Berkeley Engineering In The News

Press coverage of Berkeley Engineering people and news.

Nov 18, 2005 Science Inspirations from Biological Optics for Advanced Photonic Systems

Observing systems in nature has inspired humans to create technological tools that allow us to better understand and imitate biology.

Nov 18, 2005 MSNBC Animal eyes inspire new technology

Researchers learn optics lessons from biology.

Nov 18, 2005 Contra Costa Times (*requires registration) Fueling debate Author delivers grim assesment of U.S. energy policy

Robert Sawyer, a professor of mechanical engineering at UC Berkeley, predicted that it could take five decades to solve the technological and economic problems with hydrogen and build an infrastructure to deliver it as fuel....

Nov 16, 2005 Contra Costa Times (*requires registration) View Points: Peter Langley

"A lurking predictable disaster." That is how UC Berkeley civil engineering professor Robert Bea described the pre-Hurricane Katrina condition of the New Orleans' levees to a radio station KCBS interviewer recently.

Nov 14, 2005 Washington Post (*requires registration) Obituaries in the News

Berkeley, Calif. (AP) _ Hal O. Anger, a pioneer of nuclear medicine who is credited with inventing the gamma camera, died Oct. 31. He was 85.

Nov 13, 2005 San Jose Mercury News (*requires registration) Storms may strike before levee repairs

New Orleans - Engineers may not have time to rebuild all 350 miles of battered levees in the New Orleans area before the next hurricane season, but they plan to shore up the structures enough to withstand another storm.

Nov 09, 2005 Oakland Tribune Tomorrow's cars may be smarter than their drivers

University of California, Berkeley Engineers have an experiment that tells drivers in advance that they will not accomplish a left turn without getting creamed by an oncoming car.

Nov 09, 2005 New York Times Inquiry to Seek Cause of Levee Failure

...[UC Berkeley] engineering professor, Raymond Seed, told a Senate committee last week that in addition to possible design errors, "There may have been malfeasance."

Nov 07, 2005 San Francisco Chronicle Traffic-easing gizmos demonstrated in S.F.

Technology developed by UC Berkeley researchers and Caltrans would allow buses to essentially steer themselves using magnets in the roadway.

Nov 05, 2005 San Jose Mercury News Security plans worry colleges

New federal proposals would significantly change how research is conducted at universities, placing tough restrictions on foreign-born scientists and tightening access to equipment and computers.

Nov 04, 2005 San Francisco Chronicle Lethal Beauty: The Engineering Challenge

A suicide barrier must be effective and safe. The sixth in a seven-part series on the Golden Gate Bridge barrier debate.

Nov 04, 2005 East Bay Business Times Bay Area partnership advances malaria R&D

A unique partnership among a San Francisco nonprofit pharmaceutical firm, an Emeryville biotech company and a UC-Berkeley chemical engineer is nearing its one-year milestone in an effort to develop an affordable antimalarial drug.

Oct 19, 2005 New York Times (*requires registration) The Levees: Panelist on Levees Faults Army Corps Budget Cuts

Budget cuts have cost the Army Corps of Engineers scientific expertise that might have helped it to prevent levee failures in New Orleans, outside experts said.

Oct 19, 2005 San Jose Mercury News (*requires registration) Women of vision: Bay Area innovators hailed

 

Oct 16, 2005 Oakland Tribune (10-13-05)( Link no longer available) No. 2 at Cal to step down, Provost Paul Gray will return to teaching

 

Oct 16, 2005 San Jose Mercury News (link no longer available) New Orleans' levees failed in many spots

The engineers said the findings raised questions about the design of the levees and the testing of the relatively fragile soil during the construction of the walls.

Oct 08, 2005 New York Times (*requires registration) Engineers Offer a New Explanation of How Levees Broke

The engineers said the findings raised questions about the design of the levees and the testing of the relatively fragile soil during the construction of the walls.

Oct 06, 2005 USA Today CyberSpeak: Reading the little signals can mean big information

Instruments have gotten so sensitive and computers so powerful, that even the tiniest sound, light, flicker, or change can be reported, analyzed, and used.

Oct 05, 2005 Los Angeles Times Racers, Start Your Software, and May the Best Robot Win

 

Oct 04, 2005 Oakland Tribune Cal engineering team studies New Orleans levee breaches

Civil engineers from the University of California, Berkeley, have gone to New Orleans to study why levees failed after Hurricane Katrina.