Taken from College of Engineering On May 18, in front of a packed Hearst Greek Theatre, Saddiq Nuru (MEng ’14 CEE) took the stage to deliver the graduate student commencement address. Nuru is only 21, but given his upbringing, he already has a unique vantage point. Born in Botswana, he attended secondary school in Nigeria,… Read More »
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MEng ’14 Students Place As Top 2 Teams in Larson-Juhl Sponsored Design Tournament Challenge
Taken from BEST Lab News Congratulations to Dizhou Lu’s team “Sports Fanatics” for winning the Larson-Juhl sponsored design tournament challenge and Dian Dong, Theerapat Yangyuenthanasan and Chen Zhuang’s team “Mood Frames” for running up! (All MEng ’14) In Fall 2013, Larson-Juhl sponsored a design tournament challenge in UC Berkeley’s Innovation Through Design Thinking course. The… Read More »
MEng ’14 Students Take 1st, 2nd & Honorable Mention at Big Ideas @Berkeley
Congratulations to Patrick Lyon, Benson Fan, Yayun Chen and Ray Chiu for BioInspira placing 1st in the Information Technology for Society category of the Big Ideas @Berkeley competition, to Luciano Colos for Inversión Para Todos placing 2nd in the Financial Capability category, and Thibault Duchemin and Achal Pandey for an Honorable Mention in the Information… Read More »
Fung Institute Faculty Director’s Paper Wins This Year’s INFORMS Technology Management Best Paper Competition
Congratulations to the Fung Institute’s Faculty Director, Lee Fleming, along with Debbie Strumsky at University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Matt Marx at MIT! The paper they wrote together titled “Mobility, Skills, and the Michigan Non-Compete Experiment” was selected as the best paper published in 2009 at Management Science, winning this year’s INFORMS Technology… Read More »
Ken Singer, CET’s Managing Director, Quoted on Success in Mobile App Industry
Taken from Student World Online Nobody is saying you have to be a genius, but it helps if you study more than computer science, says Ken Singer, who teaches Mobile Applications and Entrepreneurship at the University of California Berkeley. Singer, a mobile entrepreneur since 1999, suggests students take courses outside engineering, such as psychology, sociology,… Read More »
William T. Hagen, MEng ’12, Featured in US News
Taken from U.S. News When the U.S. military wants help reducing its energy consumption at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, William T. Hagen, 26, is one of the people summoned. With energy exploration, production and conservation among the country’s most urgent agenda items, along with coping with climate change, Hagen opted to follow up… Read More »
Congratulations Brian Wang and Travis McCawley, our 2014 Cooper Fellows!
Congratulations Brian Wang and Travis McCawley, our 2014 Cooper Fellows! The Fellowship supports graduate students in the College of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, with a preference for those doing research in energy efficient electrical and power hardware or software solutions, wireless communications and sensing devices, or specialty materials. The fellowship was created… Read More »
CET Team, Occuhunt, Streamlines & Digitizes Fairs
Occuhunt, a CET Venture Lab Team is building a website that helps students discover, prepare and apply for job opportunities at career fairs and information sessions. The site also helps facilitate exchanges between students and recruiters. Taken from berkeleyByte “We want the application process to be very transparent,” Computer Science freshman Sidwyn Koh said. “From… Read More »
MEng ’14 Student’s Startup Aims to Revolutionize Modern Stethoscope
Connor Landgraf (MEng ’14), CEO of Eko Devices, created his startup while taking the Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology (CET)’s IEOR 190E (Mobile Apps) course and now a student in the Master of Engineering program, Landgraf is part of a capstone team that is working to commercialize the technology. His current MEng capstone project advisor… Read More »
Kanga Kare Visits Thailand to Test IncuPack
(The Kanga Kare team tests their IncuPack in a rural hospital in Ngao, Thailand.) Kanga Kare, the winners of the CET Social Entrepreneurship Challenge course (IEOR 190C), visited Thailand to test their revolutionary IncuPack – an incubation vest for newborn babies in rural areas of the world. More than 130 million infants are born every… Read More »