Humans of Fung: Sydney Holgado, MEng ’21 (CEE/Renewable Energy Systems)On her MEng capstone experience and how it influenced her engineering career and leadership goals.Sydney Holgado is a double bear* who studied Civil and Environmental Engineering wi…
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energy
Op-ed: Let’s dispel the myths about nuclear energy
By Tatiana Siaraferas, MEng ’20 (NE)The 2019 HBO mini-series, Chernobyl, managed to do two major things: first, to make the Chernobyl nuclear accident known to a vast majority of people and depict some of the technical mistakes of the event from a Holl…
Op-ed: Fusion power is a strong alternative energy source
By Christopher Reis, MEng ’20 (NE)Humanity hasn’t really done a great job when it comes to energy production. We are able to meet our needs but at the cost of polluting the environment with waste and releasing several billion tons of carbon dioxide int…
Industry Office Hours with Tenaris: Emerging technologies for traditional industries
Capstone advisors talk about how they utilize data science to optimize the energy industry and discuss strategies for learning in graduate school.We spoke with Lorenzo Einaudi, MEng ’12 (IEOR) and Adonis Ichim from Tenaris, a leading supplier of tubes …
Advisor Feature: Seth Hoedl, Post Road Foundation
Edited Ashley VillanuevaSeth Hoedl, Chief Operating & Science Officer at Post Road Foundation, received an honorable mention for the 2019 MEng Capstone Industry Mentorship Award at the 2019 Berkeley MEng Capstone Showcase. The award recognizes the …
How much energy can automated vehicles save?
Among the many advantages of automated vehicles that are often mentioned in media, energy saving is usually one of them. But how much energy can these vehicles actually save? A group of Master of Engineering (MEng) students at UC Berkeley is looking fo…
Op-Ed: Microgrids — the future of the connected energy system
By Paaras Agrawal, edited by Maya RectorPhoto by Andreas Gücklhorn on UnsplashPaaras is a current UC Berkeley MEng Mechanical Engineering student in the class of 2018. His concentration within Mechanical Engineering is experiential advanced controls de…
