2020 Eaton-Hachigian Fellowship Recipients

By Lauren Leung

The College of Engineering and the Fung Institute for Engineering Leadership are pleased to announce the recipients of the 2019–20 Eaton-Hachigian Fellowships, awarded this year to two students pursuing Master of Engineering degrees at UC Berkeley. Selected by the Dean of the College of Engineering, the Eaton-Hachigian Fellows are engineering graduate students, pursuing studies in energy-efficient electrical and power hardware or software solutions, wireless communications and sensing devices, or specialty materials. The Eaton-Hachigian Fellowship was established in 2008 by gifts from the Cooper Industries Foundation and from Berkeley alumnus and the former Chairman, President, and CEO of Cooper Industries, Kirk Hachigian, ’82. Cooper Industries became part of Eaton Corporation in 2012, and the name of the fellowship was changed in 2017 from the Cooper Fellowship to the Eaton-Hachigian Fellowship.

This year’s fellows are Sharnam Shah and Xinyuan Tu.

Sharnam Shah

Candidate for MEng in Mechanical Engineering
  • Fellowship Category: Specialty Materials
  • Undergraduate degree: Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  • Capstone project:[Limeloop] Replacing cardboard boxes with tomorrow’s smart shipper (Adviser: George Anwar, Lecturer, ME)
Girl with dark hair and glasses in front of the ocean.

Xinyuan Tu

Candidate for MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
  • Fellowship Category: Wireless Communications & Sensing Devices
  • Undergraduate degree: Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology
  • Capstone project: Machine learning meets wireless communication: spectrum collaboration (Adviser: Anant Sahai, Professor, EECS)
Congrats to this year’s fellowship awardees!
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