Engineering News
February 9, 2007 Vol. 77, no. 5S

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A closer view of engineering

OLDIE BUT GOODIE: A community college student examines the Hispano-Suiza World War I vintage aircraft engine located in the Hesse Hall labs during Community College Day on October 27. During the event, which introduces prospective students to Berkeley Engineering, roughly 250 students toured labs like the ones in Hesse Hall and met with faculty and current engineers. The university is accepting more junior transfers, from 1,737 in the fall of 2004 to 1,950 last fall, according to campus statistics. MISHA VLABIMIRSKIY PHOTO

Berkeley launches new website to raise funds for student projects

Spend some time with BioE graduate student Kate Hammond, and she’ll convince you that engineers don’t inform and influence public policy as much as they should. That comes from personal experience. Her work in medical imaging will one day push governments, politicians and the private sector to think about how those technologies affect our health care. To help young researchers learn how to communicate better with policy-makers (and vice versa), she started a new student organization, the Science, Technology and Engineering Policy Group (STEP), in 2005. [FULL STORY]

Senior Gift Campaign is off and running! Have you donated, yet?

Seniors: Graduation is just three months away, and whether you’re excited or sad to leave, it’s time to get nostalgic about your time here. Think of the friends you’ve made, the activities you’ve done, the classes and professors you’ve enjoyed. Honor those memories by giving back to Berkeley Engineering through the Senior Class Gift Campaign. [FULL STORY]

Simulations to improve air quality
ME researcher studies turbulent combustion to reduce industrial waste

Combustion is the chemical reaction that keeps our cars driving, planes flying, homes heated and electricity flowing. How can the process be improved to reduce the pollution that spews out of industrial facilities? Design better combustion chambers, says ME Ph.D. student Fabrizio Bisetti. To aid in that endeavor, Bisetti and his colleagues in ME professor Jyh-Yuan Chen’s research group are simulating the complexsity of csombustion on a computer. [FULL STORY]

 

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