Engineering News
January 19, 2007 Vol. 77, no. 2S

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Berkeley: four, Stanford: zero

LITTLE BIG WIN: Tau Beta Pi (TBP) members celebrate their win over Stanford in the “Little Big Game” on December 2. Every year, on the morning of the Big Game, engineers from Berkeley’s and Stanford’s rival TBP chapters come together for their own personal touch football competition and compete for the cham-pion axe. This year, Stanford was 30 minutes late and didn’t bring enough players, but sportsmanship prevailed and a few Berkeley players switched sides. That wasn’t enough to prevent the Bears from scoring four touchdowns. So for the eighth straight year, the axe remained on this side of the bay. RACHEL SHAFER PHOTO

IEEE class helps local high schoolers build circuits and electrical engineering know-how

As a high school student, EECS junior Ashik Manandhar didn’t have a clear idea of what electrical engineering is. Neither did EECS sophomore Priyanka Reddy. Now they BShave a darn good idea and believe high school students are missing out. Along with other officers in Berkeley’s chapter of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Manandhar and Reddy are teaching an introductory class for local high school students based on the chapter’s successful DeCal course. [FULL STORY]

Add ‘filmmaker’ to his resume
IEOR/EECS professor co-authors documentary on Jewish identity

Remember that widely circulated e-mail a few years ago? “If the world were reduced to a village of 100 people, 60 would be Asians, 14 would be Africans, 12 would be Europeans, eight would be Latin Americans, five would be North Americans, and one would be Australian or New Zealander,” and so on…

The e-mail got EECS/IEOR professor Ken Goldberg thinking. In a village of 100 people, one-quarter of one person would be Jewish. “My wife and I started thinking about the question of our identity in a broader context,” he says. [FULL STORY]

Rowdy or artistic, ME 102 projects demonstrate design prowess and technical expertise

Once again, ME 102 students outdid themselves during the ME Design Expo, which took place on December 8. Teams demonstrated their final projects to a stream of fellow engineers, staff and faculty visitors who crowded into the basement of Etcheverry Hall. [FULL STORY]

 

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