Engineering News
February 23, 2007 Vol. 77, no. 6S

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Paper cranes for charity

CREATIVE CHARITY: ME senior Andrew Favor (left) and CEE freshman Justin Martinez fold origami tray favors to give to patients at Oakland Children’s Hospital as part of a December charity event hosted by the Cal chapters of the Pilipino Association for Scientists, Architects and Engineers, the Institute for Industrial Engineers and the Society of Women Engineers. Close to 25 engineers helped out by folding origami, making cards and crocheting baby booties. RACHEL SHAFER PHOTO

Cal team wins national Academic Olympiad competition

Three engineering seniors won the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers’ Academic Olympiad competition last month, beating out seven teams from across the nation in a game show–style competition that tested their knowledge of everything from statics to organic chemistry to Hispanic history. The winning team members are ChemE senior Elena Perez, ME senior Artemio Navarro and Eng. Physics senior Frank Dollar.

“We were extremely excited to find out we had won,” says Perez. “Our chapter has usually done well at regionals, but we hadn’t won nationals in a while. We just wanted to do well.” [FULL STORY]

Three professors elected to the National Academy of Engineering

Three faculty members from Berkeley’s College of Engineering have been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), one of the highest professional distinctions for an American engineer.

The new members are EECS professor Eric Brewer, MSE professor John (Bill) Morris Jr. and ME professor Paul Wright. Six UC Berkeley alumni are also among the 64 new NAE members whose election to the academy was announced on Friday, Feb. 9. [FULL STORY]

Student housing goes green
Engineer helps pioneer an eco-life in the Green Apartment

Showers are timed to the minute. The thermostat is set at 65 by day, 58 at night. Lights are switched off until dark, and you might get scolded if you let the water run while brushing your teeth. You are in the Green Apartment, located in Berkeley’s south-side Channing-Bowditch student housing complex.

Tim Edgar, an ME/EECS junior, is one of the apartment’s four undergraduate residents, three of whom are longtime friends with a shared interest in the environment. [FULL STORY]

 

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