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Newsmakers: Berkeley Engineering students in the news
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The
three engineering students who received Department of Homeland
Security fellowships are (left to right) Eric Chang, Ryan
White, and Dan Hazen.
ANGELA PRIVIN PHOTO |
Berkeley Engineering
students receive Homeland Security scholarships
Three Berkeley Engineering graduate students were selected for
the new Homeland Security Scholars and Fellows Program at the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Science
and Technology.
The students include CE master’s student Eric G.
Chang of Oakland, working on developing sensors to gauge
structural damage following natural disasters; EECS Ph.D. student
Daniel A. Hazen of Berkeley, investigating wireless
sensor networks to better detect terrorist activity at U.S. borders;
and EECS Ph.D. student Ryan M. White of San Carlos,
working on improving computer visual recognition of faces using
a database of human faces from the Web.
The fellowships—which cover up to three years of tuition,
research, and living expenses—are intended to produce expertise
in improving domestic security, especially against terrorist threats.
The students do an eight-to-ten-week summer internship with the
Department of Homeland Security and, after graduation, are encouraged
to consider employment offers from the department. From nearly
2,500 applications, six Berkeley students were named among 13
statewide and 101 nationally.
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Jason Clark's MEMS device won second
place in the annual 3-D MEMS Design Challenge.
PHOTO COURTESY JASON CLARK
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Ph.D. student Clark places second in
annual MEMS Challenge
Applied Science & Technology Ph.D. student Jason Clark won
second place in the 2003 3-D MEMS Design Challenge for his floating
electro-mechanical systems (FLEMS) prototype design. Clark received
$5,000 and a prototype of his design.
“The proof mass in a FLEMS device is mechanically decoupled,”
says Clark, “setting it apart from typical electrostatic
sensors.” Sponsored by Microfabrica (formerly MEMGen), a
Burbank-based microdevice manufacturer, the competition drew 132
entries. Three winners and three honorable mentions were selected,
based on design novelty, commercial utility, and effective use
of the EFAB process.
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| William
"Woody" Hartman |
ME junior Woody Hartman recognized
by Design News magazine
ME junior William “Woody” Hartman was featured as
an “engineering student you’d love to hire”
in a January issue of Design News.
“Before it was time to go to college,” the magazine
says, “Hartman was already building high-tech, sensor-equipped
haunted houses in the backyard. He says his ‘lofty dream’
is to design and manage his own amusement park, and this dream
is what motivates him, keeps him going every day,
and helps him survive all the nerve-wrecking exams.”
Hartman is taking the semester off to do an engineering co-op at FormFactor, a Livermore-based company that manufactures
probe cards used to test memory and processor chips. “Finally
I have the opportunity to apply the fundamentals I’m learning
in the ‘real engineering’ world,” Hartman says.
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CA
A president Brian Love (right) accepts the Secretary's Commendation
award from TBP Executive Council President Matt Ohland.
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California Alpha chapter receives Tau
Beta Pi awards
California Alpha (CA A), the Berkeley chapter of engineering
honor society Tau Beta Pi (TBP), was recognized at TBP’s
98th annual convention last fall with a Secretary’s Commendation
for the third year in a row for meeting all reporting deadlines.
The commendation carries a $500 scholarship, which will be awarded
to an engineering student or students selected by the CA A officers
based on such factors as level of participation and character.
This was CA A’s sixth consecutive year to achieve a commendation
and its fourth consecutive year to receive a scholarship. CA A
also won an award for implementing 40 chapter projects and the
Tele-bears Advising Session service.
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