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Berkeley Engineering In The News
Press coverage of Berkeley Engineering people and news.
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May 23, 2013
New York Times
Engineers see a path out of green card limbo
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In a video and story, foreign engineering graduate students at U.C. Berkeley reflect on how immigration reform could make it easier for highly skilled workers like them to stay in the United States.
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May 20, 2013
Sacramento Bee
Corrosion plagues new Bay Bridge span
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A comprehensive investigation by the Sacramento Bee of constructions problems on the new Bay Bridge quotes Berkeley materials science & engineering professor Thomas Devine as saying Caltrans used the wrong tests for corrosion, resulting in "essentially useless" findings. He called the agency's research "woefully inadequate" and "meaningless" for detecting "environmentally assisted cracking."
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May 20, 2013
Information Week
How password strength meters can improve security
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Password strength meters aren't just window dressing, but can result in stronger passwords when users are forced to change "important" accounts, according to a new study by UC Berkeley researcher Serge Egelman and colleagues at the University of British Columbia and Microsoft Research.
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May 14, 2013
Forbes
Student entrepreneurship is humming at elite universities
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“I am young, have time and am willing to take the risk. We want to innovate and deliver awesome engineering products,” says mechanical engineering major Timothy Lee in a story examining the passion of student entrepreneurs and UC Berkeley's expanding efforts to nurture them.
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May 14, 2013
CNN Tech
Molding the next generation of computer scientists
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Kevin Wang always had the teaching bug in him. Now the 2002 EECS alumnus and Microsoft developer is combining his passion and his profession through Technology Education and Literacy in Schools (TEALS), an initiative founded by Wang and supported by Microsoft that places high-tech professionals as part-time teachers in high schools.
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May 13, 2013
Innovations
Berkeley engineer is Oxford-bound
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Graduating senior Daniel A. Price, who will pursue research in medical diagnostic equipment at Oxford University this fall as a Rhodes Scholar, talks about his studies, his research and future plans.
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May 13, 2013
Innovations
Plate piles keep levees intact
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In the basement of Davis Hall, Hamed Hamedifar (Ph.D.’12 CEE) is rattling scale models of levees on a shake table, aiming to bolster the strength of levees in places like the California Delta.
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May 02, 2013
Daily Californian
Breaking news: engineers will get jobs
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Reporting on the Wall Street Journal’s annual “Highest-Paid College Majors” list, the Daily Clog notes that seven out of the 10 majors listed were off-shoots of engineering, which is good news for Cal students.
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Apr 24, 2013
Daily Cal
PiE wins $25,000 for hosting high school robotics competition
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Pioneers in Engineering, a Berkeley Engineering student group, has won $25,000 in the Zipcar Students with Drive contest for reaching out to underprivileged high schools and promoting education in science, technology and engineering through a robotics competition.
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Apr 16, 2013
Mercury News
Experts tackle questions about broken Bay Bridge anchor rods
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Two Berkeley Engineering professors, metallurgical engineer Tom Devine and mechanical engineer Robert Ritchie, field questions about why 32 high-strength threaded steel anchor rods in the new eastern span of the Bay Bridge weakened and snapped.
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Apr 11, 2013
Berkeley Patch
College, TI cut ribbon on $2.2 million electronics design lab
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Texas Instruments and the College of Engineering today opened the doors to a state-of-the-art electronics teaching lab in Cory Hall, made possible by major gifts from TI and Agilent, that will encourage ingenuity among undergraduate engineering students.
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Apr 08, 2013
KQED
California vies for drone-testing contracts
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As the FAA pushes ahead with plans to test-fly unmanned nonmilitary drones at six sites around the country, including possibly some in California, Dean of Engineering Shankar Sastry weighs in on some of the concerns — safety, privacy, technology — that must be addressed.
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Apr 05, 2013
I-School
Computers that can identify you by your thoughts
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Instead of typing your password, in the future you may only have to think it, according to a study by School of Information researchers and an EECS undergrad that explores the feasibility of brainwave-based computer authentication.
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Apr 05, 2013
CITRIS
Paris, San Francisco choose Inria and CITRIS to conduct 'smart city' research
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The mayors of Paris and San Francisco recently signed an agreement focusing on the digital economy and smart cities, and designated France's Inria (National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control) and UC's CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) to carry out joint research on the topic.
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Apr 03, 2013
Berkeley Research
Beyond genomics – mining the proteome
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Amy Herr, associate professor of bioengineering and a 2013 Bakar Fellow, is on the front lines of proteomics research – the ambitious effort to determine the variety and function of all human proteins.
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Mar 27, 2013
Wired
BOINC enlists Android phones in search for black holes
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Computer science professor David Anderson, creator of the BOINC platform that runs SETI@home and other crowd-sourced projects, is now trying to capture the computing power of smart phones with software for Android phones that would help Einstein@home search for black holes.
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Mar 27, 2013
QUEST
Students build 3D printing vending machine
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Combining 3D printing technology with the convenience and accessibility of Redbox DVD dispensers, Berkeley student entrepreneurs have built a vending machine with a seemingly infinite selection of products. The Dreambox, which now lives in Etcheverry Hall, is the first fully automated 3D-printing vending machine.
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Mar 26, 2013
The Atlantic
Making art out of earthquakes
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Industrial engineering professor and artist Ken Goldberg discusses his latest project – an "Internet-based earthwork" called Bloom, which makes the constant low-level seismic action of the Hayward Fault near campus visible as a dynamic artwork.
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