal v. Illinois game on September 17. “It was fun and definitely something you should do before you graduate,” she reports. (Amine Berrada photo)
ME senior Nathan Ng and San Francisco middle school students pose with their robotic vehicle creation made of LEGOS. ME engineers helped the kids build and program toy robot cars as part of Pi Tau Sigma’s outreach program for homeless children. (Photo provided by PTS)

 

Candidates who want to join Tau Beta Pi polish the bent near Bechtel Engineering Center. CEE junior and candidate Kaustaubh Pandya (center) did his time on October 21. He’s joined by officers Trent Russi, an ME graduate student (left), and Paul Monasterio, an NE senior (Rachel Shafer photo)
“There are a lot of different reasons why people play Ultimate, but for me, it’s kind of the way the Frisbee floats,” says Cal men’s team captain and CEE graduate student Nat Kinsky. (Photo provided by UgMo)

 


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