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Document ActionsForefront Fall 2009On the CoverHeavyweight Champs: Concrete canoe team takes national titleBerkeley's concrete canoe, Bear Area, and crew took first place in this year's U.S. National Concrete Canoe Competition at the University of Alabama, Cal's first national title since 1992. CEE team members clocked a total of 6,400 work hours to complete their grand opus, a 230-pound beauty with decorative graphics made of colored concrete slip that depict familiar sights like the San Francisco skyline and Golden Gate Bridge. Featured Content
Biology + Engineering = Greater than the sum of its partsA discipline so new that none of the faculty in Berkeley's youngest department majored in it, bioengineering is rapidly attracting a wide range of specialized experts to pioneer new applications in instrumentation, synthetic biology, medical record-keeping and more. Forefront invited incoming department chair Matthew Tirrell and five other bioengineering faculty to talk about Berkeley's role in the burgeoning new field; see article for a link to the video of the complete roundtable discussion. 
The big deal about smallNano drills down to the subatomic levels of matter to forge materials with surprising properties and possibilities. UC Berkeley engineers and their colleagues in the basic sciences are major players, working to forge new nanostructures with the potential to revolutionize computing, energy conservation and biomedicine. A full account of nano research on the Berkeley campus would require volumes, but here’s a nanoscale primer on nano and its promise. 
Engineering matters: The science of sweetJust in time for the holidays, structural engineer and professional pastry chef and blogger Anita Chu (B.S.'98, M.S.'99 CEE) shares a few sweet secrets from her new cookbook, the "Field Guide to Candy: How to Identify and Make Virtually Every Candy Imaginable." Also the author of last year's "Field Guide to Cookies," Chu will let you in on some of the structural realities that help create the perfect chocolate truffle or the creamiest fudge. Help us green up our act!The print version of Forefront is mailed semi-annually to all UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni unless you just say no. If you prefer pixels to pages, click here to opt of receiving our print edition. We encourage you to subscribe to our online monthly, Innovations, the easiest way to get regularly scheduled news blasts from Berkeley Engineering. To be added to the e-mail distribution, just send your e-mail address to innovations@coe.berkeley.edu. Contents |
