Let There Be (Sun)Light
Graduate student Daniel Glaser has come up with the most pleasant,
energy-efficient, and inexpensive light-source for buildings. It's
called the sun. Now all he has to do is convince building designers
to use it.
If You Can See This, You're Too Close
In the big city, collisions between buses and cars are all-too-common.
One third of these accidents occur when a car slams into the back
of a bus. Combining his knowledge of the visual nervous system with
some ingenious engineering, Berkeley bioengineer and professor of
vision science and optometry Theodore E. Cohn built an improved
signal light that warns drivers when to back off.  Multimedia
A BiD for Better Design
Imagine your kitchen blender conks out the day you're hosting
a large cocktail party. You search an online catalog, decide on
a model, and click the "buy" button. But instead of waiting three
days for the appliance to be shipped to your door, you turn on
the 3-D printer on your desk. Desktop manufacturing is one of
many futuristic projects on the "to-do list" at the Berkeley Institute
of Design (BiD), a pioneering new cross-disciplinary research
center and graduate program spearheaded by computer science professor
John Canny.
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Microsystems and Nanoscience
The book of life is now open in front of us in the form of our genetic code. But for the Human Genome Project to live up to its potential in the fight against disease, we must understand the proteins encoded by the genome, an endeavor known as proteomics. Professor Arun Majumdar is tackling this through the mechanics of molecules.
Great moments of innovation from the annals of
Berkeley Engineering history.
1972: The release of SPICE, still the industry standard tool for integrated circuit design
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